Mineral Point tribune. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1854-1858, 1856-08-12
From the Wyoming Mirror.
BUCHANAN DEMOCRACY.

In nothing are the impudence and hypocrisy
OF modern democracy more apparent than In
its pretensions to its origin. Of 50 fragrant a
Islander has never an enemy Of Mr. Jefferson
been guilty. az is the modern democrat who
claims to be the representative of the principles
OF that distinguished republican patriot. The
democracy of the present day Is subserviency
of the Slave Power. and the palliation if not the
open justification of slavery,
Let US suppose man uttering from the TO-
Dixons line, the following language:
''T The abolition OF slavery is the greatest OBJ
jeCt of desire an these States.
The whole commerce between master and
slave is perpetual exercise of the most bois-
ferrous passions the most unremitting 3espot-
lsm On the enc part, and degrading submission
On the other With tie morals OF
the people, their industry is also destroyed =
Indeed, tremble for my country
when reflect that God is just, and that his JUS
tiee cannot sleep forever mat considering Ii UNI
bers, nature, and natural means only, rcvolu
ton OF the wheel OF fortune, an exchange of sit
uation, Is among possible events that 1t may
become probable by supernatural interference
The Almighty has attribute uhich can take sides
nth us an such contest.
w hat an inconprehensible machine is man
who can endure toll, famine, stripes, imprison-
ment. and death itself, IL vlndicatIon of his ow Il
liberty, and the next moment be deaf 10 all
tuOSe iiiotiNSS WHICH SuppOEttQ Hllu through
his trial. and intict on has fellow men a bond
age, one hour OF which is fraught with more
misery than ages of that which he rose in re-
beilion to oppose.
You know that nobody wishes more ardent
iy to see an abolition. not only of the trade but
of the condition of slavery; and certainly, no.
body will be more willing 10 encounter every
sacrifice for that object"
What would be the fate of him who should
proclaim such sentiments within the borders OF
a slave State, or in the territory of Kansas. un-
der the laws which the administration is en-
forcing with the army of the nation let these
are the words of Thomas jefferson, " the apos-
tie Of democracy" whose followers, the present
supporters OF this great moral and political
evil Gas he called it,) proposes 10 be Such
language now actually disquaiifies man TO,
constitutional franchise only to restrict this NOR
al and political evil, is deemed by the bogus
democracy of 1856, utterly unfit to be elected
to any office, and subjects himself 10 personal
violence.
But the sentiments Of Mr.. jefferson, as here
expressed were not peculiar to him. but were
avowed by many of his democratic compatriots.
Contrast the character of the patriots of that
period who uttered such republican sentiments,
and the state CT public feeling which tolerated,
and even concurred IN their open avowal, with
the Pierces and Douglases, and Buchanans of
the present day, and the public sentiment. not
only at the South, but among the northern de-
n0crdcy which denounces as antl-democratlc,
all who speak against the institution of slavery,
and who make any efforts to prevent its extern
sion. To support the Buchanan democracy,
and to look honest and intelligent man in
the face, and profess TO be democrat. certainly
requires degeee of effrontery which, if we did
not witness it, We could hardly imagine posi-
bic