The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1860-01-05

papers have been filed with the names of bus
ness men in that city who subscribed to III
call for a Union meeting, merely to advertis
for Southern patronage.
| ILLUSTRATIONS OF DEMOCRACY.
The adherents of Democracy even in the fire.
States, have at length come out boldly in ad
vocacy of Slavery as just, and basphemousl
quote Scripture in its support. Mr.. O'Conor
a distinguished and able leader of the party il
New York, gave utterance, at the great Union
Saving Meeting in that city, to the following
sentiments
Is negro Slavery unjust fit is unjust, !
violates that first rule of human conduct, Ren
der to every man his DUE If it is unjust,
violates the law of God, which says, Love tn,
neighbor as myself for that requires that w
should perpetrate no injustice. And, gentle
men, if it could be maintained that Negro Sla
very was unjust, perhaps might be prepared
perhaps we ought to be prepared, to go witt
that distinguished man, to whom allusion is FIRE
| quently made, and say there is higher law
which compels US to trample beneath our fee
the Constitution established by our fathers, witt
| all the blessings it secures to their children
| But, gentlemen, insist-and that is the argu
ment to which we must come, which we mus
meet, and on which we must come to con
| clusion that shall govern our action in the flu
ture selection of Representatives in the Con
| gress of the United States-I INSIST THAT Ne
GRO SLAVERY is NOT UNJUST; bravo anc
cheers j it is not only just, misses, applause
and cries of put him out put him out 81
| down. order, order
MIR. O'Conor. Order, order, if you please.
Mayor Tiemann. Let him stay there, order
Voices. Put him out.
"Mr. O'Conor. Serpents have the privilege
OF kissing; good men will be silent and hear
l maintain, gentlemen, that NEGRO SLA
plause that it is BENIGN IN IT'S INFLU
ENCES on the white man and on the black
man, that's so, and cheers :; that it is OR
DAMNED BY NATURE; that it is a neces
sity created by nature itself; that it carries
with 1T duties for the black man, and duties fol
the white, which duties cannot be performed
| except by the preservation, and, if the gentle
men please it, the PERPETUATION of the
system of Negro Slavery. lApplause."l
Mr.. O'Conor supposes, no doubt, that by the
utterance of this diabolsm he has secured the
respect and esteem of the South but he has
made great mistake. John Randolph en-
bodied the sentiment of the South, when he
said that he had no respect for the Northern
apologist for Slavery. A Southern member OF
the present House of Representatives reiterated
the same contemptuous opinion of Northern
doughfaces, day or Iwu siuvv. Iruuesu and
true men everywhere will despise the loathsome
sentiment and its author.
But we call attention to it as an illustration
of modern Democracy. Mr.. Larrabee, of Wis
consin, gave utterance to similar views few
days ago, in the House of Representatives.
Mr.. Singleton, of Mississippi, in his speech
in the House of Representatives on Monday
week, gave utterance to the following version
of the Democratic creed:
=" If you exclude Slavery from US, it will
prove the disruption of every tie. We will have
expansion of Slavery in the Union, or outside
of it, if we must. If you want to know my ad-
vice to Mississippi, sag, the sooner zoe get out
OF the Union the better; for the longer we stay
in, the worse for US. The South have made up
their minds to sustain Slavery. We don't in
tend to be prescribed by present limits, and it
will not be in the power of the North to coerce
the three millions of freemen at the South with
arms in their hands, and prevent their going
into the surrounding Territories Gentlemen
must remember that a gallant son of the South
Jefferson Davis, led our forces into Mexico
and, thank God, he still hres, perhaps TO lead
q Southern army.
"The South will expand to Mexico, that
country being without government, and they
can administer the estate for themselves
Whenever man like Mr.. Seward or Mr.. Hale
is elected to preside over the destines of the
South, there may be expected an undivided
front in that section, and all parties will be uni
ted In resistance to the aggression"
1t is needless to point out the folly Of this
bombast. We merely quote it to show what
Democracy is. Any schoolboy could tell Mr..
Singleton that, outside of the Union, the South
would be the most conservative of all countries,
and would gladly sacrifice her share in the
common Territories, and every hope of future
acquisitions from Mexico, for the sake of being
let alone.
The EXCITEMENT SoUTH-Extract of a let
ter dated Charleston, Dec. l3, 1859:
II shall have no trouble in travelling in this
section Of the Union,' as shall mind my own
business if / did not, / would be sent home.
One of our passengers was sent from the steam
er, on our arrival this morning, to the cars and
started out of the State on the way back to
Boston and it served her just right, as she was
very outspoken in her condemnation Of South.
ern institutions" IN r. Express.
1t is Just such facts as these which demon.
strate to the world the conscious weakness of
the South. 1t is in vain that Singleton and
the rest of them in Congress brag and threaten
that they will dissolve the Union, and then con-
guer Mexico, when the State of South Carolina
cannot allow woman to speak her honest con-
victions within the limits of the State. The
world will attribute these acts of brutality to
nothing but cowardice, growing out of con-
,ciousness that Slavery is unjust, and will not
bear investigation.
Who ARE THE SIsrs?-Congress has
now been in session two weeks, and men of all
parties have avowed their sentiments in regard
o the Union. Who has threatened or justified |
Oisunion?
c. c. Clay, an Administration Democrat.
Alfred Iverson, an Administration Democrat. |
A. G. Brown, an Administration Democrat.
JEFF. Davis, an Administration Democrat.
w. NJ. Gwin, an Administration Democrat.
L. M. Keitt, an Administration Democrat.
M. j. Crawford, an Administration Democrat
j. l.. M. Curry, an Administration Democrat.
l.. @. G. Lamar, an Administration Democrat.
Reuben Davis, an Administration Democrat.
John ]. McRae, an Administration Democrat.
C.L. Vallandigham;a an Administ'n Democrat.
Roger A. Pryor, an Administration Democrat.
sgd. Moore, an Administration Democrat.
M. R. 81. Garnet, an Administ'n Democrat.
William Smith, an Administration Democrat.
w. P. Miles, an Administration Democrat.
But not a single Republican,
These Disunionists have been rebuked by
ne Renuhlican memhers. Rut their DEM cratio |