Traces of obliterated characters were dis
covered on the hickory side, but it was im
possible to make them out. On the gra
nite side which had a new appearance
these words were visible under a strong
light:
“Resolved, That he d. nloCratic party
will resist all attempts at rimewing, in Con
gress or out of it, the agitation of the sla
very question, under whatever shape or co
lor that attempt may be made.”
The mysterious relic was handed over to
a distinguished antiquarian, who took it to
Washington and placed it in the Patent
Office. Since then it has been visited and
examined by President Pierce, Senator
Douglas and all the heads of departments,
except, perhaps, the Secretary of State.—
None of them pretend to know anything
of its origin, or how it came to be “run in
to the ground.”
Well Said.—The Burr Oak, published
in Dodge County and edited by one of the
Pierce Electors for this State, takes manly
ground against the Nebraska Iniquity. In
a recent article, replying to the strictures
of some Doughface correspondent the Burr
Oak talks in this plain fashion:
We have no patience to talk about this
new fangled doctrine of non-intervention.
For an American Congress in this age
of the world, to say by legal enactment
that it is Republican and right to allow
one part of mankind to enslave another
part, if they will vote to do so, is unnatural,
unchristian,immoral and barbarous. With
in the states, slavery exists by local laws
and Congress cannot constitutional
ly interfere with it there. But it is the
solemn duty of Congress to prevent its
spread into Territories. Its duty because
it is the presentativc of a Christian people
and Republican government. Slavery is
neither Christian nor republican.
