The Yazoo Democrat., 1852-08-11


only emitting the conclusion which lauds Sena-
tor Chase of Ohio, to the skies. We ask the
people of the South, if so infamous paper,
filled with such disgusting attacks upon the
South and upon Gen. Pierce conformity, should
not be received with scorn and contempt, in
stead of being used by Southern Scott Whig Ed
itors as authority to hound down bold and un-
finching champion of the constitutional rights
of the South, like Frank Pierce Richmond En-
quireT.
DEMOCRACY AND SLAVERY GENERAL
PIERCE-SENA ATOR WADE.
:" All efforts of the Abolitionists or Others to
induce Congress to interfere with questions OF
slavery, or To take incipient steps in relation
thereto, calculated to lead to the most alarm
ing and dangerous consequences, and that such
efforts have an inevitable tendency to diminish
the happiness OF the people and endanger the
stability and permanency of the Union, and
ought not TO be countenanced by any friend OF
our political institutions, and there
fore the democratic party of the Union, stand
ing on this national platform, will abide by and
adhere to a faithful execution of the acts known
as the Compromise measures, settled by the last
Congress-the act for reclaiming fugitves from
service or labor included, which act being de
signed to carry out an express provision OF the
Constitution, cannot with fidelity thereto, be
repealed or SO changed TO destroy or impair It's
efficiency"
Resolred, That the Democratic party will re
sist all attempts at renewing, in Congress or out
of it, the agitation of the slavery question, un-
der whatever shape or color the attempt may be
made. > Huaker Baltimore Platform.
81 accept the nomination upon the Platform
adopted by the Convention, not because this is
expected Of me as a candidate, but because the
principles it embraces command the appreciation
of my Judgment and with them | believe / can
safely say there has been no word nor act of my
life in conflict Gen. Pierce'S Letter Of Ac-
ceptGnce.
The day will come and it is not far of, when
the Platform and Pledge above will be looked
upon as among the most degrading and disgrace
full paragraphs in American history. Such is
already its aspect in the eyes of all men not
iaundiced by party blindness. Such it is now
regarded by the true friends of Progress and
Freedom. the world over. 1t would be difficult
to compress more downright Diabolism within
the same space by the use of any words in our
language. Here we have wha1His called '' dem
ocratic' Platform of Faith and Practice, built
wholly upon the foundation of American Slave
ry To strengthen, uphold, protect and eter-
nize a system that denies the humanity of be-
tween three and four millions of native born
Americans, is the proclaimed mission of Amer
lean Democracy
To realize this consummation, it does not pro
pose to confine its operations to the immediate
victims of its tyrannical policy. This were a
too moderate and limited view of Democratic
responsibility. 1t proposes to paddock the lips,
letter the hands and stop the pulsing hearts of
Il.
1t is not enough to imbrde in the darkness and
ignorance of barbarism unknown 10 any other
part of the world, evety sixth man and woman
in our nation. Democracy scorns to be thus par
tial in its aims. 1t strikes wider and deeper
Four millions OF Americans shall not only be
kept without knowledge of God and their own
humanity in the world but it shall be treason
for any individual of the remaining millions, to
uttera word in their behalf or TO lift finger to
point them to God and Liberty
Slavery is right, it Is sacred, it is the chief
corner stone of our Democratic institutions !;
and ii must not be L" agitaIed" nor discussed. 1t
cannot be, without the :. most alarming conse-
quences. The Fugitive Slave Law is the per-
fection of human wisdom, whose modification
would unhinge the nation. Therefore, = the
Democratic party will resist all attemps at re-
newing. in Congress or out of it, the agitation
of the slavery question, under whatever shape or
color" This is the embodied spirit of bastard
Democracy in the year eighteen hundred and fif-
ty-two. "Slavery, Slave-catching and the Gag, .
are the watchwords under which it marches to
battle, and by which it hopes to conquer. In
the name of this trinity" do the priests of
Democratic Diabolism baptize themselves and
their followers. Upon the altar dedicated to
this triple headed demon, has Franklin Pierce
poured out the ablution of his soul pledging
himself to know and serve no other god. He
claims even TO have been born worshipper of
slavery, and to have never departed, either & in
word or act" ftom his allegiance to the most in
fernal system of oppression that curses the earth
and crushes man.
But this is not all. A correspondent Of the
Cleveland Plain Dealer writes from Ravenna,
Ohio, on the 10th July, that the night before,
g Hon. D. r. Tilden, free-soiler, addressed the
Scott Club, and read letter just received from
B. F. Wade, Wing U. S. Senator at Washing
ton, in which said Wade writes:
81 have this day had a conversation with Gen.
Scott, III which he declared he would sooner cut
off his right hand than lend it to the support of
slavery" &c.
Here, now, the boot is on the other leg-and
the Wing and its allies are called on to defend
their own candidate against statement of an
U. S. Senator, which such tender stomached in
dlviduals, like them, must revolt at and