Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1861-05-09
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and OF the creeds Of political parties, and il
was done.
Upon the same demand it has reversed
the decisions Of their Courts; the acts and
resolutions Of their Legislative bodies.
1t admits of no question. 1t toleratcs
no other opinion. 1t reigns supreme, des-
potic, and intolerant as the Spanish inqui-
sition, in the seeding States, and contr, Is
the leading politicians in all the Slave
States.
Not content, however, with controlling
State action, and all domestic, it also der
manded the control OF every department
Of the Federal Government, Of Congress,
Of the President, and Of the Supreme
Court.
1t demanded Of Congress the repeal Of
the Missouri Compromise, and it was re-
pealed.
1t demanded the invasion and subjuga-
ton of Kansas by five thousand men in
arms, and it was done.
1t demanded the enforcement of the
bloody Border Ruffian Code, and it was
enforced.
1t demanded the admission of Kansas
under the Lecompton Constitution. though
it came, covered all ever, reeking-wlth
fraud and perjury; anC, as all the world
knows, voted down by almost ten thousand
majority. In that, however, for the first
time, il failed; and, thank God, Kansas is
| free.
1t demanded the bred Scott decision,
reversing all the decisions Of the Supreme
Court, and Of every State Court North
and South, anu Of every Administration
from Washington to Polk, and that decis-
ion was made.
Last winter, made still boller by this
decision, it demanded IA reconstruction of
the government Itself; u new Constitution,
uy the express provisions Of which. tins
Calhoun idea should be adopted, and the
institution Of human slavery spread ali over
the Tree territories OF Mexico aud Central
| America, Just as fast as we should acquire
them. And what was more insoleut thaa
All else, il declared that ii even this last de-
mand were granted to save the Union. there
was to be no Union after all; for it would
stll spurn with contempt the idca that the
Constitution gives to the Federal Govern
ment any power to enforce its laws IN any
seeding State.
But all these acts and usurpations, the
natural precursors of what we now see, be-
long to the past. They are now swallow
ed up in the fact that, with arms in their
hands, these consplrs,sors have seized our
forts and arsenals, robbed our treasury,
lnsulted and fired upon our flag, and TO
crowa the whole catalogue Of their crimes,
| they have inauguratei. actual war against
the government and threaten to advance
upon and seize the Federal Capitol itself.
| Great God Almighty, shidI just ven
geance sleep foretef?
That point, beyond which forbearance
ceases to be a virtue, has been reachsd and
passed long, too long ago, already.
would be as forbearng as any. | have
hoped and prayed that this cup mightpas
but if it must b. drank, Gods will be done.
| would hope and pray, and labor still,
| for peaceful solution Of this great Nation
al trouble, but if blood must flow, if it be
/ His will that we must ..tread the wine-press
| Of the fierceness of His wrath" before we
reach the end, be it So! We stand for the
Union and the constitution Of our fathers
for the light and glory Ct our Nations.
We stand for constitutional liberty and
equal justice to all mankind.
In such struggle, if true to ourselves,
God, the Almighty, be with US.