Brookville American. [volume] (Brookville, Ind.) 1858-1861, 1860-10-19

ont their nermission. Whoever enter,
them excent under tho arules and req.
plations1 of Congress. is an intruder
If such intruders attempt to form gov.
ernn,ent and enac. either f,iendlv or
aunfriendIy" legislation, il is usurpa,
ton. Congress as agent Of the sole
owner has a right 10 prohibit every per.
son from entering the Territory, or to
prescribe conditions on which hey may
enter.
Both Breckenridge and Douglas con.
cur in denying Congress the power tc
legis'atc slavery out of the Territories
From 1884 to 1854 well defined
doctrine was. estAblislic* giving Con
grows mat power A; the end OF sixty
year5 u 70 morufying-it Is provoking
10 see thus work OF the tall men OF the
isevoiuuon struck down by demagogues
four feet four. But thus molcs--blind
,q oies7-undermine towers that il cost
'ne iaocr o1 giants 70 erect.
Dut WY speak OF the serviie prociiv-
,.,es oi modern . saay sDemaosracyr Their
creed Is sasod on slavery. Somebody
n"s sa'o ina. IN tne south tney nunt
slaves with uogs-in tho North with
po'nocra's' 1h's was iuiiy sustained
oy ,ho Norincrn democracy ~ tne last
session OF congress. Mr. Logan OF ilii-
nV'', wy 'hou'u'p'oco oi mr: Dongias IN
'oo ho"sot 70 prove ms and the Domo.
cratic loyalty IN the South, said that the
Republicans, though they would not re-
s'st ", wopid give no active ala TO en-.
force tho Fugitive Slave law. If . slave
escaped thoy would not pursue him /;
they left that to- the Democraf< ~!,o
never filled TO catci them, and return
them 10 their masters. This I beliovcis
trpe. We have this spectacle in this
christian country FWhen man who
has been robbed Of his liberty breaks
tbc bondc of L:s oppressor, rogains his
natural rights, and ia about 70 eecapoto
a land of freedom, in tho South you see
blood-hounds, p tho North Democrats,
hanging upon his launches. Which
think you. the most respootable--tho
blpcd or the unadrlped--tho man or
tho dog7
Some allowance can bo made for
breckenridge and Bell for practcing
and defending Slavery. They Were born
aud educated IN Slave States and con.
scionce, in those DAYS of Degenerate
Christianity, n not only modified but
created by education. but what can be
aaid of man born among tho FREQ hills
O; Vermont, and taught from youth 10
ruad. tho Declaration of indepondnnce,
lslb'p a. 4. hat, ~ s'earcs cot whether
Slavery be voted or or downY' We
claim no right 10 interfere with Slavcfy
in tho States! But II tho question OF
emancipation were lcgltimately before
tho people OF Mnrylahd and hentueky,
or other SlaSo States, and q Northern
mai should declare that ho cared not
whether IL were "votcd up or voted
down ought DO not to DO looked upon
not only with contempt and abhorronce,
but with detestntion2 IL can DO nc.
counted Tor only by the fact, that ho Il
now living on tho unpaid labor of In.
herited slaves, who,undcr his oversoors,
arc toiling and dying or tho death.boar-
Ing plantations Of Mississippi.
Whether this ragged, torn, disjointcd
Democratic party will survive 10 ontor
another fight against Freedom / know
not Dante tells us Of man In tho
gloomy regions OF which ho wrote, who
was doomed for his manifold sins TO
traverse tbs rough pavcments Of tho In
formal fcgions through illifhitable time,
with his entroils torn out and dragging
between hlaleks. Whether this unhappy
~ "Ns''"N" w s'''''"'
Palulu, eN's,oncV, umo must .p,'' iN
v"oreVs SINS % ~ surrGnuarSo 'aso,a s1
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