New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-10-21
vastly below it IN the art q giving TO that fal'eh"oo
decest yarni.n OF pausibiIty snd consistency.

Doughface Democracy. OF which be /" the canoi'
date, il the champion and advocate OF the doctrine
Of Popular Sovereignty as sgaisss tho RePuDncan''
who arr represented 81 its sssailans aud opponents
"Tte doctrine Of the Democratic faith, 50 Judge
Ams.a J. Parker assures his comrades OF the rA-
ace Garden. is d" that maj is capable OF sen-soS'
" eminent, no matter hat his birthplace, or what
bis religious faith. II Is that mans capacity Tor
self government depends, lot upon bis possessing
property, nor upon apy other aeeidentaf enenm-
stances by ,rhieA he may se surrounded,
{. Ly, hot il IL an inherent. h.nr.n- der'red and
absolute right. belonging 70 ht mar h'ms"J'
Such ia the doctrine Of the Democratic faith, a.
laid down BY Judge Amhaa J. Parker, from which,
with an impotence and hypocrisy which would De
absolutely inscrutable 10 anybody but Ne"-1orA
Soft, be demurely proceeds to deduce the righs OF
one par. ola community to subject another part OF
it to absolute personal hereditary Siavssy, 80 70
be held, tbemse,ve. and their children, forever
Tie inherent heaven derived; aud absolute right OF
se.fgovernment, not dependent upon mans birth
place or religion or race. nor upon any other acci'
dental circumstances BY which he may be sur
il seems, in the view of Judge Parker, and
bis Palace Garden associates, the right to subject
his fellow man to Slavery; and any attempt to pre-
vent or to interfere with this Democratic operation
Ia scandao,s and outrageous derelction from those
principles of Democracy to which Judge Parker
aud his supporters are devoted This, indeed,
is the whole purpose of bis complaint against the
Republican party. The Republican party is found
ed as he alleges, upon the idea of prohibiting,
through the action of Congress- any more Slave
States The Republican party does not be-
licse in the inherent power, direct and alb
solute right belonging to the man himself,
to reduce his neighbOr to Slavery and to
subject his neighbours wife aud children to the con-
dition of absolute chsttels. The Republicans, in
opposing the erection OF Kansas INTO Slave State,
in denying 10 emigrants thither from New-fork or
elsewhere the right TO hold their ielowmen in
seryitude if they choose to do so. were guilty, IN
Judge Psrkers eyes, of gross attack upon the
principle Of Popular Sovereignty and OF an awful
departure from that doctrine Of the democratic
faith which holds that man is capable of self-gov-
eminent no matter what his birthplace or what
his religious faith-his capacity for selfgoyernment
being dependant not upon the possession of prop
erty, nor upon any other accidental circumstance
by which he may be surrounded, but an inherent,
heaven derived and absolute right belonging to the
man himself.
Out upon the audacions blasphemer, the double
faced and doube-tongued hypocrite, who thus seeks
to convert the principles Of Democracy, the creed
of Jefferson, the doctrine of human rights itself,
into the basis and foundation of human Slavery !
Such doctrine may 60 down well enough with
Judge Psrker's friends and associates of the Five
Points 1t is but part and parcel OF the great doc
trne of grab, the doctrine Of the right OF each In
dvidual to appropriate to his own use whatever ne
can lay his hands upon which prevails in that
vicinity. Slaveholdins and robbery are both parts
of one great 81 stem and those who practice
the latter may easily be brought into the
support Of the former. But let not Judge Parker
insult the intelligent people of the State of New
York by asking them to substitute, as the creed Of
Democracy, in place of the right to life, liberty,
and the pursuit Of happiness, the right of men to
constitute Themselves owners Of slaves!
Yet even this wicked and barefaced attempt to
thimble-rig the golden apples OF Liberty and
Equality with the dust and ashes of Slavery was
not the only base effort at deception, ofwhch Judge
Amasa J. Parker WAS guilty in this speech. In
putting forward the Doughface Democracy, Of
which he is the candidate, as the champion OF the
doctrine of Popular Sovereignty meaning thereby
the right in every community to decide for itself
whether it will authorize Slavery or not, our CUB
ernatoria sspirant is guilty of another gross and
palpabe falsehood. He complains that the doc
trne Of the Republicans, which sets up for Con-
gress the right TO decide on what terms new States
shall be admitted into the Union 4" reduces the peo
"pls of the Territories to 8 condition Of incOm-
potency if not of vassalage, subject in ali things
q" to the despetic will of an absolute Congress-
power foreign a. to them, because they have no
- representative who can vote there for them"
But in what condition, We should Ike to know, are
the people of the Territories placed under the doc
trine of which Judge Amass J. Parker is the ad.
vocatel Do they possess the slightest scntilla of
that pretended right of Popular Sovereignty for
which, to serve his own purposes for the moment,
to skulk for while longer the open and avowed
advocacy of Slavery, he processes hmself 50 great
q stckler' Does he concede, does the bred
Scott decision concede to the people Of the Terrific
ries, 30 long as they remain in territorial eondi
ton and act territOriAlly, any Of their pretended
right, about which the Judge makes such pother,
TO shspe their domestic institutions in their own
wsy, to decide for themselves whether or not
Slavery shall be allowed to plant and root itself,
and grow up among them, strengthening with
the;r strength. and growing with their growth