The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1860-03-29
March 29tH, 1850.

taliation, then different communities could
never be at peace, and no eonfederacy oi
States could be peaceful or permanent.
doub. not that men from tha North have
sometimes induced slaves to run away from
their masters. though not perhaps once where
it is charged a hundred times; such conduct
is in violation OF the law and good neighbor-
hood. and is not to be pallialed or excused.
But ii We were to open book account with
the South, OF mutual outrages springing out
of the slavery question. we shall ind perhaps.
ii it did not come out about even, a balance
standing against her. The question may be
asked, then, what Is the cause of the hostility
pervading the Southern mind towards the
people of the North? There are many caus-
es, but the chief one is to be found in the pol
iey of the Democratic Party To chain
the South firmly to the car OF that party it has
for years proclaimed that every other party
at the North was fatally bent on the invasion
and destruction of the constitutional rights
of the South. and that the success of any
other party would prove destructive 10 the
institution Of Slavery. To this end it has la
bored and lied in season and out of season
with Satanic industry. to indoctrina,e the
South with the notion that the masses of the
North, now in an overwhelming majority, are
hostile to Southern institutions and to the
Southern people, and are impatiently awaiting
the hour when they may even by force sub
vert the institutions of the South. Witness
the recent course of Northern and Southern
Democratic papers and speeches representing
the entire Republican party of the North as
the aiders and abettors of the raid Of John
Brown at Harper's Ferry. A very consider
able portion of the Southern people have
come to believe this enormous lie, and have
no means Of knowing any better. Republic
an papers are not permitted to circulate in
the South. Republican speakers are not per-
mitted to speak there, while Democratic pa
pers North and South TEEN with the speech
es of Wendell Philips and VIM. Lloyd Gar
risou. as the exposi,ions of Northern sen,i
ment and feeling. Even the opposition par
ky Of the South-what there is left of it
dare not contradict the monstrous falsehood
for fear of being charged with Abolition sym
pathies, but on the contrary. embracing Dem
ocrstic policy have sought to out-Herod Her
Cd by pandering to pro slavery ignorance and
prejudice. The true explanation then OF the
hostility of the masses of the Southern people
to the North is found in their profound mis-
apprehension of the true state and condition
of Northern sentiment. There as but one
,eay that the people Of the South can be un-
deceived, and that IS by the election Of a Re
publican President and the preservation Of
the Constitutional rights Of the South amder
lis Administration. A single Republican
would do much If it did not
entirely succeed towards restoring the era Of
good feeling between the North and the
South. The beginning. the continuance. the
and the increasing violence OF this
slavery agitation has been under Democratic
Administrations. The cure of the evil can
not therefore be looked for by continuance
of that party in power. Not only is this
true, but such agitation as before stated has
been invoked and fostered by that party as a
source and means Of power. The Republic
an party has not produced this agitation but
has been produced by it; it is the creature
rather than the creator; it sprang like a
Phoenix from the ashes of decaysd parties,
not as sword but as shield to prevent the
INVASION and subjugation of all Free Terrific.
y by the institution of Slavery.
WHAT Is THE POLICY OF THE DEMOCRATIC
PARTY?
The policy of the Democratic Party IS the
'rtension of Slareru not onty into all the
Territories but all the Free Stntesi The
grand instrumentality by which this is to be
accomplished is the Supreme Court of the
United States; an irresponsible tribunal, the
members of which hold their offices for life.
and who are not elected by the people or
amenable to the people. and which for many
years has been used as place Of retiracy for
broken, spawned and asthmatic politicians.
This tribunal was originally intended by the
trainers Of the Constitution as Court of ap-
peals for the decision of questions of law aud
equity legi,imately arising in the lower fede-
raj courts, but by the plastic hand Of modern
Democracy has been converted into an en-
CINE for the subversion Of free institutions
and the propagation of human slavery. The
6rst grand step in the programme of convert
ing our Republic into vast slave holding
was the establishment of slave
ry in the Territories by virtue of the Consti-
tuition of the United States This is sup
posed 10 have been done by the decision in
the Dred Scott case. Mr.. Buchanan tri-
announces the consummation Of
the fact in his late message. The next step
and the last is but logical sequence Of the
first, viz: That if the Constitution carries
slavery into the Territories. it carries it into
the States, also. The one follows the other
as certain as night follows day. If the Con
stitution protect slavery out of the Union,
much more does il protect and nourish il in
the Union. II it recognizes slaves as prop
erty and not as persons. and secures to the
master an indefeasible title to them in the
Territories, will the rights of properly be
held less sacred in the States? Does the
Constitution guarantee to tie slave holders or
other persons rights of property or Of persons
in the Territories that il does not equally Sc
cure in the several States,
When. therefore. the nation comes to ad-
nit, if it ever does. the right to hold slaves
in Territory, and that there is no power IN
Congress or in the people of the Territory
to exclude them, it will then be required TO
take another step which it cannot refuse, ca
sy, natural and legitimate. which is, tina, the
Constitution secures the right to carry slaves
into all the Free States, and hold and enjoy
them there rs property.
The President In his late message congrat-
ulates the country on the 6nal settlement Of
the slavery question, by the decision of the
Supre eme Cour, of the United States in the
Dred Scott case He forgets that the Dem
ocratic party have taught the country that