The Ripley advertiser. [volume] (Ripley, Miss.) 1843-1897, 1855-12-20
APPEAL

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Fran the Democracy Of Boston and Snt-
Elk, Adapted blythe Ward and County
Committees, in Conrention, October,
1855.
We have fallen upon times that try
mons common sense, if not their
sonls Old parties have been break
;ng M. new parties are being formed.
Every clique is inventing its platform
and begging the people for an exclu-
1--WE patent to govern them. Instead
ofthe fundamental principles of the
constitution aud the broad measures
If government which for seventy
wears have employed the statesman
sbip of this great republic, and ad-
yanced it beyonl all precedent in his
torv we are TO be narrowed down, by
nnc.iaea demaguoges, to the native
bicotry of "know-nothingism," or the
sectional fanaticism of "aati-slarcry."
Massachusetts,, once the cradle of ma
tional liberty, holds out no higher
a.niration in either of these party
organizations, separate or fuscd, than
70 die its grave. The hot bed of all
the 4" isms' of the day she has been
made to forswear the constitution, to
nuIify the laws of the United States
to break the faith of our fathers when
thcy formed the solemn compact of
the UNION, an! to substitute the edicts
ofsecrct midnight councils for the acts
Of n legislature chosen by the people
ard the despotism Of mobs for stand
inr laws and the decrees Of an lnde-
pendent judiciary.
Massachusetts,, in her time; has
been governed by royalists, revolu-
tionists. federalists, democrats, nation
al renubIicans, wings and coalition
i,ts, but never until now by abolition
know nothings! The fruits ofthat rule
which sprung up in a night to wither
j, n day, have been tasted by the peo-
ple and turned to ashes on their lips
l.. whole elem ,nts Of party power
were religious bigotry, hatred of for,
eiyn born, hostility to the south, and
wAr upon the Union. Call it the
Am'ricma purity or the lasioa party
give it the same candidates, or two
sets of can lidates it is the same loca
Darty, the same men of one idea, the
same conspiracy against the dignity
ofthe common wealth, the supreme
law of the lanl, and the durability Of
the Union.
Now if the old parties were to be
broken up, shall the people again in
trust such another new party will
power? A party which, while pre-
t5ulmsto BE tho party OF frecstom de
nies to its oath bound followers th'
rights ofprivate judgement, and com
pcs them to swear to vote Tor mer
they know not of, selected by secre
dcspotic council, whose will is to b,
their law.
A party so devout in zeal mol ac
cording to knowledge that it canno
tolerate religious liberty nor politica
rights in catholic, and yet fraternlze'
and fuses with scoiiecs who scout tht
holy scriptures because they teacf
submission to masters and magls
trates, and clamor for "an anti-slave
ry Bible, and an anti-slavery God"
A party so Incorporate in it, tenn
perance, so lawIess in IFS law making
that it itcnthrone4 legal inqui,ition il
place of moral suasion, and strike
down all "standing laws" and al
guarantees of the constitution, whlcl
protect the minority as well as tli'
majority in the enjoyment of life
property, and the pursuit ofhapp'
ness.
A party that under pretext of sane
timonious purity invades the privat
domicil, the home that j. every man
castle, ana thenis compelled, by tn
force ofpublic opinion, to resolve 1t
sclfinto a secret inquisition upon In
immortality an indecency of its ow'
committees of investigation.
Aparty which in one Act make
war upon the Union, to resist b
lawless violence the return OF a fugl
tive black to his master, and in anoth
er Act reduces to political SLAYER
every white maa who fees from tn
tyranny of the old world to find
home in the new, solely because he
not native born.
A party that Pharisee like, give
lectures AMI long prayers to the Sout
on the violation of legislative con
pact always open to legislative rePef
ana then tramples on the constitution
al compact between North and Soutl
which can never be repealed or disr'
gardel, under the oaths of the const
luton.
A party, finally, so dead to all obi
CATION, that in the face of the deel
ions of the supreme court, the oplnlo
of its chief law officer, and the vo
Of its own governor, vote to remove
judge for having obeyed his oath
Office in enforcing the laws made
} pursuance ofthat constitutional con
pact, and passes "the personal llber'
bll'' to make treason against u
! United States" lawful in this common
wealth!
Deeply as we may deplore an
deprocate the acts of lawless men
Kansas, what acts can we find reco
ded there, which in outlawry out-H
red these?
Shall such a new party or any pa
ty however called, having as its "pa
amount idea' either ofthese elemen
of fbigotry or disunion, have the po'
er to misrule this ancient commo
wealth for anothery year of anarchy
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