Litchfield enquirer., 1859-09-22
Whole No. 179O.


 might go there if let alone, but Democracy says: "We must drive them out" They can't live there. believe to this party "nig- gers" smell very we'll when slaves, but smell very badly indeed when free Great laugh- ter and applause. The controversy commen- ced aud part of the Territory was carried by the "ngger-driying" Democrats. How By the teansters and officers of the Federal Government /; by the men drawing their wa ges and subsistence from the Treasury of the Nation by Russell and Wadde, tho great Government contractors meD--teamsters aud contract getters. All these were employed sustaining Delegates for the Slave Power l Had there been enough of them they might have carried the Territory. But they had not the numerical force
 We saw during the last winter new law C. nacted-an act for the government of slaves in New Mexico. It was free territory when it came to us. Nobody pretended to hold slaves there, or had the right to hold them there le- gally from that time to this. But federal off, cers and army contractors have gone there with their slaves, and those slaves are now held so. Under the influence of these federal mill- ions, the Legslature-a mere dummy, demo- cratic legislature, completely in the hands of the governing power--has just passed one of the most atrocious slave acts ever known.- Not only are slaves made slaves, they are invi- ted to come from Virginia and be held as such but they passed slave act of many sections, one of them to this effect It says that any black nan found in New Mexico shall be taken up at once by the sheriff and placed in jail He shall then be kept six months to find an owner for him. If an owner come, very well he takes him back and pays charges But if no owner comes within the specified time, he is sold at the town pump by the Sheriff So, master or no master, free or not, he is q slave by that act. That is democracy and non-nter- vent:on; that is the work of the party which complains of the Republican party as disturb- CTS; that is non-agitation; and thus they are planting slavery on free soil by the patronage and power of the Federal Govcrdment. So it would have been in hundred territories but for Republican agitation.
 It was not by local feeling and local deci- sion that Kansas was made free state, if she becomes one. It was by contributions of men, money, and munitions from the old states, By contributions of provisions, clothing and Sharp's rifles, the free-state men were enabled to make a stand there. Hunted by the Federal Gov ernment, turned out of their houses by Missou- ri Border RuAians, secuted and spit upon by the whole slaveholding power, they stood there until they rolled back the tide of outrage, and Kansas to-day stands free. l gave freely of money myself to make Kansas a Free State. and considered it good investment But for those outside of Kansas Kansas would have been polluted us New Mexico will be- It is the Republican agitation, the Republican organza tion the Republican spirit, which has made Kansas what she is to-day, and which has rescued her from the grasp of the Slave Power. She was cut off und fitted ill behind Missouri on purpose that she might become d Slave State The Missouri River was block ed against us, so that peaceable white men going to Kansas to settle and return for their families were despoilcd, turned back, and set off ou the Missippi or Oho They were told there was no freedom for them no right to en- ter Kansas and there was nothing left for them but to submit. We bore with that for years. But time, endurance, tenacity and de- termination have carried us safely through it. By the struggle Kansas has been made free by graves and martyrdom. I demand that Free States be made cheaper hereafter thai without contention or agitation every Territo- ry be transformed quietly and peaceably to Free States. Such is the organization and purpose of the Republican party. 1 know some men who think tho Slavery question q small question: They wonder we don't set this aside, and talk of other questions of im- portance. l say this question absofbs all oth- CTS. You cannot send delegation to Con- gress, no matter of what party, but you will find ill 1t at once cut in two, divided, or arran- ged in regard to this question of slavery.
 There was an American party which came up suddenly in both sections of the Union :. Delegations were elected to Congress from diff. ferent States upon an issue not connected with negroes. But the moment they got to Wash ington, they divided right in two on the Sla- very question. Some went for it, some went against it, and they found Americanism amoun- ted to nothing practically. No man of them would vote for an Ameilcan to Congress unless of their stripe respecting slavery, pro-slavery. or party men. Thus the party went to pieces because the slavery qiestion--not in my own apprehension, but tleirs--absorbed all others.
 Take the Democratic party. When. in lo47, James K. Polk proposed to Congress to g've nlm money, to place ln his hands where "ith 10 make peace, everybody knew that meant puying Territories. Everybody said:
 iou don't want money to buy peace, but territory. Mexico will make peace soon enough. If you mean Territories, are they slave or free p The Democrats gave th,t money with the proyiso that the Territori,s bought with it should be bought free. and not slave. For that reasonable proposition every Democrat but three recorded his vote. Bnt now, to-day, let any man record his vote in f,- vor Of that, and he would be kicked out of the party. They were large majority in Congress, but they voted as Black Republi- cans 1t was then good Democratic doctrine With the Democratic party in Congress, but to-day it is heresy so gross as will cut any uian ! off from their communion