Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1858-05-28
REPUBLICAN, STATE CoNvEN-
TON.
"BLACK ANs"--"DOUGH-
FACES"

"BLACK NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
FACES"
The Bradford Telegraph heads an article
Black Republican Tactics talks of the
tone of the Black Republican papers -
and proceeds as follows
"They charge the Northern wing of the
Democratic party with being Dough Faces,
and subservient to the Southern Slave Power.
1t is very easy to call hard names and maze
up faces, it is what every little urchin does
when he gets his ire and temper up, towards
bigger lad, from whom he imagines he has
received some fragrant and unjustifable inju
ry which he can't redress in any other way
So it is with the Black Republicans, for the
want Of argument, and being unable to cope
with, and answer, the irrefragable evidence
Of the correctness of the democratic policy,
they call hard names and make up faces"
Nothing is more common than for those
who are constantly nicknaming others,
to complain if any thing short of the
most respectful language is applied
TO themselves. Is is rare thing to sec
democratic paper speak of the republicans
WlluOut CsilllllS tntlu
and even on the floor of Congress, demo-
cratic speakers are not at all backward in
speaking of their political opponents in the
same way.
As far as good manners are concerned, no
thing can be more certain than the propriety of
giving to political opponents the party name
which belongs to them. according to the
established usage Of the party itself. 1t is
just as certain that no other papers of the
country 80 habitually indulge in the unscemy
practice of app. ying nick names to political
opponents as the democratic papers do.
As to the term Doughfdce, which the Tele-
graph Objects to, it is not used us party name,
but - designate individuals of whatever
party they may be, who being members Of the
Free State communities are ready to help the
Slave States in whatever scheme they have on
foot, at the moment, to enlarge or to
strengthen the slave power in the nation
Snch men were called Doughfaces, first by
John Randolph Of Va, on the floor of Con-
gress, nearly forty years ago In the memo
rable struggle of 1890, handful Of
Northern men left the ranks Of their fellows,
joined the Slave State men, and thus secured
them the victory. Randolph boosted pub
!icly that they had been purchased, and
sneeringly called them doughfaces. and from
that day to this the term has been u current
one. We know ofno other word which can
be used to express the same meaning
Speaking Of Slavery, the Telegraph says
"it was abolished ut the North only because
it was not compatible with the Northern eli.
mate. and therefore WIS not So profitable a.
free labor If it could have been made pro-
ftabe at the North, it would never have been
abolished
This assertion VIC pronounce a shame.
.ful Islander on those TO whom it is applied
Slavery existed to small extent in the
New England Colonies before the Revolution
but ii was abolished because the prevailing
sentiment of the people in regard to it was
that the practice WAS one of deep injustice
10 man and .9reM wrong before God. Doubt
less some men saw that it must prove un-
profitable TO community in the long run,
but the reason, for aboishing it lay in what
We first stated The Telegraph also says:
''lf the profits were sufficient, slavery would
exist in Vermont to-day.-Yea and in all
the Northern States"
The Telegraph will find few in Vermont
who will respond "aye" to that statement.
1t may be evidence, though, that the one who
makes it would gladly own slaves if the law,
of Vermont would allow him to do so, and il
he thought he could make money by so do
ing
Once moro, the Telegraph says
1.-The North has grown rich and fat on the
Slave trade from all her ports have sailed
the slavers which have fed the Slave Market,
not only of the United States but of the West
Indies, and South America and are at this
day 50 engaged as much as they possibly can
be in Slaves and Coolies. This Slave trade
is wrong, it is Infamous, worse than South
ern Slavery, yet it is practised by tho-s very
mon who condemn the South"
Undoubtedly unprincipled and selfish men
from the North have been engaged 10 the
slave trade, and are 50 now. But We deny
that that infamous business is practiced by
men who " condemn the South that is Jas
we must understand it, condemn the slavery
of the South, and whatever is done 10 add to
and strengthen it. The statement Of the Tele-
graph carries absurdty On It's face, The
slave trade is prosecuted by mon who uphol0
Slavery, not by men opposed it,-by men
who politically call Themselves democrats
who, whenever theyvote, vote tn demo
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