The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-09-01
Baltimore Republican Argus
PUTNAMs MAGAZINE FOR SEPTEMBER, AND ITS
ATTACK ON DEMOCRACY AND THE SOUTH.

PUTNAMS MAGAZINE FOR SEPTEMBER, AND ITS
ATTACK ON DEMOCRACY AND THE SOUTH.
The first and leading article in the last issue of this mag
szne presents itself the American public under the title
of "Our Parties and Politics. II petends the dignity
of review historic and critical of the rise progress and
position of great parties is general broadside Of
dissatisfaction condemnation, aud rebuke delib
crate effort to mpeach the administration TO throw con-
tempt the great body Of the democratic party to ar
agn the South the most ultra charges of reckless faith
and to propagate the widest doctrines of free sosm has
yet appeared in any publication of the country not in
deed that its style is quite as bad other anatica
organsorace Greeley beat it in vulgar adjectives
and Theodore Parker could sermonze epthetsbu
its spirit is bitter and its violent any decent
monthly could tolerate
Its object evidently to brand the democracy pro-
slavery party and to hold it responsible for all the
mites it has oonured up from the regions of phantasy No
read the article and not conclude that the writer
considers the main object of democracy to be the extension
of slavery by any and all means present existence is to
defend the peculiar institution to gori it in the eyes Of
the world and to give ordy ascendency every other
interest All this is false in fact as it is in principle The
aim of the democratic party has been and still is to
ect the constitutional rights of the South in the matter of
slavery just abors preserve the sancty of all other
rights 1t claims for slavery than it does for any
other institution under the guarantee OF the constitution
If the democratic party has been prominent in supporting
the just claims OF the South il has been forced into this
position by the fierce and yruen assaults of the North
this portion of our Union Had any other question in
volving the principles been the issue il would have
acted precisely in the way. Not instance can be
named in which this party has superadded any extra
stiutona privileges TO the original and acknowledged
rights Of the South Not be specified which dis
eliminates in its favor at the expense Of other constitutional
interests The strength of democracy has grown out of its
broad comprehensive national sentiments Its creed
has pledged this course and it has faithfully adhered
to in in 40 han in
every triumph Is it crime to carry out the grand doe
trine of State rights in the matter of slavery Is this
tmen vital to liberties sacred to every patriot
to apply the North and the South Democracy has
done nothing than initiate the constitution Separate
from that instrument it has had ideas, plans no
purposes and hence whenever If has occupied what is
southern ground it has done SO because that ground
was national and patriotic On this foundation it rested
the Nebraska bill 1t repealed the Missouri Compromise
because Of its inconsistency with the general rights of the
country-because it odious landmark of sectional
hosybccaue arryed part of the nation against
the other part BY that repeal ii conferred power
slavery that it did possess under the constitution 1t
offered il bounty settle in the territory 1t put
of the federal agencies at its service for transpana
ton into that region Itexaced terms of free labor
That labor just free 1t may go to Nebraska
and Kansas easily and fully as Is going
going from the free States in strong steady currentgo
ing with special aids from northern money and northern
zeal and yet all the Whe a most aBonHng cry is kept
up that the North has been shnt from this immense and
fertile territory.
1t is lust such restrictions as the Missouri Compromise
lust such policy the North has pursued in this mat
ter-us such odous seconalism in legislatOnthat has
given such strength to the "proarey party as Putnam
pleased to call it. But for these things il would not
now excite the of the North The sensitive of
their most remuous old would not have been dis
turbed if northern statesmen had not adopted false and
ruinous policy the subject ofsavery They hare prse
c,ed into resistance they hare n!damed into hatred
and now that the yses and nobest of the North
their error and originate Of hoaorabe pacca
ton every mouh-piece of public opinion in that strife
loving community hastens belch forth the suphuric
auatheas simple act of national justice and patriotic
brotherhood II the principle OF the Nebraska bill had
always been the principle of congressional legislation
who does not that all the perneious fruits of fanacsn
would have been avoided Agttatpp would not then have
gained the slightest foothod in Congressno grievance
would have been fixed the Southno oyerbearing tenn
per would have been generated in the North and slavery
would haze been left to take of itself Natural laws
would have evolved its destiny circumstances would have
determined its history, But the North would not allow il
to work Its results 1t must erect its throne OF
Judgment and pronounce its DEGREES AT last its Judgment
returns upon itse at last its arrogant pride is made to
drink the cup Of bitter humiliation 1t played with the
serpent of intervention and it has sung it to the quick
Let Il bleme itself Lett crminate its want of states
manshp Let it remember that it alone has brought about
the very state of things it pahacal!y Gepores
Had been WISER necessity would have existed for
such measure as the Nebraska bill But it used its pow
place the South under the yoke and that sense
of returning justice has reused all sections of the Union
unbind that yoke it might afford to confess its past foles
and pro6tby the stern rebpFe il has received,
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