The Union and eastern journal. [volume] (Biddeford [Me.]) 1854-1858, 1856-06-06

carries slavery into the territories and there
protects it.
.. NJ restriction or prohibition Of slavery
in the territories and
3. The mIintenance and execution OF the
fugitive slave Law.
Here is platform constructed exclusive
ly to favor southern interests. Is 1t
national benefit To extend slavery into the
territories, or is IL done for the benefit oil
section? Was not the fugitive slave law
made for the benefit OF the South, and do |
not its supporters demand its execution to
protest southern interests!
The democratic platform is sectional in all
its parts and to call IL national" plat
form is libel upon the common sense oil
every man who roids 1t.
With all these facts glaring them in the
face, the members Of the sO-cllled Demo
cratic party, the supporters Of the present
national Administration, have the nnOlush-
Ing impotence to stand up, and say to those
Of US who have, on the stump and ut tina
ballot box, through good report, and evil re-
port, supported jackson, and Van Bursn,
and Polk, and Piercc, (until he iOrsook his
friends and abandonsl his plitfOrm.) and
have chung to the Democratic party like the
mariner to the wreck, until there was not a
single plank Of its good old platform LETT to
save us from perlitiOn, that We have leit the
Demonltic party that We have ehanged
and yJns over to AbJlitionism- when they
know, and we know, and the whole world
knows, that they are the pen that have
changed, they are the deserters, that they
have gJn. OF and offered sacrifices 70 Strange
gpls. WALLS We are defending the slcramen'
tai alters and consccrated fires OF the - God
of our fathers.'-While we are, in good
faith. maintaining and defending the doc
trims, OF Jslf,nson and the Democratic par
ty, they are bowling down and worshiping
th, D.sIn g1l of African slavery.
But Il may be said the Cincinnati con-
ventiJn will not adopt the platform dichi-
It'd By the several State conventions have
referred "a. If any one cntertiins tins
opinion he il grossly mistaken. What says
Ia. Democracy Of Alabama? They IN
struct their delegates to "withdriw un-
less the convention comes up to the marx |;
walls the ID ,lnocrIts Of Georgia declare they
will cut OF all party connection with
e-rry alaa and party at he North, or else
trasr-, that dJ.s not fully and fairly come
uptpt is line Ofaction." 1t may be a bitter
doc 70. northern Democrats, and they
my ut ir,t resist il; but it will BE- Of no
us, for they will have 10 drink the poison
el draught % the very drcgs. Yes, gentle
msn, YOU have 90; TO take the whole dose ;
and, however bitter and nausca,ing il may
he, you have not only got to swallow it,
blt say you love IL. Every northern Dem-
o,rlt will have O. mount the Juggcrnaun;
car Of slavery, " hold the reins, or crack
the whip, f" or be thrown overheard 10 be
crushed under the ponderous weight ofits
gigantic wheel. IN honorable gentleman
iron South Carolina mir. Keitt the other
day, in eloquent, but plain language an,
noun,cl u the Democratic party the tinc oI
policy Il has got 10 pursue to receive south
crn support. That gentleman said;
"Tns Democratic party at the North hal
been cut down in the light. Ii has passed
through fire and water. Ii has come GU
cleansd, with whi;cned garments. IL !
now strong enough II do battle for IN
Constitution. Will you il, for th
spoils, with mOrly horde, wearing solleC
aud tatterci robes? lfyOu will, give tn
platform to the South, an! the man to tn
North
..Ths South should establish in the plat
forg tic principle, that the right OF a south
ern hin TO his slave is equal in its length
and breadth to the the right OF the northcr'
man to his horse. She should make th
recognition of the right full, complete, an'
indisputable."
There is one other pi,co Of evidence vii
oirT upon this point. franklin Pierce ant
his administration are Endorsed by tn
D,mDcrAtic party. OF course what we be
E,ye tlrcy b5lilye. Now to show his posi-
tion and that OF the party who support him
will rcalan cxtrae; Of "A letter from Scna
tor Evans, of SJuth Carolina, recently writ
ten and published, Recommending hi
StItc q ~ iuto the CINCINNATI convention
lie says
=. President Pierce is a man after our owl
hearts Both in words and d,cls he como
nearer tOOur options than any man VIII
has pryccl,d him for the last thirty years
Oar vote may give him the nomination, an
my best Judgment Is that we ought to JON
in the selection"
Ia the face OF these facts we hear it pro
claim i in these Halls, upon the stump, an
everywhere, that the Democratic party is
national party. Members of tins Slutheri
sc,iJnal Iarty talk with great flippanc,
cb,ut - national Democrats natiOma
denounc, the only true national party il
thc country Us "blaek republicans" see.
tiInilis,s anl fanatics. Black Republicans
Wa cin h'lp adnirins tn tIst, Of party
that, Dr ,he want OF argument to sustain
it, ctiS,, resorts to the doubtful expert
ment Of dalins in approbrious epithets?-
Black Republicans :" Sir, let the party
whJss very existence is shrouded by th,
"blaek" pull Of Egyptian night, first wash
out tho d" blick' stains u its own pollution
bilOre il duls out contcmptuous, rcprOach
ful terms upon it, neighbors.
Mr.. Charm IN, before closing my remarks
Idsirc to notice another charge OF a NOR,
serious character brought against the Re.
publicIn party. TIE members Of this party
are chnrg Il with hsing a. lisuniOnists. -
Never was there u charge more uuiOunded
more un,rue. call upon gentlemen who
make this groundlcss assumption 10 bring
out your proof, or "bick out" Bat il
wa said On this dor, prior 10 the orslni,
zAtion of this House, that the distinguished
gentleman from Massachusetts,, who with 81
much ability and impir,iality preSid,s over
our legislative d1lib,utijn', upon a certain
occasion said, +" there miga come cOntin.
gency when he should b, willing to let the
Union slide :" aud almost any amount OF
holy horror was expressed by the admins
tration members of the House over this ru-
NOR.
Now, sir, supposins the honorable Speak
or did make tins remarS-which l do not
admis-it is no threat of disunioa; il ex-
presses no dsirc Cor disunion and il. never
can be tortured into the expression Of $ IL
timcns JdrorGie 20 the dissolution of the
Union under any contingency. defy any
Gentleman to point lne u q single Republi-
can conv,ntion in any part Of the country,
that has ever been holden, where anything
like disnnion sentiments have been uttered.
Thss, charges Of disanion against the Re
pablican party, or any OF its members,
when investigated and weighed in the bal