Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1860-01-19

know, that it has been administered for many
years in subserviency TO the purposes of the
slavery extensions of the slaveholding States
The war to extend the boundry Of slavery to the
Rio Grande.the violation of the Missouri Com
pact-the war against Kansas, to extend slavery
to the Pacific, are all sacrifices to the public
opinion, and the moral sense Of the masses OF
the country. by ambitious incumbents in the
federal administration, to that combination in
the South. which brings the vote of fifteen Slave
States in phalanx to divide and conquer the
Free, and so continue their triumphs in presi-
Dental elections. This combination has long
been absolute in its mastery over nominations,
elections, administrations and even legislations,
touching the maintenance and expansion of the
institution of slavery, to which it owes Its po-
litical strength.
What is the result? Is the combination safis-
fed? Far from it. here is a growing power
impaired by free institutions in the Anti-Slave-
ry States-by their industrious economy-by
their intellectual resources, which gradually
render abortive all the acts Cf intrigue that per-
vert the organs of the national will into insiru-
ments ofa sectional oligarchy. The selfish COM
bination, in vain suborns northern aspirants to
its purposes. rendering all the corrupt influence
its consolidated force can cammand, 10 seduce
support in the north, to carry the chief magis-
tracy, and threatening in case of defeat the over
throw of the Union, to coerce patriotism itself
to submit to the miner, to avert the greater mis-
chief. In'vain its leaden scepter has stunned
and swayed the national OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
the conciliating compacts of 1921 and 1850
and interpolated Slavery as part of the na-
tions Constitution. The spontaneous vigor of
free labor Overgrows and heals all the wounds
inflicted by these blows of its enemies. Free
dom is a giant which. while asleep, Lilliputi
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fine-spun cords, but aroused. he breaks with
ease the meshes, and holds the pigmies in the
hollow of his hand. Kansas, Nebraska, Cali
fornia and Oregon, show how Intellectual are
the intrgues of self-seeking politicians, to dwarf
the growth of free people. The prosperous
and populous free-soil sends forth its children
over the inviting territories, and the resistance
OF barbarism is overwhelmed.
The politicians of the oligarchy see this with
dismay. and seem 10 be meditating change of
their design, from that of seeking perpetual
tion of their control over the Union by multi
plying slave States within 1t. to that of aban-
doning it, and making vast acquisitions of ter
ritory beyond it, TO fill by new importaions of
Africans. This must result in the subsection of
the free laboring native class of every complex
ion to a common condition of slavery, by the
glut following the influx of myriads Of naked
Africans, working like the OK under the goad
and fed only to support the yoke, reducing the
price of labor to bare subsistence. A full sup
ply of negro strength will render the masters
of the domain independent of The poor whites
holding neither lands nor slaves. They must
become slaves themselves to escape starving.
We have heard it announced. that League has been
formed to compass this panthat its ramfcatons COW
all the slave Satesthat the principal null6ers eve
rywhere in the conspiracy, and that it is part of
the scheme to leave Virginia and Maryland Kentucky
and Tennessee and Missouri in the Union for tme to
the invasion of northern force to restore the
government of the confedeacy the lower Missip-
p and the borders of the Gulf of Mexico. The policy of
leaving tier of slave States, in connection with the
free States confding in the perfect protection of the
while the nullifing States fly off to open the slave
trade and subdue the enfanchsed republ South
to become the receptacle of the human spos of their
privac-, proof that the nufying leaders well under
stand that all the rights of the South recognized in the
constitution safe in the Union. 1t makes manifest,
too their fears that in abandoning it, and entering up
practical career against the liberty of two hems-
pheres they hazard revolution in the bosom of their
own communities full of bloody issues the least fatal
of which would be the instant overthrow of the nst
tution for the exteniion Of which they put thing
else they hold dear in jeopardy. If attended at the
threshold in dssolvng the great conederacy and Great
ing small one the introduction of standing armies to
confront border the slave and free frontiers and
to push the scheme of southern conques and to main
tain them and keep down domestic nsurrection would
be the succedaneum for the security conferred by
mon government But the way to the success of the
League cannot be opened without of the
quest and ensavement of Mexico and Central America
the obstacles to which, seems MOTTO have Teen consider
ed.
1t certainly would not Gil the measure of the ambi
ton of those who first demanded The surrender of Cali
forna then of Kansas and all South Of its Northern
line to the Pacific and the Gulf to the slave State
the price of remaining in the Union. to throw of tie
Northern tier of slave States to protect
them from Northern aggression and huddle the four
millions of slaves along the Gulf coast. making string
of their conederacy beginning with North Carolina and
ending with Texas on the Rio Grande. Such a Gordon
of e1av n and al
along shore all the navies of the powers opposed
the Institution, and liable to be broken by the rush
of the from the Western States, resolved to
sert their claim to New Orleans their post and the
whole region part of the Union is certainly not
that grand secure empire to which the slavery extern
sonsts look to exalt them above the Confederacy in
which they enjoy their full share of power and glo
ry 1t is not this scky shred of Gulf States though
filed overfowing with freshly imported Africans that
the agtators against the Unon look to for compensa
ton for its abandonment They look to the conquests
of those masters in slavery propagandsm, WHO superse
ded the declining Roman the Euxne and Meditera-
nean and who still exhibit the Bosphorus the SYM
bols of expiring sovereignty. Our aspiring Imiators
who would propagate their faith and its peculiar instiu
tion BY the sword making the Gulf of Mexico dis
tingushed statesman called it, their Mare Clausum and
consequence, its islands and surrounding States now
Free its vassals have hitherto too successfully used in
this direction the of the Coneeracy with which
they are still connected, to abandon it hastily.
The price of Cuba whether is to be acquired by the
purse, by the purse and the sword wuud cost
of and of blood than infant Southern Con-
Central America with all the people to resist impending
slavery, to say nothing Of the allies that might be
brought to aid resistance in such cause presents Diff
culties that make ambition pause.
Hence, as long the Southern combination can die
tate Northern President with their Southern princi
Piles, the Federal power will be used to promote the
scheme of foreign conquest in their behalf 1t will be
content to get Mexico by piecemea and to wait in
trigue and the chances of fbusering for Cuba. And
now to bring in President to lie under control of
the Combination hear it announced that the election
of n by of
orty of the people, in defiance of the dicaton thus
proclaimed dissolves the Union but yield the Pesi
dent Of the Combination and for the present. the Union
may stand.
In my opinion, acquiescence in demands thus made
tends to produce the state of things which alone
tempt any portion Of the South into secession. If
Northern wealth and power be driven to hand
Cuba Central America and Mexico in manacles to the
States they would then have capital to set for them
selves, the principal of Constantinople. The
d-rs from the sublime Porte-Egypt Tunis Trpol and
Agiers-mght afford examples suitable than the
Grand Segnors emporium to direct the enterprise of
our repudiators of the Unon-the busters along the
Gulf coasttheir corsar experience being particularly
instructive in the art of providing the slave mars and
the mode of making Mare Clausum of q great sea-
meant to bear the of all naiions The arro-
gance which dares to such designs and defeat the
law Of this and all other nations to frustrate them
which would deny to the free States of the Republic the
rights which the Constitution calls them by
their surages lest they obstruct piratica attempts
would suggest suspicion that the League assuming to
establish long line of Barbary powers upon our South
ern shores, felt prepared to make formidable head
against the country by and land. They should be
sterny rebuked at once and not suffered arrest for
moment the onward progress of the civilization Of the
continent. The OF the Union should assure an
other destiny for the luxurant regions to which they
are looking for their slave empire.
Next after repressing the invasons of slavery and
keeping it within its own boundaries this continent
well be considered the question of promoting the
voluntary emigration of the freed of that race
ting in the tropics Of Africa to homeseads in conge-
nal climate provided for them by the the
nation charged with their detines. The acquisition of
some partition of Central South America as province