Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1858-11-18

more congenial home, - Where Liberty dwells
there IL my country.
You will tell me that these fears are extray-
Ngant and chmerieal answer thew are SO.
but they are so only because the designs of the
shareholders must and can be- defeated, But
it is only TIE possibility of defeat that readers
them 50. They cannot be defeated by inactv.
ity. Where is no escape from them compatible
with nonexistance. How, then, in what way,
shall the necessary resistance be made? There
is only one way. The Democratic party must
he permanently dislodged from the government.
The reason is that the Democratic pqrtv is incr
tricably canitted TO he designs of the slape-
holders 'chtct hace described. Let Inc be well
understood do not charge that the Democrat
&c candidates for public Office now before the
people are pledged, much less that the Demo
cratic masses who support them really adopt
those atroelous and dangerous designs. Can
didates may, and generally do, mean to act
justly, wisely and periodically, when they
shall be elected but they become the minis
ters and servants, not the dctators, of the pow
or which elects them. The policy which IA par
ty shall pursue at future period is only grad
"ually developed, depending on the concurrence
of events never fully foreknown The motives
'ot men, whether acting as electors or in any
other capacity, are generally pure, Nevertho-
less, it is not more true that !" Hellis paved
with good intentions +" than it is that earth is
covered with wrecks resulting from innocent
and amiable motives
The very constitution of the Democratic par
ty commits it to execute all the designs of the
Shareholders, whatever they may be- 1t is not
"a party of the whole Union, of all the free
States and all of the slave States nor yet is it
a party Of the free States in the North and in
the North Vest but it is a sectional and To-
cal party, having practically, its seat within
the slave States, and counting its constituency
chiefly and almost exclusively there. Of all its
representatives in Congress and in the electoral
colleges, two-thirds uniformly come from these
States. Its great element of strength lies in
the vote of the shareholders. augmented by the
representation of three-ffths of the slaves.
Deprive the Democratic party of this strength,
and it would be helpless and hopeless minority,
incapable of continued organization The
Democratic party being thus local and sectional,
acquires new strength from the admission of
every new free State into the Union. party
is in one sense joint-stock association. in which
those who contribute most direct the action
and management of the concern. The slave
holders contributing in an overwhelming pro-
ton to the capital strength of the Demo-
cratic party, they necessarily dictate and pre-
scribe its policy. The inevitably causus system
enables them to do so with show Of fairness
and justice. If it We're possible to conceive
fora moment that the Democratic party should
dsohey the behests of the shareholders, we
should then see withdrawal of the slavehol-
ders, which would leave the party to perish.
The portion of the party which is found in the
tree States ISL mere appendage, convenient to
modify It's sectional character, without impair
ing Its sectional constitution, and is less effec-
tive in regulating its movement than the neb.
uous tail OF the comet is in determining the
appointed though apparently eccentric course
of the fiery sphere from which it emanates
10 expect the Democratic party tt. resist slave
ry and favor freedom is as unreasonable rs to
look for Protestant missionaries to the Catholic
Propaganda OF Rome. The history of the
Democratic party commits it to the policy of
slavery. 1t has been the Democratic party,
and 40 other agency, which has carried that
policy up to its present alarming culmination.
Without stopping to ascertain, critically,
the origin OF the present Democratic party, we
may concede its claim to date from the era OF
good feeling which occurred under the admin
istration of President Monroe At that time
in this State, and about that time in many
others of the free States, the Democratic party
deliberately DISTINGUISHED the free colored or
African citizens and it has pertinaciously con.
tinued this Acknowledgement ever since This
was an effective aid to slavery for while thu
Shareholder votes for his slaves against freedom
the freed slave, in the free States is prohibited
from voting against slavery. In 1924, the De
mocracy resisted the election of John Quincy
Adams-himself before that time an acceptable
Democrat-and in 1923 it expelled him from
the Presidency, and put a STAKEHOLDER in his
place, although the Office had been filled by
Shareholders thirty-two out of forty years. II
1886, Martin Van Buren-the first non-slave-
holding citizen of free State to whose cleo
ton the Democratic party ever consented--sig
naized his Inauguration into the Presidenc,
by gratutous announcement that under NJ
circumstances would he approve bill for abol
lShing slavery in the District of Columbia
From 1888 to 1874, the subject of abolishin.
slavery in the District of Columbia and in tn
national dock-yards and arsenals, was brough
before Congress by repeated popular appeals
The Democratic party thereupon promptly de
MED the right of petition and effectually sup
pressed the freedom Of speech in Congress, a
TAR as the institution of slavery was concerned
From lS40 to 1913 good and wise men coun
Union until she should consent to relinouis
her aelf-nstituted slavery but the Democrat
&c party preeipitated her admission into tn
Union, not only without that condition, Blu
even with covenant that the State might b
divided and recognized SO as to constitute fou
slave States instead of one
In 1916 when the United States became in
volved in war with Mexico, and it was appa
rent that the struggle would end in the disem
berment OF that Republic, which was non
slavoholdlng power, the Democratic party re
Jected declaration that slavery should not b
established within the territory to be acquired
When, in 1850, governments were to be inst
tuted in the territories of California and Ne,
Mexico as a free State on the condition, as
mas since explained the transaction, of leavin,
all OF New Mexico and Utah open to slavery
to which was also added the concession of per
petual slavery in the District of Columbia
and the passage of an unconstitutional, cruc
and Illuminating law, for the recapture of flu
gitlve slaves. with q further stipulation tina
the subject OF slavery should never again b
agitated in either chamber of Congress When
IN 1904, the shareholders were contentedly re
posing on these great advantages, then so Re
Gently won, the Democratic party unnecessarily
emo GENEROUSLY and with superserviceablc llbe
ality, awaked them from their slumber, to off
and force on their acceptance the abrogation
the law which declared that neither slavery nc
involuntary servitude should ever exist with
that part of the ancient Territory of Louisan
which lay outside of the State of Missouri an
north of the parallel of SO deg. 80 min.
north latitude, law which, with the excepto
of one other, was the only statute Of ireedo
then remaining in the Federal code.
In 1856, when the people OF Kansas had
.gapized new State into the Union the Deu
(ocratc party contemptuously rejected their pl
.tition, and drove them, with menanees and il
Limitations, from the halls of Congress, an
armed the President with military power to e,
force their submission To n slnun coda oatal