, 1860-04-18
i9tess & Triihtttte;
WEDNESDAY, APRIL Is, 1880.
LATEST PHASE OF :DEmoCnAoY

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is IN excuse for and justification Of human
Slavery. is the fundamental error not only Ct
the South but Of the so-called Democratic
party. 4 doctrine that has been for ages
maintained by kings, autocrats, despots, IT,
rants and aristocracics- adoption in this
republic would be but the beginning Of that
train Of opinions aud events which would
overthrow our governmental Gbric md
tran,rle out the idea Of iualionable
rights in humanity which the Revolution
established and which thesuccessors Of ash.
ingtop, Jefferson, Hamilton, Adams md Mad.
ison have, up to this time, maintained Be-
cause, admission o! inferiority Of classes or
races in that which concerns the right to life,
liberty, and the pursuit Of happiness, is the
admission Of finferiority in individuals Of which
those classes or races are composed; and tho
principle once established, that any individual
born has diviner claim to the enjoyment Of
the gifts Of Heaven to Ill mankind, Than can
fusay, by reason Of color, shape Of skull, kink-
mess Of hair, length Of heel, be maintained By
any other uan Of al the earth all the evils
Of despot!sm, Of a1istocracieA oligarclies
mud theocracies follow as natural,
necessary aud unavoidable sequence from
the promises; and tho two hundred or
two thousand men Of this country, to
whom nature has given the physical and
mental qualities which elevate them above
their fellows, may govern all the rest as an
aristocrasy; aud among that two hundred or
two thousand, the one OF the greatest courage
and capacity ought at once to be chosen to
rule over all the rest US emperor, despot king.
There is no halfway house. There is, there
can be no compromise. Either man is created
with natural rights, Of which no ordinations Of
government, society or religion can divest
him; or he il not. If tho former, all forms Of
government which do not perpetuate in him
The rights with which he has been endowed By
h.s Maker, are radically and continually wrong.
Il the latter; all government which does rot
represent the will Of the. one strongest man Of
the nation is auinf1irgement Of 1isrights, and
ahoui naucstionab1y be abolished. Because
tAcra is in al Caristendom no race or nation Of
uum:xed blood-no one in which the admix-
ture Of an element foreign to itself does
not amount to q fourth or a hall Of the whole,
--tho question Of races and nations cannot In
aue1ce the decision Of the matter ut issue. 1t
must, ly the nature Of the case, be confined to
individuals. We are Republicans, and in opposi-
ton to the doctrine Of the one man power, held
by tue Democrats Of Pennsylvania, and endors-
Cd by the Democracy Of the Notion, at Washing
ton, maintain the formula Of the Declaration Of
Independence. Our faith does not neccssari-
]y clash with the practice Of the Free States oil
this Republic, in their treatment Of the black
aud inferior ra1e. 1t does not carry with it
tie obligation to admit the individuals Of that
race to footing Of social and political equality
with ourselves. But it does not admit Of en-
Shaving any man Of tic black or auy other
race, upon uny pretcxt whatever, except that
furnished b. the commission Of crime Of which
he shall be proved guilty. And here we take
issue with tue dogma. to which the pro-slave-
r. party a.o committed; and, on this point, as
soon as the people at large shall recognize the
scope, meaning and ultimate purpose Of that
party, tue fight which sprung up at the inau-
glration Of the Revolution will be fercely re-
ncwed.
Tie prcsumptious ignorance Of The Address
to which re refer, in dating back the doctrine
Of human eeualiIy in certain inalienablo rights
to period no more remote than that Which
produced the French Revolution, is paralleled
only By the Misrepresentation which attributes
that great, necessary and righteous event to
ths ln1idelity o! FoItaira and the madness Of
Jean jacques Rosseau. uo is shallow
reader who has not learned that the idea Of
equality, more or less clearly expressed, is
found in the literature Of remote antiquity.
He is purb1ind who does not see that in the
ethical system Of the Savior, that idea is q
necessary part Of his teaching. And he is
both shallow and purblnd who refuses to be
convinced that, sincs tue Christian era, all
great historical movements, outside Of tie wars
which rulers hare waged with each other,
Aare been complicated with this idea With
out it Christianity, or any other form Of relig-
Ion which assumes tho accountability OF NM
and future life, would bo myth OF fable
But without further scrutiny Of the histori-
cal accuracy Of the assumptions Of which tho
Address isf'lls we .nny congratulate our Anti
Slavery readers who believe in tho doctrines
upon which this Republic is based, upon the
fact, that, as tho contest in which the parties
are engaged wa1es warm, the so-cal]ed d.
mocrncy, even in the North, are casting Of
the disguiscs which they have heretofore
worn. As long as they wero making the plea
that the integrity Of the Onion demanded tho
continuance of:slavery; rs long as they e1-
eused its existence by disclaiuipg RESPONSE
bility for its beginning; rs long as they pro-
3eased to deprecatc it's effects upon the body
polite and social, and to hope for its removal,
they were dangerous just in proportion to the
extent Of tie popular belief in their sincerity.
But let them once stand before the American
people as the champions Of that hercsy which
maintains that any nation or individual must
necessarily be condemned to Slavery, and their
fate may be at once foretold. Without being
able to describe the logical process by which
they would reach that conclusion, the mcn Of
1ol-the men who cow and reap, who hammer
IRON, plane boards, build machines, make roads
and do the wo.k OF the world general!y-
would feel that Tie cuthrallment Of the black
man, By virtue q that heresE, is but tie prc-
lude to the ene1avement Of themselves; and
that tie Virginia maxim, condition, not color
il the essential prerequisite Of Slavery"
would not wait long for CT application to free
white men. To that maxim this Address,
written by trusted man Of tue party in Penn
nylvania, indorssd by the Democracy Of that
State ard re-indorsed by the party at Wash
ington, our opponents are fully committed,
They deny Ne an abstract proposition the
equality Of human rights. Through that de-
nial, all misgovernmcnt, Ill tyranny, all aris-
tocracy, MI dcspotism, whether Of tie Church
or State, must come
MR. DOUGLAS AND THE Two.
THtHDs NULE.
Tho thetwo~.hirds rule was originally adop-
uat- .1to En%;r,,,1 n,+r,. x1,~~..a:.. e.