Weekly national intelligencer., 1854-12-02

they Of their choice and with reference to their
welfare and prosperity, abolished and prohibited slavery
lCheers. do not thank any for mplimenting our
State by saying we the advocates of freedom and the
enemies Of slavery only because unconstitutional
dnance Of the year S7 would let be otherwise
Nor am willing to admit that, during the period Of our
entire history as State and in the formation OF
stitutons at different periods have been degrad-
ed into humatng inequality with our sister States
and have all become phanthropiss merely because the
ordinance OF ~ would not permit to become slave
holders repeat again. where the results of this
abolition principle that the power OF Congress is to be
exerted to drive slavery from land Perhaps they
viii point to Oregon as country they have rescued from
the awful doom Of African slavery that Ia the
organic establishing that Territory in lSIS section
was inserted applying the ordinance OF 81 against slavery
to the whole Of that Terrery but il is also that
Ten years prior to that period the people Of Oregon had
lived under provisional government created by them
selves and for themselves without any recognition pro-
lection from Congress the authorities of the United
States BY reference to the laws enacted by the people
OF Oregon under the provisional government ii will be
seen that they had prohibited slavery in that Territory
by unanimous vote six years before Congress extended
its jurisdiction over by establishing Territorial gov
ernmen At the time therefore, that Congress extend
ed the ordinance Of 81 Oregon it was historical
fact that there man. woman, or child in the
whole Territory who proposed desird introduce
slavery. The whole extent of this abolition triumph,
therefore was TO insult people by saying that they
should not have slavery six years after they had given
the most substantial and authoritative evidence that they
would not have it.
therefore repeat what have often said on other oc
casions that this abolition doctrine Of Congressional in
reference has succeeded in driving slavery from
one foot Of American soi and that wherever that insti
tuition has retired and yielded other institutions IL has
been done IN every instance under the quiet and
fu operation Of that great principle Of Government
whch allows every people to regulate and manage their
internal affairs and domestic concerns suit them
selves Where to be found the numerous and phi
anthropic results of this abolition agitation? Is il in
of
Is 1t not notorious that the time that this abolition
fanacism at the North commenced its warfare upon the
domestic institutions Of the South there powerful
party animated by high hopes of success IN Virginia.
Maryland Kentucky and Delaware advocating the same
line OF policy there in favor of gradual system Of
cipation which had been recently consummated in Penn
sylyania, New York; and the Eastern States? Then to
advocate emancipation in portions Of the Old Do
minon and in several other States the most direct
road to popular favor and the highest political honors
What has produced the change? Go to those eminent
and venerable statesmen, many Of them still
survive and ask them why il that they failed in those
great efforts that gave them all their renown and how it
happens that they dare NOT with due regard to the
safety Of tho communities in which they live, give the
slightest countenance much less active support to those
measures with which their fame is identified and for the
success Of which their highest aspirations INJECTED
Ask those questions, and you will receive the same
sWer which have often received from their lips that
they would certainly have succeeded in establishing
gradual system of emancipation years ago but for the
ganzaon Of the abolition societies in the North and the
erection of powerful sectional party, with the ayowed
object Of making fierce aud inGiscrininate
the domestic institutions Of the sections to which they be-
longed When became warfare Of section against
uon, producing struggle for political power with the
threat that the Aholitioniss obtained the pre-
poncrance of power it would be exercised fer the pur
pose Of stirring ergile insurrecto accompanied by
all Of its errors around their family affairs and re
Sides in the land Of their BIRTH and around the graves Of
their fathers they felt themselves compelled by the
strong instinct Of sepreseryation ard by all those holy
impulses which identified them with their brethren of the
Southern States to make common cause in resisting
violent and unconstitutional aggression from without and
wait until that accomplished before they should allow
themselves to be divided at home in efforts
remove what Of them esteemed domestic evil.
Each year that this Northern agitation has been conti-
ued, and in proportion its power and its violence have
increased the people Of those States have become
united and determined maintain their rights under the
ans to resist and epe aggression from what
ever quarter and At whatever hazard and if per-
rntted to judge Of the future from the history Of the
past there is hope that tie condition Of the slave
be ameorated long this sectional strife continues,
Iappause nor until the people Of the North well
the South shall recognise and by their whole actions
knowledge the right of the people OF each State aud Ter
rory preparatory to admission into the Unon 10 regu
late and decide this and every ether question Of internal
policy for themselves without interference Of the Federal
Government any other earthly power. Why should
this sectional strife be contnued What coed result
from It either to the North South, to the white
black Its fruits thus far have been unmitigated evil
without one redeemng result which the phanthro-
centrated effort is being made throughout the
savehodpg States to dissolve the two great political par
ties heretofore existing and in their stead to organize
new party great Northern Abolition party-whose eve
ry principle breahes hostility to the constitutional rights
Of onehaH of the States Of this Unon This party,
although christened by its advocates with the Re-
publican, its principles contained in the resolutions,
its conventions and all other authoritative expositons of
It's creed, essentially abolition. lhave before the
creed Of this party, to which every Fusion Repnb
caa candidate throughout the whole North has been
quired give in his adherence condition of support
I provides, first that the Missouri restriction the Viii
mot proyso shall be restored to Kansas and Nebraska;
ID For the repeal and entire ahrogaon Of the fugitive
slave law 3d. To restrict slavery by act Of Congress- to
the States in which it exists 4th. To prohibit the ad
mission of any slave States into the Union; 5h.
To exclude slavery from all the Territories which
the General Government has exclusive Jurisdictions 9th.
To resist the acquisition of any Territories unless
slavery therein shall be forever prohibited.
These articles Of faith followed by aresoution that
this party sWil support for Office under the
General or State Government who is not positively COM
mitted to the support Of these principles aud whose per-
sona character and conduct is not guaranty that he is
reliable and shall sbire all old party tesand obigaons
These are the conditions upon which Wings aud Demo-
Gratis Invited to abandon their old party organizations
and principles and pa the Abolitionsts under the
new name of the Republican party. Why should Demo-
Gratis and Wings who have been faithful to their princi
Pies and who conscicntousy believe what they profess
change their naes What have they done to render it
necessary for them 70 change their old names? Honest
seldom change their There is another class
who frequently find it polite to DO so am sure that no
Democrat who hns been true to his faith and TO his dgty
has discovered any for being ashamed OF the
name, and would regret to learn that any Wing who
sown either the or tse faith soon after these
greet champions of their cause Ind been consigned to the