The Belmont chronicle, and farmers, mechanics and manufacturers advocate. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1848-1855, 1854-09-01
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The slave Dcmocrncy Platform.

The present A administration has given the
Democracy various measures--the Nebraska
| Bill--River and Har5or Veto-Greytown
| Demolition, &c. &c,,--in the same way that
"A quack administers his nostrums. The
President has cried out to the Democracy Of
the country-Shm your eyes!-Open your
mouth and saoaHom! They have implicitly
obeyed, and now they imagine the great bel
ly-fulI of undigested and indigestible trash
they have swallowed, to be heart .full---a'
SOULFUL os pure and unGefiled Democracy.
Mistaken crcaturesl
AS evidence of our remark we adduce the
following resolution passed by the Belmont
Democracy (D on the 5th ult:-
Resolved That the principles incorporated in the
Nebraska Kansas Bill nre such us th1uld meet the
approval ol every good democrat and their adoption
should be hailed us new era III Congressional leg.
isinIion, inasnuch as the principle OF segovern.
ment, which is fundamental to democracy, is re.as.
serted belonging 10 the inhabitants oil Territories
as well as States, and the Intervention OF Congress
III their domestic concerns nOU are forever probi-
ted
| The resolution is comprehensive, Uery--
embracing the whole ground of allegiance to
the South and shows up forcibly and humili-
ntingly, northern servity. They "crook the
plant hinges of the knee" with the utmost
facility and eat the very dirt beneath the feet
of the STAKEHOLDER.
But is the resolution true! We doubt it,
but will canddy investigate it. That "the
principles incorporated in the Nebraska
Kansas Bill should meet the ap proval of ev.
cry good Democrat" we can hardly deny, for
the name Democratic is made to embrace
some queer principles. Democrats them
seli es know best what their own principles
are, therefore we let them alone on that
point, Neither do we dispute the fact that
it isa "new era in Congressional legislation. -
II most certainly is new era--the era OF
doughiaces-the era when dparfs overthrow
the combined lnbors Of gianiS--lhe era when
party succeeds in upsetting a long estab-
Iished act which good men fought for and
j would have halowed with their blood il re-
quire dan era when we for the first time
wiliuly desert the landmarks of legislation
laid down by our patriotic iorefsthers, the
founders OF our government aud the trainers
OF our Consttution-an era when calm,
thinking men almost lose confidence in our
form of government.
One broad assertion, however, in the res
oluton, We will always deny, and are ready, /,
now aud ut all times, to refute as utterly
loundationless. The resolution says that
"ihe principle Of self government, which is fun
damental 10 Democracy, is re-asseried as be-
longing 10 hs Inhabitants Of Territories as
ioeA as SidtSs, aud he Intervention Of Con-
grass IN their domestic coacerns nop are for
euer prohibited" Now we say the Nebraska
Bill does no such thing! The assertion that
il does is false in its every aspect. 1t is
without foundation, and cannot be proven
even by the most shallow argument, Bot we
are willing to give our reasons for saying
that the Bill does not recognize the principl
of self-gOvernment. We, the people Of Ohio,
govern ourselves. Our Constitution rocog.
nizes the principle of self-govsrnment--tha,
is, we the sovereign people, elect our own
Governor, our own State otficsrs--our own
Judicisry--our own Legislators. Our lsgis-
lstors make US laws for our government, as
they think best, and those laws become the
avs Of the land, without being submitted to
"a higher power for approval or rsscisicn, as