St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1860-08-09

inscribed on her Banner III 1890. Inc
last two years have been prolific of
trcachcry to principles, as You will, on
referring to the past, sec, that OF all
the pledges made to the country, by
the democratic party, a Democratic
Administration and Congress, have
failed to fulfill any of those pledges.
Thay have kept Kansas out of the
Union, Though she asked admission
at the last Congress, )and that too,
when her people asked it, designating
her free Constitution in legal man
ner, which reflected the will of the
people.
l find that Democratic Governors,
appointed by a Democratic admins
tration, have, in Kansas and Nebras-
ka, in violation to their pledges, and
in opposition to the Cincinnati Plat
form and the Kansas and Nebraska
bill, vetoed the acts of their lcgisla-
ture abolishing slavery in their re-
spcctive limits.
have just seen Democratic Adj
ministration stepped in corruption,
veto the "iTomcstcad Bill" after its
having passed, almost unanimously
both houses of Congress. Thus strl-
king the axe to the interests OF the
whole country, and more especially
ut the North West and the hardy pi-
oncers who have kept pace with the
advancing columns of American pro-
gress and civilization.
A Democratic Senate has but re-
Gently refused to pass the " House "
Tariff bill, which would give protcc-
ton to our mining, manufacturing, and
Agricultural interests, and protect
American labor and industry. | see
the Democratic party, through the Nd
ministration and the Federal Courts,
sanctioning the re-opening of the Afri-
can Slave Trade, by refusing to pun
ish offenders who are taken in that
ncfarious traffic.
see the great mass of Democrats
North, and South, rcpudiatiug the
Kansas and Nebraska bill, by insist
ing that slavery has right to so into
the Territories, in spite of Congress or
the people, (as referred to above and
that the inhabitants of the Territory
have no right to pass territorial laws
TO protect or exclude it.
find that both the Democratic plat
forms, made at Baltimore, give in their
adhesion to the principles of the bred
Scott dictum, thus establishing an oil
garchy more destructive to freedom
than despotism itself.
The above, among other reasons,
have compelled me to cease to act with
the present Democratic party, for |
believe that should Mr. Douglas sue
coed in carrying enough northern
States to throw the election into the
House, Joe. Lane, of Oregon, will be
the successful man, for the South do
not expect, nor do they want Mr..
Breckenridge elected, but rely upon
u failure of the House to agree, when
it will dcvolve upon the Senate to
choose out of the candidates for Vice
President, thus securing the triumph
of the leaders of the present corrupt
administration. But whoever may be
elected in such contingency will be
chosen by the slave-holding States al
most exclusively. They will be his
supporters, his counsellors, his rulers.
lie will be in their hands, bound to
them, and by them. lie will be their
platform, vibrating to their music,
trembling under their tread. Such
must inevitably be the result in a fail.
ure Of the people to elect. IL is as
clear as monday sun TO me, that By rOiins
for Stephen A. Douglas, are rote for M'
extension of Harery into our Free Terri
tory, and all enormities consequent there
from.
! appeal to my late Democratic as
sociates, will you consent to spread
the black curse of slavery all over the
west, and exclude your own children ?
Will you add to the dark host among
us, million of degraded Cuban
Slaves These arc momcntuous qucs
tions to be decided at the approach
ing election. Do not deceive your
selves with the hope, that though Mr.
Breckenridge or Joe Lane be selected
these consequences may be averted.
The present campaign embraces q
question of civilization on barbarism
90 whether civilization, founded upon
principles Of honor and virtue, shall
20 over the country or stop or a
species of barbarism take possession
Of our country and her free institu-
tions.
If ! can understand the Republicans
Platform, it does not propose to inter
fcrc with slavery as it exists in the
States. And hold we have no more
right to affect the institutions of Vir-
ginia, than they have to affect our
State Legislation by Congressional
enactmcnts. But it is different with
the Territories. For hold that Con
gress has power to prevent the cx-
tension of human bondage to our
Free Territory. This right never
was disputed until 1850. But the
trainers of the Constitution always
held that Congress had such power,
and cannot sec how else it is to be
prevented at the present juncture of
affairs. The Democratic party fought
the battle of 1856 upon the question
of non-intervcntion, and how have
they carried it out Why, under the
assaults Of the slave power, its tower.
ing columns and triumphant banners
are trailing in the dust, its ancient
lcgions divided and dismembered.
But there is further involved in this
campaign, a question of labor, a ques.
tion of freedom and slavery, a qucs.
tion between the white and black
! leave it to Southern cliivalrv to
tramplc down the dcspiscd race of the
negro, to desccratc the domestic
hearthstone, To strip woman and
sell her babe, but may God paralizc
my arms before descend to such an
act. No man can descend to such an
act, without sinking deeper in the
scale of infamy. For this reason,
am in favor of giving and protecting
the free Territories of the country to
Free labor. This is the great 1ues,
ton which interests the North There