Litchfield enquirer., 1860-09-20
as not to know where it stood upon this ques-
 tion?a And does he not know that his party isl

be erclusiuely national. Neither faction can
 embrace au nationality, and if neither faction can
 embrace aH. nationality then according to the
 rule which democracy applies to the republican
 party, both factions are |" sectional" Are you
 not willing that we should apply the same rule
 to you, that you apply to us? Are you not will
 ling to be judged, by the same rule' by walca
 you judge others? Have you rule of political
 morals by which you can stigmatise the repub-
 lican party as sectional" and at the same time
 absolves the democratic party from the same ol-
 fensive stain, when they are found m tne same
 position? If the nigger" question has divided
 your party; if the nigger" question has forced
 you into your present position; ii the ngger"
 question has made you sectional" by the same
 rule, that you say the republicans are so, are you
 exempt from the charge of attempting to de- thiesT And have you not "constituted the
 condition of the nigger your whole stock in
 trader" Methinks that those who have watch
 ed the changing character of the democracy for
 the last few years and have seen with what te-
 nacity you have clung to the nigger," as the
 last hope of your political salvation, will not
 hesitate long, to say what constituted your whole stock in trade" Better tread lightly on that subject and before you talk much about the :" nigger," review the history of the party, and know precisely where you stand, and then you may make no blunders
 What next, "The republicans hace lost sig1t of the ordinary cloinas of justice and conanson brotherhood, betaoeen aN sections of the country" This from man claiming an afiliation with the democratic party. This from man who is SUD- posed to have intended to speak the truth. Do you talk of the "claims of justice and common brotherhood?" If you do, you talk of that to which you have long been stranger, and I do not doubt but it would be gratifying to you to drag the republican party, down to that low depth of political degradation to which you have descended. But under what circumstances, and at what periods of time was it, that this great calamity befel the republican party, that they became so hard and callous as to "have lost sight of the ordinary claims of justice and common brotherhood?' Was it when men, aye women even, New England men and women, nurtured in that strong love of liberty which pervades New England, were driven from the Southern states. because they could not divest themselves of a part of their existence? Was it when the property of individuals was ruthlessly sacrificed. to appease that hellish and domineering spirit, which dominates over the southern states with | the power of tyrant, forcing independence of thought, of will and of action to succumb to it's barbarous, and degrading demands? Was it | when the plains of Kansas were deluged with the blood of freeman, when the murderer was protected from the grasp of the law, and when rapine in it's most terrible form ran riot through out the land? Was it when that fendish doc Urine was promulgated, that oppression, robbery, prostitution, and degradation in its most abiect forms, when united formed an institution of di- vine origin?" Was it when, freeman, New England freeman, were required to bow the knee, to humble themselves in the dust, and swear fealty to this as the god of their democ- racy? Say? was it under such circumstances, o,I ot of thott lost sight of the ordinary claims of justice and common brotherhood?" Have you forgot, that it was the democracy who drove by force men and women from the southern states, because they preferred freedom to slavery? Have you
 forgot that it was the democracy who destroyed private property because men would not divest
 themselves of that independence of will and ac-
 tion, which is part of the birthright of free
 men? Have you forgot that it was the denaoc-
 racy, who prescribed men for opinion sake and
 crushed free discussion? Have you forgot that
 it was democratic administration which looked
 upon murder, robbery, and rapine, in distant territory, as a virtue, and protected it by the treasury, and by the military power of this gov ernment? Have you forgot that it was the democracy, who promulgated that internal and infamous doctrine, that the combination of op- | pression robbery, prostitution and degredation | was divine institution? Do you not know, | that the democracy have done and now do re- | qure you, to humble yourself before this, the in- carnation of all that is filthy and abominable and worship it as your political god? What a pie l ture for contemplation Yet it's advocates, step fOrth and with brazen effrontery, tell the peo- pie that the republicans have lost sight of the | ordinary claims of justice and common brother hood, &c. May not with propriety here ask, who furnished the cause '? Will Jefferson answer?
 One thing more, and I will trouble you nc further at present. Jefferson says, that the republicans deny to the South "equality" of rights, and he intimates, that unless we concede to them this, they will dissolve the Union Now it is not only absurd, and ridiculous for him to make such assertions, but it is wickedly and willfully false From no part, or act in the his- tory of the republican party, can any such at tempt be shown or inference drawn of desire or wish, or intention to deny to them perfect equality with the people of the free states, and Jefferson is not by any means ignorant of this fact. ltis true that we object to the people, of the slave states, carrying with them into the free territories an institution which they say is divine" but which we deny and for this reason, and no other IS it that we are charged with de, nying to the South equality" of rights. And for the purpose of forcing us to acknowledge the divine origin of this institution, the democra- cy tnreaten to ulSSOiVe the Union. But let us look at the course of the democracy on this sub ject of equality" of rights for it may be instruc
 tive. Can republicans go into the democratic states of the South, and freely, and openly speak
 republican sentiments? Can we go there and | freely and unmolested read republican books take republican papers? Are we allowed to ex- ercise that independence of thought, of will and l of action, which is accorded to them in the free | states? Are we allowed to go there, and speak | our sentiments in favor of freedom, though we repeated but the words of the Declaration of In- dependence, that all men are created free and | equal?" And what is all this Equality" of rights? Shall we threaten to dissolve the Un- ion? Is here not sufficient cause? Yet we do | not. Why this constant bowling by the den,- ocracy about inequality of rights, when they themselves practice the most cruel, bare-faced, and unblushing acts, and then with satanic im- pudence threaten to dissolve the Union, unless | they are allowed to live and enjoy state of perfect equality?" The motive is plain, lief ferson and the democracy may succumb. It is | to be expected they will. Independence of thought and action is not an aHicle of their faith, and when the Southern democracy pro- claim we must have equality" of rights, or we will dissolve the Union, the northern democracy bow the knee in the dust, and with fawning, slcSening, cringing sycophancy, echo back, thy Will, Oh Master, not mine be done. The South are denied no right, by the republicans, which destroys their equality" We cannot take rom them thelr equality, without an act of des- potIsm, equality is guaranted to them bv the