Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1860-07-27
Which is the Disunicn Farty.

Democratic papers sometimes call ours
sectional, disunion party. Of course,
the charge is false There is not a Re-
| publican in the Union who will listen for a
moment to any idle talk about dissolying
the Union in case this or that party sue
ceeds, OF this or that measure of political
policy is, or is not, carried out.
Not so, however, with our opponents
They are loud in their denunciation of the
Republican party and its platform, Dis
unionists, in the Democratic ranks are
plenty North as well as South, unless their
party succeeds and their peculiar notions
are allowed to have full swing,
We have case in point. The Southern
Cowederacy, one of the two papers in
Georgia that support Douglas for the Pres
idency, has been erecting a platform re-
Gently, consisting of seven rlanks, four of
which we present to our readers, as follows:
We are for perpetuaton of the Union, prc.
|
measures of 1850, and all the subsequent COM
promises are repealed.
We are for the repeal of the restrictions upon
the African slave trade, regardless of its con-
strued impoicy by Northern fanatics and South
ern submissionists.
We regard the foregoing restrictions as un-
warranted by the Constitution. deriving. de-
grading, insulting and grievousy sectional in
! legislation to the South and their existence
| has nj,
| dwarf and impoverish one section and build up
! another, but that it has encouraged subscrvicn-
| ey and demagogueism in our midst with their
concomitant evils incident in the moral degener-
acy of proud and noble people If these res
trictions and compromises can be wiped from
the Statute Book, and the Government admin
istered in its original purity, with 4 strict re-
| gard to economy and retrenchment we hope to
see the Union preserved in default of which
we are empha ically and unequivocally for dis
/ union.
! We are opposed to the acquisition of any
more territory until the African Slave trade is
re-opened, and the immediate sale and enslave-
ment of all free negroes that are found within
the limits of any Southern States, after spec
flied time to emigrate."
If Democracy be national, as our op-
ponents claim that it is, of course what is
Democracy in Georgia is Democracy in
Wisconsin. But will the Wisconsin De-
mocracy adopt the sample we have exhibit
ed them, from Georgia, as their own?-
That is the question. They must do so, or
take the other horn of the dilemma, which
is equally perplexing. 1t is immaterial to
US which they do.
rs One of the straws showing which
way the political wind is blowing at the
present time, in Wisconsin, may be found
in another column over the signature of F.
II. Firmin, Esq, of Madison. We commend
it to the attention of all good Democrats
who think they are not aiding and abettiug
the extension of Slavery over Territory
now free, by seeking the election of Doug
las or Breckenridge to the Presidency. =
We think Mr.. Firmin's letter will have a
tendency to open their eyes.
Hg. Douglas is on an electioncering
tour down east He has been canvassing
Connecticut and Massachusetts,, but has
got through there, and worked his way
back to New York We have not seen it
stated whether he intends to ''stump it