Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-11-01
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The very constitution of the Democratic Par
" commits it to execute all the designs of the
slave holders, whatever they may be. Itisnot
a party of the whole Union, of all the Free
States aud all of the Slave States; nor yetisita
party of the Free States in the North and in the
Northwest but it is sectional and local party,
having, practically, its seat within the Slave
States, and counting its constituency chiefly and
almost exclusively there. OF all its representa-
tiveS in Congress and in the electoral colleges,
two thirds uniformly come from these States.=
Its great element Of strength lies in the vote of
the Shareholders, augmented by the represents
ton of three-tifths of the Slaves Deprive the
Democratic Party of this strength, and itwould
be helpless and hopeless minority, incapable
of continued organization. The Democratic
Party being thus local aud. sectional, acquires
new strength from the admission of every new
Slave State, and loses relatively by the admis.
sion of every new Free State into Union. a
party is in one sense joint stock association,
IN which those who contribute most direct the
action and management. of the concern. The
shareholders contributing in an overwhelming
proportion to the capital strength of the Demo-
cratic Party, they necessarily dictate and pre-
scribe its policy. The inevitable caucus system
enables them to do so with show of fairness
and justice. If it were: possible to conceive for
moment that the Democratic Party should
disobey the behests of the Shareholders, we
winch would leave the party to perish. The
portion of the party which is found in the free
states IS q mere appendage, convenient to lnoCi-
~ It's sectional character, without importing its
sectional constitution, and is less effective in
regulating Its movement than the nebulous tail
OF the comet is in determining the appointed
though apparently eccentric course Of the
merry sphere from which it emanates. To ex.
pect the Democratic Party to resist Slavery
ana 1nYor freedom, is as unreasonable as
n FnVsI la6 kdrkR S-.s. 1t
Ole Propaganda of Rome. The history of tho
Democratic Party commits it to the policy of
Slavery. 1t has been the Democratic Party,
and no other agency, which has carried that
policy up to its present alarming elimination
without stopping to ascertain, critically, the
origin OF the present Democratic Party, we may
concede its claim to date from the era Of good
feeling which occurred under the Administration
OF President Monroe. AT that time in this
State, and about chat time in many others Of
the Free States the Democta tic Party Sieliber-s
ately diStr0nchlseu the freerSgfvrs1l
citizens, and it pertiUacionslY continued this
disfranchisen ient ever since. This was an effec
tive aid to Slavery, for while the slayeholder
votes for his slaves against Freedom, the freed
slave, in the Free States, is prohibited from vo.-
ing against Slavery. In 1924, the Democracy
resisted the election of John Quincy Adams
himself before that time an acceptable Demo-
crat-and in 1928 it expelled him from the
Presidency, and put STAKEHOLDER in his place,
although che office had been filled by slavehold-
ers thirty:two out of forty years. In 1885,
Martin Van Buren-the first non-slav eholding
citizen of Free State, to whose election the
Democratic Party ever consented-sgnalized
his Inauguration into the Presidency by gra.
tuities announcement that under no circumstan-
ces would he approve a bill for abolishing Slave
ry in the District of Columbia. From 1888 to
1874, the subject of abolishing Slavery in tho
District of Columbia and in the national dock
Ia hoF1
by repeated popular appeals. The Democratic
Party therenpon promptly denied the right of
petition and efectually. suppressed the Freedom
of Speechiin Congress, as far as the institution
of Slavery was concerned.
From 1910 to l843 good and wise men copn-
seled that Texas should remain outside of the
Union until she should consent to relinquish her
self-inshtuted Slavery; but the Democratic Par
ty precipitated her admission into the Union,
not only without that condition, but eventwith
acovenant that the State might be divided and
recognized so as to constitute four Slave States
instead of one
In 1876, when the United States became in
yolved in a war with Mexico, and it was appa-
parent that the struggle would end in the dis.
membernent of that Republic, which was
non-slavehoSd ding power, the Democratic Party
rejected a declaration that Slavery should not
be ablished within the territory to be ACQUIRE
ed. When in u $50, governments were to be in 4
sqtuted IN the Territories OF Californian and
New Mexico, the fruits of that war, the Demo- /
cratic Party refused to admit New Mexico as
Free State, and only consented to admit Califor-
MIA asa Free State on the condition, as it has 4
snce explained the transaction, of leaving all of
New Mexico and Utah open to Slavery, to which
was also added the concession, of perpetual Sia,
yeryin the District Of Columbia, and the pas
sage of an unconstitutional, cruel and humiliat-
ing law, for the recapture of fugitive slaves,
With further stipulation that the subject of 1
Slavery should never again be agitated III either i
chamber of Congress When, in 1854, the 4
Shareholders were contentedly reposing On these
great advantages, then so recently won, the
Democratic Party Unnecessarily, oticio1sly and
with superseryicea liberality, awakened them
from their slumberS to offer and force on their
acceptance the abrogation of the law which de- /
cared thatneither Slavery nor involuntary SER
yitude should ever exist within that part Of the
ancient Territory of louisiana which.lay outside
of the State of Missouri and north of the paral-
lelof36 dogs 80 minutes, of north latitude, law
which, with the exception of one other, was the
only statute OF freedom then remaining in the
Federal code
1nI1866, when the people of Kansas had or.
ganized new State within the region thus
abandoned to Slavery, and applied to be admit
ted as Free State into the Union, the Demo-
cratic Party contemptuously rejected their petit.
ton, and drove them, with menaces and intimi-
dationsJ from the halls of Congress, and armed .
the