Litchfield enquirer., 1858-11-11

onIy aristocracy known in the land. It pro fesses fraternity, and so often as Slavery re- qures, alliessitself with prescription. It mag nGes itself for couquests in foreign lands, but it selids the national eagle forth always with chains aid not the olive branch in his fargs.
 Tisis dark record shows you, fellow-citizens. what was unwilling to announce at the earli- CT stage of this argument-that of the whole nefayious schedule of slaveholding designs which l have submitted to you, the Democratic Par 1y has left only one yet to be consummated- fine abrogation of the law which forbGs the African Slavc-trade.
 Now, 1 know very well that the Democrat ic Party has, at every stage of these proceed i.tgs disayowed the motive and the policy ot fvrtlfying and extending Slavery, and has ex- c,!sea them on entirely different aud more pIau- sible grounds But the Inconsistency and frl- vo!ity of these pleas prove still more concln- sivciy the guilt l charge upon that party. It must inc eed necessarily excuse such guilt be- fore maHkind, and even to the cOnsclrlices Of it's own adherents. There is an instEctive ab- horrcilce of Slavery, and all nborn and inhcr- ing love of freedom in the human heart, which retdvr paf tion of such gross misconduct in- 0sprnsahle It disfrauchsed the free African Oil the ground of fear that if left to enjoy the right of suffrage he might seduce tue free white c.tz9H into amalgamaton with his wronged and desiisud race. Tie Democratic Party condemned and deposed JOHN Qu1NcY ADAMS because he expended twelve millions of dollars year, while it iiuStGes his favored successor il spending seventy millions, eighty millions, at.tl even all hundred millions year. It de n,es emancipation in tie District of Columbia, even with compensation to masters and the consent of the people, on the ground of an implied constitutional inhibition, although the Constitution expressly confers upon Congress sovereign legislative power in that district, and although the Democratic Party is tenacious of the principle of strict construction. 1t viol- ted the express provisions of the Constitution in sappressing petition and debate on the sub jet of Slavery through fear of disturbance of the public harmony, although it claims that tic electors have right to instruct their Rep | ;entat;yes, ard even demand their res;gna- t.vn iii case of contumacy. It extended SlS- very over Texas and connived at the attempt to spread it across the Mexican territories, even 50 the shores of tie Pacific Ocean, under 2 plea of enlarging the area of freedom. It aaroYatcd the N, Xican slave-l:.w and the Mis- souri Compromise prohibition of Slavery ill Kansas, not to ol,cn the new Territories to Slavery, but to try therein the new and fasci- hating theories of noil-interyenton and Popu- lar Sovereignty and, finally, it overthrowS both these new and elegant systems by the English Lccompton bill and the Dred Scott de- oion, on the ground that the Free S;att S olyi,t not to enter the Union without a popu- l:tion equal to the representative basis of one member of Congress, although Slave-States might come in without inspection as to their numbers.
 Will any member of the Democratic Party HOW here, claim that the authorities chosen by the suGrages of the party, transcended their partisan platforms, and so misrepreseuted the party ill the various transactions have reel tcyt -'ftIru TTaup one Democrat ic statesman or legislator, from VAN BuREN to WALKER, who either timi.lly or cautiously like item, OF boldly and defortly like DOUGLAS ev- CT refused to execute behest of the slave holders, and was not therefore, and for no oth- CT cause, immediately denounced aud deposed from his trust, and repudated by the Demo cratic Party for that contumacy.
 I think, tclow-citizens, that have shown you that it is high time for the friends of free, dom to rush to the rescue of the Constitution, and that their very first duty is to dismiss the Democratic Party from the Administration of the Government. Why should it not be done Ali agree that it ought to be done. What then shall prevent its being done? Nothing but timidity or division of the opponents of the Democratic Party. Some of these opponents start one objection and some another. Let us notice these objections briefly. One class say they cannot trust the Republican party, that it has not avcwed it's hostility to slavery bold ly enough, or its affection for freedom earnest ly enough.
 ask in reply, is there any other party which can bc more safely trusted Every one knows that it is the Republican Party, or none, that shall displace the Democratic Party. But 1 answer further, that the character and fdclity of any party a,e determined, neccssarity, not by ais pledges programmes aud platforms, but by l4e public co eencacs, aud the temper of the peo aic mhea Mcy caU f into actirity Subseryicn- cy to Slavery, IS law written, not only nn the forehead of the Democratic Party, but also ill it's very soul. So resistance to Slavery, and devotion to Freedom, the popular clements now actively working for the Republican Party among the people, must and will be the resout- ces for it's everreuewiug strength, and constant invigoration
 Otbers cannot support the Republican Party because 1t has not sufficiently exposed its plat form and determined what it will do and what it wont do, when triumphant It may prove too progressive for some and too conservative for others. As if any party ever foresaw so clearly the course of future events as to plan universal scheme for future action, adapted to all possible emergencies. Who would ever have joined even the Whig Party of the Revolution, it it had been obliged to answer, in 1775, whe-' ther it would declare for Independence in IT'S, and for this noble Federal Constitution of ours in l1o1, and not year earlier or later The people of the United States will be as wise < Il xt year, and the year afterwards and even ten years hence, as we are now. They will o>lige the Republican Party to ac: as the pub