Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1850-01-10


iional Importance at the present moment; and the
views which it presents think will be admitted
to be Just by all candid and rejecting men.
This article is worthy Of the attention of those
members of Congress who have recently proclaimed
themselves Disunionists. There is comparatively
fewer Abolitionists in Indiana than in any other
free State; yet the sentiments expressed by this
writer will be affrmatively responded to by nine
tenhs of our people.
The Democracy Of the Free States ver-
sus SIavery---The Democratic Party
North and South.
The theory of our government is that of equal po-
ical rghts-its practice is often that OF injustice
and wrong. The antagonists of capital and labor
always busy-one to increase It's amount and Its
power, the other bounds to Its inordinete &C
cumuations, and protect itself against It's extortons.
The employer is suffered to purchase labor as cheapy
possible, while the laborer, in bringing his wares
the market, is anxious to command the very nigh
est price. Hence, general rule when labor Is
cheap, money is high, and when money Is cheap,
labor is high From the efforts of capital to impose
unequal burdens upon labor has arisen the contests
in Congress during the last twenty years on discrIm
mating tariffs national bank, and all kindred ques
tons. The opponents of the democratic party, whe-
Their marching under the name of Federalism, Ma
tional RepubIicansm, Whigism, in the Free
States have often professed to be profoundly Ignorant
Of the reason tohy the poor laborer OF the Norm
should uots tcith the Southern Shareholder and he
has not unfrequently been derided as dough-face,
and supporter of shareholders for his party associa
tons. But the reason for this party alliance is a
very plain one. The free laborer, who earns his
bread by the of his brow, supports public mea
sures and the enactment Of laws, which, IN his
Judgment most benefit labor, that being all he las to
bring 10 market and the STAKEHOLDER, who owns the
laborers themselves, necessarily becomes his ally,
and in all legislation affecting capital in money,
commerce and manufactures antagonist to capital
in labor, votes and acts with him.
Whenever the question of tariffs and currency
have been discussed and acted upon, from the admin
istration of Jefferson TO the present moment, the
bond of union between the of his own labor,
and the owner of labor in his slaves, has been al
lance for the protection of labor against the constant
encroachments and extortions of capital The union
was natural, and party organization and concert ne
ccssary to success and to this unon-this organiza
ton and concert between the Northern democracy and
their Southern allies, the country owes the overthrow
Of the United States Bank, and all the progress yet
made towards just and equal tariff, and other lib
eral Legislation.
But the question of the laborer's right to be his
own master is very different matter. The free
white aborer of the North, while he conscientiously
abstains from interfering with the rights of his South
ern ally, guaranteed to him by the Constitution In
siss upon it that slavery is the creature of special
legislation, and local and State institution, that
shall not be extended into the free territories Of the
common domain phere ii is not. He regards it as
curse entaled upon the country while colonies of Great
Britain Spain, and France and insists, and ,0iA in
ss upon its non-extenson by the action of the gen.
era government into free territory, whether acquired
by purchase from the Indians by treaty from Mex
ico On this point the Democracy of the free States
are fired stars, whose light will guard and protect
free soil for the inheritance Of generations Of free
men, and free labor. To their Southern allies they
say" You must be satisfied that we allowed the
Louisiana and Florida purchases and the Texas &C
QUESTION to come into the Union slave territory
and that when Cuba desires TO come, such we will
not object nor seek to disturb her domestic insitu-
tons any more than those of Louisiana, Florida. and
Texas. You need not ask it at our hands, for we
will consent that any portion Of the existing
territory Of the Union, any future acquisition now
Free or free when acquired shall become slave terri
tory may, more-t0e ,0il neuer alloio it.
We love the Union, purchased by so many sacri-
fees of blood and treasure and cemented together by
90 many honorable compromises, but we will never
disgrace the memory Of Jefferson and his associates,
who deprecated slavery the curse of curses. and
tolerated its extension only because they could not
prevent it. by extending the of its boundaries.
To its present limits viii conne it. leaving its
eontinuance abolition there, to the free white pop
ulaton, to dispose Of they may deem proper and
right; and from this position threats of violence,
no threats of the dissolution Of the Union shall
drive US. In mere matters Of expedency we will
make many and large concessions, and sacrifices Of
opinion for the sake OF peace and to cool your hot
blood but dear as the sound of the word Union Is
TO u.s. the word LIBERTY is far dearer. These words
that have been nearly synonymous for sixty years.
you threaten violently to separate-and for what
Not because we threaten, or even seek TO interfere
with your local institutions but because we will not
allow you TO the common Inheritance, no'o free
with the evil of slavery. You threaten to dissolve
the Union In your cooler moments we do not be-
lleye you would dissolve it, if you could-and we
know you could not If you ,ooud. Where would you
draw the lines of dissolution, if would allow o.
dissolution Besides we know well as you Dc
that your three millions of slaves would not be wortf
three red cents, were the Union dissoved-or rather
we should say you kuoO ii as well as we do. Dis
solve the Unon-tbe peculiar inheritance of freedom
the home of the oppressed Of all nations-th'
throne of liberty. and it's hope throughout the world
because YOU cannot make California and New Mexi
CO the inheritance of Slavery! You dare not.-
must nOt.-cANNoT,- NOT do it,"
INDIANA