Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1860-08-23
Tarred with the Same Brush.

NO maller on Wnat olner SrOunCS Tue
two wings of the Democracy may differ,
the policy of the leaders of both divisions
is that of slavery perpetuation and slavery
extension. Both, in the South, repudiate
with indignation that they would tighten
the yoke of slavery, or restrict it within its
present bounds. The charge having been
made that Breckenridge has favored eman-
cipation doctrines, his home organ, the
Kentucky Statesman, at once puts forth
an authoratiye denial. The Statesman
says:
1t is charged that Mr. Breckenridge vo-
ted the emancipation ticket 1919. The
facts are: He was in that year a candi-
date on the pro slavery ticket for the Le-
gislature and opposed the emancipation
cause from every stump in the county,
He voted against his uncle, Rev. R. J.
Breckenridge, and Mr.. Shy, who were the
emancipation candidates for the conven-
ton. So much for that slander.
H.V. Johnson, the ''Vice" on the Douglas
ticket repels with equal disdain the charge
that he was against Congressional interven-
ton in favor of slave property in the terri
tories. At Southern Rights Convention,
held in Miliedgeville, Georgia, in June last,
he took bold stand in favor of interven-
ton for slavery. AT Rome in the same
State, be made speech short time since,
in which he insisted that it was duty of
Congress to protect slavery in the terrific
ries, and said it was unfair that all those
who did not agree with the Seceeders from
Charleston Convention should be charged
with the favoring "Squater Sovereignty"
For himself he said;
81 repel the insinuation so far as it may
be intended to apply to me, come from
what quarter it may, and plead my own re-
cord in vindication."
On another occasion he said eve believe
that capital should own labor,"-a delec-
table doctrine for the laboring men of the
free Northwest to endorse
To the South, Douglas himself favors
the extension of slavery The Atlanta
(Ga.) Cowederacy, thorough Douglas
paper says:
Mr.. Douglas saw the injustice of the
Missouri Compromise to the South, hence,
through his instrumentality, it was repeal
ed, and slavery extended from SO de-
grees 80 minutes to the 3Sth parallel
North Latitude.
And this assertion of the Confederacy
is born out by the speech of Douglas in
the U. S. Senate, on the 10th of May last,
when be said:
Under this doctrine of uon-intervention
the people of New Mexico have introdu-
ced and protected slavery in that whole
Territory. Under this doctrine they have
converted tract of free territory into
slave territory, five times as large as New
York-giving you (the South) o degree
and half more slave territory than you
ever claimed.
AS far as the rights of the white labor
er against the "irrepressible nigger' are
concerned, there is not pin to choose be-
tween the two wings of the Democracy.
Both would rob the working man of his
livelihood and bis political status; but the
one, pistol in hand, boldly meets his inten-
ded prey on the highway, whilst the other
pursues the safe but contemplate course
of pretending friendship, drugging the
victim, and then stripping him of his last
cent Cleveland Herald.