Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1855-11-28
TIE National Party.

Lie EEO-Hldh6Il oi5aiS CidiAu lilde lnc
Democratic party is the National party.
The opponents of slarery-extension claim
that it is national only in its support OF
slavery, and in its persevering endeavors
to make slavery a national institution.
In the year of the annexation of Texas,
the Wings charged the Democratic party
with being pro slavery, and the events
that followed, proved the truth of the
charge. Texas was brought into the
Union for no other purpose than to ex-
tend the area Of slave territory, and the
annexation Of Texas was the act of the
Democratic party. 1t was not the Wings
of the North who voted for it, but the
Democratic members, north and south,
in a solid body, voted for and passed the
bill. A Democratic Administration sus-
tanned by a Democratic majority IN Con
gress, declared war against Mexico, con-
quered a part of its territory with the
avowed purpose of adding new Slave
States.
Democratic members in Congress,
north and south, voted for the repeal
of the, Missouri Compromise; a Demo
cratic majority passed the bill, and a
Democratic President sustains all meas
ures, lawful and unlawful, which are
taken 10 force Slavery into the territory
laid open by the striking down of the
Compromise Line. Net one single north
ernWhig voted for the repeal, and scarce
ly a single northern Democrat cast his
vote against it. Not an act of the party
can be pointed out, that was strictly a
party act, which has not been just in
accordance with the demands of slavery:
no an act which has had for its end and
aim the good of the whole country, north
and south. Every man who dares to
express an opinion in favor of freedom in
the territories, of hostility to the extern
sion of slavery, is not acknowledged as
belonging 70 the party at ali, and if he is
an Office holder, he is turned out forth
with.
The Democratic party is simply the
party of Slavery. 1t has no other prom
inent characteristic. 1t has no other
touch-stone by which to try the fitness of
a man for ofice-no other article in its
creed which cannot be bent, changed or
entirely stricken out. Ii is no longer a
National party, but has been sold, body
and soul, to slavery and sectionalism, for
the promise of Office and power.
But the Republican parry is national
in ell its ends and aims. It wars upon
no state and no section. /: aims to take
the power of the Federal Government
from the hands of men who use it TO
foster and extend an institution which is
purely sectional, and place ii in the hands
of men who will foster and extend free
dom, which is national. In the language
of the National Era, cit would take the
power, not from southern men, but from
slavery men. 1t would shut Federal ter
ritory, not against freemen from the north,
but against slaves. 1t would establish a
principle important TO all interests, all
sections, and exclude a principle injuri-
Gus to all sections and all interests. Its
policyrecognized in the Federal territory,
no citizen of a free or slave state would
be shut out men from all sections might
freely enter, and all stand upon a plat
form of perfect equality. It's policy re-
pudiated, and the settlement within il of
shareholders with their slaves, would
virtually exclude all free laboring men,"
P~ro-Slavery croakers tell US that if the
principles of the Republican party are
carried out, there will be a civil war
There is 10 fear of that. Ofthis, the Era
says, '.the Republican party will pursue
the policy it has inaugurated, carry out
the principles it has proclaimed, elect a
President who shall reflect their views,
and administer the Federal Government
in obedience thereto, and the South will
conform 10 the new order of things. Find
ing that not enc of its constitutional
rights is invaded, it will see in the over
throw of the schemes of Slavery Propa-
gandism and sectional ambition thathaye
disgraced it. no adequate cause for in
curing the guilt of rebellion and the hor-
rible hazards Of civil war. Let not its
politicians deceive themselves. Straight
out Whiggery, Know NOthingism, Ma
tional Democracy, cannot last forever
Every struggle leaves them weaker
The growth of the patty of Freedom is
slow, but sure /; its ultimate triumph, in
evitable. To this consummation they
must make up their minds"