Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-09-30
GBt Daily Sqp.
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 80. 1887.
Retroxrsssioa Of Modern Democracy.

Heterogeneous Of Modern Democracy.
The letter Of President Buchanan to Professor
silinan may well be considered as completing
the retrograde steps which the " National Dem
ocraey' Of this country, Of late years, have been
making, in their subservency to the slave power.
As might have been supposed, it has been the
means of reeonciling the ultra, pro slavery fire.
eating politicians of the South, into full sup
port OF Mr.. Buchanan's administration Here
is a rich specimen of the manner in which they
express their satisfaction with the tone of that
letter, from one of their leading organs-the
Richmond CVa.) South:
..There is not the faintest semblanee of reluc-
tant concession to the just demands Of the South,
hut hold honest, and spontaneous declaration
Of fundamen tai principles of constitutional right
of the utmost consequence 10 the Southern cause.
Everybody knows with what CONSERVATION this
same theory was received years ago, when first
announced By the most profound and tar-sighted
of American statesmen, John G Calhoun-how
he was derided and scoied at by all parties,
North aud South, as a political dreamer-an i'm
practicable visionary, thoroughly deficient in all
the elements Of sound and efficient statesman
ship Thus it ever has been in the progress Of
human development. few pre-eminenty gilt
ed minds are always in advance of then age.
They ale first to descry the iar-of mountain
tops of thought which in the lapse Of time be-
COM gradually apparent to men Of lesser stat
ure."
The New Orleans Delta, another sheet Of the
extreme Southern pro-savery stamp, which has
heretofore hesitated to- endorse in full the course
of Mr. Buchanan, is equally emphatic in ex-
planning its delight with his letter to the New
Haven memorialists, and illustrates the doctrine
therein contained, that slavery exists constitu-
tionally in the Territories, with the following
emphatic comment;
''Slayery is not sectional, but national. 1t ex-
lists practically in Kanzas, and theoretically in
Nebraska, Oregon, Minnesota, and New Mexico.
No right-thinking man can question this fact
In order to destroy its national existence in ter
ritories the people thereof in the settlement of
the terms of their State constitutions must ex'
ciude it BY clause introduced for that purpose
The right, thersfore, claimed by the South,
lists in ais nationality--a right whichthe North
ern Free Soil Democracy at this moment deny
and oppose with all their might.
We have to say that SO valuable is Southern
slavery in itself, so wholesome and salutary in an
industrial and social view and so conservative Of
rational, true, and sound democracy, we believe
its defence, its propagation, and extension, should
be regarded as an essential part Of the Democrat
ie creed in all sections. We spurn the idea that
it is sectional
Only the other day journal in Illinois ia
Democratic ppper announced itself in favor of
the re-establishment of slavery in that State.
Give us enough slaves abolish the unjust and
unequal laws against the African slave trade put
an end to the present unhealthy centralizing ten
dency OF slaveholdership in the South, and give
every industrious and thrifty white man
chance to become proftably stakeholder, and
we viii not only triumphantly maintain slavery
where it Isl but it will be to flow, like living
refreshing, and fertilizing waters into all un
occupied territory, and to break over the bounda-
res Of many of the present free Stales, regardless
OF the silly doctrines about climatic limits and
International laws. Give us the conditions, and
we vouch for the results"
These doctrines, which were formerly preached
BY John c. Calhoun and secuted by the nation
aldemocracy" Of his time as arrant heresy, when
compared with the principles ayowed by the Dem
ocrats short time ago, Gas, for instance, the
Massachusetts Democratic resolutions of B. F..
Hallett in lS49,) exhibit in vivid light the woful
degeneracy ofsentiment in that party during the
lastfew years. To say nothing ofthe former ad-
vocacy OF the Wimot proyiso doctrine by Gen.
Cass and Gen. Pierce, previous to the atter's as
sumption Of the Presidential Office, let us refer
the antecedents of Stephen A. Douglas 1t was
only in 1850 that Douglas, arguing the propriety
of the exclusion of slavery from the territories,
said in speech in the Senate: -
some species OF properly are excluded by law
in most OF the States, as well as territories, as
being unwise, immoral, or contrary to the prinoi.
pies Of sound public policy. For instance, the
banker is prohibited from emigrating to Mime
sofa, Oregon, or California, with his bank. The
bank may be property by the laws of New York,
but to be so when taken into State or ter
ritory where banking is prohibited by the local
law. So, ardent spirits, whisky brandy, all the
intoxicating drinks, are recognized and protected
as property IN most Of the States, if not in all of
them; but no citizen, whether from the North
OF South, can take this species Of property with
him and hold, SELL or use it as his pleasure in
all the territories, because it is prohibited by the
local law--in Oregon by the statutes of the terri
tory, and in the Indian country by the acts of
Congress. Nor can man 90 there and take and
hold has slave, for the same reason These laws
and many others involving similar principles, are
directed against no section. and impair the rights
of no State in the Union. 4 hey are laws against
the introduction, sale, and use Of specific kinds
OF property, whether brought from the North or
the South, or from foreign countries"
How does this compare with the declaration OF
the President in his Silliman letter, that slavery
has legal and constitutional existence in Kan
zas and all the national territories. Let our Dem
oeratic friends re-peruse their State resolutions
which were passed with entire unanimity in lS49,
incoincidence with the sentiment of the above ex-
tract from Mr.. Douglas in 1850, that slavery has
no constitutional right to exist in the territories,
and understand distinctly what they have got to
swallow, if they endorse the present administers
tionin it's monstrous "heTesies."
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