Randolph County journal. [volume] (Winchester, Randolph County, Ind.) 1855-1862, 1861-01-10
NO. 2.--WHOLE NO. 262.

We should remain in and drive the nUlliising
States out. How are you 10 drive them outl Bv
act of Congress IfihAi j. the mode. the nuiliiy
ing States will vote upon the propositions them
selves, aud they. With ths Republican represcn
tation from the other free States. w"uld cut vote
you. This Is coRcsding the power of Congress
to 60 such a thing. which 10 not admit How
then are you TO drive stem out, B, force Of
arms. say the ~iseaeres Who have advised this
/ expcdicnt. Mr.. Lincoln - the commander IN
chief of the army and navy of the United States.
Will he, of his own vOlition, that army and
navy to drive the political power which elevated
him TO position out of the country merely be
cause it is the representative of AN antagonism
of which he is the champion viii Congress do
it' The majority in Congress is from the free
States in the House il is of the Republican
party. Who believes that they will declare war
against their o~n2 Who, then, il 90 10 il The
States agrieved7 Will not that or either of the
other means OF force suggested result in bloody
civil and revolution Where are you to
fight them on their territory When you
hight them there are sou to fight our friends a.
well as our enemies Are you ia aggressive
operations upon their soil to destroy their prop
srty as well that Of our enemies How are
YOU to Discriminate suppose you whip them,
what are YOU to DO with them Are YOU to make
them your dependencies, or are YOU to permit
them to set up for themselves VIII there not
be a dissolution of the Union viii there not
bc tNo coniedcraoes, thing You secm dcsirous
to avoid Suppose they, possessing the ad.
vantagcs of fighting on their own soil. should
whip us-shat them Are YOU to become their
/ yassals Ia the Union Fellow citizens. do YOU
not see that there u no sense Ia the idea of
driving the nullising State cat Of the Union I
Even VI such thing could bc accomplished
peacefully, the resul, would bee u dlase,ered
eonfoderaey A Northcfu and Southern con
fedctaey, With a dsmcmbered Union. We would
have no use tof en association with Illinois aud
Indiana. States whose Legislative and Executive
control. now IN the power OF the Black Republi
, cans will soon add 10 the Personal Liberty Leg
: shtlon oftle North la fact. however YOU pro
pose to exclude the nallif,ing States. II must
eventually result in homogeneous Northern
? confederacy, and homogeneous Southern con.
, iederacy.
, Others propose 10 correct existing evils by
amendments to the Constitution. Nv fellow
citizens, is not the present Constitution explicit
enough Can there be any equivocafion as to
its real meaning And yet, is it not utterly
powerlcss To guard rights7 Why is this'
will tell YOU II because of the diseased state OF
2 Northern sentiment, which. perverted by the
one ids, of hostility to slavery. will continue to
: operate against any Constitution which recog-
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f ments to the Constitution. "Pelan upon Ossa,' -
and vet unless the public sentiment o: the
|. North il thoroughly Fe,olationized. which moth
; ing but miracle from the Deity can effect
would not give sumarchee for their virtue to
insure Us our rights. Write your amendments
strong John c. Calhoun would have written
them, and how you to carry them out in the
q Western Reserve, in Ohio, which for quarter of
a century returned Representative in Con.
r gress Joshua X. Giddings, who openly proclaim
e ed that he would hail the dawnng of gr eat
n political millennium, the time when the slaves,
armed with British bayohets, should turn against
e their masters. What effect would it have upon
!. the Governors of Ohio and Iowa, who, though
sworn to support the Constitution of the United
States, violate two of its provisions, plain and
: direct, the ole for the rendition of fugitive
slaves and the other for the rendition of fugtives
from ustice-their perjury as to the latter basely
committed to protect two of the John Brown con-
e spirators against Virginia. What effect will it
r have upon the members of the Legislatures of
the Nullifying States, who are also sworn to sup
port the Constitution Of the United States 7
e What effect will it have upon the endorsers of
the Helper book, who were also sworn' What
e effect will it have on the many thousand Aboli-
a ton clergymen who are weekly, from the pulpit,
sowing the seed Of poisonous hatred in the hearts
of their congregations against us upon the Sun
: day school teachers who nsti it into the chill
n drenl upon the underground railroad operators
a who are nightly carrying off your slayes7 upon
g the Giddngs's Summers, and men Of that ilk ?
1 upon the ,s00,U00 of YOUR enemies, who.
conscious Of the fact that their action would de
:, stroy the tnon went to the polls and elected
I Lincoln Who can believe that anY amend
!. ments will make the organic law more ofica-
cous than il now is, with such a state Of public
3 sentimeuts As well might you attempt ,o i'm
e pede the resstess current the Mississippi by a
dam Of straw. to check the violation Gf the
n Constitution BY additional amendments.
l high places of earthly power into the presence
! of their maker and thes places filled by Black
e Republicans, will mark the destruction of the
q last sentinel the watch tower of the Consti-
tuition
J Can i; be possible, NY fellow citizens, in view
Of these facts, that you will talk about conprom-
i ises. when the national history proves them to
!, have been mado but 10 be broken By the North
a In the language OF McDuf6e, when hear Of
I, compromises methnks hear the bugle blast G.
y the robber bsnd,' and when hear cf waiting an
n overt act, ''methinks snuH treason in the taint
cd breeze" No, nv fellow citizens. If Won mis-.
i this opportunity for fearless yindication o
d Your honor, your requiem will then hc sung
d II will &c said Of YOU Of Napoleon
u lie sleep. his lat siecp,
i Hc h1s fought his last battle.
/, NJ sound can s~aks him 70 .lor, sS.i- !"
! Some sav ws iaust hold on. and returning
n sense of Justice and love FOR Union viii eau.
~ the nullifying States repeal their laws and d.
i us Justice Since the .ie0tion-since the storms
/, which the acquisition of .he Executive power b,
Il the iholitonists have raised in the South-ths
g Legislature OF Vermont, the chief Of nallif.in
II States, has been in SESSION. An appeal Wa
n made TO her 10 eyince 10 the South disposition