Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1855-06-09
CHASE RAMPANT +!

CHASE RAMPANT!
r Our contemporary, the Ex-Speaker, is attack
ed semi-occasionally, with tremendous spasm
of independence and Free-soilism. While these
spasmodic attacks last, he pitches into the
:Slave-power tremendously, denounces its AFRO
gance, Eliminates anathemas against its pro-
scriptive intolerance, and threatens it with the
drest results. The last Democrat exhibits one
of these periodical visitations.
We extract from an article in last weeks
Democrat the following paragraphs, not because
we believe they are sincerely uttered, but that
we may have them handy when CHASE is sup
porting proslavery candidates and endeavoring
to deceive the friends of Freedom =
"No interests unite men by ties so strong as
do those of property. No combination is more
powerful and dangerous, than one so cemented !;
for to touch one extremity of that interest, is
to arouse the whole body, as by an electric
thrill This wiL-this zeaNthis unity, makes
the Slave-power of this country to-day, the
most dangerous property p0Der on earth. In
his whole circuit, the sun shines upon nothing
so shameless, so arrogant, so desperate. The
insoleuce of overseerism is transferred from the
plantation, to the broader arena of our COM
mon country and the unbOwed neck of free
labor must lie in the dust at the feet of mon
ster of deprayity, that has fattened into burly
deformity, on human flesh and blood. Look
at Kansas and see one proof of what we
say"
GAS party, we have hitherto acted with a
portion of the South. 1t was their country as
we'll as ours We desired peace. We care
fully abstained from any interference with Sla-
very in the States or with any of their con-
| stitutional rights but from the Revolution till
+, now, we have always held it a sacred principle
! of the party, that Slavery limits should not ex-
pand Northward. This restrictive policy was
ever ardent on the lips, and in the writings OF
the fathers of this Republic and our own par
ty adopted it, as an instinct. But now there
is no Democracy South. The Slave Aristoc
racy has overshadowed it ALL Their doctrine
is extension and aggression. Of course the
great Democratic party of the country must
part company with them, and leave them in
kindred alliance with Know Nothingism."
"OuR PLArFoRM-Is the same it has ever
BEEN We shall elect in the county and State
men holding the principles We hold-unchang
ed by time. We carry that influence into the
National Convention and there enforce such
nominations. The South must not dispute that
field with u.s. for her aggressions have made flu
ture concessions impossible. If by any frand she
should defeat us there, we'll come home-De
mocrats still Wen fight the enemy in the
County and State field but the National tick
ct we'll bolt. In the next convention we viii
try again-confdent that fraud cannot AGAR
cheat the party out of ticket that will repre-
sent its principles"
"The Democratic party made our institu
tions, and has thus far led them on towards
maturity and power. She has learned tina
eternal vigilance is the price of freedom" II
one form or another, every step in her carce
has been disputed. Now she is urged by eve
ry instinct of freedom, to gather anew her en-
ergies for an earnest conflict WITH THE NARROW
BIGoTED, UNCONSTITUTIONAL AND PRosCRIPrIvl
SPIRIT OF NArIvISM--AND WITH THE SLAvE-Pow
Err IN ITS OUT-REACHING INsoLENCE. This
the rallying ground of the party-thiS her Ell
terprise."