The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1858-04-15

hood, in the belief that it is the beet social sys
tenn for all communities taught to demand
even its Acknowledgements So an equal to free
system. / soy, our people may entertain great
respect for such man, bat none at all for his
principles upon that question. But they have
small respect, and instinctiveiy inquire for a
cause, when son Of their State, or of the North,
becomes plastic, and susceptible of being mould
ed into The image and likeness of Southern par
I, tisan chattel in the political market Such seem
! to take the name of doughface," as you would
take an epidemic disease-that is, Sin the nat
ural way" do not deny but some honest mer,
who honestly entertain opinions favorable to the
, expansion Of the slave system-who see in
skiing Cotton the pride and glory as well as
the saviour other country, may have this badge
! applied to them unjustly. But it is heir mis-
fortune, and they must wait until the final judg-
neut exposes their motives, when they will GER
tainly be righted. It is compound word, of
such significance in its application, that it will
be hard to crowd it out Of the Northern political
vocabulary while single case of applicability
remains. "
Nv colleague admits that the Democracy of
Connecticut !" accord to the South the right to
6 move into the Territories of the United States
soith their property whenever and ,cherererthey
please, 80 long as they are Territories" Il quote
bis language and then coolly asserts, in the
face Of history, that this was one of !" the com.
promises of the Constitution 4" Sir, lie has
studied that instrument, and the history of the
Convention which framed it, to little purpose,
if he has not yet learned that the claimed rights,
nay, more, the legal existence of Slavery under
that Constitution, were denied place in the
instrument. He would have been correct had
he stated that it was one Of the late compro-
misses of the boasted National Democratic party.
He may be pardoned il, like many of his polit-
ical friends, he esteems the Pro-Slavery Dem
ocratic Platform his own and his party's Con-
stitution. But the people of Connecticut do not
accord that right, either by an interpolation of
our national charter or at the dictum CT party
leaders. l
Sir, the Democratic party of my State has
furnished its full quota of doughfaces to aid
this system of slave propagandsm. 10 times
of high party excitement over local questions,
they have thrown crop of this political seed
to the surface but almost invariably ii has
been with the protestations of opposition to
Slavery extension, rolling like oil from their
tongues. When the repeal of the Missouri
restriction was consummsted, many of it's
prominent men were staggered, and a ma ority
of its representation upon this floor recorded
their votes against it /; but they soon succumbed
to Southern dictation, and took their old places
in the ranks. But they have persistently de-
ceived their people in relation to their true
position upon this question. Their political
pettifcggers, in the last Presidential election,
made flaming appeals to the Democracy to
sustain Buchanan, Breckenridge, and Free
Kansas" under the workings of this new light
of the party, named "popular sovereignty"
They coolly argued, that under the new system,
Slavery had met its last foe, had occupied its
last inch of virgin soil in this country, and that
the national Democracy had efectually checked
its advancing tide. That was the local doc.
trine fitted for the latitude of Connecticut, and
the campaign in which it was used. Now that
Buchanan, Breckenridge, and Free Kansas"
has eliminated in "Lecompton," and in fore
ing the system of Slavery upon people con,
trary to their will, my colleague, speaking for
the party which he represents, coolly proclaims
that "they concede the right to the South to
move into the Territories Of the United States
soih their property, Il. e., slaces) ,chenecer and
achererer they please, so long as they are Ter.
ritories," but most pitifully begs, as boon in
return, that the South shall not institute un.
healthy comparisons between their chattel
slaves and the free mechanics of the North, to
prove that they occupy the same social and
relative position in political society. Further
than this, he entreats them to cease attempting
to prove that it is a Divine system, for it really
hurts the feelings of the party in Connecticut
The Democratic press of my State is COM
pletely under the control of this Pro-Slavery
Administration, without single exception Of
which am aware. Every publisher or editor
has one of the teats of the national udder be-
tween his lips, and, with his mouth full of the
golden milk of Executive patronage, pitifully
means the request to his Southern brethren, to
suppress the common sentiment held between
AL Co he rtpts solra ha of
my colleague for the extinction of Slavery in
the Territory of Kansas, by the purchase of the
slaves taken there under this Democratic doc
trine, is perfectly consistent with those COM
merce principles which admit the right of traf.
fc in human flesh, and which characterize the
bunker portion of that party. 1t is the utter
ance of doctrine, and the Recommendation
of "specnlation," so cold blooded and goddess
in it's character, that it will shock the religious
portion of bis State; while among the infidels
it will, as it did here, provo Ike laughter under
the very ribs of the moral death which it pro-
claims.
/ sicken, sir, over the recital of those outrages
against Freedom which have characterized the
so.called Democratic party. The child has
changed its nature as a chameleon does its
hues, and having become, if not black, at least
tswny in color, should receive new christening.
performs, or whatever platform is changing
necessities require it 10 inaugurate, in all these
"the Niger" is prominent. Asserting that
"the slave has no rights which white man is
bound to respect it still insists that the slave
system shall be the head and front, the Alpha
and Omega of party allegiance and constitu-
tionsl obligation. When the President of the
United States stopped from his high position,
and entered the partisan arena to attempt pub.
lie answer to a modest peti ion from some of
the first citizens of my Safe, he acted consist
emily, Judging him by the measures of the
modern Democracy. Sir, the doctrine of polit.
ical ethics taught in that ancient and world-re-
nowned Alma Mater, in New Haven, does not
tally with the bald assumptions of the political
Hotspurs of to-day. Her learned professors
are OF the school of the Shermans, the Wolcotts,
and Dwights and the partisan fulminations of
the President fell harmlessly at the feet of the
noble men whom God yet permits to linger IN
der the shadows of her venerated walls. The
party of the President in my State gathered no
converts to their faith from that Presidential tilt
with those honored citizens.
Mr.. Chairman, have felt it due to myself
and my constituents to say this much in expla-
nation of their true character, social position,
and political opinions upon the Slavery ques.
ton. had determined with myself not to oc.
cupy the time of the House, but to pronounce
my own as well as their Judgment upon that
feature of Slavery extension now under the con-
sideration of Congress, in q negative vote upon
every phase which it should assume. l have
no desire to rehearse the catalogue of invasons
and frauds practiced against the people of Kaf-
sas Territory. Neither have the taste to dis
sect so foul mass Of political corruption as
was, In my opinion. embodied in that Lecomp.
ton Convention For the came reason do not