Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1858-09-01
From the Newark American.
As it was It Is.

List week, in speaking Of the uomina-
ton Of r. Case, We called attention to
The very remarkable change which bad
wrought in the party calling itself demo-
cratic. since It had sold out to tie Slave
Power. We desire. now TO bring that
change still more prominently to the no.
tioe Of The reader.
We do not have TO look back very Gar,
in tho histories Of parties, to find time
when the South was divided by political
Question just as much as the North
Nhen Kentucky, and Tennessee. and
Georgia, and North Carolina, and Mary
land we're Wing States; when New Yoyk,
and Maine. and New Hampshire, and Nj
cLigan, and Ohio were Democratic States.
ali this was changed by the Slavery issue.
The South said to tue Democratic party,
"gO in for slavery and We win give you
every Southern State. You may lose some
thing in the extreme north, but you can
always carry the States on slave border,
'nd, with the patronage and power of the
general government, you can make sure Of
your asceudeney."
This offer was TO tempting TO be resisted;
and the "waters on providence" those who
bad Office began the work Of converting
the Democratic party into the tool of the
Slave Power. OF course such move
ment could not be made without resistance.
The old leaders saw, at once, that the par
" mus. Ego undel'' 10 all the Free States
unless it was resisted; and they were active
and earnest in re-enacting the old platforms
and unfuring the banners. In Ohio the
downward course Of the party was stayed
for several years BY the persistent efforts Of
the leaders to keep it from playing "sec.
ord fiddle" to the Slave Power: and year
after year, did the State Convention pass
resolutions, such as they now denounce as
Black Republican or Abolition. At the
State Convention which met Jan. Sth 1912
the following was part oftheir platform:
Resolved, That the people Of Ohio now,
as they have always done, look upon the
Institution of Slavery as an evil, and unfa.
vorable to the full development of the spir-
it aud practical benefits of free institutions;
and entertaining these sentiments, they
will feel it TO be their duty to use all pow
er consistent with the national compact TO
prevent its increase, and to mitigate and
finally eradicate the evil.
AT the State Convention of 1850, 1859.
1853, 1854 and 1855 the Same deterDina-
ton to resist The deaposism of Slavery was
expressed in the party platform and re.en.
acted from year to year as follows:
Resolved, That the people of Ohio now,
as they always have done, look upon sIa-
verl rs an evil, aud unfavorable to the de-
velopment of the spirit and practical bene-
fits Of fleo institutions and that entertain
ing these sentiments, they will at all times
feel it their duty to use all power clearly
given, by the terms of the National com.
pact, to prevent its increase, to mitigate
and finally eradicate the evil.
We have befOle us letter written in
those good old times of Black Republican
Democracy by I. w. Barley, the gen.
tleman who is now candidate for Judge
on the ticket Of the same Democracy con-
yered into the instrument of the Slave
Power. The following extracts will show
that Black Repub'icanism is not SO new
us good many people suppose. The let
ter is dated at Mansfield, Jan 81. lS47,
aud is addressed to Mr. Brinkerhoff. lie
says:
"It is time-high time that Northern
and Western Democrats should not be
hool wiukel by Southern politicians, South
ern Ortlices and Southern troachory. u
= Ii ] were in Congress, l
would see tho political elements crumbled
into dissolution before l would be over.
reoched by Southern treaehery- -
would sustained Mr.. Pollock
at all lengths - but, when it comes to tie
purchase of Mexican territory, to come in.
to the Union, it cannot be said too soon
that it IS not the object or design the on
ly true free government in the wor t9eg.
tend tie domain Of S(dgery. such be-
lieyc to be the general feeling Of our Ohio
people,"
Yes, it ,uas ard it a. tho "gooeruI iecl.
ing of our Ohio people; and yet sc 500
tho party of which Judge BARLEY is a
member converted into "hewers Of WOOD
and drawers of water" to these same South.
ern politicians and the Judge himself,
one OF the most arlant yotares OF "South.
oN troachery," mud asready as tho rest to
use all appliances of Rhetoric, aniice, dc
eeption, public patronage and public ia.
timidation "Io make the only Jrse gOver1-
naett az tie sO5rtd," an instrument "t9
ertend tie domain Of Slavery"