Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-11-01

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instituted slnvery but -tlie deaHertltic SfaTty
ipitated her admissi6n int6 the UhIhh. not
only bhout that e0nditisn. tbHt ieyea sytith6a
c0yena1Iti thattlIe State might l}e Glivfledsand
reofgqpIEed SO sito constitute fOursSlaveaStates
instead bfoone. In 1916, when tie United
became involved in ig,TEtll with Me1ieei
apdIt Wls:appafeHtt that tho sttu Sa4oNSoula end
IN the dismetnbcFn that 0y5l,iel,
iwns ath9n-slaveaoldipg power the S1enoGfatic
party rejected Il declaration tiIat SLAVERY should
met heiestahshea within the territory ,t6 bo
acquired NShon, ,Sinal 1850, gep6Tnniehts eWere
10 bel1fstituted in the fcrpitJripsufiG California
and Now Mexico, the frl1its of tfnt E1raq. tho
democratic party refused to admit California tt
q tree iStRte on tho Uondition, as itlas sinceck-
PINNED the tTGnSaCion, of leaving New Mexico
to slavery to whichwas alsondtiod
the rnGesslOnof perpetual slaverTtn The District
ot 0oinmbid, and the passagonf nfI unEonstiili-
hional cHlel and huHiiliating law l4en,5-
tlre III slaves, With afurher stioaiati0n
that i4esubject Df, slavery yHneVer ngain:be a9i-
dateit IN eitllerichamber of Congress-. When in
Loot! the Shareholders were ccontentedlyrepnsifIs,
on3these great advantages, tienso recently won
the edemocratic-party unnecessarily, oficiouslS,
ana with super7ServiceIblc libcralty, awakened
them. tsOm stheirslumbcr to offer and force on
-the!r acceptance tho abrogationNftI tie law which
declared that tueither slavery SER
Ntude should ever exist within that p;lrt of tho
ancient Territory of Lou:sianu which alav out
slde OF the State of MisSour and northiuflthe
parallel of 30 degrees 80 minutes of north Iati-
tuste-5aa law which with the exception of ono
Hther,t%as the only statutesnf freeGlhm then re-
manning in the federal code. In 1856, vixen
tie people otiKHnSas had urg0nizeilia new State
wltlilnth region thus abandoned to slavery!
and applied to he admitted as :. FREQ S. alto into
theaU mon, the democratic party oontemptuously
Fe;eeteQstheiH petition, and drove thuni, with
menaces and intiniidatiOus from the balls of
Itn01raS9r aTlEp
~ power to enforce their submissirn to q slave
code established over them by frlud9nd usurp-
atlqn. At.every subsequent stage. of the long
contest which has since ragged in kansns, the
democratic partYtias lent it's sympathies, its aid,
aud all the powers OF the government which it
controlled. 10 enforce slayerNpppn the unwilling
and injured1peopie And now, even to this day,
while 1t moqks Ht us with the assurance thai
Kansas is free, the democratic narty keeps tho
State excluded from her just and proper place
in the Union under the hope that she may vet
2.3 Ge GedEagooned into tho acceptance of slavery,
The democratic partY, finally, has procured from
supreme Judiciary, fixed III, its interest q de-
cree tnat slavery exists by force of the consti-
tuition, in every Territury of the United States
paramount to al Legislative authority either
within the TerlltorI or residing i'll Congress.I
Such 's the denoGratic party. Ii has no policy,
Statc or federal, for france, or ,rade, or man
utactGres or commerce, or eluc;tion, or inter
rul improvements o. for projections or even the
secnE Iguf fciXiLor relignu liberty lUisfpoSi-
Sirety md lnpcpnfrOnl;singly IN tie interested
slaye:Y=-tie5ltive, compromising and vascil1a-
ting irITeSard to everything else. 1t boasts its
love of equSty;and wastes its Strength and even
its life in turtityng tie only aristucracv known
in the land. It processes iraternty,and so often
as slavery requires, allies Itself wtth proscrip7
tinn, Ii muguifcs itself for cnnGuests in foreign
lands, but 1t sends The national cagIe forth Al
ways with chains, and not the olive branch in