Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1860-08-30
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Can any one give a suitable name fol
the political nondescript, born out of law
ful wedlcck, at the Squatters and Dart
Lantern Convention the other day at Sy-
raeuse! Its ingredient are as follows.
The Democratic party of this polltica
beast was that portion of the Democracy
of New York that in ls4s defea ed Cas>
and at Buffalo erected Free Soil Platform
of which the chief plank was as follows
RESOLVED, That the true, and in the judgement
OF this Convention the only safe means of pre-
venting the extension of slavery into the Tern,
tory now Free is to prohibit its extension in al
Such Ieraliory by an act OF Congress.
ReSol0ed, That we accept the issue which the
slave power has forced uIon us: and 10 their de-
nand Tor more slave States, and more slave Ter
rltory, our calm but final answer is no more
siave States, and no more slave Territory.
The Union-saving part of the beast is
what is left of that Know Nothing party
that In 1856 laid down as It's main feauture
the plank as follows:
Americans must rule America, and to
this end natiue born citizens should be Sc
lected for all State, Federal, Municipal of
fees of government employed in preference
10 all others.
The same party at that time passed a
resolution in favor of extending the Natur-
alization laws to twenty -one years. At
that Convention, Fillmore, now New
York Union saver, was nominated and run
for President. Erastus Brooks was can
didate before the same Convention.
Now this amalgamaticn at Syracuse
passed the following resolution:
Resolrod, That We recognize the doctrine OF
the equality of the States, and their equal rights
in the Territories, The common property of the
Union. and that Intervention by Congress to pro-
tect and benefit particular species Of property
peculiar TO a portion of the States, while
such protection is denied TO all other property
is une quail. unjust, and subversive of the great
Democratic principle. non-interference by Con-
gress with slavery in State or Territory
and in violating of the spirit of the Constitution,
and tending to weaken the bounds of Union.
Political patch work can create no greater
curiosity than this Convention presents
Foreigner are asked to fellowship with those
who would exclude them from every Office
in the gift of the pople. Laboring men
are asked to fellowship with Democrats
who defeated the Homestead Law. Men
who in ls4S declared that there should be
no more Slave Territory now resolve that
that all Territories are open to Slavery
Men who 1854 were indignat at the repeal
of the Missouri Compromise now are enlis-
ted for the elevation of the Presidency of
the man who struck the fatal blow at that
compromise.
Go on, political desperadoes, Novem-
Der will close the political account and
write your epitaph. The Albany Journal,
in speaking of this combination, says:
With this sinking" and "crossing," the
Democracy will be wiped out-expunged.
Adulteration upon so large a scale will
leave nothing but the thinest kind of pota-
ton. When the Democracy has fallen so
low :hat a CARLOAD of decayed "Silver
Grey" and "Know Nothing" leaders
Bishops without Churches-can have what
they want by asking" well may Gov. Sew
ard exclaim "the last Democrat has been
born"
A party whose strength and boast has
been in its adherence to ''principles" and
"usages," meets now at Syracuse to de-
nude itself, "open its DOORS to all factions,
and form a political "Free Love" Union!
Where, when the campaign is over, and
this miserable coalition of huskstering pol
iticians are routed and scattered, will the
Democracy find itself9 An army or
Party can bear defeat in defending IFS
Eagles or its Principles. All else can be
lost if integrity and honor are preserved.
The Democracy in its desperation sacrifices
all for the purpose of adding mercenaries
and Swiss to its distracted and demorali-
zed organization.