Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1860-07-13
Republican Nominations.
Support of Slavery by all Democrats
.af ~ Great Guilt Involved

Young Tor eltner OF the candidates OF the
democratic party would be morally kindred
to great crime. Truth and logic are stub
born things, and we frankly confess thai
what little of these We possess forces us to
the above conclusion. The argument is very
brief and equally conclusive: No man Of
ordinary intelligence will deny that the South
is laboring to extend and perpetuate slavery
Slavery may be said to be almost the whole
political object and aim of the South. If not
the only matter, it certainly is the great
question at issue between the Republican
and Democratic parties. 1t is equally well
known that the great inssrumsntality used by
the South for the accomplishment of its pro-
slavery purposes, is the democratic party
By the use of this party it has seized the
reins of the general government and control
ed the Executive, the Judicial and the Leg
islative departments of government, using
them mainly for strengthening and extend.
ing slavery. -
We need look no farther than the acts of
the present administration to see notifying
proof that the general government has done
all n could do, to extend and establish slave
ry in territory where it did not exist. 1t has
attempted to impose detestable pro-savery
constitution upon the freedom.loving people
of Kansas. The democratic party has en-
couraged and sustained military invasions of
free territory by armed proslavery rufians !;
the demolition of the free ballot box, which
they knew would lie against them cold
blooded murder of men guilty of no other
crime than hating and lawfully opposing
a lawless and bloody pro-sIavery despotism !;
the ravishing of women belonging to free
state families for the purpose of striking ter
ror to the souls of Freemen and driving them
from the field; the indiscriminate burning
and sacking of the dwellings of free-state
men; the use of the U. S. army to compel
acquiescence in the slave power at the point
of the bayonet, for the sole purpose of graft.
flying a chronic hatred of freedom and pro.
noting slavery. es-aE .-,.F ra..s--FE -
All this and blacker reckord of infamy
never existed - has been done and is now
sustained by both the present administration
and the democratic party. From first to last
against all this and much more of the same
sort, we have not heard a solitary remon-
STRANGE by ally section of this pro.slavery
party, nor by either of the democratic Presi-
dental candidates not excepting Douglas and
his supporters. t,.. ....r --s-.- ~.
How justly then have we affirmed, that this
democratic party and administration have
been the great instruments by which the
South is accomplishing its guilty purposes.
With all this before his eyes, well knowing
the pro slavery character of this party, as ev-
cry intelligent man N lust, the individual who
acts with it and belongs to it, according to
the plainest rules Of reasoning, cannot but
be guilty of aiding and abeting slavery, and
all the enormities perpetrated by the par
ty in Kansas ard enacted in various parts of
the land, such as kidnapping colored freemen
and driving peaceable citizens from their
homes. If man countenances an organi-
ings and tramples upon the most sacred hu-
man rights, the whole community regards
him as guilty of participating in these outra-
ges and possessing the same character as
that of the yillaineus association which he
thus abets. Thus if it be clearly proved that
the least suspected man in the community
has acted only FIVE minutes in concert with a
gang of horse thieves, knowing them to be
such, he is at once sentenced as thief him
self. Precisely the same is true of the men
who act with the democratic party; a party
the mightiest pen must strive in vain to do
Justice. The man who acts with it and up
holds it, whether he supports Breckenridge,
Bell or Douglas, or if he only lends it his
name; thereby becomes criDsinis particeps,
identified with it and responsible for all the
enormities it has perpetrated. AS the COM
panion of men known to be horse thieves
would find it of but small avail to, either jus
tify horse stealing as democrats do man
stealing, or deny plain facts, SO viii the
democrats fail TO escape the righteous judg-
ment of God and man by any such means
The man who acts with the democratic par
~ thereby becomes guilty of all the Grimm
atty involved in slavery; a criminality in
the case of every one of the four millions of
slaves in comparison with which the crimes
of highway robbery and forgery are immacu-
late purity, as Shareholders and their politi-
zeal abettors North would heartily testify if
the yoke of bondage was only upon their
necks instead of the black mans. For here
let it be remembered, that slavery is worse
than murder, and all the statutory crimes ia
ken together, as seen in the fact that it is 8
eongeries of crimes, there being scarce q
commandment in the decalogue which slave
~ does not contrayene, and nearly all of
them directly. Every stakeholder, Except
ing such as are involuntary and hence can
not emancipate,l by the eye of Omniscience
we have no doubt is seen to be an hundred
fold worse than the class of men usually con-
fined in our States Prisons.
Should a person in this city violently thrust
men, women and children into q bottomless
vortex of lifelong evils as great as those in
volved in slavery, who amongst US would say
he was not as much worse than murderer
as the evils he inflicted were worse than
death, and sil this multiplied by the number
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