The Van Buren press., 1859-09-30
For the Won Buren, Press.
Democracy and Douglaa-
NUMBER II.


having its own peculiar principles and Gus
toms--the development of its own peculiar
nature. So there is French nature and
an English nature, a German nature and q
Russian nature and there are in America
several of these distinctive natures. The
unthinking Of these communities ridicule
or despise each others peculiarities, and. in
the United States, the Free State man can
not imagine how the people Of another
State can uphold negro slavery. and the
Slave State man is equally surprised to
find the people Of the Free States so deadly
hostile to his favosite institution. SO it
goes. Philosophers have exercised them
selves in tracing out the latent sources OF
these great results for it is true these ma
tional characteristics constitute the power
that is guiding mankind onward. 1t is the
fingers of the Deity carrying on the moral
progress of the earth as tie coral insect is
in carrying on its physical structure. 1t is
a part of the Divine order of things. MIR.
Hunter, l believe it was, spoke Of the nor
thern sentiment against slavery as arising
from mere prejudice. while some northern
men cannot find epithets too strong in their
abuse of negro shareholders. Both are
wrong. Both conditions are the result of
adequate causes in which the laws of ma
ture have too much to do to render it prac-
ticable or even possible for paper laws made
anywhere to alter them much. There are
number of communities in the United States
each one supposed to have ways of its own.
see by decision of the United States
Court in California that even Idol worship
-Paganism may flourish rampant in the
country-may, if it can, proselyte all the
people. The United States Government is
clothed with no power to prevent it. The
United States Government is constituted to
give an open field to the sentiments, inst.
tutions and political economies Of all, but
to discriminate in favor of none. This is
doubtless the genius of the constitution,
and if there is any provision in it that mill
tates against this essential characteristic it
is in violation Of its grand design.
AS l before stated, when our revolution
AIRY sages were engaged in framing Con-
stitution for the United States slavery was
the only institution that threw obstacles in
their way of giving it that perfection as a
straight-out non-intervention instrument
which they knew to be so essential to its
permanency. They knew that people were
opposed to slavery upon religious grounds,
upon moral grounds, and upon grounds of
political economy, which great fact was at
On III, reason Why the con ,titution should
have nothing to do with it, and the very
cause why it was required that it should
give slavery sort OF recognition, not for
the purpose of countenancing or extending
slavery, for that we know was opposed to
the sentiments of five-sixths of the trainers
of the Constitution, and ninetenths of the
people and would have been at war with
, the grand aim of the Constitut ion but it
was for the limited purpose of protecting the
slave property in the sort of cases describ-
cd in the Constitution itself, which provis-
ions. consequently. every intelligent man
must say should be strictly construed.
How can any man believe that the same
people and their statesmen who enacted the
famous ordinance prohibiting slavery in the
territories, few months afterwards framed
a Constitution right in it's teeth, providing
for the protecting of slavery in the terrific
ries History of the times demonstrates
to us that they never thought of such a
thing but all of our leading slavery
congressional Intervention men agree that
if their doctrine can be chemically obtain
ed from the Constitution, it is impractica-
ble. Why do they contend, then, that the
Constitution empowers Congress to protect
slavery in the territories ? Because Judge
Douglas said in his defense of Democracy i,
did not. When Buchahan saw the same
thing before him it was all right The truth
is, although few of them will confess it.
4 (but the plain, inevitable tendency of then
sentiments prove it on them) they were in
hopes that every eminent democratic states
man would be too far north or too far south
too sectional in his sentiments to stand any
chance of being elected President against a
Black Republican and upon the election
of Black Republican they think they car
arouse the whole south to go in for disso
luton of the Union-their favorite hobby
But all their scheming failed to make sec-
tional factionist Of Douglas. He adhered
steadfastly to national Democratic princi
pies. His words among them are like fr,
in stubble-burn them up. They a.. afrai,
to encounter him, and thev Justify them
selves by magnifying lis talents, DC, whe,
the fact is his great strength lies in his ha,
ing the ruth on his side. They are entan
;, ssled with lies and contradictioh4 while h,
deals with plain, simple Democracy.
Sept. 25th, 1859. NJ.
CONVERSATIONS OF AN Insurance AaESr.-
The paragraph which was pu;oiished in tn
Traveller, g few days since, relative to tn
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