Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-03-24
DAILY NATIONAL ERA.

the Party Of Slavery. Fourteen years has this
work been going on, amidst obloquy and mis-
representation. lts nucleus was formed in
1910, when James G, Birney, mot long before
citizen Of Alabama, selected as the repre-
sentative Of Freedom, received nine thousand
votes. Twelve years after, in 1852, it had
grown to one hundred and fifty thousand, and
to-day the ideas and feelings which gave birth
to it are stronger and more prevalent than ut
any former period Its growth has been
watched with anxiety by the Party of Sla-
very, which has become more exacting in its
demands. Our action has tended to reveal it's
tactics and its action, now that it must confront
defiant opposition, is holder and more tnrbu-
lent. Not content as formerly with selecting ts
Northern instruments, without an open profess
sion of loyalty on their part, it requires sub
mission to odious tests rs the condition prece-
dent to its favor. What with the Truths incul-
Gated upon the Public Mind by the Party of
Freedom, and the striking illustrations of those
Truths furnished by the Party Of Slavery,
the People have been gradually awaking to
the real relations Of Slavery to the old Par
ties to the use it has made Of them, and to
its irreooncilabe enmity to true Nationality.
Circumstances or Providence has favored the
development until this last and most fragrant
attempt Of tho Party Of Slavery to use the
power Of Northern political organizations for
tho repeal of the Missouri Compromise, there
by opening the whole Of the Territory Of the
Union to Slave Labor, and investing the Slave
Interest with the attribute of Nationality.
The demand now is, not only acquiescence
in this movement, but active support to it, on
psin of being denounced and disfranchised, as
an Abolitionst. Northern Wings refuse com
pliance and are already branded; Northern
Democrats, who hesitate, are threatened with
the same doom. Southern Wings in the SEN
ate, with single exception, are energetic sup
porters Of the movement and the leading
Southern Wing papers speak as if there were
no longer Wing party at the North. South
ern Democrats in the Senate, with single
exception, have taxed all their energies to
force it through Congress, and Southern DEM
ocratic presses agree ip casting out from party
fellowship every Northern Democrat who dis
SCENTS from it.
Here and now, we hold, it is the duty Of
the North to meet the issue thrust upon it by
the Party of Slavery Old parties are in fact
dissolved-old party questions have disappear
ed-there is no Wing Party, there is no DEM
ocratic Party. There is an organized Party
Of Slavery, grasping, defiant desperate, des-
potic, controlling the South clntching at the
throat Of the North. There is. an organized
Party Of Freedom at the North, the direct an
tagonist of this, embodying the faith of Free
dom in its creed, the policy Of Freedom in its
course of action, but as yet commanding too
little Of Northern strength to prove a match
for the power of Slavery.
Why should not Northern voters now that
the issue between Slavery and Freedom is
forced upon them, rally with this Party, with
the Independent Democracy, and once for all
give these Shareholders lesson at the ballot
box, of what the Mons laveholding millions Of
the country can do when compelled to the trial
Of their strength?
It was because we thought this result i'm
portant that we almost regretted that Messrs
Bell and Houston in the Senate, and eight
Southern men in the House, have felt it their
duty to oppose the repeal movement much as
we honor their heroism. Their position is cal
culated to break the force of this odious pro-
slavery demonstration, in sundcring old party
relations, and uniting Northern men in solid
phalanx as Party of Freedom. II may lead
some Northern Wings and Democrats to cling
to the long cherished idea of equal union in Ma
tional Parties with Shareholders. This Aris-
tocracy.is blind or it would SEQ this, and recog-
Mise in these exceptional members Of its caste,
the only men who can save its professions from
utter overthrow.
Meantime, our business is with Northern
men, Western men, aye, and Southern men,
who are sick of subseryience to Glass
Interest," sick Of tho yoke of Slavery. Tho
few Shareholders who protest against this vio-
lation of the Missouri Compromise, are mere
exceptions. The Glass, as whole, is despe.
rately bent on repeal and on subugating to
it's perpetual rule the Federal Government. It
is with you to say whether they shall succeed
We showed, the other day. that the Democratic
Party, which had triumphed at the North, on
legitimate issues, in 1914, lost every Northern
State but twoin ls4s. by committing itself to a
candidate whose sentiments on the Slavery issue
were unacceptable to Northern men that
from being in majority in 1914, in the North
ern States of $4,000 il fell under majority Of
500, 600 in Is4S-a result demonstrating the
tremendous strength Of the Anti-Slavory Senti-
ment
We now call attention to few moro con-
siderations The whole number Of votes in the
Electoral College is 2s6-i4s majority, being
enough to determine the Presidential question.
The free States arc entitled to i76 electoral
votes or twenty seven more than is necessary
TO elect n President Asa matter Of fact, Gen