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


impracticable in government, and lost
all they had of freedom by demanding
universal equality aud individual
personal sovereignty. Just so the
black republicans ofour day, the sec
tionalists and disunionists of our
land, would rashly destroy this glori-
Gus republic ofstates, and deprive all
white men of national liberty regu-
lated by law" if they cannot bring
about their radical theory Ofuniver-
sal individual equality which is to ell
evate the slave to fraternity with his
master.
Here are some of the dangers ofthis
new conspiracy against the union.-
What is the remedy? Where are we
to look for the conservative principle
the concentration Of nationality
which this movement demands, tor
the safety and perpctuity of the re
public?
There is but one answer. Againsl
this fusion of discOrdant political cle-
ments the national democratic party
can alone be relied on to make a sue
cessful stand. 1t has done and is en-
inently doing so with fidelity ,frmncss
and constancy through its present M
tional and constitutional President;
and it will, with like means and ener
gy, continue to uphold the constitu-
ton and the supremacy of law in the
future.
1t is hopeless to call upon any 9th
er party than the democratic party as
a national organization, not to suffer
itself to be dissolved by this political
solvent of the quack statesman of the
day, called Fusion" There are hon
orable exceptions to the general de-
nationalizing Of the whig party. The
great memories of Webster and Clay
are still held in reverence by whig
party in Massachusetts, and some few
of the free states. But even could the
Union wings redeem Massachusetts,
can they prevent the absorption ofthc
whig party as a Union party, in
know nothingism at the the south
and anti-slavery at the north? There
can be but two real parties in the
next presidential contest-national
and sectional, law and higher law,
constitution or no constitution, union
or disuniOn. The democratic party
will hold the flag of the Union as the
only parry having on the same plat
form the same principles and with the
same candidates, a national party in
every state of the Union. Around
that flag every Union man must rally
if he would not, directly or indirectly
give aid and comfort to the fasion OF
repuhioans'(O to destroy the Republic
And to what good end can this new
fusion party come? Even if the whole
people of the North should consent
to come down to this one idea of re-
sistiny the admission of new slave
states, it would be simply contest for
an impossibility under The constitution
Its basis is false, because it denies to
the new state thus attempted 10 be re-
stricted in its sovereignty, equality
with the old states. 1t is impractica-
Bile, because if a congress of northern
abolitionists, with a like executive
should compel terri,o y to exclude
slavery from its constitution, as con
dition precedent of admission into the
! Union, the people of the new state
could instantly change its constitution
and establish slavery, and there is nc
power in the nation to interfere there
with.
There is nothing new in this one ides
which the fusion party now claim t.
be "paramount." The Hartford con
vention tried it and wrecked the feder
al party. We went all over this anti
slavery dogma in the Wilmotproviso
and beat them on it north and south
The national idea of the people ofthi
whole country will always repose il
its conservatism, upon the only soun'
solution of the slavery question, NON
INTERFERENCE BY CONGRESS IN STATE AN
TERRITORY.
Hence the difference between tn
democratic party of the whole Union
and the sectional party of anti-slave
ry, rests on the fundamental principl
of the right of self-governmenti inner
ent in the people of every legally OF
ganized political community under tn
constitution; and thus this anti-slave
nv issue is an issue made up outside @
the constitution, and outside of tn
! Union-and this makes the sectiona
quarrel between the states, and tn
sectional quarrel about territories.
Formerly it was attempted to be ar
piled 10 Louisiana, Missouri, Florida
, Ark's., Texas. Just now it happens
, be about Kansas. The abolition proT
5 agandists of Massachusetts, began tn
; contest by the incorporation Of aid
/ emigration societies, not so much
, settle Kansas as to make Kansas a
/ abolition state. The slavery props
l gandists of Missouri got up combin'
' tons to invade the territory and max
: it a slave state. Both are alike di
| regarding the true principle of the N
: braska bill, which leaves the final al
v justment of the slavery question ther
as a purely local issue, to the actu
}, and permanent settlers. There a
/, wrong headed men on both sides. ar
e personal rights are violated, but it
v a local difficulty and not a nation
!. concernment. The States or the Ur
j. ted States cannot take sides and inte
is fere no more than they could with q
e Lynch law of California or the kno'
e nothing mob at Louisville. These
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