Winchester journal. [volume] (Winchester, Indiana) 1862-1863, 1862-12-12
From the New York Times, Nov. 22l
THE BEEcuEs, Nov. 1862.

From the New York Times, Nov. 22l
The BEEcpEs, Nov. 1862.
| sing, 10 Triumphe, Your
New York Democrats think
they have got a victory. There
never was a more mistaken set
Of people since time began.-
They have won a petty skirmish,
and lost a great battle. Their
allies of half a century, who
alone gave them any real power
or consequence, have been terri
bly, defeated--oE their chosen
field. do not mean the MAORI
ty in Congress, (Which will be
unequivocally for the Admins
traitor, and overwhelmingly for
the war; but mean the victory
of freedom in Missouri. Nor
do ] mean that emancipation will
be accomplished in day there.
| mean, we have unmistakably
and irreversibly the commence-
ment de Ia jim.
No human power can turn
back the great tide of opinion.
which is now sweeping away the
bulwarks of slavery. 1t will go
on in various forms, and occa.
sional ebbs, till the last vestige
of domestic bondage is swept
from America. | care nothing
for the minor details OF the bat
tie. | was once as blind as
John Van Buren seems to be-
II, as strongly suspect, his ven
tilatlons Of the swell-mob
are not really a witty satire
on the follies Of his party. At
any rate, if he had intended his
speeches for Punch, he could
not have done them better.
But, to return. was once
blind enough to trnst that the
victories OF the Democratic pro-
slavery party really meant some
thing, and We're To be sorrowed
over by the friends Of freedom.
was perplexed, but not in de-
spair. Time has taught me bet
ter. Providence often gives tenn
porary strength and success to
false principles and corrupt par
ties, in order that they may the
more certainly be swept away bv
an honest public indignation; and
it often makes mems selfish In
teres,s (as in Missouri the in.
strument Of wide and perma-
nent benehcence. Let me tell
YOU some facts (not perhaps re-
membered) about this Missouri
business. Missouri was the first
Territory beyond the Mississip-
pi, which applied to be a State;
but unhappily had few slaves
and its proposed Constitution
permitted slavery. You viii
observe that up TO this time nc
new slave State had been admit.
1 ted. formed out Of new territory
Kentucky was part of Virgin
/ ia. Tennessee was a part o.
| North Carolina. Louisiana was
settled territory, coming in undel
the treaty with France, with al
/ its local usages. To say thai
the wild, unsettled country o.
Missouri was a part of LoulSl-
ana, was a mere subteriuge
The real question was, whether
it was right or expedient to make
new slave States out of new ter
ritory. The sagaciOus, honest
friends of freedom in the North
like Rufus King, John W. Tay,
lor, OF Saratoga, Sergeant, o
PENNSYLVANIA, and others, saw
clearly that this was great bat
tie for human freedom; that /
Missouri had a right TO demand
admission as a slave State so haC
any new territory which we
might hereafter acquire to the
end of time. And you now SET
into what prodigious proportions
that question has ioomed up; anc
through what blood and suiierln.
we must wade to It's solutionl
need not cite particulars. The
South had then in Congress two
great advantages. The equa
representation In the Senate gave
them aveto power, and the South
ern immigration to Illinois anC
Indiana, operating on their Sena
/ tors, gave them: in fact, a majori
/ " there. In the House the ma
iority was the other way; but the
South had an advantage there
Henry Clay, then a young anc
ambitious man, of commanding
I.oIor4s o,d ro,,,o,.e,l aIoouance