Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1859-05-07

THE DEMOCRACY AND THE OPPOsI-
Judge ParIZer,s Speech at Palace Gardens
and Stewards speech at Rochester.
Judge PARKER, the Democratic candidate for
Governor of New York, on the 19ih of October,
1855 just before the November election which de-
eided the -Guberuatorial contest between himself
and MORGAN, the candidate of the Black Republic
can Opposition party, delivered speech at the
Palace Gardens, in New York city, in which he fully
discussed the issues between the National Democra
oy and their opponents. The following extract con-
tsius clear enuneistion of those sound and ma
tonal principles which the Northern Democracy
have always maintaiaed. Speaking of the position
of the Democracy on the Kansas question, Judge
Parker said:
At this distance from the time late conevhen
public mind is oslIEhen the judgment Longer
Ge y es S. ana Is les sSrPs s PT nee We
Sot pe upon A rusgs = wall &P 5 M, upon e Igs o.
understood to secure to the Democratic party the approval and
cooperation Of many thousands every Northern State Of those
who gss led Of act with Is opponents Y needs but to Be
~ 5 and s Alone natIopa and mem can
ind refuge sm the errors and the prosecutions of eonalm
The gallant Henry Clay if he were now living could never have
tOnsl prsuaes with party whose platform Proscri6es
,i0 psooTatie measures and democratic men The gyet
.deeader Of the constitution if lie had lived til the present.
would have spgrned alliance with party whose hopes
Ultimate could only be achieved tramp
81 - 90 ~ fsrfsl WeIfs+ deems b ,nt- -, I er
laborng promote the Of the Democratic party Zap
p9use) Ihe time has now come ielGw citizens when national
they heretofore acted should rally
association they labor So effectively to serve
the Whole country aEd promote the pera5ehce Of the Union
ton Of distinguished republican Senator Of the NORTH that, by
has been the soutl Why should upon
ry! Vas nei the lfood Of er fathers ~ r S h g o s
hesme common battle fields Of the revolution? Have they
not side of under
rag upon thaoceau aud on bloody field during
And when history, more generous
rivalry caring galantry than displayed by Pal
~ tf BE- It sfs fbat She'd s,. i,s,re n on s 81 ~
conquest Ihe namei couuy7 Has the given
Washington and Jefferson aud jackson! (ApPlaus9 Yet
uponOurs We are aggsye-they are defensive. Where i.
justlosr ''''l' V'' ''''''
Now contrast these sound, conservative senii-
ments with the position Of the Opposition in New
York IN the last November elections, as announced
byWM. H. SEWARD, in his Rochester speech, and en-
dOrsed by his party press.
the States where the free system prevails universal
later republic Of psmoeaey. Russia
have abolished slyry ana adopted he system Of free IsboT n
the nic political tendencies
Europe would ultimately be either all Coack republican.
homogeneous hey more than incon
sssssd sogsfasr IA one co@st,y, aadtley aeser
Indeed 50 n,om,aSs are tbs two systems that every new
LSt S. I ct 5ics Fb @ I DOMAIN
of the other, even at the Of civil ifneesssry.
These antagonists systems are continually coming into closer
contact and collision results.
sha tel you what the collision ms1ns1 They who think
teal agaors and therefore ePeneral, mistake the
ssdaIag forces, aad mans la tie Intel aIes ,a,t
and oa sooner Of hteF become ether etiTyd arehoid
ing nation, estreiy free tabor nation. Either
and Fields Of south Carolina and the
Logan9 viii ultimately Be TILED by free labor and Charleston
and New Orleans Become Inss Sr merchandise alone
again be surrendered by their culture
and souls OF men
II is the failure to oPpreend this great truth that induces
gnsIocssul attempts at final compromise between the slave and
the free States and it the existence Of this great fact that
ePaemsra WIEN made VAN and
The following are the charges which Mr. SEW
makes against the Democratic party.
Il The Democratic party denies emancipation in the District
OF the people on the ground OF an implied constitutional inh
sovereign legislative power District and although the
U U AMI debate Ne subject on
fear The disturbance Of public harmony, although claims
that the electors right Instruct their representatives,
and demand their resignation in eOnumacy
tended slavery Texas and cOHniyed the attempt spread
ocean under ea Of area Of freedom II agat
and the Missouri COmprouise prohi
slavery Kansas open the
slavery, Try therein the and fascinating
threw both these new and elegant systems By the English Ie
compton ne Drd scott decision on te ground that the
Iee Sas ought not to enter the Union without population
number, ~
VIM member Of the Democratic party here claim that
their partisan Platforms and mePressne the party in the
various transactions have rected
These the issues which the Democratic |
party and their opponents went into the canvass
tkeDemocratc party asserting that Congress has no
right abolish slavery in the District Of Columbia
maintaining The right of slave States to admission
into the Union and coroeding to the South perfect
equality in the confederacy; the Opposition arro-
gantly demanding that the South should give up all
the territory Of the Union the exclusive property
of the free States declaring its settled purpose 10
resist the admission Of any more slave States, and
in the language of Mr.. SEWARD, gathering its
forces to via back all the plains and castles which
have been lost and to strike one decisive blow"
for The extinction Of slavery and subugatiOn Of the
South
Nj SEWARD goes on to argue the necessity eff the
overthrow Of the Democratic party on account of
its concessions the South and urges the union of
all it's opponents into great Opposition party
Re says:
think fellow citizens shown you that it is high
time Of freedom crush to the Of the
sttuton and That their duty dismiss Democratic
ar from the Administration Of Government Why shall il
be done? All that il ought TO be done hat them
prevent being doneg Nothing but tnidy or division Of
opponents Or the Democratic party
He tells us whai party will dispace the DemOora-
--o ys
Evy one knows that it is the Reputlican party or none
that shall displace the Democratic parH.
Mr. SEWARD procl&ims that the Republican par
ty is organized on the sole issue Of resistance to
e slavery and to the prO-slaYery tendencies Of the
Democratic party.
subssrviency slavery written not emily fore
head Democrats party but very soul Sore.