Litchfield enquirer., 1860-10-04


 similar reasons secures to yoa right to the ser vices of your sons and daughters until they are twenty-one years of age. In France until they are twenty-five. Another similar law secures to you right to the services of your wife during your joint lives. Is there any thing very 6oroa- 7'ous in all this?
 And why has the law secured to parents the services of their children? Simply because they are presumed to be incapable of governing them selves until they arrive at the age Of twenty-one Has the African race, in any one instance prov ed themselves capable of self-government mn m nu organized community? l answer empna.oa p,:aI ana neuer.. The experiments of the Ensla;n sot;nu French governments in thelr SnoIS elnaaof; fa;i. schemes, in the West Ind es, are !o'oeyus tI Ga1 ures If anything better can pc saia o' ,st s cts onies on the Western coast oi Aii'o" A'' ''''' and statistics prove it.
 Again, assert that the Bible, from Genesls to Revelation when the subjectls mentioned rec oenizes and sanctions domestic serVltude; 10 vou deny it? When Christ was on earth the Roman Empire contained forty millions of slaves. And, vet, not one word, or sentence can be quo ted from His lips or from those of any of his Apostles condemning the institution. But, on the contrary, the New Testament is full of thelr iniunctions upon the masters and servants as te their respective duties.
 Again In your endless cant about the oppres- sion of these Africans, will you condescend to inform your readers, for you ought to know, that, in all the relations of life, social mora religious and intellectual Southern slaves are incompaTa- bEu superior to their fathers and brothers now as ever scattered over the vast continent Of Afrlca. Will you deny this 6oM assertion 7"
 As to my assertion that the republican party has a5ant2oued aU tue old issues, Gc.' will permit all the present speeches of your leaders, the writings of your editors, and of all of your public demonstrations to prove or dlsprove the fact I have always as now suspected the hatent purposes of your party. The manly whigs are still willing and anxious to fight openy for those " old issues" but, your party, having no faith in their success before the people, keeps them in obeyance until, by the aid of the false clamor about the nigge,, you leap to seize the relns ot government and then you may let go the nlggsr and attempt to introduce the whole system of the Consolidation Feleralists. Your elaboration up- on the present diuision of the democratic party does not prove the strength of yours If, at the Ides of November, the rail-splltter shall, as chastisement of his country, be elevated to the Presidency, it will be done by minority of the popular vote With all your out,oard boosting you cannot seriously doubt such a result.
 In answer to my charge that the republicans haoe lost sigAt of he ordinary claims of justice and common brotherhood between all sections of the country" Why not meet the charge fairly, instead of pouring out abuse upon the democra- cy and fulsome laudation upon the immaculate republicans? You could not have been ignorant that in this charge I had reference to the claim of your party to the lions share in the Terri tOries
 Can just and conscientious man cooly main- tain that the territories shall be seized upon by the free states and the slave owners of fifteen states shall be prohibited from bringing their slaves into the territories under the penalty of having them confscated? The doctrine that the services of slaves is not property and that they are not secured to their owners under the Con- stitut on is reckless assertion and at acar wiMs truM.
 You pronounce my charge that the republicans deny to the south equality" of rights, wicked ly and wlfully false,' and yet you admit that your party does not object to the people of the slave states carrying with them into the territo- ries an institution which they say is divine &c.
 The hippancy of your pen in abusive epithets is proof only of the weakness of your cause
 You charge nae with a wicked and willlul false hood" and yet in two sentences thereafter, you admit the truth of this "wicked falsehood P
 What right have you or your party to object to the people of the slave states carrying with them their slaves into the territories?
 Again on what occasion or in what puhlica- ton has the democracy ever proclaimed Ameri- can slavery divine P Why denounce, as most dangerous to the permanency af this Union,your doctrine of the Higher law.
 As between the thirty three members of the Confectionery they regard the Constitution as their compart of union. Whether slavery is di- vine or human you can derive no right from that question to trample under foot the plain provs- ions of that instrument. And, nothing but the audacious announcement of the Higher law can confer on your party the right to object" to the citizens of the slave states carrying their slaves with them into the territories.
 The affected superiority of republicanism in morals and intelligence to that of the democracy, is simply Bosh, and is proof positive of Phara- saical arrogance.
 As to your threats against the south in case of their attempted secession from central des- potism at Washington, if this country is destined to be cursed with such government. they are both silly and wicked. If, by the action of your "irrepressible conflict" congress should abolish slavery in the southern states, do you seriously believe that they would remain under govern ment of such monstrous injustice? know that some of your leaders dodge this subject by de- clariDg that your party has no designs on slavery in the states. But, how does such declaration accord with the irrepressbe conflict" or with Mr. Lincoln's declaration that all the states must become either free or slave?
 Your affected indignation over the plains of Kansas deluged with the blood of freeman" may be food for :" freedom shriekers.' But, wel-ln- formed and candid statesmen will inquire little into the facts on both sides of this question Did you never hear of the formation of the "Em- iyrant Aid Society" first privately in the halls of Congress, seconded by freedom shriekers" in Boston and other abolition localities? If YOU possess knowledge of that interesting his tory inform your readers of the date ofthe form- ation of that society. assert that it proceeded any hostile movements of the Missourians into Kansas. You expatiate upon the time when "the murderer was protected from the grasp of the law" When the infamy of the murderous John Brown and his gang, shall cease to inspire indignation in the bosoms of all good citizens, then member of the republican party, his sym pathizers and friends, may be pardoned for pra- ting about that helish and domineering spirit which dominates over the southern states"
 But. how can reason with men who declare the constitution to be "a league with death" and " the Union covenant with hell?" Nay more. A party of men who believe that all men are created equal places it's members on an equality with the cannibal Hottentots and Bushmen of South Africa and the pagan canni- bals of the Pacific Isles. And, to cap the eli max of absurdity and audacious arrogance this . .tp nynnnpnt