Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1857-04-09
THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 1857.


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That, said Mr.. r., is enough for me as
an American. 1t embraces The vital prin-
ciple of Americanism. Could such res.
olulion be passed in Democratic conven-
tlQn! The voice of its adoption would
not die upon the air before the right wing
OF the Democratic party-the Irish brigade
would march off to the bowld anthem of
'Erin mavOurneen, Erin go bragh ="
But when every thing else fails, the cry
of the enemy would be, Wilmot is an Abb
ollllonist! Mr.. X. said he had no patience
with this charge: 1t was false, utterly
false, and those who made it knew it to
be lie. 1t had served its turn thrice in
Pennsylvania. and Mr.. X. thought i.
would now meet the contempt it deserved.
Who, be asked, that did not swear, in the
words of the ever-Varying creed of the
Democratic party on the subject of Sla-
very, was not obnoxious to this epithet.-
He, himself, had gone 10 Congress from
one OF the most conservative districts of
Pennsylvania, entertaining the most con-
servatlye views on the Slavery question,
and yet, because Ire had voted for Mr.
Banks for Speaker, and for the invesiiga-
lion of the Kansas election frauds, he was
taken and reputed an aboliionist. If one
protest against the extension of Slavery,
adhering 10 the policy that prevailed in
the Federal Government, from the DAYS of
Washington TO Polk, he is an abolitionist
If christian man declared his belief that
all men have God for their Father, and
are, therefore, a common brotherhood, he
is an Abolitonist.
Reeder went from the bosom of the
Democracy Of Pennsylvania to Kansas
only TO be stigmatized and sent back an
abolitionist; later, Geary, from the same
political fold, went with the endorsement
of the chief men of his party everywhere,
and because he would not prostitute the
functions of his office TO faslen slavery on
Kansas, is liable to assassination, compel
led to resign, and branded as an abolition
ist. All men who will not swear to the
divinity of slavery-not only of the black
man, but that slavery is the natural and
inevitable condition OF labor, without re-
gard to color-are abOlitionis S.
Mr.. X. did not fear the use of oppro-
brious epiIhets. They were poor argu-
ments, and had no longer power with the
people. He would not hereafter stand up
TO defend against such charges. They
were lies, and he would not waste time in
argument about them. He meant in this
canvass, instead Of being put in the dclen-
sive to carry the war into the enemy's
camp. 10 arraign the Democratic party
not for sympathy TO the negro, but with
design to enlarge the house of bondage
until it shall embrace the free white labor
er of the North.
Mr.. X. referred to the opinions recently
put forth by the Richmond Enquirer on
behalf of the Democratic party of the
South, that Slavery is the natural and
moral condition of the la50rng man,
whether tchite or black, and that the great
evil of Northern free society is, that it is
burdened with SerUiie class Of mechanics
and la60rers unfit for SELF government,
and yet clothed with the attributes and
powers of citizens. The great contest,
Mr.. X. said, was, whether free society or
slave society should prevail in the terrific
ries, and in this struggle these monstrous
doctrines were avowed by the Democratic
party. Did they meet with rebuke from
the Democratic press of the North? No;
rather with acquiescense. 1t is for de-
parture from the ancient landmarks, for
settled design to force Slavery with fire
and sword upon Kansas, for the bold avow-
al that Slavery is the natural and moral
condition of the white laborer as well as
the black, that the Democratic party will
have TO answer in this canvass, and in The
overwhelming voice of popular Indignation
their miserable shibole,h of abolitionism
will be unheard. Mr.. K. referred to the
decision of the Supreme Court of the
United States in the Dred Scott case. 1t
was a mere diclum of that Court-extra-
judicial, and carried no force. Even il it
had been pronounced on the very case,
there would still be higher authority-for
higher than acts of Congress, higher than
decisions of Federal Courts, was the Con-
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