The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1860-01-21


q Thsrs IL no ssesps fsss shis essSississ,
bot y denying the trsthfulpsss Of orr glo-
'rSoas Dsslaratisn, aSd naintaisg thu the
commission y ) crime justiass The rspsti-
tien and psspstuatios Of the Same crime
FOREVER, orin other words, that the blacklist
sin pssssvered 10, becomes holiness. The
doctrines q the "Saints perssvsrencs'' with
. vengeance, illustrated BY cuts Of the lash
Of The Christian SLAVE. holders.
The excitement and interest which the
Amisted Africans had awakened in the public
mind, had not died away, when the atten-
ton Of the Nation was again called to the
great question By another Providential dis
pensation.
10 the prosecution Of the domestic slave
trade, sanctioned BY the National Govern
ment, cargo Of human beings il shipped
from ons Of the ports Of our men -markets,
be sold ike cattle in the shambles Of New
Orleans. On board that vessel, ~ she
plowsd her way through God's free water,
was slave, who, breathing the free cir Of
Heaven, became imbued with the sentiments
of his illustrious namesake, George WASH
ington. The fres Of freedom blazsd up be-
yond control, and acting out the sentiment
Of the immortal Henry, "Givs me liberty
or give me DEATH" be rose upon bis OPP
pressors and subdued them, and turning
the vessel towards the Islands of the free,
was waited by tho winds and waves to the
Island Of Ne,0 Providence, "a new Provi-
denes to these poor fugitives, who stood
upon free soil, self-redeemed and pro-
tected BY the majesty of British law, in the
rights Of freemen. Their goaded masters
demanded their surrender of the British
authorities. as property, as part Of their
cargo, but they were told that British laws
recognize all men as free and could not
transform human being into chattle, "that
wherever England's power was felt, man
kind should feel her mercies too.o Failing
of redress here, they applied to our slave
holding Government, and the great abilities,
legal talents and diplomatic skill of Daniel
Webster were employed, not to make the
worse appear the better, but to make non.
sense and absurdity reasonable, to enforce
the Shareholders claim, and extoft from
Great Britain compensation for these self.
emauoipated slaves, but all in vain. For
once, justice triumphed over diplomacy, and
National comfy gave up ito claims and did
obssisnce to the rights of man.
The question was forever settled, "that
slavery was local institution to be cir
scribed, not extended, that the law of slave
~ only protected the master in the exercise
of brute force over his victim, and had no
force beyond the bounds Of ito own geo.
graphical limits, and was null and void,
whenever those limits were passed. The
red-bot hand of Nations Indignation was
stamped into the forehead of slavery 50
deep. that like the beast in Apocalyptic
vision, it will wear the mark forever-aud
the very people on whom this Government
called to sanction its "patriarchal institu-
tion," rose with united voice and said let it
be nccursed.
The very efforts which shareholders put
forth to obtain from Great Britain rec
ignition of the rightfulness of slavery, were
the means of making it more execrable in
the eyes of all Christendom. The slave
holders and the great Attorney, Daniel, were
foiled, and freedom again triumphed. What
humiliating position for the "God-like.'
1t was not Samson staying the oppressors
OF the people BY thousands, and overturning
the temple of the false God, but Samson
shorn of his locks by Delilah, with his eyes
put out, grinding in the prison, the battle
axes of Slavery, to hew down our
nation's fabric. 1t was not Daniel in the |
lions den, strong in bis integrity by the
power of faith and truth, trampliug over
Wild BEASTS and wicked men, bat Daniel in |
The claws of shareholders, fighting for
slavery, and clutching at the hopes and
safeguards of liberty, running tilt against
humanity, breaking lance with the intelli-
sence, the reason, the conscience and the |
freedom loving spirit of the age, and defeat
I'd and put to shame before the eyes of the
civilized world. Alas! how had the mighty
fallen. since his noble effort in Indicating |
The cause of freedom, from the assaults of |
Hayne of South Carolina.