The true Democrat., 1855-03-21
The Fugitive Slave Law in Con-
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in the Senate of the United States upon the bill to protect the United States officers in their acts enforcing the provisions of the fugl- tive slave law of 1850 As usual all the bit terness of the abolitionists was poured out up- on the head of Senator Douglas for the part he played in the passage of the Nebraska and l Kansas act anu the repeal of the Missouri com promise Among the abolition Senators who were foremost in assailing him were Seward of New York, and Wilson of Massachusetts, re- gently elected to the Senate by the Know Mo- things. While they denounced Senator Doug las as a traitor to the North, he proved them traitors to the constitution and the Union
 One fact, long notorious, was again confirmed in this discussion-the fact that the whig par ! ty has become thoroughly abolitionized. The election of a whig, north of Mason and Dixon's line to any office, is the election of rabid and uncompromising freesoiler. Senator Clayton, of Delaware, has heretofore been considered tolerbly sound upon the doctrine of State rights, but he too is becoming tainted through his con- nection with the Know Nothings. The Know Nothings are abolitionists at the North Their whole ticketin assachusetts-governor, mem- bers to the Legislature, Congressmen and U S.. Senator, recently elected, were of the backest stripe of abolitonists.
 The majority, in this secret clandestne or- der rules with an iron rod When an individ- ual joins them and is initiated into the order, he is no longer his own master. He is slave to the will of others and must do their bidding with the most obsequious servility He is no longer free man-he acknowledges master and must submit to a power over him. His obligations, confirmed under oath, bind him hand and foot, body and soul If called upon to sacrifice friend, brother or father, he must do it. The will of the majority is the law--it is memorable and must be obeyed by it's votaries. T his is the law among Know Nothings Is it not pretty page to open in the history of the land cf tue free and honse cf the brave''? Is it not wonderful, unaccountabe, that at the South. where the spirit of freedom and independence has ever been unfettered there should be found more than corporal's guard to countenance a secret order the offspring of an abolition fanat- ic, meeting and planning in secret, and covering its deeds in the darkness of night Is it not wonderful? And is it not still stranger that this secret order should have advocates at the South, when its views upon slavery are so well known to the Southern people? Its opposition to the acquisition of Cuba is well established Its ex- ponents in the Senate of the United States would sooner yield their right arms, than per init the island of Cuba, with it's foreign and slave population to enter into this conledcracy.
 The New York Herald proclams that the Know Nothngs are determined to resist the in- corporation of Cuba into this Union, and that paper seems to know. The chief articles ol faith ill the Know Nothing creed are opposition to foreigners and Roman Catholics. In the North where the preponderance of Know Noth- ings are, another article has been added-aJoli- tionism. Thus the three leading principles of know nothlngsm-opposition to foreigners Ro- man Catholics and slavery-would be violated by the admission of Cuba into the Unon Ii would be opening the door of citizenship to a foreign population, who are all Catholics, and own slave propcrty-to all of which the Know Nothings have sworn untiring opposition.
 How southerner can join such sect sworn to such vicws-we do not understand.-- In the Senate, on the vote to pass the bill to protect the United States officers ln the cxccu- ton of the fugitive slave law, both Scwar, and Wilson, two know nothing senators, voted in the negative-both voted against alfording the protection to officers necessary to the enforce ment of a constitutional law, upon the exccu- ton of which, depends the very existence of the Union.
 Upon the democratic party depends the safety and existence of this Union. It is the only national party in existence. While it survives. the Union will be preserved, but when should that day ever arrive, 1t shall be broken up, like the whig party, into a thousand isms and fac tions, divided upon local and sectional issues, and impelled by local and sectional prejudices, the cohesive power of the Union will be utterly destroyed, and it will, of its own weight, fall to pieces.
 What a glorious mission then is that of the democracy of the nation, when compared to the fanat;cism of ali other parties congregating together under the name of Know Nothings!
 
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