The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1854-10-05
THEoWINa oFF The sHAcKLEs.

Timothy c. Day, formerly connected with
the Cincinnati Enquirer, announces himself in
the Cincinnati Gazette Of the 18Th, as an indie
pendent candidate for Congress in the fret
district, Ohio. In his published address. to the
voters of the district, nc uses plainness of
speech. We copy tho following extracts, which
we commend to ell Democrats:
I" | am an independent candidate, because
cannot stand upon the platform which tho DO
litical task-masters of the Democratic party
are trying to impose upon the masses. As a
member Of the last National Democratic Con-
vention, which nominated the citizen now act
ing as Chief Magistrate of this Republic, | cast
the only expressed vote against what is known
as the Baltimore platform, and which can never
with truth be called Democratic structure.
saw how it was made, by whom it was made,
ard for what purpose; and cast she vote Of
my district against it. AS | cannot stand upon
that platform, especially nov that the Nebras-
ka burglary has broken out its best planks,
am an independent Democrat
81 am Anti-Nebraska, because ! on DEM
ocrat. believe that this Republic was estab-
ished and is to be perpetusted s0lelg for the
uses and purposes of freedom ,. to believe else,
is to impugn the patriotism of its fathers They
plainly saw, and felt with pain, that slavery
was a social evil, entirely out Of place in a Re-
public, and they emphstically declared against
It's extension. They had higher, holier mo-ivos,
in the formation of this Republic, than tho &C.
ourity and extension of slavery. IL they could
have foreseen that within the first century of
its formation ID was to become, in the hands Of
a weak President and ambitious party rulers,
the mere propagandist of negro slavery, their
hopes Of the future would have died within
them
+ care not what tests political Popes and
Councils may enact and demand as the eyiden-
ceo of party fealty. AS a Democrat, the CRY OF
hereto cannot prevent me from declaring that
believe slavery to be great moral and polit-
ical wrong, and while | would not interfere
with it as social evil, | Will ever war against
the increase Of its political power, by never con-
senting to its extension one inch beyond where
it now exists The South muss be taught
clearly aud Enthusiastically, that SLAVERY HAS
NO RIGHTS that, in Republic, everything be-
longs to Freedom that our public domain be.
longs to freemen, and its soil cannot be cursed
with the footprints of slavery; and that popu
lar sovereignty which DEGREES slavery in the
Territories of this Republic is not republican
| sovereignty, and will not be recognised by the
| freemen of the North. The question whether
Freedom is established in this Republic, is moi
an open one, now to be decided by any kind o.
sovereignty; it is q question long since settled
as the foundation stone of our republican Gov
eminent, and cannot be excavated without de-
| stroying the whole fabric
81 have been denounced by servile party
press as a traitor to my party but, so Ions
as am not traitor to my country and hel
| free institutions an content with the title.
am rebel to corrupt Government as th,
best men of the past have been in their rebel
liens against tyranny. When a religious Gov
eminent claims infallibility for its DEGREES, anC
demands blind obedience from its followers,
| say God bless the here.ics who are de
nounced by its councils and when politics
Government becomes corrupt and tyraunical,
say, God bless the traitors who rebel agairs
Its authority"