Democratic banner., 1850-06-17
ABOLITION TREASON IN MISSOURI

ABOLITION TREASON IN MISSOURI.
From the beginning of time to the mid
die Of the nineteenth century, the most sa
cred rights and privileges of the people
have been seized upon by tyrants and dem
agOgues, as a means by which to perpetu'
ate their ill-gotten power, or to disseminate
their fiendish doctrines, aimed at the vital.
ty, prosperity, and peace Of the Masses
Such is the history of the world-such i.
depraved human nature. The vilestimpos.
tors that have ever disgraced humanity,
have feigned to take the Bible for theii
jcharte, and were loudest in their alteration.
Of its holy teachings. The church always
had, and now has, more to fear from impos.
tors or hypocrites, than from the combined
but open opposition of Deism, Atheism, and
all other like isms. When Cesar sought to
~enslave the Romans, he thrice rejected the
imperial crow to make it doubly sure
A tyrant by nature, he professed a love fol
republicanism, the more certainly to crush
IT to the dust. The freedom Of speech is a
birthright privilege Of republicanism, and
the freedom Of the press the palladium Of
liberty. But like every other grand and
noble privilege, sacred to the people and
republican institutions, it is too often seized
upon by tyran.s, fanatics and demagogues,
to war upon our liberties and battle down
our institutions. Eternal vigilance, once
said Jefferson, the great apostle Of democ-
'racy, is the price ofliberty. If we would be
.freemen, then, it behooves us to keep a Wig
liant and jealous eye upon our public func-
tionaries, and men IN stations calculated to
exert great influence, for good or evil, upon
our safety and prosperity as a people.
These reflections we have penned after
reading q rank ABOLITION article in that in.
cendiary sheet, the St Louis Union. We
feel that we would fall lar short of our duty,
as a public journalist, were we to let such
REASONABLE sentiments to the institutions Of
our State, pass unrebuked or unheeded-
coming as it does from a paper published in
our midst, with professions Of democracy
upon its lips, but fanatical abolitionism at.
its heart. The article of which. we speak
we give cerbotim ct kter0tin, upof the first
side of this paper, also the scathiig and
manly rebuke of that sterling democratic
sheet the st. Louis Times, to both Of which
we invite the especial attention of every
Missourian. The Unions article was call
ed forth upon the occasion of amass meet
ing, irrespective of party, being held at THE
Rotunda in st. Louis, to give expression to
public sentiment in relation to the compro-
mise report Of the committee of thirteen in
the United States Senate. It denounced
the meeting and those who favored it, and
the compromise itself-the work of patriot
sages, both North and South-as a scheme
to crafty 100000 rRAFFIcKERs IN HUMAN
FLESH AND BLOOD" The editor of the
Union gloats over his subject; and rolls the
cant phrases of Garrison, Douglass, and
Abby Kelly-"unrsghteous," sAunsan lib
and "humGn flesh and hbod"-un.
der his tongue as the sweetest morsels of
his editorial life.
The doctrine Of Notification is also bold
y proclaimed in this organ Of Benton, whose
evil genius is notification. Hear it:
"Such a compromise could not endure
0nger than the period required to wriie iI
mt BY politicians. In a country like ours,
,ou CANNOT COMPROMISE HUMAN FLESH, andI,
{ Is therefore supreme folly to attempt to
10 a. WW the people submit TO anu bill,
Inder whatever nasse Il may be called, faught
nth injustice to the different sections of Me Un.
on, and most especially designed against tie pro-
ress q. free government and human E6ery1---
lRey WiH not" j
Was ever the doctrine of nullifcation