The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-12-02

dwells there is my country"
You will tell me these fears are ex.
travagant and chimerical. / answer,
they are so, but they are so only be-
cause the designs of the Shareholders
must and can be defeated. But it is
only the possibility of defeat that rem.
ders them so. They cannot be defeated
by inactivity. There is no escape from
them compatible with non-resistance.
How, then, and in what way, shall the
necessary resistance be made? There
is only one way. The Democratic party
must be permanently dislodged from
the government. The reason is, that
the Democratic party is inextricably
committed to the designs of Slavehold-
ers, which have described. Let me
be well understood. / do not charge
that the Democratic masses who sup
port them really adopt those atrocious
and dangerous designs. Candidates
may, and generally do mean to actjust-
ly, wisely and patriotically, when they
shall be elected; but they become the
ministers and servants, not the dicta-
tors, of the power which elects them.
The policy which a party shall pursue
at future period, is only gradually
developed, depending on the occurrence
of events never fully foreknown. The
motives of men, whether acting as
electors or in any other capacity, are
generally pure. Nevertheless, it is not
more true that "Hell is paved with
good Intentions" than it is that earth
is covered with wrecks resulting from
innocent and amiable motives.
The very constitution of the Demo
cratic party commits it to execute all
the designs of the Shareholders, what
ever they may be. 1t is not party of
the whole Union, of all the Free States
and all of the slave States; nor yet is
it party of the free States in the
North, and in the Northwest; but is a
sectional and local party, having, prac-
tically, its seat within the slave States,
and counting its consistency chiefly
and almost exclusively there. Of all
its representatives in Congress and in
the Electoral Colleges, two-thirds uni
formly came 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
a helpless and hopeless minority, inca
pable of continued organization. The
Democratic party being thus local and
sectional, acquire new strength from
the admission of every new Slave State
into the Union. A party in one sense
is a joint stock association, in which
those who contribute most, direct the
action and management of the concern.
The Shareholders contributing in an
overwhelming proportion to the capital
strength of the Democratic party, they
necessarily dictate and prescribe its
policy. The inevitable caucus system
enables them to do so with show of
fairness and justice. If it were posi-
BILE to conceive for moment that the
Democratic party should disobey the
behests of the Shareholders, we should
then see withdrawal of the slavehold-
ers- which would leave the party to
perish. The portion of the party which
is found in the free States, is mere
convenient to modify its
sectional character without impairing
its sectional constitution, and is less
effective in regulating movement than
the nebulous tail of the comet is i'm de-
termining the appointed though appa-
rently eccentric course Of the fiery
sphere from which it emanates. To
expect the Democratic party to resist
slaveey and favor freedom is as unreas-
onable as to look for Protestant mis-
sionaries to the Catholic Propaganda
of Rome. The history of the Demo-
cratic party commits it to the policy of
Slavery. 1t has been the Democratic
party and no other agency, which has
carried that policy up to its present
alarming elimination. Without stop
ping to ascertain critically, the organ
of the Democratic party, we may con-
cede its claim to date from the era of
good feeling which occurred under the
Administration of President Monroe.
At that time in this State, and about
that time in many other of the free
States, the Democratic party deliber-
ately disfranchised the free colored or
African citizen, and it has particularly
continued this disfranchisement ever
since. This was an effective aid to
Slavery; for while the STAKEHOLDER
votes for his slaves against Freedom,
the freed slave, in the free States, is
prohibited from voting against slavery.
In 1924, the Democracy resisted the
election of John Quincy Adams-him-
self before that time an acceptable De-
mocrat, and in 1928 it expelled him
from the Presidency, and put Slave
holder in his place, although the Office
had been filled by shareholders thirty
two out of forty years. In 1886, Mar
tia Van Buren-the first non-slavehold-
ing citizen of Free State, to whose
election the Democratic party ever con-
sented-signalized his Inauguration in
to the Presidency by gratuitous an
nouncemeut that under no circumstan-
ces would he ever approve bill for
abolishing Slavery in the District of
Columbia. From 1888 to 1914, the
subject of abolishing Slavery in the
District of Columbia and in the Ma
tional dock-yards and arsenals, was
brought before Congress by repeated
popular appeals. The Democratic party
thereupon promptly denied the ripht