Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1860-02-24

the infant empires we are creating In the
west, tile power of the northern Democra-
cy has been broken, and its leaders lave
inglorously fallen. Falling in the great
battle of "JUsTIcs IN CONFLICT" in the
words of Mr.. J,fferson, "wITu AvARIcE
AND OPPRESSION" the once powerful chiefs
of the northern Democracy are forced to
submit 10 the bitter modification Of realiz-
ing not only their loss of power, but their loss
Of influence in the councils Of the party
they have so faithfully followed. The or
gapization of the committees in this Cham
Der cannot but remind the northern Demo-
cratic Senators, who yet linger here, Of
their waning power over the legislation Of
the country, over their political associates !;
and their duty TO follow rather than to lead /;
to receive orders rather than to give them.
Now the leaders of the Democrotic party.
the men who dictate its principles and shape
its policy are in the South. Well might
Mr.. Keitt boastingly say as he did on re-
cent occasion to the people of South Caro-
tried the Democratic party /" ''its northern
hosts have melted away;,. "as the northern
wing declined, the southern wing strength
ened ;" "the slavery agitation has weak
ened the party at the North and strength
ened it at the South !" ''the whole ma
chinery of the party has fallen into the
hands Of the South" and "the South has
the general control of the Democratic party"
THE BROAD FARCE.
Having Mr.. President, forced the north
ern Democrats, by threats of political pro-
scription, to repudiate the principle of
slavery restriction in the Territories hav-
ing forced Mr.. Calhoun's dogma upon the
Democratic organization having won the
general CONTROL" and secured the 'whole
machinery" of the Democratic party, the
southern leaders of the slave Democracy,
now masters of the Government, are
pleased to assume that the policy of the
Republican party, sanctioned as it has been,
by the great statesmen of the past of the
North and South and that its success in
1850 will be the cause for the dissolution
of the Union, and the overthrow Of the
Republic. The chiefs of the slave Propa-
ganda, the accepted leaders of the Demo-
cratic party in public press, in the forum of
the people, in the State Legislatures, and
in these Chambers, are predicting disunion.
Every breeze from the South is burdened
with these disunon predictions, arguments,
and threats. In these Chambers our ears
are fatigued with listening to these disloyal,
unpatriotic, revolutionary, but thank God,
| impotent avowals That some of the act
ors in the BROAD FARCE now being played
before the nation are in earnest, that they
would shiyer the Union from turret to
foundation stone,' no one who has watched
their turbuledt career can for moment
doubt but the vigor of their blow is not
equal to the vehemence of their desire
These actors have before shown that they
are quite prudent enough to "let I dare not
wait upon I,could." This DIsUNIoN FARCE,
which the leaders of the slave-extending,
slave-perpetuating Democracy, have put
upon the national stage, and through the
parts of which so many actors are moving
with such tragic strut, is intended to startle
and appal the timid, make the serviiiy of
the servile still more abject, rouse the self
ish instincts of that nerveless conservatism
which has ever opposed every useful re-
form, and walled over every rotten institu-
tirn as it fell /; and thus, the cowardly fears
and selfhness of the optmists and quietists,
retain their grasp on power. Sir, we shall
see whether this disloyal conspiracy will
alarm the eighteen million northern free
men; whether the actors in this disunion |
ferce will play winning game; or wheth-
er the insulted patriotism Of the country, |
North and South, will not rebuke this ex-
hibition of madness and folly, and dismiss
these actors from the service Of that Union
they threaten to subvert and destroy.
But this is not, sir, the first time that this
farce Ct disunion has been played. When the
Republican party sprung into being in 1856,
to arrest the aggression of slavery, to re-
dress the wrongs of the beople of Kansas,
the leading presses and politicians of the
Democracy in the South then predicted,
and argued, and threatened the dissolution
of the Union, if Fremont should be elected.
The success of this disunion plan in 1856,
as well as their own "yawnng Ieed' in
1860, may have prompted the Democratic
manager: to put the old farce upon the
stage in the imposing form now witnessed.
TIE DIsuNIoS THREATS.
Now, Mr.. President, intend TO place
before the Senate, and, as FAR as / can, be-
fore the patriotic, liberty loving and Union
loving men Of the free States, the predic-
tions of disunion. and the menances of dis