Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-08-23
THE DEMOCRATS.

they will; we shall see. And for what do these
thousand or less of Democrats come together ?
why to sustain the principles of the Cincinnati
platform-or rather the principle of Slavery OK.
tension. This is the purpose, and this is to be the
influence Of the assembly.
John Van Buren, is coming, and Samuel Black is
to be here, for this,-to put out the eyes Of any in
the party who are beginning to see their disgrace.
ful and wicked position, to crush out the sympa.
thics of such as are beginning to feel the prom pit
ings of justice and humanity. This is the work
of INTERVALS. Why should men engage in itP
Van Buren, is doubtless imported because he once
stood on the Buffalo platform-wa was against slavery
extension-and declared against slavery. And it
is hoped that he may be able to persuade non-ex.
tension Democrats in this region, where anti
slavery sentiment omewhat prevails, to initiate
his apostacy.
But some of our readers may conclude it impos.
sible for an old line Democrat to apostatize by
mounting the Cincinnati Platform. But we assure
them they can. Pro.slavery as it has been, the
Democratic party of Ohio has ~p,ofesSed to be OPP
posed TO the extension of Slavery, until their State
Convention last winter, when in obedience to their
masters, and to meet the issue Of the Republicans,
which in fact was but an embodiment of their own
professions, they adopted the following rcsolu.
ton.
Resolved, That Slavery is a domestic institution
and that Congress has neither the power to legis-
late 1t into any Territory or State, nor to exclude il
therefrom, but to leave the people thereof per.
iectly free to form and regulate their domestic in
stitutions in their own way, subject only to the
Constitution of the United States.
Previous to this, at least since 1913, the doctrines
of the Dem )cratic party of Ohio SC far as its res
buttons went, was quite as good if not better than
Rcpublicanism is to-day. 1t was against Slavery
extension, and more, it was against Slavery itself.
riley "JeH ito he their duty to use all po,cer con,
SiSteHt wjM tie national compact, to prerent its ia-
crease, 10 mitigate, and faaUy 10 eradicate the
erR." The Republican resolutions are in purpose,
identical with this, with the exception, they do not
propose to eradicate the evil"
The whole resolution of the State Democratic
Convention assembled in Columbus on the Sth of
January 1913 is as follows:
Resolved, That the people of Ohio now, AS THEY
HAVE ALWAYS done, look upon the institution of
SLAVERY AS AN EVIL, AND UNAVOIDABLE TO THE
FULL DEVELOPMENT OF THE SPIRIT OF AND PRAC-
TICAL BENEFITS OF FREE INSTITUTIONS, and that,
entertaining these sentiments, they will feel it to
be their duty to use all power consistent with the
national compact to precent It's increase, to mitigate
and finally TO eradicate the eUI.
Such was Democracy in 1913 according to the
record. A record so anti-slarcry that the Repub.
lican party could not now be induced to adopt it.
We know full well, Cor the action of the party
has proved it, that this was only a paper resolu.
ton, designed to befool the men of anti-slavery
sympathies in the party; and it did its work well
with many Of them, and induced them to remain
in the party while it gave its and their influence to
the support of the evil they had resolved Ito Grad.
icate." The party in Ohio then, had once, on pa.
per an anti-slavery character a character, which
it protested 20 maintain so late as 1852, when Dem
ocratic Governor Woods, wrote in his inaugural
address, that he believed the sentiments of the
people of Ohio were '~'entirely united. The area
of Slavery must never be extended in this govern.
mcnt while the voice-the united voice of Ohio, in
any constitutional form can stay it. Here, with
propriety, we may make our stand. Thus far,
proud wave, shalt thou advance, but no farther
shalt thou come"
Such was the character the party claimed for
itself at home from 1913 to 1856, when it aposta.
tiscd from its profession of orthodox Republican
hiN't ''hA hAbHNNu VI OluNlO We nave copied
above. This apostaoy it confirmed at Cincinnati
IN June last, and to secure an endorsement of it
by the more anti-slavery Inclined members Of tt
party, is the object of this coming meeting. And
as John Van Buren, and Samuel W.. Black have
been notorious advocates of both sides of this
question, they are the men brought forward to
secure, by their example and precept the consent
of the individual members of the party to its
apostacy.
Ohio was not alone in the adoption of anti-exten-
sion resolutions. On the 4th of July 1919 the
Pennsylvania Democratic State Convention assem-.
bled in Pittsburgh, of which Col. Black was a dis
tinguished member
Resolved that the Democratic party adheres now,
as 1t ever has done, to the Constitution of the
country. Its letter and spirit thew will neither
weaken or destroy and they re-declare that Slavery
is a domestic local institution of the South, subject
TO Stde legislation atone, and with which the gen
eral government has nothing to do. Wherever the
State law extends its jurisdiction, the local institu.
ton can continue to exist. Esteeming tia Uiola-
ton Of State rights to carry ii beyond State limits,
zee deny tie poorer Of any citizen 10 eItend The area
q Goadage beyond ats present dominion, nor do
'e consider ii a part Of the compromise of the
Constitution that SdUery should t0Iecer traUet ciM
adcancing colums Of our TERRITORIAL progress.
This was Col. Black in 1910. Now he comes to
Salem to advocate the Cincinnati Platform, which
he helped to erect. He is the man who assured
the shareholders at Cincinnati of his willingness to
keep them company in case, they should find it for
the interest of their patriarchal institution to dis
solve their connection with tho North. Servility
could not we'll get lower than that. But perhaps
ne will try to out do it by his efforts to persuade
the people of Ohio to 90 with him, in his slave
driving project,
The FIRST OF AUGUST was much more generally
this year than usual. In general in
Ohio the celebrations were got up by the colored
people. But to a very great extent the whites
gave them the encouragement of their presence.
So far as we have heard from them they seem to
have passed off pleasantly and proftably. Urbana
the county seat Of Champaign county has hitherto
boon noted for its prO.slayery and its inveterateI