Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1858-08-26
From the Newark Americas.
As it Was..As II Il.

As il Was..As 10 Is.
Last week, in speaking of the nomina-
ton of Mr. Case, we called attention to the
very remarkable change which hsd been
wrought in the party calling itself demo-
cratic, since 1t sold out to the Slave Pow
er. We desire, now, to bring that change
still more prominently to the notice Of the
reader. s.V~a-
We do not have to look back very far
in the history of parties, to find time
when the South was divided by political
questions just as much as the North.-
When Kentucky, and Tennessee, and Geor-
gia, and North Carolina, and Maryland,
were Wing States; when New York, and
Maine, and New Hampshire, and Michigan,
and Ohio, were Democratic States. An
this was changed by the Slavery issue
The South said the Democratic party "go
in for slavery and we will give you every
Southern state. You may lose something
in the extreme north, but you can alwsys
carry the States on the slave border, snd,
with the patronage and power of the gen.
eral government, you can make sure Of
your ascendency."
This offer was loo tempting to be resist
ed; and the "waiters on Providence"
those who had office and were seeking Of
fee began the work of converting the De-
mocratictic party into the tool of Slave
Power. OF course, such movement could
not be made without resistance. The old
leaders saw at once, that the party must
ego under in all the Free States unless it
was resisted; and they were active and
eaanest in re-enacting che old platforms
and unfurling the old banners. In Ohio
the downward course of the party was stay
ed for several years by the persistent efforts
of the leaders to keep it from playing
second fiddle" to the Slave Power; and,
year after year, did the State Convention
pass resolutions, such as they now denouncs
as Black Republican or Abolition. Al the
State Convention which met Jan. 9Th,
ls45, the following was part of THAR
platform: ....
Resoired, That the people of Ohio now,
as they have always done, look upon the
institution of Slavery as an evil, and unfs-
vorable to the full development of the spir-
it and practical benefits Of free institu-
tions; and that, entertaining these senti-
ments, they will feel it to be their duty to
use all power, consistand with the national
compact, to preveat its increase, aud to
mitigate and Jsnaty to eradicate the evI.
At the State Conventions of 1880, 1s-
SO, 1853, 1854 and 1855 the same deter
mination 10 resist the depotism of slavery
was expressed in the party platform and
re-enacted from year to year to year IS fol-
lows:
Resolyed, That the people of Ohio
now, as they always have done, look upon
slavery rs an evil, and unfavorable to the
development of the spirit and practical ben
efts of free free institutions and that en-
ter,aining these sentiments, they will all
times feel it to be their duty to use all
power clearly given, by the terms of the
National compact, to prevent Its increase,
TO mitigate, and finally eradicate the evil.
We have before US letter, written in
those good old times of Black Republican
Democracy by T. w. BARLEY, the gentle
man who is now candidate for Judge on
the ticket of the same Democracy converted
into the instrument of the Slave Power
The following extracts will show that Black
Republicarism is not so new as a good
many people suppose. The letter is dated
at Mansfield, Jan. 81, 1s47, and is address,
ed 10 Mr.. BrinkeIhoff. He says;
alt is tirne-high time that Northern
and Western Democrats should be hood
winked by Soutern politicians. Southern
artiheers, and Southern treachery.@
If were in Congress l would see the po-
litical elements crumble into dissolution be.
fore l would be over-reached by Southern
treachery. would sustain Mr.. Polk
at all Lngths-but, when it comes to pur-
chase of Mexican territory, to come into
the Union, it cannot be said too soon that
it is not the object or design Of the only
true free government in the world to ex.
tendth the domains of Slavery. Such l be-
lirve to be the general feeling of our Ohio
people:'
Yes, it ,ras and is the general feeling
of our Ohio people," and vet we see the
party of which Judge BARLEY is membsr
converted into "hewers of wood and draw
ers of water" to these same "Southern poll
iticians;" and the Judge himself, one of the
most ardent votaries of "Southern treache-
ry," and is ready as the rest TO use all the
appliances of rhetoric, arti6ce, deception,
public patronage and public intimidation
''to make the only free government is the
,gorld' on Instrument ITO extend the do
main Of Slavery"