Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1852-08-14
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"A hcul fTOgTtM,"
Such is the exclamation of the French paper,
La Patra, the organ of Louis Napoleon, in re-
gard to a resolution Of the Baltimore Dcmocra.
tic Convention. Mistaking tho position Of
Gen. Cass to be friendly to freedom, it rejoices
in his defeat, and in the nomination of Pierce.
1t understands this nomination as a declaration
of the party against Kossuth and all sympathy
with the oppressed of Europe 1t says:
awe find besides, in the resolutions ofthc
Baltimore convention still another proof of
/ the wsest aud most pacific disposition of the
! American democrats. These Resolutions
embrace, according to custom, the principle
points, the declaration of principles, which
ought To serve rs Il bnsis to the election of
/ the candidate proposed To the popular suflra-
ges. This manifesto does not mention any
of those ambitious phrases-of those rhodo-
mantadcs--ndlressed to European powers,
which hardly few months since, were sure
to he found in all the declarations emanaiing
from the democratic party. There is no al-
lusion, either to the liberty or Independence
of foreign nations, or to its being the duty OF
the government of the United States to see
that the despots of Europe do not trnmple
hIlOll lUUl llutlNN uit llllfIEiIfllNt. n elll-
gle paragraph appears TO nllude-hut in
very Indirect mauuer, aud with which the
foreign governments cannot show themselves
oilunded-to the duties imposed on the A.
merican democracy 10y the institutions of the
European States. This paragraph is thus
conceived:-
ReSOlped, That in view of the condition of
the popular institutions in the Old World, a
high and sacred duty has dev0lved with in.
crensed responsibility upon the democracy
ofths country, ms the party of the people TO
uphold aud maintnin the rights of every
State, and thereby the union of the States,
and 10 sustain aud advance among them con-
slltulional liberty, by continuing to resist all
uiOnOpolics and exclusive legislation for The
benefit of the few ut the expense of the
many, aud hy Il vignnt aud constant nd
lIerence TO those principles aud compromises
of the constitution which are broad enough
and strong enough to embrace aud uphold
the Union as it is, und the Union ns it should
be, in tho full expansion of the energies aud
capacity of This great aud progressive people.
Either we msconceiye very much the
meaning of that declaration, or il resembles
very litGle the propagnndist phraseology of
which we had more than once occasion to
publish some samples. (Reierring to Gen.
CHss'S Hungarian Speech, &c.) 1t is n REAL
PROGRESS. which WE OUGHT TO BE ANXIOUS
TO CONFIRM.
This resolution so acceptable to the French
Despot, has always seemed to us very singular
one. We were never able to connect its premise
and conclusion in any other way, than as the
Frcnchman has done. Look at it. "In view
of the condition of the popular institutions in
the Old World, high and sacred duty has de-
volved upon the democracy"-to do WHAT
Why "to uphold the Union as il is and as it
should be-" Why, how is that, other portions
Of the document inform us, viz:
"That all discussion of slavery should be re-
! sisted. That all efforts to interfere with qucs-
tons of slavery o. to take incpcnt steps in re-
lation thereto, ought not to be countenancod.
That slave catching is and must ever remain an
| inscpaIabc incident OF the Union" This is the
Union as it is and as it should be-" according
to our democracy. This is exactly the "uiioa
as IL is" in Russia, in Austria and in France
And this too is the "unioa Gs IL should BE-" ac-
cordng to Nicholas Francis Joseph, and Louis
Napoleon.
Ii therefore the resolution has any meaning,
it is this, We must support the American Union
and slavery for the sake of the present nstitu-
tions of Europe. No wonder the organ of Eu-
ropean despotism should exclaim, "H is a real
progress ichch zoe ought to be anxious to confirm"
No wonder it commcnds the " loisdom and pacific
disposition Of The american Democrats"