Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1860-09-14
The Felons arty..

tHe Ieepuoliodh anu tue democratic caHOl-
dates, is to determine, in the light of rea-
son and conscience, whether he should vote
for slavery, or against it. Freedom being
the birth-right of every human being, the
man who deprives another of this boon
is a robber of the very worst class, and
thereby becomes accountable for the
guilt incident and consequent to slavery,
such as murder, incest, fornication, adulte-
ry, manslaughter, &C., which always pre-
vail in such communities It follows, that
any party which upholds slavery, much more
party whose sole object is to uphold it,
must be held accountable for all these evils
and adjudged guilty of them If this view
is correct-and we believe it is fully sus-
tained-we know of no way by which to
avoid the conclusion, that the democratic
party renders itself responsible for slavery,
and thereby becomes the most guilty set of
men to be found anywhere, not excepting
pirates and the mates of penitentiaries
We confess that we arc nuacquainted
with any method Or process, by which rob-
berry and the other enormities enumerated
above, which all sensible people know to
be inseparable from slavery, can be render
ed virtues, or their turpitude lessened in
any degree Hence we cannot do other
wise than to estimate the moral turpitude
and the evil done in this case, just as we
do IN any other If municipal laws can
change the essential and most baneful ele-
ments of crime into harmlessness and in
noeence, then indeed and as well may hu-
man enactments change the whole econo-
my of nature, in (which virtue and vice, sin
and holiness, selfshness and benevolence.
are essentially based, and abrogate the d.
vine law in toto. If Satan at the moment
at which he seduced our first parents
and introduced 'death and all our woe"
had only found a democratic slave party
TO endorse the measure, according to the
slavery doctrines the Evil One would have
been fully justified, and the evil done have
proved blessing Not belonging to the
modern school which believes that crime
can be quite SO easily disposed of, with the
Republican party we feel bound to regard
slavery as the ''sum of all villanies," as
none the less criminal, or the less evil be-
cause it is framed by law;'' and we hold
all the perpetrators of it, and all who are
in affinity with it, as democrats are, a re-
ally felons in character, if not in name
The democratic party is the felon-party,
and he who votes with it, and is not emit
tied to the plea of, either ignorance or in
sanity, thereby becomes a felon, just as
much as if he should write these crimes
upon his ballot before casting it into the
box, or as if he stood by encouraging the
actors during the commission of murder
1t is a fact which should make every
good man blush for his race, that men are
to be found who are so devoid of moral sem
slblllty, or so utterly shameless, as to open
ly support slavery. We ought to regard
and conduct towards such men precisely as
relating to men who, in other respects,
manifest the some turpitude of character
When man manitests less disregard for
the most sacred rights and the happiness
of his fellow man. by stealing, or robbing
him not Of himself, or child, or wife, but
OF paltry dollar, the whole community,
by unanimous COZ ent, make that one act
the exponent of his character and the ba-
Sis of just sentence to the penitentary,
whatever may have been his conduct in
other respects. But when man volunta-
rlly rolls up his sleeves and plunges head
long lmmersing soul and body in the seeth-
ing hell of unparalleled crime and wretch
edness known by the name of slavery, COM
pared with which all other robbery, muir
der, Nervousness and wrong under heav-
en- are not even as drop to the bucket;
when he puts even Satan to the blush, and
insults high Heaven by asserting that .'cap-
ital ought to own labor that he s.does
, not care whether slavery be voted up or
\ down. for such eminent qualifications the
democrats would make him President, at
the same time that, for obeying the golden
rule and opposing the extension of slavery,
they brand US as BLACK Republicans In
view of such manifestations, no one ought
to doubt the doctrine of either human to-
tai depravity, or Edward Beecher's doc
trine, that men were devils before coming
into this world
| We see no reason why men should not
beJudged and treated according to their ac-
tlons towards eolored persons, the same as
towards all other classes; he who would
urge contrary rule, it seems to US, lacks
the essential attributes of humanity, show
ing that, if any one should be consigned to
unrequited servitude, he is theperson. In
deed, 1t Is great pity that all men on the
earth who are IN favor Of slavery for other
persons, cannot be made slaves themselves
until they shall become decent. or human.
or divine enough to never again utter or
cherish pro-slavery sentiment. It is
highly probable that but small dose of
the just moral remedy of making them
drink the bitter chalice they put to the Inns
of others, would cure them of sucb nr,ar
alleled meanness and inefable enorm;tr
Should the democratic party succeed in
making slavery national, it seems to nc
that Satan, if such work is not even too
abominable and awful to be charged to him
will have reached the very acme of his am.
bltlon-the conversion of the fairest herr
tage on earth into moral and political
slop bowl for all the other nations of the
earth; the casting of people who are ex
allied to heaven in point of privilege down
to the lowest he'll.
1.-The Democrats of the State want to
know what Emil Rothe and f. G.. RYAN,