Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1859-11-09
TIE Trainers OF THk coNsr1rUf4oN FoxEsAw THE
ABoiiiff16N OF SLAVERY.

| tAtQh 0f the UntGa StaceS lney ieEar''eu Vic
States With sorrow lib shame which they openly
confessed, and thy aSoked upon the collision be
tween thea. %l;dA was then just revealing itself,
| and which We att now accustomed to dcplore, with
flv, r and kSnA They knew that either the one or
! the other system must exclusively prevail. Un'lke
| toe, many Of those who, in modern times invoke
thesrSsHshority, they had choice between the two
They preferred the system of free labor, and they
determined so to organize the government and so to
direct its activity, that that system should surely
and certainly prevail For this purpose and no 9th
| er they based the whole structure of government
broadly on the principle that all men arc creatcr
equal and therefore (iee-fttle dreaming that Will.
in the short period Of one hundred years thcir de-
| sccndants would bear to be told by any orator
however popular that the utcrancc OF that principle
was merely rhetorical rhapsody, Or by any Judge
however ves,cietet, that it was attcndeI by mental
reservations which rendered it hypocr ca and false
Ry tue ordinance of 1851 they dedicated all the
national domain not yet polluted by slavery to free
labor Immediately, thcnccforh and forever, while
by the new constitution laws they invited for
eign free labor from all lss under the sun, and in
tericted the mport9 tlon of African slave labor at
all times, in all pa:es, and under all circumstances
| whatsoever. It is true that they necessarily and
wisely modi I'd this policy Of freedom by leaving it
to the several States affected they were by dit
fering circumstances to abolish slavery in their own
way and at their own pleasure instead of coniding
that duty to Congress- and that they secured to the
slave States, while yet retaining the system OF sla-
very, three ifths representation of slaves in the
federal government until they should find them
selves able to renquiSh it with safety But the
very nature of these notifications fortifes my posi-
ton that the fathers knew that the two systems
could rot endure within the Union, and expected
that within short period slavery would disappear
| forever. Moreover, in order that these moeslica-
tions might not altogether defeat their grand design
of republic maintaining universal equality, they
provided that two-thirls Of the States might amend
the constitution. 1t remains to say on this point
only one word to guard against misrepresentation.
If these St ties arc again to universally Save
holding do not pretend to say with what viola
tionS of the constitution that end shall he accom-
pli<hcd. On the other hand while do confidently
believe and hope that my country will vet become
land of universal freedom do not expect that II
will he made so otherwise than through the action of
the several States cooperating with the federal gov
crnmcnt and all acting in strict conformity with
their respective constitutions. The strife and
t.ntion concerning slavery, which gently disposed
persons habtually dcprccatc, is nothing more than
the ripcnng of the conflict which the fathers them
selves not only thus regarded with favor, but which
they may be said to have instituted.
Ii. noOMS THE DEMOCRACY TO DESTRUCTION
The democratic party must be permanently dis
lodged from the government. The reason is, that
the democratic party is incxtricahly committed to
the designs of the Shareholders when have desert
bed Let nc be we'll understood. do not charge
that the democratic candidates for public office
before the people are pledged, much less that the
democratic masses who support them really adopt
those atrOciouS and dangerous designs. Candidates
| NAV, and generally 20. mean to act Justly, wisely
and periodically when they shall be elected; but
they become The ministers and servants not the oic
tators. of the power which elects them The policy
which party shall pursue at future period is only
gradually developed. depending on the occurrences
# events never fully forcknown. The motives of
men, whether acting electors, or in any other Ca
pacity are generally pure. Nevertheless, it is not
more true that "hel is paved with good intentions"
than it is that earth is covered with wrecks result
ing from innocent and alniahle motives The very
constitution Of the democratic party commits it to
execute all the designs of the Shareholders whatever
they may be. 1t is not party of the whole Union
of all the free States and of all the slave States
yet is it party of the free States in the North and
in the Northwest; but it is sectional and local
party having practically its seat within the slave
States and counting its constituency chiefly and al
most exclusively there OF all its representatives
Congress and in the electoral colleges two-thirds
uniformly come from these States Its great Gle
ment of strength lies in the vote of the Shareholders
augmented bv the representation of three fiths of
|
strength, and it would he helpless and hopeless
minority, incapable of continued organization The
democratic party being thus local and sectional &C
quires strength from the admission of every
new slave State and loses relatively by the adms-
sion of every new free State into the Union. A
party is. in one sense joint stock association, in
which those who contribute most direct the action
and management Of the concern. The Shareholders
contributing in an overwhelming proportion to the
capital strength of the democratic party they ncccs-
sarily dictate and prescribe its policy. The newt
able caucus system enables them to do so with a
show of fairness and justice. If it possible to
conceive for a moment that the democratic party
should tsohey the bcheStS of the shareholders. We
should then have withdrawal of the shareholders,
which would leave the party to perish The portion OF
the party which is found in the free States is mere
appendagc convenient to modify its sectional charac
ter without impairng its sectional constitution and
is less effective in regulating its movement than the
nebnous tail of the CONT is in determining the ap
pointed though apparently eccentric course of the
fiery sphere from which it cmanates. To expect the
democratic party to resist slavery and favor freedom
is unreasonable to look for Protestant mission
aries to the Catholic Propaganda Of Rome.
BLACK PICTURE OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
The history of the democratic party commits it tc
the policy of slavery. 1t has been the democratic
party and no other agency, which has carried thai
policy up to its present alarming elimination With
out stopping to ascertain critically, the origin of tho
present democratic party, may conccde its claim
to date from the era of good feeling which occurred
under the administration of President Monroe Al
that time in this State, and about that time in many
others of the free States, the democratic party dc
lierately dsfranchised the free coorcd or African
citizens, and it has pertinaciousy continued this
disfranchsement since. This was an effective
aid to slavery for while the STAKEHOLDER votes fo
his slaves against freedom, the freed slave in thu
free States, is prohibited from voting against slave
ry. In 1925 the democracy resisted the election o
John Quincy Adams-himself before that time al
, acceptable democrat and in 1928 it expelled hin
, from the Presidency and put stakeholder in hi
place. although the Office had been filled by slave
| holders thirty-two out of forty years. In 1886
, Martin Van Bnren-the first non-slavehoding citi
zen of free State in whose election the democratic
party ever consented signalized his Inauguration
into the Presidency by gratutous announcement