Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1860-06-22
Are we all to be made Slaves i?

Are we all to be made Slaves =?
Bad as it would be to extend the curse of
Slavery over the whole physical, social and
moral area of our country, even this is but
small part of the evil contemplated by the
Democratic party. If we have just view of
the matter at issue before the American peo-
PIE, the question is, net only shall the whole
American soil be titled by slaves, and daily
believed by their sweat, and tears, and blood !;
and shall every hill and valley yet be made
to re.echo to the crack of the slave-whip, the
wall of the bondman, the clank of their
chains, and all this forever; but still more,
shall there also be superadded to all this, the
most AFFECT enslavement and degradation of
the ,ohite men and free citizens Of the now
free territories and states. The man who
does not see that all this is involved In the
present struggle, it seems to US, is more than
half blind to what is passing before him.
Our opponents may deny this, and it may be,
and probably is true, that some of them do
not see the matter in this light. Undeniable
facts, however, abundantly show that the
above is correct. The doctrine of the Dem
ocratic party is, that property in man is the
same, virtually, as property in horses, catt'e,
or any other movable object; that it is the
right of the Shareholder, a right guaranteed
by the Constitution, to carry and use his
slaves anywhere he pleases, all over the
country, as well in the territories and free
states, as relating to slave territory; precise
ly as relating to any other property. That
this is the doctrine of a majority of the
party, although some men belonging to 1t
may differ as to the policy of adopting this
article as part of their national platform, can
be clearly proved.
The next point is, that state of vassalage
and servitude to shareholders, by white men.
is involved wherever slavery exists, and must
60 with it, as part of the system, wherever
human bondage is carried. Our readers
have heard of the Irishman in Georgia, who
was inhumanly treated to cruel scourging,
coat of hot tar and feathers, and tn en- driven
from the State, for saying simply that slave
labor degraded white labor; and also of the
hundreds of men who have been driven from
their homes in Kentucky, Virginia, Missouri,
and other states.
Freed om of speech and of the press does
not exist in the slave states. The very gen
ias and soul of liberty have long since been
crushed and driven out-immolated, murder
ed, crucifed, a gasping, bleeding sacrifice,
upon this stained altar; upon which it is
now proposed to offer up, into the hands of
shareholders, the freedom of the whole coun-
try, not excepting white men. He must
have been a dull observer of passing events
who does not know this to be true He who
says with Patrick Henry, Where Liberty
dwells, there is my Country" cannot refer to
the South or, should he do so, would pre-
sent q carricature, naught but solemn mock
cry. The mere utterances of the deepest and
truest emotions of the heart swelling against
unparalleled wrong and vice of deepest dye
the simple announcement OF truths canonized
by Jehovah himself, and venerated by all A.
merican patriots in all the slave states and
the American Capitol, would subject the cit
izen of this republican country to felon's
doom, if he escaped being hung upon the
nearest tree, or, with the man who simply
circulated bibles in Texas, being burned.
The people of the slave States are not free
to-day; have not been for years and never
will be free, until the great fundamental
principles which underlie the Republican
Platform and party, shall triumph South, as
we'll as North, as, ultimately, they are sure
to do. The 800, 900 shareholders, than whom
there is not more guilty set of men in the
country, hold in degrading bondage, rot only
blacks, but the white population South - q
worse than Egyptian bondage. The tongues,
the pens, and the presses, of the South, all
a-e in constant slavery; otherwise, for resist.
ing demoniacal rule, they have been hushed
into the stiffness of death, wrested from the
writers hand, or demolished, as at Alton and
CovlDgton. The southern church and pul.
pit, bought up like cattle, and thoroughly
: debauched by Shareholders who have thrust
themselves into it, and wher, in thew both
practice and defend all kinds of abomina.
lions, are not free, but enslaved in the hor-
rid work of preaching slavery, instead of pro.
claiming liberty, with Jesus Christ, Apostles,
and Prophets.
The truest representatives of the demo-
cratic party stand up and declare that g Cot
Aston is King, and therefore slavery mus. ure.
vail Their meaning is that, because slave.
holders produce cotton, which is the great
Americahs~>staal therefore Shareholders
must, and wilfs>xsae the country, the people
abjectly sacrificing morality, humanity, po-
itical economy and Christianity, to the com
sHercial argument.
Such being the condition of the white popu-
lation ofthe slave states, to complete our argu-.
ment we need add only, that the extensionc of
slavery into free States and the Territories,