The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1863-01-29
Who Began lit


and vicious me ory in the following:
"The Tribune is in gross error in say
ing the South began this war, in the sense
here used, There are two ways to begin
war, one, that of the Abolitionists,
for twenty five years, hectoriny the South,
running off her slaves on Underground
Railroads, mobbing Z. S. Marshas,
breaking into U. S. Courts, and nullify-
ing, in State Personal Liberty Bills, the
Constitution of the United States, which
pledges the North to deliver up, on claim.
fugitive slaves The Aboli,ionists warcd
this sort of war for twenty five years. The
Secessionists responded to it in the Or
dinancc of South Carolina, and in the
action of the Montgomery Convention.
John Brown fred the lst gun; jeff Da,
Wis, gun No. ="
The Erpress is surely old enough to
know that the above is grossly partial and
unjust. Let US amplify it:
l. More than thirty years ago, the
State Of Georgia seized, tried, sentenced
and imprisoned certain Northern mis-
sionaries among the Indian tribes who
were charged with violating her laws by
continuing their work among those Iudi.
ans, and advising them not to give up
their lands. The Supreme Court of the
United States adjudged the proceedings
of Georgia invalid, because contrary to
the faith of treSties, and ordered the re,
lease of the missionaries. Georgia os-
tentot'onsly defed and nuHifed the decree
Of the Court, and a Southern President
(Jackson) upheld her in doing So
"Wcll,' said he, "John Marshall has
made his decision: nou let him enforce
it."
2 Nearly or quite thirty years ago, the
Northern mails were ransacked by a mcb
in the city of Charleston, S. c., and
whatever they chose to consider ncendi
ary, was destroyed. An appeal against
this lawless violence to the Southern
President through his Southern Post
master General was coolly rejected The
destruction Of the mails was utterly, SUI
! perlatively lawless-but it was a slave.
holding outrage, and the Government
refused even to censure it. 1t was vir-
tually settled that tho mails might be
J rihAh whenever the Slave pnwar should
see fit.
3. Some years later, South Carolina
having asserted and exercised right to
seize and imprison any citizen of Free
State having dark or tawny skin who
should come to any of her ports in yes
sci, Massachusetts decided to test the va
lidity of such Legislation as against her
citizens in the courts of South Caro-.
lima and of the Union. With this view,
she sent to Charleston as her Commission,
er, Hon. Samuel Hoar, one of her most
eminent citizens, who, unthipking of
giving otfense, took his young daughter
along with him. Yet he had hardly ar
rived in Charleston on this peaceful legal
crrand, when a mob was raised which
hurried him out of the State by threats
of personal violence if he should venture
to remain 4 single day. And to this
hour. South Carolina has never allowed
the validity of her Legislation against the
colored citizens Of Free States to be ad-
Indicated even to her own courts.
We might 90 on with these instances
of SlavchoIding outrage on Northern
rights; but to what end Surely, every
intelligent person must know that nei.
thcr "John Brown nor "JcF, Davis"
fred the first, second nor third gun in
the "irrepressible conflict" now approach
ing its termination " Y Tribune.
esg If, as the opponents of the Ad
ministration constantly assert, the Pro
clamation of Emancipation has increased
the determination of the rebel States to
fight for independence, and therefore has
tended to engthen the duration of the
war, how was it that the observance Of
the opposite policy throughout the first
eighteen m n'hs of this contest effected
nothing towards "concilia,ion % Every
one knows that when the war first broke
out, and for months afterr ards, the Fed,
eral Government manifested the most
tender regard for the interests of the
"peculiar institution' Slaves were not
only excluded from our lines, but when
they attempted to enter them they were
actually sent back to their rebel owners
flags of truce frequently being used for
this very purpose. Gen Fremont pro-
claimed freedom in Missouri to the slaves !
of rebels and he was removed General .
Hunter undertook the abolition of slave .
ry 10 South Carolina and was at once re-
called And so on up to the time when
the people demanded more energetic
and common-sense policy. What
effected by all this tenderness to rebels .
How much "Union feeling did it de-
velop among our "Southern brethren ?"
If it utterly aud hopclessly failed, as CIV.
cry honest man must admit it to have
done, why need any loyal man object to
the trial Of different policy? The
conservative" had full opportunity to
uin back the rebels and didn't do it,
why cannot they stop growing at the
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