Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1856-08-28


party by its leaders and supporters. that it is
the same party that il ever has been, that il
possesses its wOnted vigOr, though "shorn Of
such locks" as Hale, Sumner, King, Chsse,
Hamlin, Bissel and host Of others that for
merly led that party on to victory. to say moth.
ing of the multitude Of lesser lights that follow
the blaze of principle rather than the baWl Of
party, and that in rallying under the banner Of
"B.ck and Breck," and the Cincinnati plat
FORM they are supporting the same principles
that the Democratic party have ever cherish.
! ed
/ Is This true? We know the mass Of the Dem
Ocratic party ehOnestly desirous by their acts
and votes to carry out the principles of Jelfer.
sOnian Democracy. A large number have in
vestgated the subject, and have arrived at the
conclusion, and correctly too, that the s0.caled
Democratic party of to day is a sham and
counterfeit, and poor at that and that the on
ly way to secure the ascendency of the princi
pies of the Jefferson Democracy, is in the e..
lection Of Fremont and Dayton in November
next. When until after the election of Frank
Pierce. did the Democratic party claim the
right 10 carry slavery into Free Territory?
When did the Plain Dealer now the most
servile apologst, and even advocate of slavery
extension, and all the wicked schemes OF
Douglas and AtcLisOn, Stringfellow, Pierce &
Co., hesitate TO denounce all schemes for the
extension of slavery into Free Territory, until
it had been full fed with Government pap.
The doctrine of the Democratic patty, and
especially of the Pain Dealer, was, that slavery
should never be suffered to enter upon foot
o. territory hitherto free
In the Plain Dealer of Sept. 8. l849, is pub
li,bed the proceedings of The Guyahoga Coun-
ty Democratic Convention, at which H. B.
Payne was nominated Senator; the man who a
few evenings since, at Democratic display on
Bank street, denounced the slavery restriction
Of the Missouri Compromise as unconstitution-
al, and advocated the equal right Of slavehold,
ers to take into the territories their slave chat.
tells, with the freemen of the North to take theil
cattle and horses and hold them. Among the
resolutions passed at The Convention is the fol
lowing:
"ResolUed, That we are unalterablv oppo
sed 10 the extension of slavery into Territory
that is no lree--and while we adhere to Lh,
belief thatit cannot obtain legal existence i:
The territories Of California and New Mexico
without express statutary enactWents; yet as
q may gain foothold there by the connlvance @
y Executive Authority, IN defiance of law, W
n are In favor of oflngrafting on every act for th
/ government of said Territories the principles G
n the Jefferson Proviso."
y Speaking of the resolutions the Plain Deale
|. says:
+, Nothing illustrates better the distinctive
J. ness of the old standard Democracy rom an
7 and all other parties, than the plain practical
: and pointed ghtforwardness Of these resc
If lutions. They are the principles of our cand
rs dates"
= In the same paper is also published the re
u lutions of the Democratic Convention OF NJ
d dina county, fully indorsed by the Plain De
IS ler, the sixth OF which is as follows:
J. "ReSolued, That Congress has the constit
a. tional power to prohibit slavery in the Territ
or ries Of the United States, and that it is exped
K ent and proper that they should exercise th
IL power"
" The ninth resolution talks very much llk
% Republican resolutions of the present day,
is as follows
~ "Resolgcd That no more Slave States ougl
is to be admitted into this Union and that We W
is use all constitutional and proper means to pr
of vent such consummation."
: In the Plain Dealer of Sept, 10Th 1919,
mt published also the proceedings of the La
at county Democratic Convention, Among
IA. resolutions is the one adopted at the Cuyaho
nd County Democratic Convention, rected abo
verbatim ct lteratum; and in the same papt
IL among the resolutions adopted at the Ashtab
4 Ia County Democratic Convention is the folio
he ing
N. ''Re8olged, That we de opposed to the
ed PRODUCTION of slavery into any State or Terrlt
ad ry especially into New Mexico and Californa
,st This was almost the unanimous sentimtnt
h. mong the Democracy prior to the election
cd Frank Pierce. Even when the pet giant
to, tie Plain Dealer, S, A Douglas, proposed al
compromise, that as an offset to the admissi
N. of California as free State a new Slave St'
II should be carved out Of Texas and admittt
he the Plain Dealer in its issue of February 90
He 1850, used the following noble language CT
demnatory of compromises for the extension
slavery:
: - "Vote it down, say we, Away with q