Volcano weekly ledger., 1856-10-25

l neii anu winch 'ho Gun onuii ~ uOWn on tne
evening of the 4th of November, the word
VICTORY" will be inscribed in letters of living
light upon its ample fods and beneath it, IN
bold relief, that which will fill every Demo
cratic heart with joy--"AMADoR REDEEMED"
Democracy and Negro Slavery
The Republican presses charge upon Dem
ocrats that they are, ,distinctiyely Slave-Prop-
agandists and Slave-Extensionists; and there
upon they call us the African-Democracy
the Nigger-Drvng Democracy, and other
polite names.
Never was party SO belied and abused by
its enemies as is and has been the Democrat
ic party Beed and abused, because its
principles are eternal as the rock of ages,
and because it is only by falsehood and defa-
nation that they may be assailed. And the
assailant always "puts on the livery of heaven
to serve the devil In" for who ever heard of
a mushroom party springing up in opposition
to the Democracy, that did not the very first
thing, lay claim to being itself truly Demo
cratic? Nobody; it is always the case. All
/ the factions, splits, and individuals that have
left the Democracy during the last fifty years,
telling their own story have carried off with
them the genuine principles upon which it is
based, leaving the old party not a single
plank to stand upon; butnevertheesS the old
Democratic party still lives" with its same
old principles while the factions and splits
have invariably died out after short and
fruitless struggle.
Even the Black Republicans of to-day,
with only sixteen stars on their banner, have
the hardihood to call themselves the true rep
resentatives of Jefferson and Jackson De-
mocracy; but that does not make them such,
nor do we believe they consider themselves as
having a particle of Democratic eaven 10
the whole lump Like all other factions and
isms, they assume virtue when they have
it not, as the best means of doing battle
against the cohorts of the Democracy.
But we are depressing. Our purpose is to
speak briefly of the doctrins of the party up
on the question of negro slavery. 1t is a
slandcr to assert that the Democracy are
either Slave-Propagandists, Save-Exten-
tionists, or Nigger Drirera They are neith-
er. The position of the party upon the slave
question, Gas upon all others is just what it
always has been, and may be set forth in few
words. 1t is simply this: Nonintervention
by Congress with the institution ST slavery in
any of the States or MISUNDERSTANDING il
to remain just exactly what it is under the
Constitutional compact, to-wit, an institution
purely local in its character and subject TO
the control of local and not national Legsla-
ton The Democracy make no effort to ex-
tend slavery; neither do they strive to cur
tail and circumscribe it. Living up to the
spirit Of federation and compromise which
prevailed when the Federal Union was form
ed, Democratic Congress will nos stop to
inquire, when a new State asks to be
admitted, whether her fundamental law per-
mits or excludes slavery. That is question
they leave to be decided by the people them
selves--the people who are to live in the new
State, and who are supposed to know, better
than anybody could tell them, whether they
want slavery or not.
Now is this not fair? Is it not reasonable?
Is there any Niger Driving about it? Let
any candid man-even if he has been beguil-
ed into Black Republicanism-a himself
these questions, and see if his own good sense,
and his own conscience, will not compel him
to inwardly confess that the Democratic,