Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1860-02-24

hho"icuStu iCdutTs ol the SlhNthOlulng
class declares to his constituents, with tn,
frunkness that marks his character.
"IUant Cuba want Tamaulipas, Po.
tosi and one or two other Mexican States
and 1 rant them all for tie same reason, 70,
The planting aud spreading Of .Siarery
And footing in Central America will pow
eriully aid US in acquiring those other
States. Yes, ! ,cant these countries for tie
spread Of sidrery. would spread the bless.
ings of slavery, Ike Tie religion Of our Di-
rine Master, TO the utmost ends of tue earth
and rebellious and wicked as the Yankees
have been, Iieouid eren erteRd II TO them"
These dreams of empire in which to
plant slavery fill the minds of the leaders
of the slave Propaganda; and the Presi-
dent in asking authority TO march the army
into Mexico, and the Senator from Louisi-
anna, Mr.. Slidell] in pressing his Cuba
scheme. are acting in response to these
ideas of conquest and acquisition. Up TO
this hour the slave propagandists have new
er made arequisition upon the Northern
Democrats which has not been complied
with, although many of them have sealed
their ready servility with political martyr
dom.
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY TO REFORM
THESE oUTRAGEs.
Sir, TO arrest the aggressive policy of the
slave Propaganda. which is perverting the
Constitution, subverting the institutions !;
disturbing the repose of the country, en-
dangering the stability of the Union, and
bringing reproach upon the American name /;
and to restore the government to The policy
of its illustrious founders, an organization
/ has been formed which calls itself the re-
publican party. This party, which en-
braces in its organization a million and a
half of intelligent and patriotic freemen,
proclams no new doctrine; it proposes no
new experiments. Upon the great and
overshadowiDg question of slavery in Amer
lea, the Republican party accepts the doc
trine of the revolutionary fathers of the
North and of the South. The Republican
party sees, as Washington saw, "the direful
effects Of slavery" it believes with Henry
that '.slduery is lamentaJle eril;" with
Luther Martin that "slave,y is Inconsistent
,0ih the genius Of repubiicanism !" with
Madison that "slave,y is dreadful calami-
B;" that " imbeciiity is ever attendant
upon a country filled wiM slares;" with
Munroe that "slarery has preyed upon the
uery vitals of the Union, and has been prej-
Judicial to all the States ia tchich IL has er,
isted" Concurring in these opinions oi
these illustrious patriots and statesmen OF
the South, the Republican party proposes
to preserve the vast territorial possessions
of the Republic from 'the direful effects
of this dreadful calamity which "has
preyed upon the sitals of the Union" by
applying to and engraving upon those ter
ritorial possessions these words, "slaUery
shall be AND is FOREVER prohibited; +"
words which came from the pen of Jeffer-
son, were embodied in the ordinance of
1857, and stamped on every foot of the
virgin soil of the Northwest.
THE ISSUE.
Believing freedom to be national, and
slavery to be local and sectional, 'a mere
municipal regulation" in the words of the
Supreme Court, founded upon and lin
tied by the verge of the State law" for
which the people of each State that toler-
ates it are alone responsible, the Republi-
can party joins issue with the sectionalized
Democracy, which under the lead Of men
whose vital and animating principle is the
propagation of slavery, accepts the mon
strous dogma that slavery, by virtue of the
Constitution, exists in all the Territories.
Accepting this doctrine, the Democracy re-
pealed the prohibition of slavery in Kan
sas and Nebraska, and resist all congress
sional action. Accepting this doctrine, the
Democracy in those Territories resist ter
riiorial acts to prohibit slavery, and Gov
ernment officials veto their enactmenis.
Accepting this doctrine, the Democratic
Legislature of New Mexico, under the
lead of Democratic Government officials,
prompted by Mr.. OTERo, the Democratic
Delegate, sat the solicitation of General X.
DAVIS of Mississippi" have enacted bru-
tai and bloody slave code. Already the
Democratic chiefs of the slave power are
demanding the enactment of slave code
by Congress, and the leaders of the De-
mccracy are fastening to give them assur-
ances that "if," in the, words of the Vice
President, ''this constitutional right to hold
slaves as property in the Territories cannot
be enforced for want of proper legislation
to enforce it, sufficient legislation must be
passed, or our Government is failure"
Rejecting the dogmas accepted by the
Democracy, and holding with the refubli-
can fathers, that slavery cannot exist in the
Territories. except by positive law, and that
Congress and the people of the Territories
may exclude it, the Republican party takes
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