Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-11-14

wORCES TER:
MONDAY, NOVEMBER Il. 1850.

The Charleston Mercury says: "The
South is the Democratic party, and to her it
must be true, or perish" The word "South"
now has meaning in the vocabulary of a GER
tain class OF politicians which nobody misun-
derstands. Itmeans the institution of slavery;
it means the slavery propagandsts; it means
the conspirators against freedom who seek to
establish slavery in all the territories, and give
it despotc control over the Republic. These
men dare not say in plain words what they
mean Therefore, when they mean the spread
and further aggrandizement of slavery, they
say, ''the South" and national principles"
With this understanding of terms, it is true
that the Democratic party consists of ''the
South" and its supporters and this is why it
has lost irretrieveably the confidence and sup
port of every other interest in the country.
Jefferson and his associates never imagined
such democratic party as that which is now
at work in the country and it is a satisfaction
to perceive that this party cannot last many
years longer. What it did in Kansas was so
infamous, that one cannot think of it now
without stir of indignation and yet, in that
matter it did only what was CONSTANT with its
aims and sympathies. 1t is now nothing more
than an inscriptions agency for the support
and spread of slavery, and for prescribing and
hunting down every man in the country who
objects to slavery and thinks it should be con-
fined to the states where it is allowed. Give
it power to do so, and it would crush out free
speech in every part of the country. In Vir-
gininia, South Carolina, and other slave states,
it is crime punishable with fine and impris-
onment, to express the opinion that chattel
slavery is not right; and the established Or
gans of that party make it plain enough that
they have no lack of disposition to make such
laws universal. What is it but the spirit of
such enactments that makes honest belief in
free principles disqualification for any feder-
al office, and so constantly Insists that opposi-
ton to slavery propagandism should be sup
pressed as disturber of the peace?
This democratic party cannot rally in the
free states, because there is arrayed against it
the popular conviction that it will scruple at
nothing in support of slavcry,-that it stands
ready to undertake anything which the inst.
tuition may demand,-and that it waits for
nothing but the right moment to reopen the
African slave trade, undertake another crusade
of ruffiaus against freedom in the territories,
or do any other villainy of the same kind. Its
true position and significance in politics was
not so clear before it repealed the Missouri
Compromise. That measure, followed imme-
diately by the atrocious proceedings against
the people of Kansas, left nothing more to be
revealed We believe it is not the intention of
the people, that, in the administration of our
government yillainy shall supplant justice,
nor that the government shall remain in hands
that would destroy it by persistence in such
crimes against public welfare therefore we
expect to see this party riven from power to
perish in dishonor. Itlfhust serve the South,
or perish, Js- -tf charleston Mercury 1t
will in any case die and disappear Nothing
can save it. And, as slavery can neither ar
rest the progress of modern civilization, nor
write history, we may see, in that popular
judgment which is driving the democratic
party out of existence, how it will be remem-
bered and talked of hereafter.