The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1857-10-21


by the HIGHER LAW of God himself, to
give to those who are thrown into Your
power or possession by conquest or by
purchase, the benefits of Government.
!!DemOcratic', History.
The slave drivers party are extremely
fond of referring to the history ofthe coun
try,and boa sting of what the Democratic
party has done. We propose to improve
upon that matter - little by new table
of contents for the yet unwritten chapters
of heir History-space allowing nothing
more.
l. Though fond of quoting the names
of Jefferson and Jackson, the party has
become SO apostate that neither of those
men could or would reta n a position in it
for an hour,or hold fourteenth corporals
commission in it.
2. It has so debauched the popular SELF
timent that its traitorous leaders already
sneer at the vital principles of the delnoc-
racy, and their own adberents have been
kept too ignorant to perceive the impos-
ture.
3. Beginning as the anti-slaverv party
of the country. AMI suppol ting Jeiferson's
policy of universal liberty, it has now be-
come the mere poltroon hfe guard of
Southern slave breeders.
4. It has repudiated ,Ielferson's doctrine
of Territorial liberty, and given the coun-
try Blu hanan's doctrine of universal Ter
ritorial Slavery.
5. 1t has d:sarnod the nation of the
power to protect the dearest rights Of the
people in the Territories, and denies the
existence of any such power on Garth
(Mr. Buchanan's letter.
6. 1t has compelled the nation to bolt
from its creed the principles of equal, in
alienable, God-giyen rights, and substitu
ted in their place the Internal code OF
pirates and bandits. (sec same letter.
Z. It has ruthlessly torn down the bar
riers of liberty erected by our fathers, and
spread slavery over the heart Of the coz
tinent.
s. It has exhaled State crime into
National Conspiracy against the rights Of
man.
8. 1t has expanded the field Of bond
age from narrow limits where it woul
have become extinct, to three quarters of
the whole area of the United States!
10. Under its patronizing influence
despotism isnow the leading power in thu
whole Western Hemisp here.
II. It las increased the number of
Slave States in the Union from SIX to tit.
teen, and is already preparing seven mora
for admission hereafter.
II. It has so corrupted the highest
Court in the land, that its freest, ablest
members are abandoning its bench in dis
gust.
IS. It has converted the whole ma
chincry Of the federal government into u
police OF the barbarous Save power.
IA. 1t waged war with Florida Indians
to secure the right of slave hunting, cost
ing us thousands Of lives, and $50,OOo,-
900 to pay the bills.
Is. 1t recklessly plunged the country
into war with Mexico to extend the boun-
daries of human oppression, costing tho
life and blood Of 10000 human beings,
end s20O,000,o00
Is. Under its auspices the liberty of
speech and freedom of the press are abol-
ished in one half the land, and habeas Z
corpus is set aside in the whole of it.
II. The ballot-box for the purposes
has been corrupted, till good men tremble
for the ark of orr liberties.
18. 1t has allowed and encouraged a
system of the most disgusting hcathenism
to establish itselfin Utah. disgracnr our
civilization and preparing infinito mischief
for the future lest interference with ono
"domestlc institution" should lead to an
other nearer home.
10. 1t has fostered violence and ou.-
rage within our own borders, and bevond
them no people are safe except by their
own strength.
20. By its policy the labor of one half
Of the country is in chains, and the other
has to bear the heavy load of its Pauper-
ism.
81. Finding its own dependence upon
the lowest strata of American society. It is
warning upon the moral virtue of the
country to bring all else down 10 its own
leye.
%. Under It's administration, thrce
millions of native American popu alton
are mere cattle in the market; = half
million mothers wall for their children, not
their own half million fathers en-
brace not their families but their masters
ock;-one-sixth of our whole people
whipped doomed-sold-
spot of tyranny and lust:
the smoke Of that bottomless pit dark
enIng our skies, and Eternal Justice thun-
ierIng along our track to vindicate the
rights Of the poor.
Such is o brief but true sketch of what
American democracy" has done for tho
country, AID we earnestly commend it to
he consideration of all who think still to
abet its guilt. For humanitv's sake, for
honor, for justice, for liberty, for flu.
ure peace, for our native land, for Gods
'ake, stop!
We learn from late st. Louis pano-.
hat Col. Sumner, is having more trouble
gil, tbc Tnlf1Y- ~ H.