Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1858-08-27
The Dsmssraoy and the South.


For loag ssriss Of ysss-h fask ever since 4
was discovered tha.a pssT advantage might be
gained BY Tie asclsrsEioa-it has been asserted
that the Democratic parsy, alone could he trusted
with lie gnardianshiy Of Southern rights and
Southern honor. This has hsen repeated 70 often
and - Psrsinssiossly. that many Southern men,
whose lsss .and whose weakness everbaanced
thsir jsdensnt. have abandoned their former rela-
tioa of antagonism 70 the RenocnGc party. for
the paEp@s d IN alliance with this supposed de
fender It the kAith," and sclfstylcd urholder Of
Southern 6snity and honor.
Even now the claim 10 coastantly made. on be-
half Of Tho Democracy, that no other party is
conpetcht to project the South in hsr just Con.ti
tut ana righta. In speech lately made in South
Carolina BY Ne. Speaker Orr, this assumption is
boldly set forth in manner aud form following, to
wit:
at THE Democratic party annexed California.
Utah, and New Mexico. 1t stranglcd the wilmot
Proviso; adopted the policy Of nonintcryention in
organizing Territorial governments; repealed the
odious Missouri restriction and restored Us to our
rights in the Terrtories planted itself upon the
doctrine that slave States had cqua! rights to ad
mission in the Union with free States. and.
party voted 10 aamit Kansas slave State under
tue Consultation. 1t passed the Fugitive Slave
Law, and viii acquire CuLa for US at the earliest
practicable day. Every measure detrimental to
your rghts and ydlatiEe Of your Interpretation Of
the Constitution that has been defeated, has been
defeated by the Democratic party"
Here TO- q succession Of measures for which
creditis claimed from the South to the Democrat
ic party. Letus zee in what respect the South
has been benefited by this series of performances
so vauutingly proclaimed by Mr.. Speaker Orr.
The Democratic, party, he says, annexed Cali
foenia. Utah and New Mexico. So it did-that is,
that party hsd . majority in both Houses Of Con- !
grsss n tho Time But did not they admit Cali |
forns ss Free State Up to that time the Slave
States and Frss States wcrc equal in number
fifteen to fifteen, The South, in the Senate, could |
hare checked asy measure of Legislation violative
Of her Constitutional rights. The admission of
Csiifmuia threw DE prsponderanoe on the side Of
the Free States and the South will ne,rr regain
1T Her political equality in the Union wa. dcs-
troyed by that very act Of the admission Of Cali
fornia, which Mr.. Orr makes such boast Of. 1t
has been still further destroyed by the subsequent
admission Of Minnesota under the auspices Of the
Democratic party. And it dill DC again and again
destroyed by the admission Of Oregon. Nebraska.
Kansas, and perhaps Utah and New Mexico ala
Ftee States Instead Of fifteen Southern to if
teen Northern States, it will be. in very few
years, fifteen Southern States, to twenty-onc
Northern. So much for the protection the Demo-
cratic party has afforded the South in the matter
of tho admission Of now States. So much for
Mr. Orr's empty beast, which he should have hung
his bead In shame sooner than made.
The Democratic party " strnnslei the Wilmot ,
proyiso, quoth Mr.. Orr in continuation. Who in |
troduced the Wilmot provisos 1t was done by a |
Pennsylvania Democrat! The Legislature Of cv-
cry Northern State, Democratic rs we'll as Free
soil, declared in favor of it. Democratic Conyen- |
tons throughout the Northern States declared in
favor of il. Above all, Mr.. Polk. a Democratic
President, signed the Oregon bill ,chich had the
Wamot proeiso Incorporated into a. 1t was furth-
er recognised by the Democratic party in the adj
mission of California as n State. So that the
Wilmot proviso was Democratic in its origin, and
has been used to the injury Of the South since,
under pes0ocroaic auspices. This is the measure
which Mr.. Orr, with a strange oblviousness Of
the facts Of history, says the Democratic party
"strangledv'
1t adopted the policy Of nonintcrvention in
the Territories" says Col. Orr 1t may have adopt
ed it, but that is all. 1t never carried il ont or
practised it Every Governor that was ever sent
to Kansas from Reeder 10 Walker, inclusive, WINS
Intervening all the time for the expulsion of
slavery from tho Territory-an "intcrven ton"
which has finally been crowned with success in the
making Of Kansas Freesoil by majority Of about
ten to one. ut repealed the odious Missouri. res
friction, and restored us to our rights in the Ter
ritoriss-" Whist rightsi Wenow have right. it |
may b said, to make Slave States north of ST. |
30. But Of What service is that right when
even supposing tho most improbable case that such
thing were done-an overwhelming Northern |
majority stsnds ready to reject State. apply
ing, from the Union! A beautiful right it is
cumstances, ever be enjoyed
Says Mr.. Orr in continuation, the Democratic
party planted itself upon the doctrine that Slave
States had equal right to admission into the Union
- Free States and, as party, voted To admit !
Kansas as Slave State, under the Constitution.
How Mr.. Orr could have venturcd this statement |
before an intelligent audience, is matter of aston
ishment indeed. The truth of the matter is pre-
cisely the reverse Of what Mr.. Orr has stated
Everybody knows that the Democratic party, at
the last session, had a decided majority in both
branches Of Congress- Everybody knows, furth-
ernore, that If the Democratic party 'as party
Ito quets Mr.. Orr's own languagc) had voted for
the admissisa Of Kansas as Slave State. it would
have been done. Everybody knows, also that the
Democratic party, ''as party" did not vote for
the admission of Kansas-a sufficient number Of
them having yotei AGAINST IL tn dsfaat II Tho