Arkansas true Democrat., 1859-06-15
Greeley's Speech at Osawatamie in
 Kansas

Nreeley IS on a tour. lie has become Peter the Hermit of black republican, ism. He is preaching for crusade. On the 18th of May, in the swindling city of Osawatamie, in the land of Kansas, Horace the political apostle, preached the black re- publican gospel. The speech, as reported in the papers, fills six large columns We can only give the substance of 1t. He be- gins by giving his version of the history of parties. He defines the principles and policy of his party. As a definition of black republicansm and declaration of the intentions of that party, this speech of Greeley's is more important and of more significance than Seward Rochester speech The opposition in the south and some in Arkansas have pretended to doubt the sOundness of northern democrats on the subject of slavery. To sustain their po- sition they have quoted from democratic journals who were scolding sllulkers for refusing to toe the mark. Here we have an acknowledged leader of the opposition- editor of the leading and most influential organ-an opponent of democracy and de- mocrats. Let us see what he says:
 "On the contrary, having long rioted in the pos session of ill-gotten sway, acquired and retained solely the strength of it's intimate and loving al- liance with the slavery extentionists it can never be relied on nor expected to pursue any different course from that it has found so advantageous. As in the case of Texas annexaton-as again in the passage of the latest fugitive slave law-as more recently in the overthrow of the Missouri compact -as now with regard to the proposed buying or stealing of Cuba-so in the future with reference to the proposed formal reOpening of the Afaican slave-trade-the national democracy may be safely counted on to do to the utmost the bidding of the slave power, whatever the required service may be-"
 Batting the venom in this, it is charge that the democratic party has contended for and won the rights of the south in the instances enumerated, all ot which is un- dcniablc.
 , To our contemporaries who have labored so hard to prove that the democratic party was not the pro-slavery party let
 
 is well posted in such matters Said he ::
 "The democratic party of the Union is, and will be the pro-slavery party of the Union, alike in Vr- gnia and Vermont, in Texas and Kansas-what- ever it may profess and wherever it may exist-and because it is the proslayery party it will rule Vr- gnia and Texas so long as the pro-savery senti- ment shall really and heartily predominate therein Mr. Goegin will find to his ost whenever the votes for Governor of Southampton and Brunswick, of Mecklenburg and Greenville, and all the essen tially pro-savery, slavesbreeding, save-working counties of Virginia shall have been counted. MT. Goggin is worthy, able man but he won't be Gov of Virginia, simply because it is the interest of slavery that he should not be-"
 Again:
 ''Democracy in Kansas is yitally, eternally, den- tical with democracy in Georgia-and the demo- cracy of to day with that which rayaged Lawrence, drove every conspicuous freestate man. except those it killed, from Leayenworth, and twice burnt Osa- watamie."
 So 1t appears that the democratic party is the proslavcry party and among other proofs, Greeley gives the following clin- cher:
 New York city is today democratic, simply because she is pro-savery. It is the presumed in terest of her merchants and other business men to stand well with the shareholders; so a great maor- ty of them shape their politics accordingly. We have three daily journals printed in our language which advocate, more or less earnestly, national de- mOcracy; and each of these iustifies and upholds the perpetual slavery of the black race as humane, benfcent, and in accordance with the eternal fitness of things.''
 That will do for the present. Hereafter we may quote further from this speech to show the terms upon which this high contracting party is willing to admit know nothings into the great fusion or op- position party.