Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-11-19


all weAts lava wh3cs sAall interfere with n.
ssz1al o. fsrsika eonmarss In elasss.--
BheA tss Fres 8saess shall ka E1ticiszs,;
@emsEalized 6 ssiorase these deaigns, q. 4
rescSnasi7 esSslass thss SiaveFy will u
HSesPtsd By tksse States themselves.
ssaH ret sep to sacw kcqv speedy or Aew
es72ieis World 20 the ruin which tho m
so1piisazasna 81 ssssss slaveholsiRe ssherses
wsgld eyiss upon tAs eOuntry. For una
1 sAessd 10; ssnaiR 10 tie esvstrv n to-t
tss ssd experir=sat. dnyir9 snant mv
Sssu@oea, t2o0ga nc: tay whole life. I'm
Fres Caste, ss sriesorraey Of SlsvekolIo,..
sasii ever make tho laws Of the lsud IN
waiSa SHALL 30 eontSns 20 liys. F7nv;rg
ssea the soeety srcand re univers.ltv eo-
gages in agriculture, manufactures and trade
: which were innocent and beaefeieRs, SHALL
never be q denizsn sf q stats where s.sz md
women are reared 90 cattle, ana houFhs
and sold as merchandise. When that evil
day snail come, and al. further effort 1t resis-
tAnce shall % iDPossibls, thes, IL there shalY
be 40 better hope far redemRtioa than I
saa now tOresee, shall say with Franklin,
walls isoLiHg abroad over tsa whole s@Fth
for q new asd noEe eengenieI hone:'
=" mere AAoerty dwells there is my eoun-
Try" aa a--.4s.t 81 - .aga
Yen viii tell Ise that tlese fears are ex.
raysga2t and clhmehcsl. answer. tAey
ste SO, bet they are 90 S3ly because he de-.
s'ga CT TO slageSsIaers must e=d saa be
eefeassa. Bot it 10 ealy the possibility Of
esfsas that renders tAe1 90. they cannoe
be esEee;ed BY Inactivity. There is no es.
escs irO0 thsm conp4siSIs with nOnsreais.
tance. How, then, end in what way, shall
the necessary resistaacs be E.aGel There
10 enly one way. The Deuossatic party
! raest ec permanently disl0aged from tho
GoFsrn,eEt. The reago5 is, thai the Dem.
csFAiis party 10 iaextrisably committed 60
the desgEs Of the sslayehOlders, which have
described. Let ne be well understood. 4
Go ues charge that ihe Democratic candid
ates fer pablic cfice now before the peopls.f
are pledged, rrch less that the DemocFatior
masses who support them really adopt those
atroeious and dangerous designs. Candi.
tqtes. may and generaly do, aean to ace
justly, wisely and patriolically. when they
shall be elected; bn. they become the min
listers and servants, net tae dictate rs, Of the
power which elects them. Tho policy
which party shSIl purs re ri future period,f
is Only gradually developed, dependinz oS
ths occurrence Of events never fully fore
known. TIE motives Of men, whsthar
acting az electors, or in any other capacity,
are generally pure. Nevertheless, il is not
more true thst "Hel is paved with good
intentioHs," thGn il is that earth in eovered
with wrecks resulting from innocent and
Hmiasle motives.
Tae very Constitution Of the Democrats
party commits it to execute all tie desians
OF the slavehc.eers, whatever they may DO.
Il is not party of the whole Union, of all
the Free States and Of ali the Slave Stasess
nor yet 10 it party Of the Free States in
the North and in the N ORTIZ west; but il ian
sectional and local party, having, practical.
Iy, its seat within the Slave States. and eoun~
ting its constituency chiefly and almcst on.
cluslTely' there. OF all its Representatives
in Congress- and in the Electo raj Colleges,
two-thirds uRifcrmly come from these states.
Its great element of strength les in the vo.e
OF the slavehOiders, augmented by the reP-
resentation Of three 6fths Of the slavas.-
Deprive the Democratic party OF tais strength
and il would 30 o helpless and hopeless
min ority, incapable Of continued organiza.
ton. The Democratic party being thus
local and sectional, acquires new strength
from the admission Of every new Slave
State. and loses relatively by ihe Adrais-f
sion Of every new Free State into che
Union. party is ia one sense q joint
stock association in which those who con.
tribute nost direct the action and manage.
ment of the concern. The Shareholders,
contributing in an overW WbelmiDg prcportion
to the capitai strength OF the Democratic
party, they necessarily dictate and'prescribe
its policy. The Inevitable caucus system
enables them to do so with q show of fair.
ness aAd justice. If il were possible to
conceive for a moment that the Democratic
party should diso6ey the behests of the
shareholders, we should then see q With.
drawai Of the slaveholders, which would
leave the party to perish. The portion Of
the party which is found in the Free States
is mere appendage, convenient to modify
its sectional character without impariag is
sectional constitution, and is less effective In
its movements .aan the nembus
loHs tail of the comet is ia determining the
appointed though apparently eccentric course
Of the Gery sphere from which it enanasesy
To expect the Democratic party TO resist
Slavery and to favor Freedom is as unreas@
enable as to look for Protestant Missionaries
to the Catholic propaganda of Rome. Tie
history of the Democratic party commits Il
TO the policy of Slavery. 1t has hsen the
Democratic party, and no other agency
which has carried that policy up 10 its pres.
ent alarming elimination. Without ssop..
ping to ascertain, critically, the origin Of 4
The present Democratic party, we may con.
cede its claim TO date from the era Of good
feeling which occurred under the Aduinis-
Lration Of President Monroe. Al that kiuae
IN this State, and about that time in many
others of the Free States, the Democratic
party deliberately distranchised the freq
colored or African citizen, and il has peril.
continued this disfranchisemenE"
ever since. This was an effective aid to-
Slavery, for while the STAKEHOLDER votes for
lis slaves against Freedom, the freed slave,
n the Free States, is prohibited from voting
against Slavery. In 1924, The Democracy
csisted the election OF John Quincy AdamS
himself before that time an acceptahi6
Demoerat-and in 1928 il expelled him
rom the Presidency, and put a Stakeholder
n his place, although the of6ce had been III
ed by slaveno'ders thirty-two out Of forty
,ears. In 1886, Martin Van Buren-ths
irst non-slayehodiug citizen Of Free State
o whose election the Democratic party ever
his inauguration into
he Presidency by gratuitous announce
nent that under no circumstances would he
'ver approve a bill for aboshing Slavery Ia
he District Of Columbia. From 1885 60
S44. the subject of abolishing Slavery in
he District of Columbia aud in the Nation-
i docky ards and arseDals was brought be-
ore Congress by repeHted popular appeals.-
rhe namncFatic Marty fhprauAon nror,anflw