The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1854-09-27

Nothing will prevent this impression from
gaining ground, unless a reward be offered by
the Mayor o. Newark, or the Governor Of New
Jersey. for the identification and apprehension
Of some of the men who had hand in destroy
ing the Chapel or in killing Mccarthy.
From the Balrimcre Republican and Argus
PUTMANS MAGAZINE FOR SEPTEM-
Der, AND ITS ATTACK ON DEM
OCRACY AND THE SOUTH.
The first and leading article in the last issue
OF this magazine presents itself to the Amer
lean public under the title of "Our Parties and
Politics 1t pretends to the dignity of re-
view, historic and critical, Of the iise progress.
and position of our great parties 1t isl gem
eral br"adside OF dissatisfaction, condemnation,
ard rebuke. more deliberate effort to i'm
peach tae administration, to throw contempt on
the graf body of the democratic party, TO ar
raign the South on the mrst ultra charges Of
reckless faith and I" propagate the widest
doctrines of free -soilism, has not vet appeared
IN any publication "fthe country not, indeed,
that its style is quite a. bad some other fan
atical organs -Horrace Greeley can beat it in
vulgar aGj-ctivrs, and Theodore Parker could
se:monize severer epiihets-but it's spirit is as
bitter and It's tone as vinlent as any decent
III 'n'hly could tolerate
Its object evidently is Ia brand the dem
ocracy as pro-slavery, and To hid it respon-
bic for all the enorn'ities it has con ured up
from the region Of rhanrasy N" one read
the article and not conclude that the writer
COL drrs the main object Of democracy to be
the exterson nf slavery BY any aud all means
its present existence is to defend the pecu-
liar institution, to glorfy it in the eyes of the
world, and to give it lrdly ascend-ncy over
every other interest All this is as false in fact
as it is in principle. The aim ofthe democratic
party has been, and still is, to protect the con-
stiiutional rights of the South IN TIE matter of
slavery, just as it abors to preserve the sanc:iiy
OF all other rights 1t claims more for sla-
very than il does for any other institution
under the guarantee oil the constitution. If the
democratic party has been prominent in sup
porting the just claims of the South, it has
been forced into this position by the fierce and
| virulent assaults of the North this portion of
our Union Had any o her question involving
| the same principles been the issue, it would
have acted precisely in the same way. Not an
ms ance can be nam in which this party has
| superadded any extra constitutional privileges
to the original and acknowledged RIG hts of the
South Not an act can be specified which dis
| eliminates in its favor at the expense Of other
| constitutional interests. The strength of dem.
ocracy has grown out of its broad, cnmprehen-
sive, national sentiments Its creed has pied
ged it 10 this course, and it has faithfully ad-
hered to it in every emergency, in every defeat,
no less than in every triumph. Is it a crime to
carry out tn" grand doctrine Of State rights in
the matter OF slavery? Is this sentiment, so
vital to our liberties, sacred to every patriot,
TO apply to the North and not to the South !?
Democracy has done nothing more than initiate
the constitution. Separate from that instr u
ment II has had no ideas, no plans, no purposess
and hence, whenever i, has occupied what is
called southern ground, it has done so because
| that ground was national and patriotic. On
| his foundation il rested the Nebraska bill. Ii
repealed the Missouri. Compromise because of
its Inconsistency with the general rights off the
| country-because it was IN odious landmark of
8 ctional hostity-because it arrayed one part
OF the nation against the other part BY tha,
repeal, il conferred no power slavery that it
dId not possess under the constitution. 1t
offered it no bounty ID settle in the new terri
tory. 1t put none OF the federal agencies at its
service for transportation into that vast region
1t exacted no terms Of free labor. That labor
is just free ever. 1t may 60 to Nebraska
and Kansas as easily and as fully ever. 1t
IS going-going from the free States in a
| strong, steady current-going with special aids
from northern money and northern zeal and
yet, all the while, most agonizing cry is kept
up tina, the North has been shut out from this
immense and fertile territory.
1t is Just such restrictions as the Missouri
Compromise-just such policy as the North
has pursued in this matter-jus such odous
-ectionalism in legislat,on-that has given such
strength to the 'pro siorery party as Putnam
is pleased to call it. But for these things it
would not now excite the alarm of the North.
Thn ~, &c fhase %
old women would not have been disturbed if
northern statesmen had not adopted false and
runous policy on the subject of slavery. They
hare prosecuted IL into resistance; they haze
intiam ed it into hatred and now that the
| wisest and nobitst men of the North their
| error and originate MEASURE OF honorable pac-
Ificatior, every mouth pirce Of public opinion IN
that strife loving community haslens to belch
forth the most sui phuric anathemas a simple
act of national justice and patr otto brotherhood
IL the principle of the Nebraska bill had alwa s
been the principle of our congressional LEXIS
lation, who does nut that all the pernicious
fruits Of fanaricism would have been avoided:
Agitation would aot ,h.n have gained the
slightest foo,hnld in Congress-no grievance
would have been fixed on the South-no over
bearing temper would have b. en- generated in
the North, and slavery would have been left t.
take care Of itself. NATURAL laws would have
evolved its destiny; circumstances would have
determined its history. But the North would
| not all W it to work out its own results. Il
must erect It's throne Of judgment and prom
ounce its DEGREES. At last, its judgment re-
turns upon itself; at last its arrogant pride is
made to drink the cup of bit er humiliation. Il
played with the serpent Of intervention, and
it has stung 1t to the quick. Let it criminate
its own want of craftsmanship Let it remem-
Der 'ha, it alone has brought about the very
state OF things it now pathetically deplrres.
Had it been wiser, no necessity would have
existed tor such measure the Nebraska bill.
But it used its power to place the South ur der
the yoke, and row that sense Of returning
justice has reused all sections of the Union to
unbind that yoke, it might afford to Confess its
past foies and prof, by the stern rebuke it has
received.