Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1861-02-21
That Wheel of Tcrtune-Fiow
to Save the Union.

Wheel Of Fortune. He died under that
GuilIotine axe which he had erected and
set in motion for the despatch Of life-an
event which his melancholy had feebly and
not perfectly revealed to HIM. This was
the end Of a bad mantle revolution Of
his Wheel of Fortune. Now turn to
another:
The Savior remarked on certain occa-
sion to select few, that "the birds Of
The air hare NESTS and The fores iare holes,
bit tie son of man hath not acDere TO lag
his head' He was crucifed between
thieves and died TO satisfy the law, and by
merits make it possible to save lost world
His wheel Of fortune brought him poverty
and life Of sorrows, crowned by most
/ inhuman death. Then turn to another
case wherein the wheel of fortune still re-
vol,es without any reverse in matter Of a
whole ration Of people:
Stolen from the country in which God
placed them, brought for slaves to |. land
| Of freedom, long and fatally held to SER
vice or labor under unrighteous laws,
emancipated by conscience stricken masters
who feared to die and meet Almighty God
with such chattels on their hands, driven
thence in exile to Free States in a horn,
not allowed a resting place in such Free
States, ordered to leave by public .clamor,
doomed to persecution, poverty, ignorance
the Lord knows what otl1er dooms, the
friends Of such prosecuted ones mobbed for
the crime of defending them or reproached
for favoring aegro-equality, denied the
privileges Of our public schools and then
charged with ignorance, the church either
arrayed against them or brought to silence
when it appeals on their behalf-all these
and more have turned up in the wheel of
fortune for the children of Africa, and the
press and statesmen are still invited to hold
their peace, TO save the Union and tighten
the bonds and shackles of the damned
miggers."
Robespiere was a man of case-rich,
elegant and great, but possessing heart
Of stone and soul as renolseless as holl.--
There are none to mourn his fate. Jesus
was good man, a God; rejected, He be-
came the chief corner stone and head Of
the church. What then is concealed within
the wheel of fortune for these poor, de-
spised Africans, in that wheel which never
failed to bring justice-never, never !
And what is therein concealed for the OPP
pressor? Thomas Jefferson read from the
pages Of Gods law and dared to tell the
world what he read but another reyolu-
ton in the wheel of fortune, and these
"damned niggers" will be the masters and
the white masters be the slaves This is
what Jefferson read. To avert these ca
lamities, we would make no more COM
Pre- misses but invoke heaven for helping
hand in emancipating and colonizing these
niggers to another country. We may
thus avert Gods vengeance, especially if
we give the aiggers good country and
guarantee them a good government, with
good laws, good schools-in word, make
them as happy and free as our own people.
| BY accepting the proposal Of some
| philanthropic Marylanders and Virginians,
to buy the slaves of the border States and
colonise tkem, Congress would take step
which might avert dangerous results. Just
now we can see no other hope. Never can
peace come except by justice; and justice,
human and Divine, demands emancipation
AMI division of the earnings Of slaves
the slave earnings to be applied to their
benefit and welfare.
Old Uncle Sam, You can't cheat human
ity and heaven; you have fooled the lazy,
lousy, worthless Indians, but you never
enslayed them, AM you make them pension
ers, and allow them to vote when they pre-
tend to be Civilized. But you can't get off
so easy with the aiggers, whom you have
stolen and ensIayed and degraded. Now
down on your marrow-bones and ask Of
God and these aiGqers how they want
|
these matters compromised; tell them to
offer terms as moderate as possible; times
are hard and money scarce; the DIS to
pay at Charleston and all thai, and perhaps
you can drive a first rate bargain with
these insulted intelligences. Too late now
to plead the degradation act; God and
these niggers hold an attachment against
you, and the best way is not to demur but
answer ut once aud acknowledge that if
these niggers are good enough to work in
our fields they are also good enough to
bargain with about matters Of freedom ana
wages and being colonised to country OF