Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1862-08-26
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the Underground Railroad

] hat which men mete to those IN bonds
shall be meted unto them. Guilt worketh
corruption Of blood in those who Cypress
their fellow men; and their children have
melted to them the sorrows due for their
fathers transgressions. God renembereth
not to forget the wrongs of the oppressor
and blingeth sure judgment, even TO the
third and fourth generation.
Such are a few Of Jehoyah's Higher
Laws which men, yea the American people
rs mass, have thought to evade, the su-
preme Court thought to unconstitutional
Else Or Bachanarize aud the very pupit TO
an alarming extent thouglltto make as OBJ
solete as old Wisconsin Statutes. Those
in authority, government, courts, clergy,
felt sure for time that they had on their
side a pro-slayery Constitution, pro-slave'y
God, and pro slavery divinity; that GOV
eminent, heaven, laws, schools, religion,
Ji0les-eyerything was for the exclusive
benefit Of the white people, and that relig-
ion was Of no use to niggers exceptto make
them obed,cnt and keep them from the
underground railroad to Canada; that ed
ucation was only for white people, and all
such tom-foolary invented to order by pull
pit disclaimers and political demagegues.
Reader, observe now the currens of that
stream Of Higher Law,whose fountain rises
in Gods throne washes away all human
sophistries and flows into the gulf Of Iighd-
eousness. See the futile twistings and
Screenings Of our Government to avoid let
ting the bond people 90. The III ssident
God bless him, has just held conference
with the niggers,as viii be seen Oh the first
page Of cuf paper, and wants to know
whether the innocent blacks will agree to
leave the country of their birth. The Pres
ident thinks 10 that way to eyale the terri
bic penalties hanging over the country for
expressing that people. In the mean time
see the late wrought changes ola day; Can
ada was until this year the only asylum on
the Amencan continent for the blacks.
Now every loyal state is an asylum. The
men formerly 10 the trade of catching ne
qroes are now flying from the draft upon
the very un erground railroad, formerly
invented to conduct flying slaves to Cana
ola, while every return train is freighted
with negroes--the very negroes ex-
ported years gone hy upon that under
ground railroad. No wonder the Presi- /
dent is alarmed and wants to make com
promise with these people who are "suffer
Ing the greatest wrongs Of any people on
earth" as he sa,s. Again, tue soldiers,
people and tax payers are almost unani-
mously demanding that the negroes be al
lowed to go into the army and fight tleir
rebel masters; and it is just beginning to
be held that loya! niger should bel
more respected than a white traitor. mol
wonder lie President wants a compromise,
for surely the niggers are beginnin- to be
powerfully looLiing up third party in
spite ofthe world. God must be at the
bottom Of things tuning them down end
upwards, for surely the devil wouldn't be
there and men are averse to all such things.
Reader, we are dfifted mo an interesting
SpuEEt, dS ven d. q iiOob lStltotS OuS'
Human wit fails to comprehend much less
to manage the helm. Northern men,
heretofore pro-slayery, are daily turning
about and now demand more extreme an
ti-slayery measures than the old radical
abol'tionists ever dreamed Of; even men
Of doubtful morality, despisiog the negro,
yet cry out that, whereas .4he blacks coaS
ed the acqr,aooc lctt1e1n be made to take a
hand ia SAVING tie antry, for sure The
negroes are not better ttan wbife mea--
therefore, let them be set 10 shooting bull
tets as aceH as wdite soldiers" And
thus do all extremes blend mo one for
recognizing niggers as men. No wonder
the President has set about treating with
the niggers, pretty much rs the habit has
ten to treat heretofore With lazy, lousy In
dams. We admire President Lincoln;
he is an honest man, and when God oman
eipates him from bondage TO cefiain ideas,
then he will stand only second 10 Chiist
and along with Moses, Joshua, WILDER
force. John Wesley, Horace Greeley and
such ike secondary savicrs.
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