Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-10-03
DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLES.

The following is the confession of faith of the
National Democracy. 1t is dictated BY the De
mocrscy OF the lash at the South and most hum
bly, and gratefully accepted by the serrile anC
unprincipled Democracy of. the North. These ar,
precisely the principles of which the party is thu
representative and defender, as its measures anc
objects unequivocally show;
The Richmond Enquirer, a leading Buchanan
paper in Virginia, uses the following language
Until recently the defense of slavery has labor
ed under great difficulties becsus its apologists
for they were mere apology ts) took half way
grounds. They confined the defense Of slavery tt
mere negro slavery, thereby giving up the princi
pie, admitting other forms of slavery to b,
wrong"
1.-The line Of defense, however, is now changed
The South now maintains that Slavery is right
natural and necessary, aud does not depend up
on the difference of complexion. The laws o
the Slave States justify the bolding Of White men
in bondage"
Again. a leading South Carolina Buchanan pa
per says:
slavery is the natural and normal condition Of
the laboring man, whether white or black. Tn,
great evil of Northern free society is that it il bur
dened with u servile class Of Mechanics and La
borers. unfit for self government, and yet clothed
with the attributes and powers of citizens. Mas
ter and Slave is u relation in society, as natura
and necessary as that Of parent and child aDC
the Northern States will yet have to introduc,
it,"
The Richmond Enquirer, on another occasion
used the following language:
Repeatedly have we asked the North, Has no,
the experiment of universal liberty failed ? Are
not the evils of free society insuferablsf And dc
not most thin king men among you propose to sub
vert and reconstruct it? Still no answer. This
gloomy silence is another conclusive proof, added
TO many other conclusive evidences we have fur
nished, that free society in the long run is an i'm
practicable form of society it is ever starving
demoralized and discretionary.
I'VE repeat, then, that policy and humanity
alike forbid the extension of the evils of free 30
ciety to new people and coming generations.
Two opposite and conflicting forms Of society
cannot, among civilized men, co-exist and endure
The one must give way and cease to exist, the 9th
or become universal. If free society be unnstu
raj immoral, unchristian, it must fall and giv'
way to a slave uociety-a system old as the world
universal as man"
The Muscogee (Ala.) Herald. another valian
Buchanan organ. says;
Free Society We sicken at the name. Wha
is it but n conglomeration of greasy mechanics
filthy operatives, small listed farmers, and moor
struck theorists? All the Northern, and especial
]y the New England States, are devoid Of societ
fitted for we'll bred gentlemen. The prevailiD
class one meets with is that of mechanics strue
Cling to be gen,eel. and small farmers who do tbei
own d~rudgery and yet who are hardly fit for a'
sociation with a Southern gentleman's body sci
wants. This is your free society which the NORTH
ern hordes are endeavoring to extend into Kar
sas."
The South Side Democrat. another Buchanan pa
per. uses tho following language
1--WE have got to hating everything with tn
prefix Free, from free negroes down and u
through the whole catalogue free farms, fire.
labor. free society. free will, free thinking, FIRE
children and free schools-sll belonging so tn
same brood Of damnable isms. But the wors
of all nominations is the modern system Q