Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1857-08-13
A 0OD FORsAKEN pARTY

Never, since the organization of our gov
crnment. did there exist a party 80 entirely
dcmoralizod and hereft Of all virtue and all
sympathy for virtue. as is now the 80 called
Democratic party Having. in an evil hour,
taken upon itself the propagandism and cham
pionship Of human slavery. by the repeal OF
the Missouri Compromise, the "seven spirits
of evil seem 70 have taken possession of the
entire organization From that hour IL has
given itself up to the management and up
holding of every crime, national, social or po-
litica, that has chosen to seek its protection.
1t has declared war against religion, liberty,
temperance, and every movement seeking to
improve and elevate man. 1t is the recogniz-
ed ark of refuge into which fllibusters land
pirates and all promoters of mischief flee for
aid and protection 1t is the party relied on
IN the preparation of every national crime.
and the protection of every national evil 1t
is the fomenter of wars abroad and discords
at home. 1t seems TO aim at a monopoly of
all the wrong doing in the land. IT, says the
heauebec journal, white men are % be mani
clcd and imprisoned for exercising free speech
IN om territories, the Democratic poriy is the
organization which is expected to enforce the
barbarous edict. If poor negroes are to be
reduced TO bondage on the same sacred soil,
the Democratic party is the agency to do it.
u the degraded and abused slave escapes to
tree soil, and is pursued by his reyengeful
master, the Democratic pauy with its minions
and officials. stands ready to hnnt him down
and send him back If a blood-stained vii
lain inyades friendly nation with a host of
fcllow pirates, and lays waste the country in
indscriminate arson, and is at last compelled
TO flee for his life. he is sure, if he can but
get back to this land, TO find a word of well
come from the presses and the orators Of the
Democratic party. If Supreme Court, for
gctiul alike of its own dignity and of natural
justice, chooses to travel beyond its record,
and pronounce eXtra-ju judicial decroes which
strike as the very root of liberty, and distran-
chise a whole race at one blow, the Demo-
cratic party stands ready to applaud the tyran-
ical edict and to adopt its odious essence in
to its very platform of principles. II reck-
less and dishonest city officer chooses to i'm
peril the lives and property of million of
people rather than to submit to the just re-
quirements Of law the Democratic party will
countenance and sustain him in his rebellion.
II state cursed and bowed down with slave
ry. shows any disposition to get rid of the IN
cubus, the Democratic party at once discour-
agos and irowns upon the attempt, and preach
es the doctrine that freedom is no better than
slavery. In short there is no public measure
which looks to the amelioration Of man, which
takes the side of law and order. which invokes
the aid of the neutrality-suspicious. is no
measure of this kind, which is not sure to
meet resistance and opposition at the hands
of the Democratic party. As an organization,
it seems cursed with moral obliquity which
prevents its taking fair view of any public
question: and which, by an irresistible iatali-
ty drives it to espouse wrong. Ever since
its affliation with the Border Buiiians" of
Missouri, it has become inoculatod with their
crimes, adopted their vicious creed, and has
fairly earned a title to their name iadepcn-
dcHt Democrat.