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

OF slave Suites, they win allow no amendment
to the pref1dieial to their Interest,"
and So having estabIisffGd their
t1'stSer, they expect the itdfclfy to- NIL
ify all laws Interfere With iif,
ternd or foreign ie6ihtheFce id slIycs. tYb hen
the free Stdte$ git be significantly d6hAorlized
to tolerate these designs, they reasonsljly con
ctade that slavery will be accepted by those
S9tgE themselves: ~ pg8f
sbPp not not stop to sheFS & how speedy or how
compteto~w w6titd bet TIrn which the accent
hlIshIneut 0A din p Schemes
bring Ippretlle eeuutry9 .FJHGne, Il ;stloifd not
remain IN tie country to test the sad export
ment. HnYing speirs my tntanIloed; tIlduehg'not
my whole lifogi u FREQ States no nristocFaey of
any kind, mpGlt less il srist6cracy of shvelioId3
crs, shall ever make the 1Ii,Hs 0fkthe land I'M
which shall be content to live. aS Having. seen
the society around mic universally icng5nged in
ufacti;res ard trade, whieRwere
INNOCENT and beuifcent, shall never be q deni-
zen OF State Where men and women are reared
as Gattie, and honght and sold as merchandise
When that evil day shall come and all further
eitoft AtsresistAuce Rhnll b. impossible, tlien if
t51 mere shall be no better hope for redemption
than can nov. forsee, l. shall say with Frank
I'm, while looking abroad over the whole earth
-tOp a new and more cungenial home ''TrlIcfc
h6el ty dwells there is my country You will
tell mo tint these fears are extfavagqnt and
'chiImnericaE l'abswer, they are SO; Buttheya are
~ bsGSSLuSS tiIS UpSIStiS Gf the shareholders
must and can be defeated. But it is only the
possibility of defeat tl,at renders them SO. THEY
cannot be defeated by inactivity, There is no
escape from them compatible with non-resist-
ance.
at How then. and inswhat way, shall tho neces-
'Sary resistance be made There is onlvone way.
,ihe democratic party must,be permunentlyCii dis
lodged from the government. The 1cnson IS,
that the democratic party is inextrcably COM
mltted te the desiSns Of the Shareholders which
have described. Let me he well understood.
do not charge That the democratic candidates
Tor pt5t!.: Ctfce now beforethc Pe0pIeare bIedg-.
eft. much less that the democratic masses who
support them really adopt those atrocious and
dangerous Designs Candidates may, and gen
crafty do, mean to act justly, wisely and patriot.
-ically when they shall be elected; hut they be-
coHc the ministers and servants, n6t7tEe dicta-
tors, Of the power which elects them 'Fhc pol
icy W!licii q party shall purSdeata future period
Is oniy gradually deycuFcd, depending ON the
occurrences Of events never fuIly fnrekl,own.
The motives OF men, whether acting as electors,
or IN any other capacity, are generally pure.
Nevertheless, it is not more true that Nlell is
paved with good intentions, ttfunit is tIH Earth
Is covered with wrecks resulting from ihn6cent
and aiiiErblc motives. The very constitution of
tie democratic party commits it to execute ali
the designs OF the. shareholders, whatever they
may be; 1t is not PARTY Of the whole Uuiun-+
u all the free STATES and ui a,i tie Slave States,
nor yet is il II party VT the free States in tho
North and in the Northwest; but it iS,;l sectional
and Iocat party, having practically its seat with
III the slave States. and counting itScunStitucncy
chiefly aud almost exclusively there Of all it's
representatives iii Gnngrcs, and in the electoral
colleges, twnthirds unifnrnlv come from these
States. Its great element Dt strength tics in
the vote oi the sayehulders, augmented hv the
representation of thrce-fItS IF tllc slaves De-
prive tie democratic party Of this strength, and
1t wuuid be helpless and hnpclcss minority
IHcaIabc o! continued orgami&llnn The dem
ocratic party being thus I6cal ana sectional ac-
qulreS ncw strength from the admission uf every
now Slave State and l"Ses relatively rY the adj
mlssion of every new free Stale into the Union
y party is IN one sense ~ j"int stock association
III which those who contribute most direct the
action and llaIag elnent- III tie concern The
Shareholders contributing in an overwhelming
proportion 10 tle-eapituL siren 9Th of tho demo.
cratic party. they necessarily, dietate and pres
scribe its pulley. The inevitable caucus system
e9a'1es them o DO 50 with a show OF fairness
and Justice Ii it were pUSsibie to conceive for
moment that the Democratic Iiarty should dis
nheyathc bclestS ct the shareholders, NC should
then see withdrawal of the SLAVE holders, which
would leave the party tu,rerish. The portion
ot tie party which is found in tic free States
rs 81 mere appendngc, c6Ycnient tu modify its
sectional character, withuut hnliairing its
tiOual constitution, and is less effective in reru-
4ttIlLs Sltlilil lut IleNuOuS
the comet is in determining the appointed though
apparently eccentric course uf the fiery sphere
frnI. which it cn1cnatrs. rs expect the demo-
cratic party to resist slavery aud favor freedom,
iS;ls unreasonable rs To look for Protestant mis-
sionaries TO TIE Catholic PropaganIu Of Rome
The history of the democratic party commits
it to the policy of slavery. 1t has Icen the
democratic party and no other agency, which
has carried that party up to its present alarm
ing. culmnation. Without stopping to ascer-
tain, critically, the origin of the present demo-
cratic party, we may conccde its claim to date
from The era of good feeling which occurred
under the administration of President Monroe
At that time in this State, and about that time
in many others Of the free States, The demo
cratic party deliberately disfrapchised the free
colurcd or African citizens, and it has pertina-
ciously continued tliis dislranchisemcnt. ever,
since. This Was an effective ;lid to slavery; for
while the slveholder votes for his slaves against
freedom, the freed slave, in the FREQ Suites, is
prohibited from yoting against slavery. In 1922
the democracy resisted the election of Jolln,
Quincy ,Adams-himsclfh before that time am ac-
ceotubIe dcmocrat-and iii 1S2Sit expelled him
from the Presidency, and put slaveunlder in
his place. although the ofGceiliad been filed by
Shareholders thirty-twn oau Of forty years. In
1885, Martin Van Buren-the first nan-siaye,
holding citizen of free State to whose election