The Democratic press. (Eaton, Preble County, Ohio) 1860-1865, 1861-01-17
What the Republican Leaders Have
Brought the Country to.

cth"0H enquirer, about TO realize
in their full force and all their Bit
terness the evils of the teachings of
the anti-slavery agitators. The.
sectional fruits which the Stewards
and Chases, and Greeleys, and Carl
Seizures, and Sumers, and Lincolns,
and Helpers have been persuading
the people to cultivate, are now
and will soon have to be
gathered. Demagues, one and all,
to subserve their ambitious pur-
poses and secure political position
they have been for years sowing
hatred between the two great Sec
tons of the country. They have
been at work in every available
way, in season and out of season,
to prejudice the minds of the peo-
pie Of the free States against slav-
ery-not as 1t exists among them.
selves, for they have none Of it
but as it is in other communities,
with whose domestic affairs out.
siders have no right to NEEDLE.
The Democratic party stood in
the way to power OF these men, and
it must be broken down. To ac-
complish that end, after having
poisoned the minds of the people
of the free States against slavery,
they must instill into them the idea
that the slave power as they call
ed it, ruled the Democratic party;
that the Democratic party; that the
Democratic leaders were the sub
servient tools OF the slave propa.
gandists;' that the slave o~ligarchy'
had controlled the Government
from its foundation; and that itt
object was to spread the BLACK pal
of slavery over the whole of unoc'
cupied Territories; and that it was
the purpose of the Democratic par
ty to accomplish that object. Douh'
faces lickspittles,' and such like
terms of contempt were applied
without stint to Democrats, who
understanding the delicate nature
of thu subject of slavery, and the
subject of slavcry, and the Difficult
ties that were encountered by the
farmers of the Constitution in ar
ranging compromises respecting it
ventured to advocate even the jus
demands of the South. ANY con
cession or compromise that wa
proposed or accepted by the Demo
cracy was denounced by these An
ti-slavery demagogues as an act O
self-abasement,' Crawling on thu
belly to the tyranny of slavery.
Their whole theme was the moral
social and politician evil of slavery,
and the support and co~untenanc'
given to it by the Democratic par
ty. They had no other platform
1t was slavery, slavery, slavery al
the time, and the 'subserviency' o
the Democracy to it.
These demagogues, in that way
have, unfortunately for the countr.,
been successful. They have oh
tanned power by false ~pretenSes.-
They have deceived the people, VIII
will now by bitter experience dir
cover how villainously they hav
been imposed upon by these ant
!, slavery, 'irrepressible' Republica
+ leaders. They will now realize tn
mischief of the teachings of thes
y men; andthey will ask themselve
!. Did slavery ever hurt us? Did
ever interfere with our bushes
. onr labor, our domestic peace, OF
happiness? Are we wiser, bstte
more moral than were the Father
of the Republic, who fashioncdth
compromises of the Constitution
; the Fathers, who, to secure til
establishment of the Union, sane
= toned the slave-tradc for twent
e years, and provided for the retur
!, of fugitive slavess-the Father
=. who established slave as we'll 6
, free Territories? They will asl
, what is the negro to us that W
should trouble ourselves SO muc
about him-that no should caus
hatred between the two sections
that he should break up the u
: ion-that he should bring upo
the country the horrors of civil wa,
,. And the more they reflect upon th