The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1860-10-31
'oS Front the0hio Statesman
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Nothing can be, more hollow and hypo:
critical than the pretended zeal Of the Re- |
publican party for the eqnal rights of all
men as ehlunciated in the Declaration of
Independence. Under the disguise Of
demanding equal rights for the negro race,
they are really making war upon the equal
rights Of all white men. Individual ghts
can only be preserved and projected in
organized communities. L. is essential
for the protection Of fndividual rights
that these communities should be left free
to mould their domestic institutions and
regulate their local affairs 10 their own
way gco'2s5 hga .siIoq sai !s 81 sg19og
UnGer1our Federal Union. in. order to.
preserve the freedom and the equal rights
of individuals, it is necessary to naiEtain'
the perfect freedom and right of State
or Territory to make alter, orrepesl laws,
relating to its internal and domestic pol
icy, at pleasures Hwas the main spnypese
of the preamble to!the Declaration of Inv
| dependence to set forth and proclaim this
fright, and to justify the peoplsy aif siti was
denied themg to asserteito in az extreme
case. as orr fathers did. ,bya, resort, to
revolution. ,.i,-.E..--l,
I Republican leaders. like the tories In
rev olhtionary times, deny this right, and
thus, whileopretending to- carry ont the
1 doctrine of the Declaration. really array
themselves against it. / Protesting to be
i in favor Of the Union, and the right Of
each State to control its domestic affairs,
they yet declare that there existssbe.ween
one portion of the States aud the other Q
cohflct whichIcan9 only cease when one
section is made to succumb to the other.
They array themselves on one side of this
sectional conflict which they are striving
to keep alive, and seek to overthrow the
domestic institutions softhe other section.
Thus, by their prae,iceidthey give the liz
Ito theirHpretended, fidelity to the. Union
and to their professed Willingness to leave
to the States the. right to control their
domestic affairs They sifnpugn the doc.
trine of the Declaration of Independence
and blaspheme the memory of its authors
l But all this is done more directly, boil
in theory and practice, by the RepubIical
demand for Congressional Interference ii
/. fthe domestic affairs of the people, Of th,
Territories. 10 When these Territories arr
organized. thepeop'e haveithe same right
under the Declaration and the Fedora
: Constitution, to control their domesti
affairs as the people Of the States. I'd
Republican leaders insist, that they Isha
not have this right while protesting to b
, great sticklers for the equal rights of al
; men and great friends Of the Constitution
and the Union. rus,v af tf.1 s4n 7 ~EEs7E
The, doctrine of the Democratic part
: and of the Declaration of independents
is, that when the people are organized 10
/. to separate governments, for the protec
lt:on Of their indiyideal rights. those com
Emuuities, whether existing as States O
Territories, under eones Federal head, 20
e as separate and absolute soyereigntie
i. should not be interfered with, or in. an
! manner coptrolled in their local and dc
:. nestle policy, by any other State or powe
: whatsoever. He who demands for th
!, = people, when organized under separa,
II government oof their own, 4 thelIfight I
d govern themselves as they may thirk bes
: is the friend Of equal rights ,he4who OF
!, poses it is an enemy to the doctrine 81
= = forth in the preamblesto the Dcelaralio
= of Independence. - '''s ~ sAh l