Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1855-10-18

coast, what folly to fancy that their owners
will keep them IN Kansas where it is worth
only 500.
A million of congressional enactments to
shut out slavery from Kansas, or as many
to establish it there, would result in the same
thing, that is, fifty years after, there would
be Just as many or just as few negroes in
that Territory or State as if there had been
no legislation whatever on the subject. But
these Radical Democrats or progressive
democrats after the Tribune and Preston
King iashion-insist that slavery is anti
emocralic--that democratic principles de,
mond hostility to slavery We'll, what are
democratic principles
They reply, the principles of the decar-
alton OF independence, that all then are born
tree and equal, that all have naturally and
should have politically and socially the same
rights.
They therefore propose to give negroes
the same rights as themselves-they propose
to apply these princi pies to southern slavery
to break down, dcmoralize and destroy
southern society. But why not begin al
home2 Why not apply these democratic
principles to the negroes ofthis State' Why
not change the laws Of New York ; Why
pot give these negroes the same rights Of
suffrage, Office holding, jury duty. militia
service, &C.; And fnally--for this is only
half way work-why hot give negroes the
same social rights Why not take them 10
their tabIes-to their firesides' Why moi
complete their democracy and take Negro
wives to their bosoms and hand over theil
fair and blooming daughters to the arms o
the negroes in their midst,
If they will not or cannot do ths-ii they
refuse thus to apply their principles, what
right have they to force them upon the South
If they will not thus carry out their Demo-
cratic principles in New York, what righ
have they to force them on the people o
Kansas? Ifthey will no, do this--be thu:
consistent-thus democratic" in New York
where there are only few thousand ne
groes, is it not monstrous wrong to force
their principles where there are several hun
dred thousand negrose2 If they cannot in
termarry with these nesroes-lf they feel i'll
stinctively that the Almighty has forbidden
them thus to equalize their blood-do the,
not also feel that he has forbidden their so
cial equalhy' and if the latter, that they d'
wrong in seeking a political equality; il
short do they not know that if God has or
dained line of demarcaton, that they arr
guilty of monsrous crime against lhei
brethren of the South in forcing them, o
thus trying to force them to equalize wit
the inferior race in their midst?
Instead, then, of democratic principles
or supporting or carrying out democrati
principles, is it not self evident to every ma
who has a thimble full of brains or a singl
impulse of democratic sentiment in his SOU
that this Tribune-Preston King-Atlas, O
"free negro democracy" is bogus--all bogu
fraud-a monstrous delusion--the yer
vileft imposture ever imposed on human in
credulity.
Above all, is it to be endured any longe
than this miserable clique should bewiIder
or demoralize, or be permitted to dcbauc
! the democratic sentiment Of tins STATE ?:
. Eight years ago they went off on this misel
5 able splurge after "lree negroism," and caI
, red down with them an eX-Presdent, up t
, that time without speck or blemish, but who
throbah their devish incantations and Afr
5 can Obiisms, has been sunk into the deepc.
depths of political perditon. and now, witt
out learning anything from that expcrimer
: or reforming their vlces-thelr impurities
their monstrous delusions-their Gree soil
indecencics they dare to raise their dishor
cred and traitorous flag of 'hegro freedom,
again, perhaps to divide and bewiIder til
democracy-unless takeIf in time and drive
= plump into the abolition camp, where the
naturally belong.