The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-04-17

support for the presidency. In Faneuil
hall. Theodore Parker declared: Il know
no deed i'm American history done by Il
son OF New England To which | can COM
pare this but the act of Benedict Ar
mold Even tho sad severity OF Whit
tier was charity in that hour;
"ReviIe him not-the Tempter hath
\ snare for all;
And plying tears. not scorn and wrath,
Bcflt his fall,
IAN else is gone. from those great eyes
The soul has ned.
When faith is lost. when honor dies,
The man is dead,
Then pay the reverence OF old days
To his dead fame:
Walk backward with aVertcd gaze
And hide The shame,
Hiding the Skeleton.
But the great mass OF senators and
representatives Of the American people
were not yet convinced that IL was IAN
irrepressiblc conflict" They hoped by
paIliativcs To cure disease that called
for the most heroic remedies. The con-
ScrNatiVe old StatcSmcO--thc 'Stand-pat-
tcrs'' as II wcrc-had their way. In the
hope OF saving the union and prescrv-
Ing party solidarity. congressman voted
against their own mclnations, and the
compromise was carried.
For time. however. tho fugitIve-slave
law continued to raise a great storm. for
il unwisc,Y brought the most odious fea-
turc of slavery homo TO n free people
naturally inpatient OF its existence and
CALLED their moral sense. Free-Statc con-
ErcSsmcn who had voted for the bill or
who had sncaScd away from their seats
IN order 10 cvadc The question wcro 1ili-
encd TO Judas lscariot. Ralph Waldo
Emerson. VoicinG the opinion OF moderate
abolitiouists. called the act "a law which
every one Of you will break OF the
earliest occasion" John Brown. then an
obscure wool agent. formed secret
League OF Gicadites" to resist the exc
Cutiou OF the law with suitable imple-
ments" When n negro named Shadrach
was arrested in Boston as an escaped
slave, he was rescued by q mob and safe
Iy smusgled off to Canada. and no jury
could be found that would convict the
men who had delivered him out of his
were made elsewhere; and the under
ground railway" and the grapevine
telegraph were kept busily at work.
In general however. the compromise
measures were gradually acquiesced in.
In the South. seccessionist hotspurs were
frowned upon, and "unionist' candidates
triumphcd in all the elections. In the
North, much as men might dislike the
fugitive-slave law. they loved the union
more. and zealously strove 10 keep the
unpleasant thought Of slavery out Of
their minds A political calm that was
compared 10 the EZRA OF good feeling"
under Monroe fell over the land. In the
election of 1852. the slavery question was
carefully avoided by both Wings and
Democrats. Short-sighted politicians con-
graduated themselves that Banquo's
ghost had at last been put down for the
count.
But a vital issue can never be disposed
of by compromise or by conspiracy OF
silence. The differences between the
free and slave states still existed; aboll-
ZIONIST sentiment, fed by the fugitive
slave law and Uncle Toms Cabin"
was growing: only a shock was needed
to CONCEAL the political atmosphere.
Douglas Strikes Fatal Blow.
That shock was given by Senator
Stephen A. Douglas. the redoubtable
Little Giant from Illinois. In a mo-
ment OF profound political peace. when
the lease of his party upon power seemed
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