Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1862-04-23
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T,ayeAsrgR. wEDrEsDAY. APRIL 8.
EnaaclpaIion ia MarlaaA.

Reyerly Johnson, distinguished cti-
zen Of Maryland, and leadii 9 Douglass
Democrat, has opened the emancipation
ball in That State BY an able letter publ
jshed in the Baltimore Aoaerican, TIE!
nblest paper in that city and State. Here
is what he says
There is not a thoughtful man In our
country who now thinks that slavery Wilt
endure. Much h S been said, and, perl
haps, some will continue to dispute re-
specting the class Of people whose con
duct in regard to the institution has cansed:
the present calamities. Some blame the,
eboItionist5; some the nufiters; others.
bo.h these parties. But the time for this
disputaton is past. Whether eli her " alll
these parties, and others, have done wrongs
and undoubtedly they have, it is not nowI
material to inquire. All practical men are
now sensible that slavery SO affects the peoI
pie, whether it ought to do so or not, q to,
make it terrible institution to orr race
They see that it imbrues brothers hands
il brothers blood, and invites foreign
despots to pant monarchies on our conti-,
ncnt. With this result before Us, the in
quny should be how to get rid Of an ing
situlion which produces such nIiseries.-
Some urge instant and universal abolition
as the effective and proper course; bnt the
President adopts the recommendation Of
our great southern statesmen, made before
slavery became a political hobby, viz:
gradual emancipation with compensation,
and the separation Of the races. Many Of
our people, and especially the secessiunlsts
and those who-without having any prop
ery interest in it-have found their ae-
count in slavery rs political hobby, will
oppose Mr. Linc5ln's policy, and do their
best to bring upon US the more violent al
Tentative. But The people Of the State
will sustain him, They will now listen to
the sages and patriots who founded the
Government and warned us to eliminate
slavery, and will close their ears to that
selfish tribe Of pauisans who would risk
its destruction merely to carry an election.
Reyerdy Johnson, the able statesman,
secs tina. the day is gene for using the
prejndic,s Of ignorant people to carry pro-
slavery elections-gone, even in the South,
just as hatred to aLoi.ionists has long
sinca ceased to he cultivated in the North
for carrying elections. The cursed rebel
lion is scattering abroad is Blessings along
with its crimes. Among its least blessings
may e noticed this remarkable change,
that the cry Of negro equality and amalga-
nation s. fippantly used by demagogues
against the friends Of freedom cannot
weigh a feather. The question is, shall
we have a government at all where all.
shall be free, or no government and no free
dom for anybody,
Look, reader, at the terrible picture Of.
this "peculiar," domestic Institution, =.
which the fool hath said in his heart is conf
stitutional, bible sanctioned and right
that a majority Of the people Of terrific
have right to establish or not just as''
they have mind to. Hear what this Gel.
ebraied Revcrdy johnson says: an.
practical men are nor sensible that S7age-1
ry so qGette the people, 1rhetter il ought
TO d. so or not, as to make Il terrible
institutio,. 10 oar race. They see that e
imJrues brothers hands IN JrotdersI
blood, and inVites foreign despats 10 plant
nondrchies on or continent" And thisI
is the institution which has governed tbeI
country for half century, to opposeI
which we have been told thousand times,
is to violate the constitution, involve the
county in civil war and overturn the GOV !
ernmentl