The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1859-09-15
The Sham Democracy not National,
Why WILL DEMOCRATS FURTHER BEMEAN
TuEMsELvEs2

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THEMSELVES
Tt is industriously circulated by the
Sham Democratic orators aud PRESSES
that the only "national party" in the
country is the democratic" B."
How is this2 How happens it that
the Sham Democrats have exclusive
property in the term "nationall"
Has geographic necessarily anything
to do either with making party ma
tional or sectional? Rather is It not
principles that should decide which is
the national, which the sectional party2
Tried by principles, we cannot see the
slightest claim on the part Of the Sham
Democrats to the word national. -
WHAT'S it to be "National Democrat2"
Is it anything else in the North, than
utter subservience to the Slave Power2-
TO its aggressions on time -honored prin-
ciples and compOcts?-to its new-fan-
gled doctrines, doctrines neyer heard Of
until aoithin these past tjvc yedrs2 Has
the Democratic party now any other Of
fee but to support sectional institu-
tion2
The old doctrine was, "Freedom is
National" Slavery was only thought
of as a local and sectional institution
And who will say that the exclusion Of
Slavery from the territories of the u
States by Congress was ever thought to
be unconstitutional, until with the last
twelve years2 IF it was thought so, il
was by very few individuals, and not
by the people,, either North OF South
Even the "squatter sovereignty" OF
popular sovereignty" doctrine was moi
| invented a dozen years ago-that doc,
trine by which the Sham Democrats
carried the country in 1856, but nov
repudiated by the Democratic party
Who ever imagined until within less
than three years, that James Madison
one Of the trainers of the Constitution
and one of its ablest expounders, die
/ not understand his own work, but spok,
in ignorance Of its provisions, and ofit'
Iimport?--in ignorance when he said:--
awe intend this Constitution to be ,
great charter of human liberty to The
unborn millions who shall enjoy it's pro
lection; and who should never see tha
such an institution as Slavery was evel
. known in our midst"
Mr.. Madison and the Founders Of
the Government clearly thought Slave
ry to be a local institution, and nove
contemplated its extension beyond it
limits at that time. They did, it il
probable, contemplate the admission of
more Slave States, for Kentucky anC
Tennessee were then Slave Territories
but the men of that day did likewise ex
clude Slavery from the Territory north
west of the Ohio. And among thu
ablest champions the Constitution eve
had, excluded Slavery from North OF
the Missouri Compromise Line, somt
thirty years after the government wa
founded, and never dreamed that the,
were not doing a work perfectly in ac
cordance with the Constitution.
But it is reserved for the Sham De
mocracy Of to-day to discover that tn
trainers Of the Constitution knew no
what they were doing-that instead Of
making ga great charter of human lib
erty, as they thought, they really mad
q great charter of b1man slagay-an In
strumcut that carries Slarcry into all III
territories Of the Union--on instrumen
that makes freedom sectional and slager
national
And to day the doctrine that give.
the people Of Territory 'the right t
regulate their own affairs in their owl
way" is not Democratic, unless they shaI
''protect' slavery in their midst, an
if they do not do this all the powers o
the Government, Executive, Logislativ
and judicial mnst be employed to "prl
tecf it in all the Territories of tn
Union. That is now the Democrat
doctrine,
A year ago this doctrine of protectiH
Slavery in the Territories was new,
year hence, the ontire sham Democrat
party will be laboring for it, and declal
ing that anything to the contrary is uu
constitutional,
For shame
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