Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1858-11-18

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peech in Congress, as far as the in 8
tltution Of slavery was concerned.
From 1910 to lS43, good and wise
men counseled that Texas should re- t
main outside the Union until she
should consent to relinquish her self
instituted slavery; but the democrat
&c party precipitated her admission
into the Union, not only without that
but even with covenant
that the State might be divided and
e.organised so as to constitute louc
slave States instead Of one.
In 1876, when the United States
become involved in a war with Next |
CO, and it was apparent that the strug
gle would end in the Acknowledgement
of that Republic, which was non
slayeholding power, the democratic
party rejected declaration that slave
ry should not be established in the
Territory 70 be acquired. When in
1850, governments were to be estab-
lished in the Territories Of California
and New Mexico. the fruits Of that
war, the democratic party refused to
admit New Mexico as a free State on
the condition, as it has since explain.
ed tha transaction Of leaving all of
New Mexico and Utah open to slave
ry; to slavery to which was added the
concession Of perpetual slavery in the
District of Columbia, and the passage
of an unconstitutional and humilia-
ting law, for the recapture of fugitive
slaves, with further stipulation that
the subject of slavery should never
again be agitated in either chamber of
Congress. When in 1854, the slave
holders were contentedly reposing
on those great advantages. they SO
recently won, the Democratic party
unnecessarily, officiously, and with
Superseryi,eable liberality, awakened
them from their SAUNDERS, to offer and
force on their acceptance, the abroga'
ton of the law which declared thai
neither slavery nor involuntary servi.
tude should ever exist within thai
part of the ancient Territory Of Lou
isiana, which lay outside of the Statt
of Missouri aud North Of the parallel
of $50 30 Of north latitude, q law
which with the exception of one other
was the only statute Of freedom then
remaining in the Federal code.
In, 1856, when the people of Kan.
sas had organise d a new State within
the region thus abandoned to slavery
and applied to be admitted as free
State within that region thus aban-
donod to slavery, the democratic par
ty contemptuously rejected their Pc
tition, and drove them with menaces
and intimidations from the Halls OF
Congress. and armed the President
with military power to enforce then
submission to slave code, establish
ed over them by fraud and usurpation
At every subsequent stage of the
, long contest which has since ragged il
Kansas. the democratic party ha;
lent its sympathies, its aid, and al
the powers Of the Government which
it controlled, to force slavery upor
! that unwilling and injured people
And Low even at this day, while i
mocks us with the assurance tina
Kansas is free, the democratic party
keeps the State excluded from he
, just and proper place in the Union
under the hope that she may be drag
ooned into the acceptance of slavery
The democratic party, finally, ha
procured from supreme judiciary
fixed, IN Its interest, decree ina
!; slavery exists by force of the Consti
,, tuition in every territory of the Uni
,, ted States. paramount to all legisla
; tive authority, either within the Ter
, ritory or residing in Congress.
Such is the democratic party. L
is positive and ancompromsslnq d
the interest Of sIarery. 1t boasts it
love of equality, and wastes it
I strength and even its life in fortify
) ing the only aristocracy known in tn
land. 1t processes fraternity, and, a
r often as slavery requires, allies ltsel
with prescription, 1t manifests itsei
! for conquest in foreign lands, but
, sends the national eagle forth Away
with chains and not the olive .branc
in its fangs.
q It denies emancipation in the Dis
trict of Columbia, even with compen
.lsation to masters and the consen