Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1861-01-10

CoNcEssIoS.-In all the talk about concessions
and Compromises in order to preserve our coHn-
| try from the disgrace and misfortune Of dis-un-
ion, the South has made no single proposition
| to meet the North on a middle ground-to give
up the privilege OF hanging, taring and feath-
ering. shooting. dc. Of unoffending Northern
men. if the North would repeal their Personal
Liberty Bills. would aid them in recovering
their runaway slaves, dc. The constant de-
mand is, why don't the North do this, why don I
they do 80 and so? Does the South propose in
order to get peace to make any eoneessions?-
Not one, and if brought about to- morrow by
the North conceding to all that they ask, it
would not be four years until this same clamor
would be heard anew, the same threats of dis
union would be again made, and the same pro-
cess of patching up a Compromise TO keep them
in the Union would again have to be gone
through with. The South commands the North
to forfeit the advantages secured TO them by the
Union. That demand has been repeatedly made
and as repeatedly conceded them ever since the
organization of the Government, and if peace
between them and the South is again ever
brought about, it will be secured by Northern
firmness, not by Northern concession.
The New York Tribune justly remarks:
"Our Government includes four leading de-
positories of power The Presidency, the Sem
| ate, the House, and the Supreme Court. Three
of these are in the hands Of the friends of Sla-
| very, even after the 4lh of March next, and for
an indefinite future period. One-the Presi-
dency-is secured for four years TO the side of
Free Labor: and thereupon the South proposes
to boltl Shall we therefore propose TO cripple
our fourth of the Government because the pos
SCISSORS of the other are dissatisfied
at our haying anything?
We want nothing but what is fair and just
If the South, by the help of the Senate. House,
and Supreme Court, can force Slavery into the
Territories, we must submit Ii the North.
with only the Executive on its side. can keep
that Southern scourge and National scandal out
of the Tarritories We mean that she shall. Is
that fair? The Slavery Extensionists, with
three TO one, do not propose TO tie their hands
Why should they ask lis to tic ours?
All the present difference between the North
and the South grows out of new views recently
adopted by the latter When. so late as 1926,
Edward Everett of Massachusetts expressed Pro-
buked therefor by two several Southern MEM
| bers. and one Northern Democrat born in the
South. Never till since John C. Calhoun quar-
relied with Gen. Jackson was it held or prtten-
ded in any influential quarter that Slavery was
| a blessing 10 be diffused. We stand on the old
common ground of the Fathers. Why should
we changeit Is it reasonable to ask lis to do
| SO?
Union men of the South the day of compro-
misses is over. We want to retain the Union, but
it must be as equals. You have right Gas
against us) TO sustain Slavery;we have right
to jeet and condemn it. If you have right
to seek its diffusion. we have an equ>l right TO
resist it, If those who wish Slavery Extended
are stronger than we, they will beat rs; if we
are the stronger we mean to beat them. If we
admit that we, Standing in your shoes and see
| ing through your eyes, would do us you do, you
should not admit that you, standing on our
ground, would do as We do. May the victory
enure to the Right