The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1865-06-23
CHARDOS. OHIO, FRIDAY, JUNE %, 1865.
The Slave Exodus.

bash moment oi lime Ill is by laden with It's own
wonderful phenomena. Causes which, though
at first are impercep,ible, whelhe: from al OBJ
trsoness Of mind or an inability to see with dis.
interested eye, have been at work, which make
man alive to the momen,ous things of to-day -
Truly we ure philosophers As natural causes
produce their natural effects so must the moral
or immoral proclivies Of nation conspre to
hasten, retard or defeat the great end OF huma n
existence progression.
Wherever the American flag unolds It's starry
ba'dric to the breeze, now that breeze fans the
brow of the once fettered slave. Now is the ex
odus o. the siave--his way out OF bondage--ar
exodus which Is its very legitimate RESULT
There have been two causes at work that have
wrought out this great end. We behold the huge
rock at the bottom Of the yawning chasm, that
was once hurled, in the memory Of man, from the
summit of the precipce to its present posit ion.-
There was providence in the preparation for
this mighty tumbling. Slow but steady does the
Angel OF Time remove the sandy earth ,ha, fixed
II to its place above, whther 1t was rolled by un-
erring, gravitating law. That the restoration of
the equilibrium lost in one place and restored in
another Is no less true Of the moral than Of the
natural, world is true in the national pha Of all
history. 1t is not In the workings OF ofProvidence
that ono nation, however enlightened In the hu.
name sentiment Of benevolence justice and mod.
Grafton, should control the bodies and so uls of
another nation, however inferior, that, If lett to
itself, would elect to DO race Of slaves. Slavery
bagets tyranny. The continued and ,epea ted
stroke, Of the cold iron upon the seemingly worth.
less flint, draws out that latent spark to return
no more, Tyranny over the slave begets crime,
calls out the fire Of slumbering manhood-and
manhoodbeg freedom - freedom of the indiy:d
unI, In times progressive ma rch makes freedom
TO the nation. The sand, sitting down from the
heights, is but the slow, preparatory undermin.
ing, the precursor the great rock tumbling that
will surely come. So the captive, esca ped from
the prison that slavery has made for him, gives
us to understand that ho Is only little ahead of
the great moral over throw OF that system OF hu-
man bondage, which, it's partcipators South,
and whose sympathizers North, had striven TO up.
hold and extend-by their own admissions, when
against their own interests, they, Pharaoh. like
hung on, Till the moral equilibrium has been re-
stored by the exodus Of the bonGman This is |
ono OF the various purifyings and rejuvenatngs
by which the ways Of Providence are vindca,ed
to man; this is one of the grinding mills of God,
and ms his physical atmosphere Is purified by the
thunder.bolt Of heaven, so
Ever grinds Gods moral MILL
That bolts each soul from every i'll.
Slavery bege's crime; otherwise, it would con.
tinue exist; the odousness ofits features gone;
and the bondman have mono but seryile thoughts
and slavish aspirations. The line which dc.
grades the moral plane Of the master, calls into
life higher development; a race that prison bars
nor thongs can subdue to savcry-a race, that
born In chains will not be slaves. $ they come,
breathing the bracing atmosphere Of Freedom,--
we SEQ them, each from his developed plane, TAX
ing upon himself the laboriousness Of an Aaron,
lead their captive brethren from the wilderness,
10 enjoy and to inherit the promised land Of lib
orty. Verify the. time had come, by the cuImin.
alton Of this system bondage, in the once great
rebellion, tina, Slavery must live no longer All
tine powers Of executive enactments--c oncessions
Of liberty to its exaclons--truces, armisices-ull
could avail nothing the last particle OF sand had
left the rock, that hold it high ubove.-nnd now
it must tumble down and die. Thus has ended
with this rebellion an institution whose corner.
ptone rested upon The necks OF the negroes.
We claim no merit as loreteller of events that
will surely transpire, but we firmly believe That
Whit Is true OF tho individual is true of parts Of q
anton, and na tons:-.as man pays the penalty for
prostituti ting all that in him is noble to his lower
nature, 30 is the South now paying her penalty, in
exhausted resources, desolated firesides and the
loss ofthe injured and unrequited slave
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s5- Tho Springfield Republican thinks Tho
Gme has como when 1t will do no harm to
mako some disclosures respecting attempts