Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1858-12-03


t Piled to be admitted as free State iut
the Union, the Democratic party contempt
C ously rejected their petition and, droy
5 them with menaces aud lniImIdatinnS fror
. the Halls of Congress, and armed III
{ President with military power to enforc
e their submission to a slave code, establish
c ed over them By fraud and usurpaii0n. y
; every subsequent stage of the long contes
which has since ragged in Kansas, th
, Democratic party has len: its sympathes
its aid, and all the powers Of the Govern
ment which it controlled to enforce SLAYER,
upon that unwilling and injured people
/ And now, even at this day, while it mock
US with the assurance that Kansas is free
the Democratic party keeps the State ex
cluded from her just and proper place i,
the Union, under the hope that she may
be dragooned into the acceptance Of slavery
The Democratic party finally has proeu
red from Supreme judiciary, fixed iu it:
interest, decree that slavery exists 10y
force of the Constitution i'll every Territory
of the United States, paramount TO all
legislative authority either within the Ter
ritory or residing in Congress.
Such Is the Democratic party. 1t has
no policy, State or Federal, for finance, or
trade, or manufacture, or commerce, or
education, or internal improvements, or
for the protection, or even the security Of
civil or religious liberty. 1t is positive
and uncompromisipg in the interest Of sla-
very-negative, compromising aud vascil-
latiDg in regard to everything else. 1t
boasts its love of equality, and wastes its
strength and even its life in fortifying the
only aristocracy known in the land. 1t
processes fraternity, and so often as slavery
requires, allies itself with prescription. 1t
magnifes itself for cOnquests in foreign
lands, but it sends the national eagle forth
always with chains and not the olive branch
s- 80. s-.-6O.
This dark record shows you, fellow eiti-
zens, what | was unwilling to announce at
an earlier stage of this argument-that of
the whole nefarious schedule of slavehod.
ing designs which have submitted to you,
the Democratic party has left only one yet
to be consummated-ih abrogatiOn Of the
law which forbids the African slavc-trade.
Now, l know very well that the Demo-
cratic party has, at every stage Of these
proceedings, disavowed the motive and the
policy of fortifying and extending slavery,
and has excused them on entirely different
and more plausible grounds. But the in-
consistency aud frivolity of these pleas
prove still more conclusively the guilt |
charge upon that party 1t must indeed
necessarily excuse such gnilt before man
kind, and even to the cousciences OF its
inhering love of Freedom, in the human
heart, which render palliation of such gross
misconduct Indispensable. II disfranchised
the free African on the grOund Of a fear
that if left to enjoy the right of sutfraga-
he might seduce the free white citizen into
ANA lgamation with his wrouged and de-
spised race. The Democratic party con
demned and deposed John Quincy Adams
because he expended sl2 100000 a year,
while it justiies his favored successor in
spending S70,000,000, $50, 900, 600, and
even sl00,000,000 year. 1t denies
in the District of Columbia,
even with compensation to masters aud the
consent Of the people, on the ground of an
implied constitutional inhibition, although
the Constitution expressly confers upon
Congress sovereign legislative power in
hat District, and although the Democratic
party is tenacious of the principle of stric,
1t violated the express pro
visions of the Constitution, in suppressing
petition and debate on the subject of sla-
;ery through fear of disturbance of the
public harmony, although it claims that
he electors have right ts instruct their
representatives., and even demand their
in cases of contumacy. 1t ex-
ended slavery over Texas and cOnnived at
he attempt to spread it across the Mexi-
an territories, even to the shores of the {
Pacific Ocean, under plea of enlargng !
he area of freedom. IL abrogated the
'lexican slave law and the Missouri Com
romise prohibition of slavery in Kansas, !
lot to open the new Territories to slavery
ut to try therein the new and fascinating
hcories of Non Intervention and Popular
'ovreignty: and finally it overthrow both |
hese new and elegant systems by the En-
lish Lecompton bill and the Dred Scott =
ecision, on the ground that the Free
tates ought not to enter the Union with
ut a population equal to the representa-
We basis of one member of Congress, 81
Though Slave States might come in with
ut inspection as to their numbers.
Will any member of the Democratic
arty now here claim that the authorities u
,osen BY the suffrages of the party ,iraus- u
,nded their partizln platforms, and SO Il
the party in the various II
ansactions have recited? Then ask o o
in to name one Democratic statesman or n
gislator, from Van Burcn to Walker, 10
ho either timidly or cautiously, like them, D
boldly and defiantly, like Douglas, ever as
fused to execute bchest of the slave o'
,lders, and was not therefore, and for no
her cause, Immediately denounced, and ~
posed from his trust, and repudiatcd By Al Al
e Democratic party for that coutumacy. 1
l think, fellow citizens, that | have -
own you that it is high time for the y
lends Of freedom, to rush to the rescue -
the Constitution, and that their very :" -
st duty is to dismiss the democratic party ~
,m the administration of the government -,
Why shall it not be done? All agree -