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

tneiI IHouOpOiy OI cdpltAI, tney are euaoic
TO control and govern the large majority c
non shareholders by whom they are surrour
ded. and direct the policy and aims OF tn
Democratic party, and thro' that instrument
atty, aspire to the government of the peopl
ofthe United States. 1t is to aid to the vigo
and enlarge the boundaries of this power 70
which the Democratic party is now preserv
ed. organized and operated. The fact tha
the Republican party is not permitted to or
ganize. that Republican presses are not per
mitted to publish, nor Republican speakers t.
speak in many of the Southern States.prove
nothing but the existence of the despoti
power welded by the minority class. A
we'll might you establish the sectional ant
contracted character of the Christian religion
by the persecution and expulsion of the prim
Give Christians from Rome in the time OF th'
,itasars. Besides that, it would be diff cul
to prove that principles that were considered
national, and upon which the nation acted
for the first fifty years of its existence. have
suddt My become local, selfish and sectional
CONSERVATISM OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.
| 1t is a common charge made against the
Republican party that it is radical, revolu'
tionary and subversive in its character. Ex-
amined by the light Of history and reason,
this charge is manifestly unjust; for the truth
is the reverse of all this, and is that the Re.
publican party is the historical and conserv-
alive party of the nation. A conservative is
defined to be. zone who aims to preserve
| from ruin, innovation, injury or radical
change; one who wishes to maintain an insti-
tuition or form of government in its present
state" In politics. conservatism is an adhe-
renee to old opinions, doctrines and exposi-
tons Of policy or constitutional law; it is op,
posed to Innovations, novel doctrines and
new tangled theories; it prefers the known to
the unknown, the tried to the untried, and
chooses rather to walk By the light of expe-
rience, than to pursue tho chimeras of specu-
lation. II this can be shown, then. that the
Republican policy of opposition to the gener
al diffusion OF slavery. the preservation of the
Territories to Freedom, and the protection
and elevation Of Free Labor, is cosval with
or antecedent to the adoption of our Consti-
tution-that it was the recognized policy of
the Government for more than half a centu
ry, that it was the faith of Washington. and
almost the religion of jefferson. that it was
woven into the Judicial action and legisla-
ton, and was the common creed and proper
ty of ell parties until within a few years past
then its claim 10 the character of conserva-
tism is fully established.
Measured by this standard the "Democra-
tic party will be found to be radical, revolu-
tionary and subversiye. ."-departing from its
own creed. revolutionizing a long course Of
judicial decisions, and subverting the practice
of the Government from the time Of its Gre
alton. it has erected the new, dangerous and
po, tcntious dogma into an article of political
faith, that the Constitution, by its own inhe-
rent power, establishes slavery in all the Ter
ritories. and that there is no power in Con-
gress, or in the people of the Territories-or
to use the language of Mr.. Buchanan, in his
late message, that there is no "human pow
er" that can exclude it therefrom that the
many acts of Congress, beginning IN 1889,
and continued until 184s. prohibiting Slave
~ in the Territories, were unconstituti tional
and void; and the many judicial decisions of
the various State aud Federal Courts recog-
nizing the power of Congress to provide such
egislation--sprangf from gross and i'll consid-
cred views of the Federal Constitution. And
especially is this dogma dangerous and por-
;entous, when we reflect that it is but the be-
ginning Of the revolution; that it drags after
it, as an inevitable conclusion and sequence
as the locomotive draws after it and is follow
ed by the train-that other dogma. that the
Constitution also carries slavery into all the
States and that there is no human power that
can exclude it therefrom; and looks to the
fulfllment of the prophecy made by Senator
Toombs, that be would live to see the time
when be could call the roll OF his slaves be-
meath the shadow Of the monument on Bun
kers Hill.
We want no views Of the Constitution
Its construction was settled by the first Con-
gress, and acquiesced in by all the Courts,
and every department Of the Government mt for
more than half century. That construction
is in harmony with the plsin reading of the
instrument. 1t regards the Territories as the
children of the Union, to be trained in the
nurture and admonition Of free Institutions.
SO that when they have arrived at the age OF
majority, they will be qualified to take their
places in the family Of States. and be admit
ted to all the rights and privileges of the Un-
ion. Aud as these Territories are to become
our future partners in the Union, and in the
administration of the Government. we have
deep interest in the formation Of their char
acters and national habits.
JOHN BROWNS INVASION.
| No Que deplored more than myself the un
iusiifiable and criminal invasion Of the soil Of
Virginia by John Brown and his associates
This act, while it thrilled the South with ter
ror, and shocked the moral sense of the ma
ton. may yet in the hands of Providence
prove a blessing to the Republic. 1t has al
ready led parties both North and South, more
clearly and accurately 10 define their posi-
tions, aud thus exonerate themselves from all
completely or blame in the affair. The Re
publican party has. by every medium of ex-
preston, disc!aimed all sympathy with Brown
or palliation for his deed, while the proofs
which have been taken have failed to counec,
in the remotest degree, any member Of tha,
party with this fatal enterprise in any stage
of its progress. 1t has taught the South how
ever. that if she would have peace and secu
rity at home. she must refrain from outrage
abroad. 1t is not to be controver,ed that the
stern fana,icism and the malignant passion:
Of John Brown aud his associates were era
died in that wicked and unnatural contest in
Kansas, which was set on foot for the intro
duction and establishment of slavery in tha
Territory. Hordes and border rufians from
Missouri and other Slave States, marched in,t