Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1860-08-14

IN banded opposition 10 US, and who's,
prlnclpIe business we are instructed /,
beiieVe, is compoundng politics with per.
hdIty, II will be impossible to render oul
condition better thai. it is.
These leper-yards must be cleansed
Their occupants load the air with a con.
taglous corruptions Throughout .,hei.
bodies and their souls, they bear the
marks of the diStemper with which the
arIstocrailc polationist has touched them.
risk but hule in saying, lha, al thls
very hour, this mighty phalanx, scattered
throughout the eight Northern States;
ha uino a -nn.s..-a1s.s -.--i T.~--->--f-l Il
union, are devlSlng measures to deSpoll
our Industrial classes, by con6ning them
IN densely crowded fields of labor, or
forcing them 10 enter into competition
and cOmpanionship with ignorant and
brutallzed bondmen. They all, yes, all.
have been brought TO believe that the
doctrines of the Declaration of Indepen-
dence are but stereotyped lies, that the
constitution which they framed was in
tended as an instrument Of cruelty and
crime; and that the fairest feature of free
RepubIcan association is a union of
States peopled with the lowest grade of
slaves. Am | right! What is the trouble
against which we have 10 contendl Is
not the steady influence of what NAV
with propriety be called political conspI-
racles to mislead the public mind and
taInt the pu!-lc hearls Is it not an Ad-
minIstratIon blackened with treachery,
and crooked and tottering under the
weight of It's depravily, using all the pat
ronage Of office, and all the fasclnauons
OF position to utterly destroy US, by M
king the Territories of the country but
garrlsons for the enemies of freedom,
and the labor of white men degrading
and frullless, beyond the limits of the
present States! If | am in error, what
Is the correct Interpretation of the poIltl-
cal discords of the last six years.
L anticipate fully that my suggested
mode of redress for existing abuses will
be denounced as sectional; to which
answer, if il be so the antidote to a bane
many be bane itself, "Similla, Sin1iH-
bus, cllra11tdtr." But its liability TO the
charge IS denied: The real sectionalsm
IS arrayed against US: do not counsel
systematic and persistent assistance. In
studies Of The fundamental doctrines of
our common character, and in the dis
pensauons of the favo of Government,
we should never know North, South
an East or West. Ny complaint is
that others act as if they thought differ
erenhy. | trust we shall be always able
to command the exercise of such d pat
rIotIsm and comfy as 10 forever preclude
US from aggression upon a section infe-
rior 10 ours IN every element of material
strength and greatness. 1t can never be
otherwise than dastardly to press upon
the weak and sicl.ly.
1t will be noticed that | haze spoken
OF the Democratic party without refer
ence TO It's present distractions. Ny rea-
son for 50 doing is found In the opinion
| entertain that these dissenlions do not
affect issues, as neither branch indicates
disposition to meet, fairly and openly,
the great political problem of the times.
In casting our votes we should be aCcu-
rately informed as 10 their effect upon
the policy we desire to see established.
We should not be made instruments 10
the hands of any ambitious man, or In
or Inscriptions men, to force an unnat-
ural growth of Slavery IN the country,
contrary 10 what has heretofore be IN the
understanding of the Constitution of the
United States, and in palpable violation
OF what has been regarded a settled and
national policy. 1t should be matter
of singing regret TO US, if from our bear
ing III the present contest, we could be
fairly charged hereafter With a violation
of the principles we have long professed
to cherish, or with having imposed any.
the slightest, impeachment IN the pathway
of rational, well grounded and pro-
gressive liberty.
The all-absorblng question now pre-
senied 10 the American citizen, for what
will prove to be his ultimate decision,
have watched narrowly as It has risen
into importance from year to year, and
L think | know the opinions of the sever
al Presidential candidates respecting it.
| am not aware that the supporters of
Mr.. Breckenridge attempt any conceal
ment as TO 10 his designs III case OF his sue
cess. If they should desire 10 resort TO
prevarlcation, they have placed it entire
ly without their power by Trankness and
| had almost SAID, the reckiessness of
their declarations. He has been pu;
forth, prominently, like a speech sand
platform, as the Achilles of the armies
OF the South, and as the determined foe
of free soil, free speech and free men.
He stands upon single democratic
sentiment, unless, indeed, what were re-
garded 10y all statesmen within tae last
fifteen years as the preten,IOus heresles
of John G. Calhoun can be 50 regarded
He 50 reads the teachings of the sages of
the past, and their primary law, as to
make II frultleSs TO attempt an exclusion
of his peculiar and fdvorite institution
from The original Territories; and so as
- make II indispensable that Congresses,
Courts and Presidents should exercise
all their ingenuity, an all their powers
10 torlIty and sustain Il there. Leglsla-
i've action IS to be invoked, judicial de-
crees had, executive fiat. pronounced,
navies equipped and armies marsaalled,
% exclude forever every settler there
rom who Will not bow down before The
black god OF his idolatrous worship.
l appeal 10 you, Freemen, 10 know
whether this Is the Democracy Of Jeffer-
son, Madison, Monroe and Jackson. |
appeal to YOU TO know whether you have /
sver found anything in the annaI Of par
les SO insulting to The understanding IN
ii within the lifetime of the youth who /
las not yet reached his majority ap-
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