Kanawha Valley star. [volume] (Charleston, Va. [W. Va.]) 1856-1861, 1857-02-17
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( democracy II VI ASuss - ~ ~ we
have often sought To demonstra NE
eoually important and vital Ii
that after the establishment Of o.
Democratic system, il would have
been overthfown IN substance = nos
in form long before this time, nadit
not been defended and sustained "
tho ssslayeholdersr Of the South.
The northern laboring and prodnf
cling classes arc Democratic, instinct
lively so, but single handed and alone
they would have been crushed BY the
combined and consolidated infnen-
| ccs that federalism could bring to
bear upon them, had it not been Tor
| the aid and support Of their southern
allies. This assertion may be DEM
onstrated beyond doubt, though IN
the hastily written articles Of q daily
paper. it is quite probable. that we
have failed to impress itwitlrA entire
certainty on the minds ofour rea.
ders. =.
It's also a fact, and a fact that no
one win venture to dispute, that every
foot Of rational territory and every
step of tile national progress has been
the work of southern men, and
against the efforts to the contrary Ola
majority Of the North. These are
stupendons facts, which show, be-
You'd doubt or mistake, that so-caIled
hslavcry is indeed what Gov. McDuffie
once declared it was, the .corner
stone Of our Republican edifce. -
That the snbordination Of the negro
has secured the equality Of white
men, or that so-called slavery is the
basis Of American Democracy, no
honest intelligent. man will doubt Or
can doubt q moment. The ignorant
and supcrstitious, indeed, the intelli-
gent not having locked closely Of the
facts, and accustomed to read thepro
dnctions Of ssanti-slayery' writer's,
may be lead astray and fancy This
thing called slavery to be what its
foes have represented it to be-. But
we repeat, no man VIII looks into the
facts Of the case, and at the same time
is capable of connecting cause and
effect, win doubt or can doubt its
transcedent and benefcient influence
on the development Of Democratic
ideas and the progress Of free institu-
tons.
/ But the old mode Of attacking De-
mocracy has been abandoned. Its
enemies now, instead of open and
manly warfare, resort to bnshfight-
ing-indeed, depend npon kind Of
political assassination-to &C e pit
Democratic truths and turning them
intolies by theirapplication tonegroes.
But they disclose the "cloven foot
Fat every STEP They assure to be, par
excellence, the friends offreedom, yet
openly and boldly concoct all kinds
of schemes for plundering the public
treasury. There has never been a
] Congress in our history so devoted to
the freedom Of negroes and the rob
berry of white men as the present one,
and for the proof of which we only
need to refer to the extract at the
head ofthis article, taken from a Re-
publican paper, and written by "Re-
publican Indeed, the abolitionist
and the public plrnderer constitute a
single entity. They are part and
1 parcel Of each other. as inseparable
as the Siamese Twins. The moro ex-
aited the love of freedom, or the more
devoted to the fancied interests Of
the negro, why the greater the margin
given their conscience for plundering
| the white man. Even those like
Sumner and Giddings, who seem hon
estly devoted to negro freedom
that is, do not desire to make anti
slavery" an instrument merely for
oyerthrowing Democratic in stitu-
tions, cannot resist plundering white
men, and unconsciously, whenever
asked to do SO, assist others without
any benefit Ito themselves. On the
whole, however, this stealing feature
of the sscause Of humanity" will work
ont much good in the end. In the
benefcent arrangements of Divine
Providence, it is designed that evil
shall always work its own cure, and
lif this ssanti-slayery'' movement were
Honestly conducted, it would donbt-
! less end in great calamities, but its
leaders thus utterly corrupt, and, as
far as we know, without exception,
must SO disgust the masses at the
North as TO hasten on that mighty
and glorious reaction which some
day will sweep the vile impostul 9 in
to oblivion.
CHrcAoo, Feb. 9.-The greatest
storm and flood has prevailed in this
region since 1874. Tho Milwaukee
railroad bridge has been damaged
considerably, and no trains arc rum
ming.
Tho Galena railroad bridge at Elgin
was swept away, and number of
culyerts destroyed.
The Fon Du Lac railroad track has