The true Democrat., 1856-03-04
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From the N. Y. Day Book, Feb. ? The Speakership.

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 l Thirty years ago, portion of the Louisiana
 purchase, having determined its boundaries and
 adopted a constitution in accordance with the
 wants and necessities of its population. applied
 for admission as sovereign state in the general confederacy. This admission was opposed b,
 class of men at the north, on the ground of
 assumed injustice to the negroes of Missouri
 The men of Massachusetts who had an inef-
 fable disgust for social equality or fraternity
 with negroes, and excluded them as rigidlv as II they carried with them some mortal disease: ana these of New York who. in addition to so ciaI exclusion, denied them all the rights of cIiVzeoshlp, these people thus particular to save themselves from possible injury, from the hand iul of negroes In their midst, assumed to dictate to the people of Missouri the rules and regu- IatlonS oi their social life; indeed, had the i'm pudence to demand that they should degrade themselves to legal level with their negroes.
 Unfortunately, the men of that day, instead of rebuking this impotence of class-a small class of northern society, compromised, with It, and passed an act of Congress which declar- ed that in all the territories north of 36 3O there should be no migration of southern citi zens, or Tn other words, that the natural rela tons or whites and negroes should be forciblv VioiaCed ana negroes declared "free, That ths was violation of the spirit of the consti tuton' and wholly beyond the legitimate ac. 'ioh oi the federal legislature is evident to every one who comprehends the true character oi our Institutions, and, from an inevitable ne cessity, has drawn in its train that fri,htfu catalogue of popular deiusons which. widen Ing and deepening, and added to by demaoo- gueiSm and the basest political trckery, now oiocks the wheels of government and even threatens national catastrophe. For half of ."e otates ot thls Unlon to say that the other hali snail not be permitted to migrate to the common territory, Is monsGrous-as stupid as uhJusC. Even on the assumption of the aboli 'lonists themselves It IS absurd Messrs. Se ward and Summer, Giddnss & Co.,, will not associate or lntermarry with negroes-will not aIlo" equal rights" to the handful of negroes Ill Cneif mldSt-and yet pr sume to force this negro equality on other communites-to com. pei other sections with large negro populations, to do that which they refuse to the few hun. dreds or few thousands of these peonle in thnir own State. This Missouri restriction. tbps mn. just and absurd, thus in total contradiction to inc federal union--to the design, the obiects- the very existence of the Union-this real act ot dlsunlon, and which, if repeated, or restored as the dupes of deusion term it, must of neces Slty, end the Union--this absurd restriction was removed by the last Congress, but unfortu nate y without any popular appeal to do so, or Indeed any popular preparation for it.
 If an issue had been made on this subect- if the democratic party had made an appeal to the masses, had shown up the injustice-the wrong, the contradiction, the utter contradic ton of this restriction to the Union-to the spirit and principles, the very existence of the federal system, there need have been no doubt of the popular decision. The people are demo- cratic, intelligent, patriotic and it appealed to on thlS question, against this absurd restriction upon southern ctlzens-aganst negro "equali ty' ln the territories or negro freedom any where they would have responded to this appeal by an overwhelming vote, for 1t is an insult to the | popular intelligence and the very manhood of the northern masses to suppose otherwise But | thls was not done; Congress repealed the re- Strlcuon without any explanation whatever | and then went home to their constituents. and were deteated-almOst universally condemned at the north not for the act itself but for the man. her III which It was done-not for the removal | ot an unjust restriction upon half the citizens of the republic, but because there was no ex- | planatlon of the act made to the other half.- And thls condemnation, what was its character. | its spirit, its intent? Did it mean that those elected in their places were instructed to restore this restriction? Did it mean that they should | prohibit half of the citizens of this republic 1 from settling in the common territories of all the states? Above all, did 1t mean that they | should violate the laws of nature as we'll as the | spirit of our institutions-the laws of God as well as man, and declare negro freedom or negro equality in the national territories, as the indi- | rect means formccompshlng similar resutin | the States themselves? This is the assumption | Of the party now supporting Mir. Banks for Speaker, and though some of his supporters, and ! perhaps even that gentleman himself, may shrink from the final result, the inevitable con of their position, his main supporters, or the great bulk of his supporters, place him on this ground, and he now stands before the | nation as the embodiment of negro freedom or negro fraternity.
 That this assumption is a monstrous outrage on the popular sentiment, and still more on the popular instinct of the north, there can be no doubt whatever The massesare naturally and necessarily pro-slavery, that is are desrous that negroes shall remain just where the Almighty Creator has placed them, in social subordi nation to white men, and the question or is- sue placed before them, stripped of all the mystery that now cucumber and hide 1t, it is scarcely possible that a single supporter of Mr. Banks would receive their endorsement Even in Giddings' district, deluded and bewildered as are his constituents on this negro question, and beuighted and besotted as many of them are it cannot be, 1t is utterly irrational and in- deed insulting to suppose that majority could be so base and unmanly as to equalize CT fra ternize with negroes, or to elect man to re present them ill Congress who would aim to carry out the abolition programme embodied by MT. Banks.
 Mr. Banks adopts the abolition perversion of the declaration of independence, and stands up before his countrymen as the candidate of a party that seeks to put 1t into practice, that proposes to legislate the inferior negro to an equality with white nen--frst in the territories then iu the states, that proposes to break down the barriers of nature and degrade the twenty millions of white citizens to a forbldden--an eternally forbidden equality--with the three millions of subordinate negroes. His election to the Speakers chair would be a monstrous outrage on the people, a libel on our institutions qualification of the national intellect, in short an indecency that every citizen should shrink from with horror and ineffable disgust. There are possible contingencies when the Speaker may become the acting President, and what a spectacle the chief of this republic-of these twenty millions of white men, the open and avowed exponent, embodiment champion of negro freedom, of equality and fraternity with negroes.
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 The Texas Debt Bill.
 The New York Tribune, referring to the passage of this bill by the Texas Legislature, says:
 "The effect of this bill will be to deplete our