The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1862-02-07
For the JefFersoninn Democrat.

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account of its truthtulness, and being so
exactly adapted to the exigencies of the
times. This and other things transpring
have led me into the following train OF re.
! Elections and, being one of the sovereign
| people, | claim tho privilege of uueFing
them. provided you should deem them of
sufficient importance to find place in your
valuable paper.
! 1t has long been q mystery, an unaccount-
ablo mystery, to me- bow the President or
any u authority can think of trying TO
put down the Rebellion and yet save Slavery.
In the frat place, they cannot do it if they
would. In the second place, what earthly
object would be gained If they could But
why can it not be done Brcause God
! Almighty roigus, and has purpose to ac.
complish. and this purpose will stand
though the earth be removed. Was it one
of the purposes OF God, think you. tn suffer
a few Shareholders to become 50 infatuated
as to inaugurate war against the Union for
the avowed purpose of carrying Slavery
where they pleased. and then be put down
again, and Constitutional Slavery restored,
and thoy left in their old tracks until they
were ready TO kick up another bobbery II
! slaVeholdiDg inquity were not vet full, do
not know but that catastrophe might happen.
But what oppression iniquity. cruelty, tor
ture, horror or monstrocity ever devised by
man. but has been pracliced aud improved
upon by American Slav0ry-ihat "sum of all
villainies = There is every reason to be-
lieve that the cup is full, and its doom sealed
Then woe to all who attempt to steady its
tottering pillars. Better stand from under,
and lot il go to its own place.
Another reason why this Rebellion can.
not be put down and Slavery saved, may be
found in tho answer of our Savior to the
Jews, when accused of casting out devils
| through the Prince of the DeVis-'A house
divided against itself cannot stand, but is
| brought to desolstion"--a truth that all
mon ought to know, and so far tho war has
been a practical demonstration Of it.
| In the second place. what earthly good
would DO accomplished, II it could be done !:
| 1t has been proved over and over again,
that Slavery works no good either 10 master
or slave. but untold evils to both. poisoning
with it's postiferous breath everything With
which it comes IN contact. If any proof
were wanting before the war. OF its inhnman.
savage and fiendish influence on slavebold-
ers, enough has trsnspired since. to con-
vince any decent Pro. Slavery man, if such
an anomaly exists,) that the guilt OF Slavery
! cannot be fathomod. Nothing but the deep
caverns Of the Bottomless Pit will ever ru.
veal its enormities. Witness the scourgings
hangings, drowniDgs, shootings. tar and.
featherings, and all sorts of outrages ever
thought of, Inflicted, not on their slaves
alone, but on their own fellow citizens who
do not think as they do, or are in any way
favorable to the Union. in which thoy have
long dwelt in safety. Rule or ruin is their
only motto. This mono can DENY Then
ask, in the name Of all that is great or good,
why wish to preserve an institution that tns
already caused the temple of our political
liborty to totter and tremble, and. unloss
there is return to the first principles that
all men are created free and equal, and are
entitled to their God given rights. viii!
tumble to the ground. and great will be the
fall thereos "But did NOT our fathers. in
order TO secure the Union of all the States
enter into u solemn compact or com.
, promise. in which things wore conceded ,O
tho South And ought not we their dc
scendants, to carry out in good faith al
such concessions 2" / answer: Where such
requirements involved only their own and
their children's rights, withou. infringing
any moral obligation, most certainly yes
, But where the rights of others. as in The
Il
tho Slave Trade, equally contravene tn,
, rights of men, their conscience and tho laws
: of God, they can have no binding effcc
! whatever. This thing was settled as long
{ ago as when God, by bis prophet, declared
! this proverb shall be read no longer il
, Israel: "The fathers have eaten SOU
grapes, and the chidron's teeth are set or
edge" But this Nation has revived tn,
obsolete prOvorb, and, for 70 years. the
doings of the Fathers with regard to thu
> compact have been held by each successive
q Administrator more sacred and inviolat,
than any Othor law or usage whatever. A
first. it was said that Slavery was an ovi
entailed upon us by the mother country
much to bo deplorod, but the remedy out o
= :. our reach. British emancipation taking
: place, it would not do TO go back any far
Iher than tho compact, and that has eve
= since been the scape goRt for all our sins il
: that direction.
But. that there should not be left US evol
:, shadow of excuse, God, in His Providence
: has so ordered it that the party in who's
= favor the compact was made, be the frs
to break IL by rebelling against tho Union
. and thus opening tho door for universe
. emancipation; consequently. now our N
ton is passing the most fearful crisis il eve
a has or can pass, Tor, !. we tail now,all ls los
= = II, after having experienced in the Ere
- States, such unparalleled growth and pros
:, perity as no other Nation under heaven eve
=, did, and witnessing at the same timo tn
=" diroful effects of Slavery, which have culm
mated at last in a civil and suicidal war; W
T. now falter and turn deaf ear to the sgf
i' and groans Of our brethren in bonds;
10 repeat. il we now shut our eyes and clos
IL our hearts against oil these influences. an
O. thus sin willfully, after having tasted all II
- good things of Liberty, ana mako up OF
H. minds to deny thom to others, There wi
Ut remain no moro sacrifice for sin-notbiu
~ but fearful looking for of judgment
H. come" "Tbou art weighed in tho ba!ant
* and found wanting" will bo written on Il
IN walls of our American ediRce.
have no particular fears for the slav
70 am confident his redemption draweIh mig
ia God does not do things by halves; what i
nd has begun He will surely accomplish; az
d. he must be blind indeed who does not s,
the hand of God in this matter. But n
fear is that the Federal Government, havir
been so long controlled by the moRst
Slavery, and cared so little for the dow
:" trodden and oppressed, who arc alwa.
r. the objects of Gods care, will miss the o
, portunity offered for doing works meet Il