The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1860-03-02
For the Jeflersonian Democrat
The Legislative Visit.

Mr.. EDITOR Your Columbus correspon.
don't "R," in your last issue, made but
sorry apology for tho, not exactly raid, but
visit of the Kentucky and Tennessee Legis.
latures at Columbus, which cost the people
some S5, 200. But, after all, l don't know
as no could have done any better, unless he
had come right out and said that. upon
"sober second thought" he was heartily
ashamed of the whole affair. Then he
would have expressed the minds of his con-
stituents exactly.
But it would be too bad to turn q cold
shoulder 10 those honorable gentlemen that
are living on the unrequited toll of their
domestics, and perhaps rioting on the pro-
ceeds of the sale of their own offspring /;
men who arc so suspicious of their neighbors
that they dare not lot man from Ohio
come on to their soil on the common busi-
ness of lifo--who oxpatriato their own citi-
zens who have broken none of their laws,
bad as they are, have only been guilty of
preaching the gospel, toachlng school, cree
ting mills. and thus showing by actual
demonstration that free is better than staue
labor, and arc, therefore, dangerous citizens
in Kcntucky,an must be driven off. These
dign;taries, when appealed to, refused thom
any protection. 1t would not do for the
of these things displeased them they might
get mad and 90 right off, as they had threat
ened, and spoil tho Union before anybody
knew what they were about; and Congress,
unorganzed as it WAS then could not hell it,.
In order to have been entirely consistent,
however, and to have shown these worthless
they wero not acting tho hypocrte, thoy
should have resolved themselves into o
Committee of tho Whole on tho sa(ety of
The Union. lynchod John G.. Fec, and then
lifted up .Crdtcrndi hands, and sworn in tho
name of Cor. Wist, who killed John Brown,
that this glorious Union must and shall be
preserved.
Seriously, IL docs appear to me there is
something rotten in Denmark when We 500
Governors, Ex Governors. and members of
the Legislature, who haye Just been triumph
antly elected over their Pro Slavery oppo.
nents by Anti-Slavory votes, to places to
which they could never have attained only
as they made great pretentions to Anti-Sla-
very principles, made many speeches and
said many hard things against the monster
Slavery, instead of engaging in enacting
somo personal Liberty Bill, as thoir constit-
uents had reason to expect, to secure thcm
from Slavery aggression, almost tho first
thing to invite the Governors and Legisa.
lures of two Slaveholding States, cordially
welcoming them, and in effect saying: "Gen-
tlemen, you may continue to kidnap our
citizens with impunity, as you have done,
and, If any interfere, imprison and fine
them and, if any presume to set foot on
your soil, lynch them. drive them off, tar
and feather, whip or hang them, anything
you please, gentlemen /; but don't pull the
Union down. Anything else, and we will
be hail follows we'll met" No wonder they
exc!aim, 1--WE are glad we have come; by get.
ting acquainted we find we are as good
Black Rep ubticans as you" "WaIk up, walk
up, gentlemen help yourselves. Our con.
stitutents will foot tho bill"
l don't know how all this looks so fal
south as Columbus; but, way out here, il
CRATES rather harshly on the ears of an
OLD LIBERTY MAN.
Troy, Feb. l7th, 1860.