Arkansas true Democrat., 1858-11-10
They Disagree.

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 The opposition presses in the south hay
 been making some attempts to cram down th
 throats of their readers belief that the adm
 nistration was opposed to slavery. The oppo
 sition at the north sing totally different song
 and as specimen of their tirades, we subjoi
 some extracts from the speech of Senator Will son of Massachusetts, lately delivered at :; meeting in New York. While our enemies ar
 chuckling over some disagreements among tn
 democrats, we wonder if they call themselve
 harmonious while Wilson in New York and Danley in Arkansas make statements so diame trically opposite?
 "To-day every department of the federal government, executive legislative and judicial, Is absolutely in the control of this slave hold ing arisocracy, that now sways and controls the fifteen States of this Union. Turn to the Con. gross ot the United States. have right here, to- night, to speak of what have seen during an experience of nearly four years And say to you that the Senate of the United States is as absolutely under the control of the slave holding propagandists of this republic as is the French assembly under the control of their master Louis Napoleon. Look, slave holder presldes over that Senate. Over nearly every committee of that body shareholder presides. Even the committee of commerce has slave holding majority upon it, for the purpose of strangllng the bills for the improvement of rivers and harbors striking at the New England fisheries, and to see to it that no man tainted with opposition to slavery passes into the Gus tom Houses of the country. Turn to the Pre- sident of the United States. The record shows that the president of the republic now is, and has been for the past five years, but the agent and the tool of the slave power. say to you here tonight, and the record of tae last five years will show and sustain the assertion, that the President of these United States is as ab- jcctly the tool of the slave power as is the humblest slave that treads the soil of the Caro- linas. In fact, 1 need not here, to- night, before this intelligent audience, cite facts to prove the declaration that the executive power of this government is absolutely and completely under the control of the slave power of this country. Turn to the supreme court of the United States. It has uttered the inhuman sentiment the unchrlstan sentiment, that a black man in America has no rights that white men are bound to respect. Aye, it has accepted and uttered sentiment that came from the brain of John c. Calhoun, that the constitution of the United States carries slavery into all the territories of the United States. Now, gentlemen, the go- vernment of this country, of this republic of ours, is controlled and directed with absolute and imperial sway by the slave power of this country. It was not always so
 "Now, how has this change come upon us? By what instrumentality has the weak section of this Union been enabled to take this govern ment of ours, and make and mould its policy. until we find the doctrine announced that the constitution our fathers made to secure the blessings of liberty, carries slavery everywhere 1t goes over the North American continent? I will tell you. The democratic party, the sla- very democratic party of the United States, has been the obedient instrument ofthe slave power At no time, on no occasion, has it ever failed to obey that power, whether it was in favor of opening free territory to slavery, iustifying bal. lot-boX stulling and murder in Kansas, or iust- flying the assault upon Charles Sumner upon the floor of the Senate of the United States. say to you that the democratic party of the United States as now organized, is but branded fh- strument and tool to the slave power, to ex- tend its dominion and uphold its sway in Amer lca. The armies which the Emperor of Russia SS'io ihV" iHC dIilliCS NHlCl tue TIIn- peror of France sent over the Alps into Rome, were no more the instruments of tyranny and power, than is the democratic party of ;,his Union. say to you here, tonight, that tn ere Is not political organization on Gods green earth-no, not in Austria, Constantinople or Naples-that dare to put upon its banners sen tlments so hostile to human progress and human liberty, as the democratic party of the United Statns ba md ;t, cannot find political organization in any christ ian or civilized land, that dare avow in the f,ce of the christian and civilized world such en- timents as have been avowed during the past twelve months, on the floor of the Congress- of the United States, by the leaders of the demo- cratic party in that body. The first duty cry lover of equal and universal liberty in America owes to himself, to his children, to his cou ltry and to his God, is the defeat and overthrow of the slavery democracy of these United States. The head of that party is in the south; its tail alone IS in the north. Southern men give di- recon and control to it. The tail follows the head, and your northern democrats, your north ern democrats of the State of New York, have just about as much to do with moulding ,flsh. ioning and shaping the policy and the princi- pies of the democratic party of the United Stats, as have the slaves of the south in directing the course of their masters on those plantation s. Now, this may seem boastfu declaration, but l defy any man here, or elsewhere who doubts 1t, to show me single instance during the last ten years, when the law to the democratic arty has not been given by the south and accepted by the north. This is the position of that party before this country; it hopes to govern the country because it has the fifteen slave States of this Union at its back, to lead, control and direct by dividing the people of the free States by collateral and mmaterial issues"