Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1859-11-05


A few days ago we published an estraet from I
French pspe- in New York. lie Libertairc." o,
,he sat'ect of the INVASION n Harrer's Ferry
TIE position IL took was radical and revDlutiona
~, IN the sery highest drgros. For the purpose
of calling special attention to it. We reproduce the
extract: -saas
From lie Libertaire]
- Sooner or iatsr the drop will become
"a riycr--the spark burning frel 1860 whi shine
ION the world, the light Of great revolutionary
..eyent Nav in that year the voices OF the old and
new continents utter bot one brUtheriy cry-o cry
"qf.eeai ....''se''o.-las cry Of 1.~aa e':'e'e"e.
And YOU, martyrs. John Brown. Shields. Aaron
&C. Stephens, Green. Coppss, Copeland. Cook
will then be no morei Delivered over to the exc.
"cutoners, hanged By the cord Of the Law you will
..have Joined your companions, fallen by the steel
'and lead and we, your accompiiccs in idea. we
will have been powerless 70 save you. IL IL horri
.'ble, j. it notf Ah!may that blood TALL back up
ION US and our chiIdrenI
7ke time Of redemption il near Captves as we
now are BY the civilized institutions. We will yet
"purchase back our forced mistakes. Martyrs
You will be avenged. Oh the. vendetta the Ven
"deltaw
The above words seem almost the utterances OF
a madmsn-but they nevertheless express the SEN
timsn.. Of . very large body Of men in New York
and the Northern cities. known as Red Rcpubli-
cans. and made Up Of French, Italians. Germans,
and representatives of nenrly oil the other nsto-
nali,ies" of Europe. OF these men "Le Liber-
taire" IL the organ. Let II not be understood.
however, that all the French in New York. or
elsewhere in the United States. are animated by
the samc revolutionary impulses On the contra
~, the educated French and those of position and
property. are nearly all conservatives. The Conr-
rier des Flats Unis" Is their organ, and speaks
their sentiments. The Rod Republicans are gen
orally Of the lower order Of foreign immi.
gran,s--men perhaps who have been expelled
from Europe on account Of political offences, and
who divide their leisure time in this country he
tween preaching radioalsm in politics and inf
deity In religion.
We made the assertion, long time ago, and
have repeated 1t again and again In these col
umns, that in our opinion, democracy in this coun
try the cause Of the political opposition to sla
very-the .)cns ct princpiam Of oil tho woes that
have been entailed upon US in consequence of the
violent anti.slavery feeling at the North. BY de.
mocracy wc do not mean the democratic party,
though we could easily prove that 1t is to that
party We owe the democratic spirit in tho ooun-
try and that by that party maialy il has boon en-
couraged and strengthened. But we use the word
at present in its general sense. We mean to say
that. but for the almost uulimited power that has
been given 70 the peoplei IN this country We should
have been spared the political agitation II the sla
very question: and ell the evils that have resulted
from it. aud are yet 70 result from it, We fear,
in the not distant future.
Does not the spirit that prompts The expression
Of opinion in the above extract To establish
our propositioni VIII any man, Nort,, or South
assert that pure democracy and the institution of
slavery are compatible insitntiunsf !; cannot
be done. They arc a. antsgouistic rs uil and
ter. They a. far apart as the poles of the earth.
You may take pure democrat, and he cannot re-
coneile his theory of the rights of man with the
existence Of the institution Of slavery by all the
logic in the world. The very first democratic
principle be enuneiates- which is, Of necessity.
the equality Of mankind-upsets all the apologies
he can make for the institution of slavery.
The is proved every day. Take up any anti
slavery paper pubislsed in the North and the first
sentence that meets your eyc-perhaps the motto
of the paper itsslf-is quotation of that utterly
false and absurd apophshsgm which Mr.. Jefferson
put in the Declaration of Independence, that all
men arc BY nature created free and equal There
10 not an Aboltionist in the New England States
from Wendell Phillips down. who does not found
his creed upon the democratic doctrine Of the
squality Of mankind
What more natural than that these European
Red Republicans-the most democratic Of demo
Gratis, and the most radical Of radcals--shouid be
opposed to the institution Of slavery? Their raj
lying cry in Europe was Liberty. Equality. Fra
ternity"-things a. impossible under any form of
Government rs q repeal ofths laws Of Nature IL
self They bring the same cries here. They clamor
for the same unattainable ends Is the institution OF
slavery consistent with Equality and fraternity in
asocial sense, rs these reformers would have it :?
Not at all. Nobody but madman beleyesit But
the principle Of Democracy, which animatcs these
men, leads them, by inevitable conclusion, to an
indiscriminate opposition to every system of SER
vile labor, whereby one man exercises control
over another In short no man can be Democrat
in the abstract meaning Of the word-wi,hou,
being opposed to slavery. Nay. no man can be a
Conscientious Democrat, who does not use every eff
fort TO exterminate all kinds of slavery. and bio,
out the institution everywhere and forever.
Wig, then. should we fnd fault with these New
York Bed Republicans. and quarrel with them
for the expression of such sentiments US we hay,
above quoied-atrccious Is they are! Are they
no. carrying dsssocs=sJ 70 :.s legitimate conelu
sionsf Did not Mr.. Jeferson--the first leading
democrat We ever bad in this oouutry--tel then
that all men were free and squali Are not lbcr
ty and equality and fraternity recommended for
the cure Of all social evils by that great French
Democrat. Fourier Let Is mot blame them-be.