The semi-weekly mountain Democrat., 1860-10-03
which Party VIII che People
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ing for the administration Of the affairs Of
the Government. One-the Black Re-
publican or Abolition--headed by bold,
unscrupulous, vindictive leaders, is max
ing open warfare upon the institutions Of
fifteen States Of the Union. The tendcn-
cy OF their wicked designs has been por'
trsyed sufficiently BY the raid Of John
Brown upon Virginia, and the recent
p!underings and burnings in Texas
While Sumner, in the Senate chamber, in
suits the people Of one-half Of the United
States by bis vulgar abuse and gross de-
famation Of the Southern character and
Southern institutions, Burlingame, in the
Lower House, outrages the intelligence Of
the whole American people and the whole
Christian world, BY prOcIaiming the ne
cessity Of an anti-slavcry CONSTITUTIONAL
anti slavery Bible, and anti-sIavery God.
With . platform entirely sectional in its
character, adopting as its main principle
the dogma Of Garrison, that slavery is q
covenant with hell and an agreement with
death, with q candidate in the person Of
Lincoln who contests with Seward the
origination of the ''irrepressibIe doctrine"
of all free States or all slave States, cru
sade is practically inctituted against the
South which, for intolerance and bigotry,
has no counterpart in the annals Of su-
perstitious fanaticism. Such party and
such principles, the mass Of the American
people are too generous, too patriotic, too
conservative to countenance or support
The next in order, because like unto
the first in intolerance and bigotry, is the
hybrid Douglas party. The only differ
ence between this party of which Douglas
is the head, front, body, soul and life, and
the Black Republican party, is that the
former seeks to do coverty and insidiously
what the latter is doing openly and above
board. The one plays toward the South
the part Of the deceitful friend-thc other
acts that Of the open enemy. One kisses
and betrays-the other throws down the
gauntlet and challenges to the combat.
The one is like the obsequious guest who,
while showering benediclions upon the
host Of whose hospitality. he has partaken,
purloins the gold from his pockets-the
other is like the bold, defiant robber, who
meets the traveller in the highway, face to
face, and demands his purse. itisupurty
whose whole creed has been but one un-
varied round of fraud, deception and dis
honesty. 1t is party whose only attri-
butes are treachery, sel6shness, and an
indordinatc thirst for the spoils these
attributes find q fitting persOnation in its
candidate, Stephen A. Douglas. The
American people are too honest too open
hearted, too above board, too just, to lend
their suffrages to the furtherAnce Of trick.
cry, corruption and dema goguism.
The third in order is the selfstyled
Constitution Union party, protesting to
stand upon the Union, the Constitution
and the enforcement Of the laws The
trick attempted to be palmed upon the
people is too apparent to excite aught else
than feelings Of ridicule This party is
evidently nothing but the old American
party in q new dress. The disguise it has
assumed is too fimsy to deceive. We
see at the head of these Union.savers now
the same old worn out political hacks that
had the American " party" in 1865. The
cry Of Union won't avail to save them
from the oblivion to which they and their
party are inevitably destined. Though
repudiating oil platforms now, only four
years ago this party had platform Of the
strictest kind, upheld by secret tests and
solemn oaths. A platform nothing but
intolerance-whose main pillars were the
exclusion Of foreign-born citizens and
Catholic citizens from the perfect enjoy.
ment and exercise Of the privileges Of
American citizenship. 1t is for the Union
80 is the Black Republican party if it
can have Union upon its own terms. It
is for the Constitution-So is the Black
Republican party upon its own interpre-
tation of that compact. 1t is for the en-.
forcement Of the laws-so il the Black
Republican party, if it can have the ma.
king Of the laws. When or where did
. party ever exist in our country that
was not, prOfcssedly, at least, for the Union,
the Constitution, and the enforcement Of
the laws? But upon what condition is
the Union to be preserveae How is the
Constitution to be interpreted? Are laws
involving principles Adjudicated by the
Supreme Court to be unconstitutional,
and passed by an incompetent Territorial
Legislature to be enforcedl These are
questions which the people are putting,
and they are such as they have . right to
demand satisfactory answers to. They
are all important questions, and must be
responded to before the people will even
consider the pretended claims Of this party
of Union-saving fogies.
The next and the only party Of the four
in the field whose candidates have any,