Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1860-08-10
A Revolution.

( A peaceful and benevolent revolution Is
now going on Throughout the entire country.
1t will carr y STEPHEN 4. Douglas, the gallant
and eloquent champion of popular sovereignty
into the presidential chair."-DemOerat.
We take this % be very frank confess
sion Of our neigthqr, which he adopts from
the Albany A155us;; the leading Douglas or
gan in New York. that the Douglas fac
..tihmia eadea4ming to asa0EVionize the gov
eminent, instead of continuing it as it has.
-hsen administered the beginning and
was Instituted BY tie heroes Of 776. We
take it for granted also, that our learned
iieighhor understands fhie term he uses;
and Webster defines g revolution % political
~ to mean g a material, or total change in
government; y and such, we.agree with our
neighbor, is the very end and object at
which the supporters of Douglas are aim
ing. - -.''.< -.
This change is the surrender of the Free
Territories to all the denominations Of the
desolation Of slavery-the greatest evil I'M
der heaven; while, heretofore, under the
administration of the very men who made
the constitution, and who must have I'M
derstood it, the government has been ad-
ministered SO as invariably to exclude sla-
very from the free Territories. The very
first Congress that met under the Crnsti-
tuition re+enacted the ordinance of ST, ex-.
Guiding slavery from all the Free Territory
then possessed by the government
Similar provisions were adopted under the
Administrations of Monroe, Jefferson, Jack
son, Van. Bu'en, Polk, Tyler, &c. &C.,
to which Dougas himself gave assent. It
is hence hardly to be presumed that any
reasonable doubt can remain, as to what
the policy of the government has been from
It's Commemorate TO the present time; any
more than it can be questioned that the
Democratic zparty-bsplotting and laboring
to revolutionize the government, by 9exclu-
ding freedom aad inaugurating slavery.
1t may indeed well be denominated g rev
olutlon," since it is reversing and changing
the governmentas totally as slavery is an
tagonistic to- freedom, or as much as if,
while government is instituted to promote
justice and equity and for protection, our
opponents were to attempt to subyert gov
eminent for the promotion of every kind
and degree of villainy ever devised by hui
man depravity for, the destruction Of hui
man rights This revolution, which we
have correctly described, and which Doug
las himself declared IN the Senate. had Civ
en- to the south degree and half more
slave territory than it ever claimed, is just
as peaceable and benevolent as Satan
in entering Eden; as kidnappers, carry
ing into southern bondage free color
ed men Of the North as the lecherous
dog buys beautiful woman for one of the
thousands of southern harems nay, more,
just as ''peaceab1e and benevolent" as
the driving out of free citizens from the
slave states, burning white freemen and
demolishing presses. If our neighbor is
not satisfied with this, we add, as ''peace-
able and benevolent" as the armed inva-
ciop Of T[oncac Tho ,,,,rlo, &C L..
and the ravishing of her daughters, upon
all of which Douglas coolly looked, without
uttcring single disappearing word The
assertion that this revolution "will carry
Douglas into the presidential chair" mani
tests depth of delusion or dupllcity which
we could not have believed our neighbor
possessed. @2~