Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-11-20
SALEM CoLUMB1ANA

,roled, toenforce slavery upon that unwilling and
injured people. And noE, even to this day while
it mocks ue with the assurance that Kansas is free
the Democratic party keeps the State excluded
from her just and proper place in the Union under
the hope that she may yet be dragooued into the
acceptance Of slavery. The Democratic party fl
nally has procured from supreme judiciary, fixed
its interest," decree that slavery exists, by force OF
ia the Constitution in every territory of the United
States paramount to all legislative authority eth
er within the territory or residing in Congress
Such is the democratic party. 1t has no policy,
State federal, for the fuapce or trade or manu-
facture or commerce, education, or international
Improvements, or for the protection or even the SO.
curity of civil religious liberty. Itis positive
and uncompromising in the interest of slavery
negative vascillntng in regard to erythiug else
1t boasts its love Of equality and wastesits strength
and even its life in fortfyng the only orstocracy
known in the land II processes fraternity, ana
so often as slavery requires allies itself with pro.
scription. 1t magnifes itself for conquests in for
eign lands, but /. sends the national eagle forth
always with chains and not the olive branch in his
beaks.
This dark record shows you, fellow citizens,
what was unwilling to announce at m early stage
of this argument-tbat of the whole nefarious
schedule of slavehoiding designs which have sub,
mitted to you, the democratic party has left only
one yet to be consummatod-the abrogation Of the
law which forbids the African slave trade
Now, l know very well that the Democratic
party has, at every stage Of these proceedings dsi
avowed the motives and the policy of fortifyirg
and extending slavery, and has excused them on
entirely different and more plausible grounds. But
the inconsistency and lrivoiiiy of these pleas prove
still more conclusively the guilt charge upon that
party 1t must, indeed, necessarily excuse such
guilt before mankind, and even to the cOnsciences
of its own adherents. There is an instructive alb
h0rrence Of slavery, and an inborn and Inherent
love of freedom in the human heart, which render
palliation of such gross misdonduc indispensable,
1t disGranchsed the free African on the ground Of
fear that if left to enjoy the right OF suffrage he
might sedu1e the free white citizen into amalgama.
ton with his wrongsd and despised race
The Democratic party condemned and deposed
John Quincy Adams because he expended twelve
millions year, while it justifes his favored sue.
cessors in spending seventy million, eighty millions
and even one hundred millions year. Itsdeues
emancipation in the District of Columbia. even
with compensation to masters and the consent Of
the people on the ground of implied cOnsttu-
honal inhibition, although the Constitution ex.
pressly confers upon Congress sovereign legisla-
tive power in that district, and although the DEM
ocratic party is tenacious of the principle Of
strict construction. 1t violated the express proyis
ions Of the Constitution in surprising petition and
debate on the subject Of slavery, through fear of
disturbance of the public harmony although il:
claims that the electors have right to instruct
their representatives, and even demand their resg
nation in case of cOntumacy. 1t extended slavery
over Texas and connved at the attempt to spread
it the Mexican territories even to Tie shores
of the Pacific Ocean, under plea of enarging the
area OF freedom. 1t abrogated the Mexican slave
law and the Missouri Compromise prohibition Of
of slavery in Kansas, not to open the new and as.
cnntng theories of nCninterventOn and popular
sovereignty; and finally to overthrow both these
new and elegant systems by the English Locompton
bill and the Drcd Scott decision, on the ground
that the free States ought not to enter the Union
without population equal to the representative
basis of one member of Congress. although slave
ota'SS CIV SO'hS hithOHt W theli
numbers.
Will any membe. of the democratic party. now
here, claim that the authorities chosen by the par
ty transcendcd their partisan platforms, and SO
misrepresented the party in various transactions
have recited?Then | ask him to name one democrat.
ic statesman or legislator fromVau Buren tow alker.
who either timidly or cautiously like them or bold
ly and defantly, like Douglas, ever refused to exc
cute behest of the Shareholders and was not
therefor and for no other cause, Immediately de.
nounced, and deposed from his trust and repudi,
ated by the democrats party for that conuma,
cy.
The Cincinnati Enquirer edited By the Post
master of that city says that Mr.. Stewards speech
"indicates total disregard of all tho principles
upon which this Constitution and Union are based"
1t does not deny that the members of theDemocrat-
ic Party are inextricably committed to the designs
of the Shareholders, does it find fault with
the record produced; by Senator Seward
When it does this it will probably be worth while
to examine the truth Of its assertion.
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