The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1852-08-26

fetal, and as much the creatures Of mere posi-
tive law as the Shareholder which would come
in time under the same condemnation. He
alluded to monopoies, private corporations, in
terest upon money, especially upon the debts OF
banks, circulated rs money in the community,
and titles to unlimited quantities of land with
other heir.looms of the old-time despotlsm,
which will be brought to judgment when the
principle of natural rights shall get Inaugural
ted in the Government of the Union. He
thought that the new patch on the old gar
ment would tear out large margin in the rot
ten fabric under the strain of wearing and the
abolition gentlemen of property and standing
would make the rent great deal broader
than they intended. think they took the
hint and that the Baltimore platforms are
well crammed with its prudence. The feeble
ness and fear of our defective system are only
too strongly indicated by the stand-still conser-
vatism which our magnates everywhere dis
cover The white free nottingham is their
real terror. Land reform, non-imprsonment
for debt, homestead exemption, limitation of
working hours, universal suffrage, education of
the people to their highest capacity, and de-
mocracy realized in all the interests of private
life, are in the threatening programme of re-
form; and so the appeal to conscience and alb
solute right in behalf Of chattel slave, branded
as the rebellion of the higher law against So
cal order and the fraternity of nations, urging
the natural sympathy of the republic for the
freedom of Europe, are formally denounced in
the creeds of the ruling parties; precedent is
resorted to for handouts upon progress, and
the example of the fathers is paraded to show
human organism, and the very best models of
a permanent order.
To say nothing of the likelihood of advan-
cling general liberty just now, what fitness for
such work has that people acquired, who have
enacted the vllanies of the last eight years
the series of outrages which began with the
admission of Texas, and was rounded up with
the Fugitive Slave Law, and sealed with the
finality resolutions Can system whose ele-
ments may be worked into such results easily
confer a capricous gratuity upon the victims
of its habitual oppression?
conclude that we are not fit and our instl-
buttons are not capable, in their present form,
of the proposed justice to the slave. But do
not despair The development of the disease is
enabling us to trace it from its symptoms to its
seat 1t is in our destiny to live, and the crisis
approaching must initiate the restoration to
health. Slavery has not been mitigated by the
treatment 1t is but the ugliest ultimate erup-
ton of the general malady Attempts at re-
preston have only driven it in upon the vitals.
Every function of the body polite has shown
the aggrayation of its own faint by the reflex
of the poison and the remedies, it is now seen,
must be applied to the general disorder of the
system. Profting by our failures, we will have
no more political anti-slavery organizations.
The platform of the third party just now re-
organized out of the old material, gathers in
all the new ideas, and the men who are COM
mitted for its support will sooner or later find
the best means for pushing its principles and
policy into success.
predict that neither slavery in the States,
nor its propagandism by the Federal authority,
will sensibly abate till our democratic doc
trnes get formal and positive application to
the individual and private interests Of the in
dustrious classes The multitude, which is the
majority and the material force of our Govern
mont, must learn the common rights of hui
mainly, and strike upon the method of assert
ing them effectualy for themselves before they
will lend their power to the emancipation of
the slaves or the repression of the system of
chattelism in man. and the degradation of la
Dor which domestic slavery involves
The sentiment Of human rights, in its sola-
ted application to the colored population of this
Union, has failed to arouse the people to the
duty of equal justice Twelve years of organ
lied agitation and resistance,do not record the
triumph of principle in any one public measure
which the great controversy embraced. The
two great political parties, which may be taken
respectively to indicate the governing intlu-
ences in the nation, as the thermometer and
barometer respectively measure the heat and
weight of the atmosphere, so far from giving
any Sign of the desired conformity, have grown
only more bold and obstinate in the wrong
Mr. Hale in his letter declining his anticipa-
ted nomination by the Pittsburgh Convention,
declares that the position of the Democratic
party is infinitely worse now than it was four
years ago and that the Wing party has de-
scended from the altitude of Anti. Slavery and
Free Soil men in lS4S, to the present level OF
the Democracy. He urges rehearsal, in 1852,
of the campaign Of ls4s, that the Democratic
party may be thoroughly cured of the disease
of pro-slavery subservency, by what he calls a
repeated dose of the same remedy which helped
it to be infinitely worse after the first one He
means, of course, curing it to death, having
better hope of a healthy resurrection than of
recovery. To which ! cheerfnlly say amen
or, as the Orientals say, may it die among it,
kindred or, as Bryant has it, may it die
amid its worshippers
But we will discuss the proper policy of the
Ants Slavery party in another paper this one
is already too long for its substance, or for the
treatment given to it. SENIOR.
CONGRESS
Next week Congress will ad ourn. The
vocal gadators, who have been endeayoring