Minnesota weekly times., 1854-06-13


The history of the self-styled democratic part
as connected with all questions bearing either di
rectly or indirectly on southern interests o
policy is one peculiarly interesting and INSTRUCTIVE
to him who would read the signs of the time
Alright. 1t has been history of aggression on tn
one part and of slayeish submission on the other
From the day that Calhoun abandoned the ma
tional policy inaugurated by Clay and himself
from the day he ceased to be American and be
came only Carolinian, the democratic oligarch..
OF the south, under his guidance, have kept thei
eyes steadily on one object-their guiding sta
has been the propagation and confirmation Of
human slavery. To this great object all other
have been made to give precedence. The unini
tiated in the mysteries of southern politics woult
be amazed could the curtain be withdrawn ant
the secret Vaccinations, the diplomatic strateg,
and political wire pulling of the southern demo
cratic leaders be laid open to their admiring gaze
But though the machinery may have been KEEP
from the public eye, the southern leaders have
never shrank, when an occasion called, from
bodily avOwing the end they had in view, and
sternly proclaiming that when the constitution
and union barred the road 10 that goal the con-
stitutoo am union must fall. This spirit it was
that animated Lan=don Cheves in his great speech
IN the Nashville Convention, Noy. ID, 1880. Let
it be remem hercd that not win 2 sat IN that con-
vention--that it composed erclltSirelJ of the
lead rs of the democratic party south, and that
many of lis members now o,cupv seats in con-
~ AMI aidel in carry M throu n the Infamous
N-brlska bill. In thlt convention Mr.. Cheves
spoke as the mouth piece of the southern democ-
racv, an overwhelming po ton Of the party in
the extreme south endorsing his sentiments.
lie said:
I'VE want but union among ourselves and the
enemy 1.-THE north are ours When this war is
ended what will be the result? This Union uiN
be, Hank God, torecer at an end"
And again, speaking of the constitution OF the
United States, he said:
sit is now fctd m l>s, generating disease an |
death. 1t stinks in our nostrils."
The same boldness characterized the speeches
of Butle and others in Congress on the Nebraska
Bill. Disguised with the mean and shallow So
phistrv of the northern ''toots'' who were pre-
tending they were not legislatng slavery into Ne
braska, Mr.. B. s,id
''Should the Legislature of Nebraska Territory
pass a law abolishng slavery there, and a slave
should claim his freedom un Ter such law, the
master would respond that he held his slave, not
by territorial law but by tie supreme lac Of the
land, the constitution Of the United Mates.'
Thus it is, where the constitution can be per-
vertcd to sanction slavery it is boldly appealed to-
when it cannot be so construed it is denounced
and set at nought. 1t is slavery first, last, and
all the time.
1t sby pursuing this un ieyiating line OF policy
that the south has been able to acquire and main
tain her position in the democratic party as the
dictator of its policy and the owner, body AMI
soul of its most promin mt leaders. Political
aspirants thlt democracy in the South has
principle, and though they know that the prin-
cpe is for evil yet know .ng it is the only ro ID
TO southern votes they are ever ready to sacrifice
principle, if indeed they ever had any, at the
shrine of an unholy ambition. They even go far
th"r tn IN the most ultra slavery prOpagandst,
for no s0uthcrner would have stopped to the un-
utterable haseness of asking what their m SCRABBLE
toadies have voluntarily surrendered to them
the ri. hts of the north.
This is the party into whose arms Pierce an
Dolglas a thrown themselves, and as far a.
they are able, the whole democratic party
Ere men of the north, how Ike you the embrac
When yo1 voted for Pierce did you knowingly
vote for the extension of slavery over all free
tcrFitoy? Yet you were warned but would no
heed You va:nlv imagined you We're voting ior
democ~ ate prime pies. Where now are the fr;iit
of your vi:.ory? consult the souh,i n pr ce
rent and inl tn III in the increased value of 500
likely negroes. Where is the man for who
in an vii boar, you struci dowA the tllant
scot? he is wallowi.g in the nrc of slavery.
Viii this tat. Of things cont nu: If the Ge
mocr:,cv of ;he north would only how on htlf
In re Il AM consist ncy in tie cluae OF ligh;
that the sou I'm wnr of their party hr"e ex-
hbt"d IN the .yanccm III of then ends, tn
cncroachment up tha;r rs Is would ease
tn v wolld he recognize | rs an in,egral portion
Of the party by aspi ing mea-their votes woulu
be solicited and their interests consulted. Then
they would not be considered the property Of any
political oharltan who under the guise of democ-
racy his southern masters might set up to rule
over them; and above all they will not be gravely
told by merccnary press that they shoad not
discuss the political acts of their rulers. NJ.