Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1850-11-14
For the Enquirer.
POLITICAL DUTIES.
No. ".

to the con tfdence and support Of the free
SOIL anti>slavsry voters Of the north S'
/ will refer generally, to the action of the
two parties, in Congress, ID State Legis.
latures, and in State and County Conven-
tons, and then introduce sundry unIm-
pcache6 and unimpeSchable witnesses in
support Of the positions assumed in for
mer communications. "Facts are Stub
born things" and however much we
MIGHT like to have them known, and not
knou,a, at the same time, according to
the latitude and longitude for which they
were designed, still facts will speak out,
and what IS most provoking, is, that they
mill sneak the same langu lge, north and
south: so that men who are governed by !
selfish motives, and especially, if they
are politicians, should have eyes before
and behind, and on either side Of them,
that they may not be surprised out of
their common sense, by the unexpected
appearance Of these " stubborn things"
at time most cer.ain to produce dscom-
future and shame. In Congress. for sew
eral years past, the northern wings, as a
party, have done what they could to re-
enact the Ordinance Of 1881, prohibiting
the extension of slavery but by union !
Of the democratic party OF the north,
with the south, the measure was defeat
ed. In the New York State Convention
held in 1916, for the purpose of amend
mo the Constitution Of that State, the
wings labored hard and steadily, to Sc
cure the same civil and political rights to
the black man, that they claimed for the
white man; but the democrats oppose
and defeated the philanthropic design;
similar facts might be referred to in Ohio,
Michigan, Vermont, and many other of
the free States, showing the position Of
these respective parties to be uniformly
the same. The union between Slavery,
and the aortheyn democracy, having been
cemented by many years of fidelity on
the part of the north, it would now re-
cure, There being no heart on either side
to petition for DIVORCE more than leg
islatiye or congressional act to dissolve it.
1t would seem hard to force such an issue
upon the parties against such strong and
mutual attachment. While this union
between democracy and slavery has been
growing stronger and stronger, the wing
partv Of the north, has, as if by necessity,
been receding farther and farther from
the spirit and practice Of inhumanity to
man. -
If what I have said, in this and former
communications respecting the sympa.
thies Of the democratic party of the
north being with the slavery interests Of
the south, and opposed to the free soil
sentiments of the north, is not true, then
/ have slandered the party but to show
that l have done them no injustice, per-
nit me tointroduce the testimony of some
of their own party, as authority:
The DAILY GLOBE of New York, the
principal organ Of the regular northern
democracy. recently put forth the fol~
lowing:
"THE BASIS OF UNroN.-The leaders oil
the Free Soil party, great and small, have
circulated freely the charges that the DEM
ocratic party are disposed to prescribe all
those who may at any time have favored
the Wilmot Proviso, notwithstanding any
change of sentiments which cooler reflection
may have produced in their minds. There
is no foundation for any such charge, so far
as we are. informed. The leaders of the
Proviso humbug-a mere Federal heresy-
show full we'll that their day Of power in
the Democratic patty has passed away nev>
er to return. until they abandon and re-
uounce their heTetical dogmas.
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Now, it is a matter Of little consequence
10 the Democratic party for what reason
any former adherent of the Free Soil party
shall have modified his opinions, or changed
his mind on the subject of the Wilmot Pro-
viso. 1t is sufficient that he is opposed to
it now. All who a re now opposed 10 the
Wilmol Proviso are Democrats. aud are and
will be received into the great National par
". All Of them, however, who are now in
favor Of the Proviso, are moi members OF
the party. and must be considered its worst
enemies, whoSe admission into our citadel,
With their flag aying, must be resisted and
yefused.'
The same paper Of subsequent date,
speaking Of ths Fugitive Slave Law,
uses the following language:
"As a class, free negroes constitute the
most miserable aud vicious p0pu.a ton
with few individual excepsions-of any
other. We want no more of them. The
Democratict sympathies are for our own
white race. Their welfare will he best
consulted by sending home the fugitive
slave, and receiving with open arms the
emigranl fleeing from the tyranny and OPP
preston of Europe"
One If the democratic organs Of West
ern New York. contains a letter from
one of its own kith in the city, who uses
the following significant language with
reference to the recent election held in
that State. promising great things for the
party; he says:
=" 'rhereis one condition, however, which
is absolutely necessary to This result, and
,hst is, the observance of entire goud faith
on the part of the late Free Soil section
throughout the Stale, as 10 the basis on
which The union was consumma,ed. The
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