The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1860-03-22
NO.ll,

sions these words, slavery shall be AND
is FOREVER probibited;" words which
es@e FROM the pen of Jefferson, were en-
boaied 10 the ordinance of 1897, and
stamped op every foot of the virgin sods
Of the Northeast
Believing freedom to be national and
slavery to be local and sectional, "a mere
municipal regulation iD the words of
the Supreme Court, founded upon and
limited 10 the verge of The State law"
for which the people of each State that
tolcrates it are alone responsible, the Re-
putllcan party joins issue with the Sec
tioualized Democracy; which, under the
lead OF men whose vital and and anima-
ting principle is the propagation of slave
ry, accepts the monstrous dogma that sla-
very, by virtue of the Constitution, exists
in all the Territories. Accepting this
doctrine, the Democracy repealed the pro-
hibition of slavery in Kansas and Ne
braska, and resists all congressional
action. Accepting this doctrine, the
Democracy in those Territories resist
territorial acts to prohibit slavery, and
Government officials veto their enact
ments. Accepting this doctrine, the
Democratic Legislature of New Mexico.
under the lead of Democratic Government
officials, prompted by DIR. Otero, the DEM
ooratio Delegate, "at the solicitation of
Gen. j. Davis, of Mississippi have en-
acted brutal and bloody slave CODE
Already the Democratic chiefs of
the slave power are demanding the en-
actment of a slave code by Congress,
and the leaders Of the Democracy are has
teniDg to give them assurance that "if,"
in the words of the Vice President, "tbis
constitutions ght to hold slaves as prop
erty in the Territories cannot be enforced
for want of proper legislation to enforce
it, sufficient legislation must be passed, or
our Government is failure;
Rejecting the dogmas accepted by the
Democracy, and holding with the Repub-
lican fathers that slavery cannot exist in
the Territories except by positive law,
and that Congress and the people of the
Territories may exclude it, the Republi-
can party takes issue with the national
Democracy, and appeals to the intelligent
patriotism Of the country. 1t appeals, not
to the local and temporary interests of Sec
tions, bot to the lasting interest of the
whole country; not to the passion and
pride of classes. but to the sober judg-
ment, the sense of Justice, the love of lib
erty, and the humane and Christian sem
timents of all classes.
Sir, in the progress of the contests Of
the past six years between the interests of
slave labor and the rights of free Ia
Dor in the infant empires We are
creating in the West, the power of tie
Northern Democracy has been broken,
and its leaders have ingloriously fallen.
Falling in the great battle-of JUSTICE IN
CONFLICT, In the words Of Mr.. Jefferson,
with AvARICE AND OPPRESSION" the
once powerful chiefs OF the Northern
Democracy are forced to submit to the
bitter mortifoation of realizing not only
their lost power, but their loss Of influence
in the councils of the party they have so
faithfully followed. The organization of
the CON mittees iu this chamber cannot
but remind the Northern Democratic Sem
ators, who yet linger here, of their wa
ming power oyer the legislation OF the
country-over their political associates
and their duty to follow rather than to
iead--to receive orders rather than give
them. Now, the leaders Of the Demo-
cratic party the zen vino dictate its
principles and shape its pOlicy-are in
the South. Well might Mr. rKett boasting-
ly say, as he did on a recent occasion to
the people of South Carolina, tissues have
/ been made which have tried the Demo-
cratic party )" sits Northern hosts have
melted away" "ss the Northern wing de-
cIined the Southern wing rengthened !"
"the slavery agitation has weakened the
party at the Nor.h and strengthened it at
tie South" 'tbe whole machinery of the
party has fallen into the hands of the
Sootb;" aud "the South has the general
control Of the Democratic party"
(C0ncluc2ed neat gree6