The gazette and Democrat. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1860-1860, 1860-04-26
CITY OF LANCASTER.
THURSDAY, ;: APRIL e6, 1860
which is The SECTIONAL Party!

lC OOuNhCAu ONehONA"Nl
extending slavery over territories now
free; and claim that il already exists In
virtue Of the decision Of the Supreme
Court of the United Sales, in the Dret
Scott case; and they demand the rigorous
enforcement Of The fugitive slave law
They encourage the 81 buster war upon
Mexico aud Cuba. for the extension Of
their Southern boundaries, for the avow-
ed purpose Of acquiring more States IA
vorable 10 their institutions, in order, as
they express it. to lain political power.
They have receded from amost every
honorable position which they Lave hcre'o-
tore taken; prominent among which was
their declared doctrine thre' years ago, OF
allowing the po pie Of lhe territories TO set
tie their own mes'ic Institutions. The
admission of Kausas with free cons'iu-
lion has been rejected by their vote in
Congress, while at the same time lhey
tried 10 fasten upon them the Lecomp'on
instrument, with its pos avery proSs.
ion.
They oppose the epassage ofa Homestead
law, providing for the cesSion Of publ C
lands to actual settlers. They have eflro-
tually suppressed the liberty of speech
and Of the press, in the pro slavery S ates.
They spurn and spit upon the preccpts
and wisdom Of the patriot fathers. found.
els Of our glorious republic, They
scouge. tar and feather, and Otherwise
maltreat northerners who go among them,
as clcrgymen. teachers, pedlers or other,
wise. merely for an expression Of opn.
ion, and often upon the mere suspicion o
some unworthy person. They dive from
their homes aud Leyond the borders o.
their territory. their own citiz.ns, who
have tho independence to use the liberty
Of speech which the constitution guaran
tees to them, though they protest agaius
any intention Of interfering with th,
slaves, and whore they have proved them
selves law abiding citizens. They threat
en- to blow up the Urion, if Northern
man is elected President. both througl
their press and from their desks in Con
gross. They have expressed their deter
mination that no northern man shoulC
ever DO inaugurated Presiden, Of The U
States.
The Republican party roSists the cxlen
sion OF slavery beyond its present north
ern boundary, and pledge themselves tt
tuslain the South in all their constitution
al rights: grant to them a fugitive slav,
law, constructed within constitutions
limits: deny that the Drod Scott decision
settles the question that slavery exists i
free territories: claim the right Of terr
tories to frame their own constitution an
regulate their internal affairs; and thi
Kansas should be admitted in,o the unio
upon an equality with the other S'ale'
under the Wyantot Constitution. whic
is now before Congress, and which is I'll
instrument oI very large majority Of he
citizens. They advocate the passage OF
homestead bill, giving homes 10 freemer
by which every 1000 acres of the publ
domain will have about % white flmili
cultivalng tie soil, and rearing sons Al
daughters to give character aud respect
bilily 10 our country. when the prcse
generations shall have passed away; Al
upon which two thousand ACRES, lhc
would also lie church, aud scho
house, instead Of one white family NJ
two Or three bundled ntgrocs. without
church or school house,
They take the constitution and upinio
OF the revolutionary fathers for lh
motto; maintain Il Z Tree on, ofspecch n
Of tho press. They say nothing about /
dissolution OF tho Union, and will ina
guratc the next President of tho Unit
States. whether he is from tho North
the South They tIedt with the utm
urbanily and lralornAl regard, their Il
CidS ms fro the prOslnvsry States, wi
they oh, ose 10 u cept our osp pjlall
permitting them to express ire ly II
views upon all 'ul 'c's. They repudi
Northern nnd Sou heru fan,tics al kc; y
will know noDhing but the Union upon
constitutional basis: oppo sIion TO L,
ernmenml frauds and dem guguci,m.
union ofth Sta ~, ono country aud
destiny, IL 4 er motto.
Which then is The sectional party?
FIny-onr Years Ago.
Fifty one yer.ago first woke 10
scenes lh. presented tn mselves On /,
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