Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-01-31
close Of MIR. Tyilson,s speech In the
senate. Is
srNNING Up OF THE DIFFERENCE
tPror, tI,s ryon linnaI Globe. In

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! EFrom the Congressional GIebc.l@
Mr. President, the American democracy,
led by slave perpetdatists and propog"n-
iists, secessionists and disunionists, now,
in the light of This age, stands before the
nation tho enemy of human progress, aud
| in favor of the conservation and propaga-
! ton of old abuses. No longer does the
democracy utter the accents of popular
rights. No longer docs the democracy
sympathise with man at home or abroad
| struggling for tho recovery of lost rights
Orthe enlargement of existing privileges.
Does the legislature of Kansas pass an act
for the abolition of slavery thereHr De-
mocracy resists it, and arrests 1t by execu-
tive action. Does the Legislature of Nc
braska, left "pcrfectly free to form their
own domestic institutions in their own
way" pass bill to wipe from that vast
territory the pollution of slavery Democ-
racy resists it., defeats it by the Executive
veto, and applauds that veto. Does the
Legislature of New Mexico enact bloody
lslaYe-codc? Democracy prompts it, prais-
cs it, applauds it. Does u sovereign COM
monwealthli tighten by humanlegislati0n the
burdens of prescribed race, SO that 1t
may rise into the sunlight of a broader and
higher manhood? Democracy is outraged,
shocked, and it avenges itself by gtbbering
taunts, jibes aud jeers. Does slave state
enact or prop use to enact statutes to still
more Cypress those already bending under
the iron heel of oppression, or to check the
action of its own citizens who may be
prompted by sentiments of beneyolcncc
or sense of justice to lessen the bitterness
of bondage or give freedom to their own
bondmcn? Democracy approves and APP
plauds it., Does Walker, ut the head of a
iawless band of tilibusters, decree slavery
in Central America Democracy halls
and applauds that decree. Does any in
dication point to the possible abolition of
slavery in Cuba Democracy protests,
cannot permit it, will pay $40, 100000 for
that slavcholding isle, but will not accept
the "Gem of the Antilles" if burdened
with freedom. Docs England strike the
letters from the limbs of eight hundred
thousand West India bondmen2 De-
persists in misrcpresenting the effects
of that great act of justice and hui
manity. Docs the Emperor OF Russia pro-
pose a plan for the emancipation of mil
lions, not of the African race, but of white
mon? Democracy shakes its head, shrugs
its shoulders, utters no note of joy, sends
no word of encouragement or greeting to
the enlightened monarch who would en-
large the rights and elevate the condition
of men. Does the Republican party, inn
bued with the sentiments of the Repuhli-
can fathers, propose to arrest the expansion
of slavery over the territories of the Re-
public and save those territories to free
labor, check the re-opcning slave traffic,
and put the national Government in har-
mony with progressive Christian civili-
zation2 Democracy, smitten with the
consciousness of its waning power, raises
the startling crv of diSunion. To its ADAM
donment of the sentiments, opinions, and
policy of the Republican. fathers; to its
betrayal of the rights and interests of free
labor and the cause of human rights at
home and abroad, is now added disloyalty
to the integrity of the the Union. Let the
intelligent patriotism of the nation rebuke
this mad exhibition of folly and fanaticism
which would SILVER this Union into broken
fragments, and let itproclaim, in the W ords
of Andrew Jackson-'sThc Union must
and shall be preserved" nr q