The Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1859-1865, 1860-03-01
Peoples Party Nomination.
The DiGercDce.

The Republicans, says the State Jour-
nal, believe in letting slavery stay where
it is, and take care of itself. The
Democrats believe in agitating for its
permanence, and gratifying all its de-
mands for extension. If there is any
one thing in our political history clearer
than another, it is that slavery has always
been aggressive, while freedom has always
stood on the defensive The Democratic
party has always joined the slave interest
in pushing its claims to new privileges
This is too familiar fact to be denied :;
and it places the responsibility of the eter-
nal discussion of the ''negro question: at
once and forever on the shoulders where
1t belongs. The demand that slave labor
shall be spread over territories now free
asserted.5y the Democracy, necessitated, in
sheer selt-defence, the existence and the
action of the Republican party. If free
labor was to hold its own, if our white in
dustrial classes were not to be driven to
the wall by the black, then it is plain to
any man who can reason, that resistance
TO the extension Of slavery was logical
necessity.
The Republican party is emphatically
and truly the party OF the white man.
While the Democracy seeks to let slavery
into all places where it is not, thus degra-
ding white labor, their opponents seek to
save every foot of territorial soil for the
white man. They do not desire to see
the fair domains which open their rich
fields to human culture, cursed by the
black foot of the slave. They leave
to the Democracy the championship of
the idea that slavery and freedom have
equal rights and are equally Indifferent
They honestly and avowedly prefer free
dom ; prefer it because they have seen its
greater blessings, and proved its superior
value. So far as the question of freedom
persHs slavery enters into the domain of
law, SO far as they have constitutional con-
troll over its extension or restriction, they
do not hesitate to throw their weight in
the scale of freedom. Beyond this, they
seek not to so. Believing in the benefits
OF white labor, they strenuously oppose
every course of policy which looks to the
colonizing of the territories with negro
labor
The Democratic party is never done
with the negro. They fetch him forward
at every convention, and make him "shoS
his PAGES" from every stump. They fill
their party organs with his claims Cor
rather with the claims of his owner.) and
seek to browbeat the country into the be-
lief that he has the right TO he carried
everywhere. While their opponents are
busted with the endeavor to sustain the
rights Of white men and white labor. the
Democratic party have the hypocracy to
call them Black Republicans" and
~negroPhilists." The Democracy have a
permanent Glen on the negro question.
The negro is the staple of their speeches.
the essence Of their articles, and almost
their whole stock in trade They use him
"Their grace fore meat
Their talk at table, and their talk at end"
He is the burden of their most audacious
charges, the subject of their most reckless
falsehoods, the butt of their most contemp.
tible Wit, and the engine of their most
shameful and unsorupulous party war.
fare. Having used him thus dishonestlt
to vihfy those whose policy consists in let
ting him alone, they fling him, like a
sucked orange, at their feet, and clamor
about "agitation' and ''abolitionism -
Such brazen impudence, properly inves-
ted, would make the fortune Of any bell
founder in the comnurit-.