The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1863-10-14
Now aud 1hen.

BY taking With them, HiBue "eei 7OAe'' i
about liberty. About twenty years since, TIE /
Massachusetts Legislature sent distinguished
LAWYER. Hoo. Samuel Hoar, TO Charleston, to
carry 10 case to the C. 8 Supreme Court, and
,hu. remoye the evil constitutioualy Mr.
10, vent there With bis daughter, intending TO
.,.v .hou, six months, bot was 80 roughly |
treated that he was afraid Of his life, and lett tor
home. The Charleston people, at the time, had
q great laugh at the ease with which they had
frightened the Yankee ls-yer, although he was
backed up by whole State.
Massachusetts said little: but in 1868, che
..pt regiment Of the same despised eOlorcd
people who will avenge the wrongs OF their
brethren. and will help in burning the whole
civ of Charleston with .unquenchable Greek
FIRE.
In ls4s. in the Senate, at Washington, Mr.
Seward said that, for the FIRST time in biz lie.
he found himself legislator for slaves and ne
had asked himself how, consistently with ms
principles. he could do anything less than give
them freedom he, therefore, brought ID OH
abolishing slavery in the District OF Columbia
and sppropriating from the public treasury
Ra5O. 600 from which the owners we're TO be com
nensated. He was obliged TO vote for his bill
solitary and alone. Such reception a. this
would seem enough to discourage the project
forever. Yet, twelve years after, slavery "a-
abolished by a majority Of both Houses and the
Act vas approved by she President
In his message in 1867, Gov hcDufhe told
the Legislature Of South Corolns, with great
sef sufsciency: Domestic slavery, therefore
20 far fsOn being an evil, is the corner stone OF
our republican ed6ce. IL will be forta
nate for The moo slaVeholding States, It they arr
not, in less than quarter OF a century, DRIv n
70 the adoption Of similar Institution just
20 ears after, the South Carolina cornerstone
vas knocked out by the President declaring
every slave 10 South Carolina tree.
In 1885, New Orleans paper contained al
advertisement Offering a reward for the abduc
tion { w. l. Garrison, an abolitiOnist citzen OF
Massachusetts,, and his delivery in that city, 20
that he might be lynched To prevent any more
such insults. Massachusetts has cent out one OF
her factory operatives, Gen. Banks, ~ho now
regulates all the papers Of the city We would
nos be much more likely 10 f la tAem re
wards offered for the apprehension Of Louisiaua
rebel shareholders.
In ls4z-s, tie z eat Wing party, with Web
ster aud Clay at their head, tried all possible
ways TO establish a national currency. Blu
Tyler was too much for them; and Webster
Bank TO be " an obsolete idea" The plan waS
entirely given up. But there was living At that
time, in Cincinnati, a young lawyer, without
title or Office, who spent his leisure hours IN
writing articles on the "Ascendancy OF the
Slave Power," which were published in an Oh
scure weekly paper, OF which b, one Of the
Managers The paper was about half the size Of
the lansing ReDsb IA. In 1868, this lawyer
nov knoSn Seer, airy Chase, has organized
a national currency, which bids fair to be al
eminent success, thus doing whA, the grea'
Wing party, under It's talented leaders, hac
lsbOred for in vain during many years.
To 1910, at the Capitol. in Richmond, beneath
an October sun. in the presence of 10000 free
men Of Virgins, Daniel Webster declared with
great solemnity. that "t his well settled and
unchangsble opinion that there is power, d.
rect or indirect, in Congress or the General Gov
ernment to interfere, IN any ray in the slight
est egree, With the subject Of slavery, or the
institutions OF the South" This declaration
was received With immense applause. Had not
the great EIpounder OF she Constitution "
spokeni Did he not know. II that was his
well settled and unchsngsble opinion, Who
would dare to advance a contrary opinions The
words we're written down at the time, aud pub
lished all over the South, aud we're regarded as
an absolute guarantee for slavery.
Yet how little reliance can be placed on the
mere opinions of any man, however great 10
less than a quarter OF a century, Congress and
the General Government had interfered with the
slaves of more than 10. 900 freemen OF Virginia /;
not in one way only, but several ways not
slightly, but to the greatest possible extent
The Presidents declared tree almost all the slaves
in that State and Congress interiered By con
fscating all the slaves employed 10 the rebellion :
by enlisIing them as soldiers in the national ser
vice, and employing them to fight and conquer
these same ireemen OF Virginia.
In 1889, John Brown commenced war on the
Virginia shareholders, which he proposed to
carry on chiefly by organizing slaves into a mill
tAry force. For this ohense be was shot by L.
s infantry, acting under orders of Cen Scott,
and Afterwards hanged BY Gov. Wise for bis
onense against the State OF Virginia He was
called John Brown the traitor aud rode TO the
gallOws. sitting on his coffin, with his hands tied
behind bis back. Was be not a traitor! Had
he not invaded the State Of Virginia, and re-
sisted the U. s. troops.
In 1881, the same regiment OF infantry was
employed by Gen. Scott in making var on the
sane Virginia slaveholdiug rebels, and in ls6s,
the government Is armiug the slaves OF rebels.
and organising them soldiers, just a. Brown
had begun to do. But the same acts are con
sdered patriotic and reasonable according TO
the time and circumstances under which the,
are done. Had Brosn waited patiently two
years longer, be might have done precisely the
sane things which be wished to do by virtue
OF commission iron Gen. Scott and in man
ner that would have been useful to his country.
Ia the debate on the Missouri question. John
Randolph, OF Roanoke said:
" We do not govern them, THE people Of the
Norta) oy our black slaves, but by their own
white saves We know What we are dony
We OF the South ars slwsxs u..;,.A s. "a.