Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-09-03

10 the People u IL slh 6onstessionAi Ms.

Is the editor and proprietor % thS
Gaeette, has Invited me to discuss the gfisa-
ciE;es invoIved in the election, Through TIE
cviumfs othis paper. / have accepted bis iHsf+
tation, and now without preface or csfcamlo-
cufion, proceed to tic discussion Of the duese
tons at issue
Mr.. Hubbard is the candidate of the DeG1-
ocraNc party. which he prides himself in
calling aNational. It may be fairly assum-
ed, therefore, that be supports the principles
of that party as they are ~expounded and
practised by the men they have placed IN
power.
am the candidate oil the Republican par
y. and sustain its principles as they are exT
pounded by the properly constituted author
tiles Of the party
The difference between these parties as
radical and fundamental. 1t goes 70 the
very structure AM constitution OF society -
The Democratic party is. and Of necessity
must be, governed by Southern pro-slavery
statesmen and politicians. sag it must be
governed hy the Seth because without the
united vote ofthe siase-hotdiRg States. it
mas not The slightest claance OF preserving
the control of the National. Government
The last Presidential election demonstrated
this beyond controversy. Hence, il must
Of Necessity adopt such policy and platform
as VIII enable irto maintain its ascendency
insthe South. Fhis IS the explanation OF
the fact thai in all controversies in the
Democratic party, the Northern Democracy
fsalways driven TO the wall Take the Lee
compton Constitution as an Illustration. No
snan in the Nation knew better than the
President, that the3Lecompton Constitution
was a most infamous outrage upon the Peo-
pie OF Kansas. But what could he do! II
the South abandcncd him, and Southern
meaabers of Congress refused to support his
Adminastration-refused to vote the neces-
ssry supplies TO carry on the government, he
wouldb placed 1T the mercy OF the. Repub-
iican party, and be Compelled to rely upon
the Republican members Of Congress for
the support OF his administration
What influence can a Democrat from
Vermont or Massachusetts have in a Dem
ocra.c Convention, IN settling the platform
and principles of the party. What cin
they promise if their views shall be adopted
Clearly nothing. On the other hand, i
south Carolina or Virginia demanded tn
adoption of any proposition as a part OF tn
Democratic creed, as the price Of their allie
glance and support, it must be yielded or de
feat is inevitable.
Hence the S5utiern wing of the party j
always to be booked to, as the authentic an
reliable exponent Of its principles! We've
from this stand point, il will be seen at ono
that1hes real issue between the Republican
and Democratic parties is, whether the pro
ductive labor of the country, the rugged tot
which is required to develoPe its sources an,
augment It's wealth, population and power
shalf be performed by freemen, or by slaves
1t is now the well-settled doctrine of tn,
Democratic party Of the South, that the on
iy reliable permanent organizatiea of soeie
ty IS that IN wfsicli the earxtal ar4 capitalist
of the country have the absolute and accosI
Gtfonal control of its labor aud laborers.-
That the laboring masses of every country
must of necessity be a degraded, ignoran
and seFvile class, who have not intelligence
enough to govern the country. and the ten
dency Of free-iabor society is constantly L
anarchy and agrarianism. and that therefor
they should not be entrusted with power
but should be placed under the absolute do
minion and control of that more intelligen
class who own the capital of the county
That this is now the political philosophy Q
the entire Democratic party of the slave hol
ding states, no candid and intelligent mai
will deny. The Debates in Congress fo
the last fue years, the entire Democrat
press of the Bouths speak, bat one voice e.
the subject.
Ten. years ago Mr.. Letcher, of Virgini,
spoke in complimentary terms OF a lectur
on the subject of gradual emancipation i
Virginia, delivered at Lexington, Rockbridg
County, which met with much favor at I'll
time. But he now repudiates all such cour
sells, and holds that slavery is the most desi
able and best state of society that ANNA
ingenuity car devise.
| do not claim that this is a part of tn
creed OF the National Democracy, or that
is proposed in terms at any future time tot
corporate any such principle into its cree
but thissfufnishes the Key to- tie policy
slavery p~fopogandism which has been pu
sued by the party for the last sixteen year
The proposition once established in Il
minds of those who control and shape Il
principles and policy of the party. that st'
very is the highest and most; desirable for
Mefcivilization, and ii is easy to see how
must influence the action of tiictparty.
How easv and natural the conclusion
that laborers-men, women and children, q
pEoperty, as much the legitimate suhjec
of commerce as horses and cattle.
And this not by force of local lau or u
9 but by international commercial ID
and. by the Constitution Of the Unit
States. Hence the bred Scott decisic
that the Constitution of the United Stat
recognized the shareholders title 10
slave, and guarantees to him the right TO ia
him whenever he pleases, if not prohibit
by express local law. That neither Co
gross nor the Territorial Legislature has a
right to prohibit slavery in any Territo'
sssst it exists by virtue of the Constitution
ail:the Territories of the United States. j
AS firmly as it existsin Georgia or Alabama
that there is no power knownto the Com
tuition by which slavery can be either p
hibited or abolished in any Territory III
the organization of a State government, a
it's prohibitions by State Constitution q
State law.
And hence too, Mr.. Buchanan, in
Kansas Message, holds that a State COVE
ment organized for the government OF a I
ritory in which slaves are held at the ti
of the organic ltion of such State gouernmt
cannot be emancipated bylaw, but the ov
er has a right to boldthem and their post
ify as slaves forever.
Hence too, the s~uperhuman efforts I
have been made during the last sixte
years for the propagation of slavery and
increase of the slave power in the Natio
government. And why should it not be
II slavery be the highest and best form
civilization, why should it not be propagaI