The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-10-19

The accerta,ce OF slavery The adsoydtt party 'auy,
has irocvytd from supreme .etay feed n is interest,
IN ray Territory Of he United States, paramount to
es,diss IN Congress Such is the democratic party 1t
has no policy State federal for finance, or trade, or
manufactures or commerce, or education, or INTERNAL
improvements for the protection even the secu'
rity of civil religious liberty 1t is positively and un
ccmpromisingly in the interest OF slavery-negatye
else II boasts its love Of equality and wastes its strength
and lis life in fortifyng the cny arissocracy Known
requires, allies itself with prescription Hagn;aes
Itself for ooNqaes in foreign lands tut Il S.ss e ma
tional eagle fotA alays aeias chains and rot The ose
branch, IN has tdtons
prGBEAR OF REVIVAL OF THE SLAVE TRADE
11 dark record shoses yow, osc cttsss, tchat ,oS
sna'ane 10 announce at az earlier stage Of THIS argument
uhick has submitted e yo the democratic party has gt
only yc 10 be comatede a1roguo Of he ldio 'phich
ina, the democratic party has, q. every stage Of these
proceedings dsavowed the motive and the policy OF for
flying and extending slavery, and has excused them on
entirely different md more plausible grounds But inc
Inconsistency and frvoly of these pleas prove still more
concusively thelgui charge upon that party. must
indeed, necessarily excuse such guilt before mankind
ard even the consciences Of its adherents There
is ineis adherence Of sntery and an Unborn and M
.ttrm lore # freedom !. the human heart, uAish
render rahction Of such gross misconduct indispensable
1t DISTINGUISHED the free African on the ground OF
fear thai If left to enjoy the right Of suffrage ne
might scdlce the free S7hite citizen into analgaina-
ton with his wroDged and despsed race The de-
mocratic party condemned and deposed John Quincy
while usfes his favored secccssor spending seventy
millions, eighty millions, and even hundred millions
year II denies emar cpaon in the District OF Columbia,
with compensation to masters and the consent OF
the people on the ground of an implied constitutional m
hbion, although the constitution expressly coners upon
Congress sovereign legislative power in that District anu
although the democratic party tenacious Of the prnci-
pie OF strict construction II violated the express pro-
visions Of the constitution in suppressng petition and de
the subject Of slavery through fear of disturbance
Of the public harmony, although claims that the electors
have right to instruct their and even de-
man capna ems OF
slavery Texas and connved at the attempt spread
across the Mexican territories even to the shores OF the
Pacific ocean, under plea OF charging the area OF free
dom 1t abrogaed the Mexican slave law and the Missouri
compromise prohibition of slavery in Kansas not TO open
the Territories TO slavery but TO try therein the new
and fascinating theories of non intervention and popular
sovereignty and finally il overthrow both these new and
elegant systems by the English Lecompton bill and the
bred Scott decision the ground that the free States
ought not to enter the Union without population equal to
the representative basis Of member of Congress- al
though slave States might come in without inspection as
10 their numbers. viii any member Of the democratic
party here claim that the authorities chosen by the
surages Of the party transcribed their partisan platforms
and so misrepresenied the party the
tons have recitod? Then ask him TO name one demo
rae scotsman or lgatcr tron yam Sasen 70 wassr
family like Douglas Fused to execute Jehea Of the
Shareholders, and rot therefor, and for no other cause,
Immediately denounced and deposod from his trust and re-
pudated by the democratic pdrtyfor that eontun'acy
THE DOUBTS OF REPUBLICANS ANSWERED
think fellow citizens, that have shown you that it is
high time the friends Of freedom rush TO the
OF the constitution and that their first duty to dis
miss the democratic party from the administration of the
government Why shall it not be doneg All agree that
ought 10 be done What then shall prevent its being
done2 Nothing put tmdity division Of the opponents
Of the democratic party Some Of these opponents start
one objection and some another Let us notice these OBJ
ectons briefly One class say that they cannot trust the
republican party that has not arooed its hostility to sld
can Ss sae sih
democratic party But answer, further that the cha
racter and fidelity of any party are determined, necessa
by the public exgencies and the temper of the people
when they call into activity Subservency to slavery
is law written, not only on the forehead OF the demo
cratic party but also in its very soul So resistance to
slavery and devotion to treedom-he popular elements
actively working for the republican party among the
peopemust and will be the resources for its ever renew
ing strength and constant inauguration. Others
support the republican party because has not sufficiently
exposed its Platform and determined what will do and
what il will do when triumphant may prove
progressive for and too conservative for others-as
any party ever oresaw so clearly the course Of future
%ho would s
have joined even the wing party of tho revelation II it
had been obliged TO answer, in ITS, whether it
would declare for Independence in 1776, and for this
noble federal constitution OF ours in 1857 and not
year earlier aterf The people Of the United States
will be as wise next year, and the year afterwards,
and even ten years hence, as we are now. They will
obge the republican party to act the public welfare
and the interests Of justice and humanity shall require
through all the stages of its career whether of trial
triumph Others lctH not rcstare effort, because they
fear that the Union could not endure tie Change such
directors tel me hoac long constitution bear strain
u
contt','es e freedom. being converted con-
.tttuicn Of sldrery. II IS a republican constitution.
wish to wait until collateral questions concerning
temperance the the elective franchise are
properly settled Let me ask such person whether time
enough has not been wasted these points already with
out gaining any other than this single advantage namely
the discovery that only thing be eectuay done
one time, and that the thing which must and will be
done at any one time is just that thing which ia
urgent and will no longer admit Of postponement de-
desmond. SAy 4
BILE, and the dominion Of slavery is consequently ineva
BILE reply to them that the complete and universal
dominion Of slavery would be intocrabe enough lphen
hare teen made There would in that be left to US
further that know-few think know better than l.
the resources and the energies Of the democratic party
prestige TO it's traditional popularity know further
few, think, know better than 1.-The disadvantages and
th Of Organizing lew political force like
encounter in laboring without prestige and with
out patronage. But notwithstanding all this know that
the democratic party must go down. and the republican
party must rise into its place The democratic party
derived its strength originally from its adoption Of the
principles Of equal and justice all men, So long
as it practised this principle faithfully IL was nyunera
Bile. became vulnerable when renowned it. and since
that time has maintained itself not by virtue Of its own
strength, or even Of its traditional merits, but because
there as yet had appeared in the political field no other
party that had the conscience and the courage
up and avow and practice the fenspiring principle
which the democratic party had surrendered.
MISSION OF The REPUBLICAN PARTY REVOLUTION.
Az last the republican party has appeared II avows
now as the republican party in 1900 did, in one word it's
faith and its works equal and justice all men,
Even when 1t first entered the field, only half orga-
nzed, it struck blow which only just failed to secure
complete and triumphant victory In this its second
campaign it has already advantages which render
thai triumph now both easy and certain The secret
OF us assured success lies in the very characteristic which
in the mouth Of scoers constucs its great and lasting
mbecity and reproach. lies in The fact that Il is a
party u one idea; BAT hat idea is noble oriean idea that
ills and Expands all generous souls-he idea Of equality
TIE equality q all mon tore human tribunals and human
III
r1ne idTs Ikno,e, and you koc, a. revolution has BE-
gun Iknelc, and all the ,corld knocs, that revelations
ner go tdckudrd Trenty Senators and hundred repre-
sndtirts proclaim boldly in Congress today se7ui
mems, and opinions and principles Of freedom
chtch hardly so many men even in thus free
State, dared 70 utter in their DUN homes tceny years doo
While the government Of the United States under the con
Duct OF the democratic party has been all that time sur
rendering one plain and castle after another 10 slavery
the people Of the United States have no less steadily