Randolph County journal. [volume] (Winchester, Randolph County, Ind.) 1855-1862, 1860-08-09


What Is conservatism j. il not
adherence to the old and tlied against
the new and nntried? We stick to.
contend Tor the ilentical old policy on
the point IA controversy, wbsch WAS
adopted by our fathers who framed
the government under which We live:
while You with one accord reject. and
scout. and spit upo1 the old policy.
and insist upon substituting some
thing new True. you disagree anon,
yourselves a. to what that substitute
shall be. lon have considerable Va
rieiy of new propositions ami plans.
but you are unanimous In rejerting and
denouncing the same old policy oi the
fathers. Some oil you are Tor reyiy-
ing the foreign slave-trade: some for
congressional slave-code for the Terri
tories: some for Congress forbidding
the Territories to prohibit slavery
within their limits; some foF main
tanning slavery in the Territories
through the judiciary: some for the
'gur-reat pur-rinciple' that If one
man would euslave another, no third
man should object fantastically
called popular sovereignty'-but
never man among YOU in favor of
federal prohibition of slavery in feder-
al territories, according to the prac-
tice of our fathers who framed the gov
eminent under which we live.
Not one OF your various plans can
show a precedent or an advocate in
the century within which our govern
ment originated. Consider, then.
whether your claim oi. Conservatism for
yourselves. and your charge of de
s.ruetlveness against Us are based on
the most clear aud stable foundations.
Again. you say we have made the sla-
very question more prominent than 1t
formerly was. We deny.it We ad-
NIT that IL is more prominent. but we
deny that we made il so. Ii was not
we, but you, who discarded the old
policy of the fathers. We resisted.
and still resist your innovation-,our
want of conservatism: and thence
comes the great prominence of the
question. Would you have that ques-
tion reduced TO its former proportions?
Go back to that old policy. What
has been will be again. under the same
conditions. Ii You would have the
old times. re-adopt the preeepts and
policy Of the old times.
You charge that we stir up insur-
rections among your slaves. We
deny it: and what is your proof?
Ilarpcr's Ferry John Brown was no
Republican. and you have failed TO
implicate a single Iepublican in the
Harper's Ferry enterprise. Ii any
member of our party is guilty in that
matter, you know or do You not know
it. Ii you do know IL, you are mex
cusable not TO designate the man and
prove the fact Ii you do not know IL.
you are inexcusable TO assert il, aud
especially TO persist in the assertion
after you have tried and failed to make
the proof Yon nccd not be told that
persisting in a charge which one docs
know to be true is simply malicious
SANDER Some of you generously adj
init that no Republican designedly
aided or encouraged in the Harper's
Ferry affair, but still iasist that our
doctrines and declarations necessarily
lead to such results. We know we
hold no doctrines and make no declar-
ations which were not held 10 IL made
by our fathers who framed the govern
ment under which we live. You
never dealt fairly by us in relation to
this affair.
When it occurred. some important
State elections were near at hand, and
you were in evident glec with the be-
lief tla, by charging the blame upon
us you could get an advantage Of u ia
those elections. The elections came.
aud your expectations were not quite
fulfilled. You did not sweep y. York
anil New Jersey. aud Wisconsin. anil
Minnesota. precisely like lire sweeps
over the prairie in high wind. You
are still drumming at this idea. Gp
ON with H. Ii you think ycu can. by
siandering woman. make her love
You. or by viIlifying man make him
vote for you. go and try IL. Every
Republican man knew that. as 10 him.
self at least. your charge was Sian
der. AMI hc was not much inclined
by it TO cast his vote in your favor.
Republican doctrines and dcclara-
tions are accompanied with a contin-
ual protest against any interference
whatever with your slaves. or with
you about your slaves. Surely this
does not encourage them 10 revolt.
True we do. in common with our faith
ers. who iramcl the government under
which we live. declare our belief that
slavery is wrong-but the slaves do
not hear Us declare even this. for cv-
cry thing we LAY or DO. the slav.',
would scarcely know there j. a Rcpub-
lican party. ! believe they would not.
ia fact. generally know II bui Tor your
misreptesentations of n. in their hear
Ing. In your political contests among
yourselves. each fa.tioI charged n,c
other with sympathy for the Black Re
publieans: aud then. to give poi"t to
the charge. define Black Republican
! IN to simply be insursection. blood
and thunder among the slaves.
Slave instructions are no mare
common now than they were beforc
the Republican party was organized.
What indneet the Southampton in>ur-
rection. twenty years ago. IN which at