Litchfield enquirer., 1861-02-14
WHOLE NO. 1869.

glshmen, to hold Frenchmen, to held Germans,
 ano' par excellence, to hold Irishmsn in bond-
 ase'n II we can once get them into that condi. tion.
 Nay to tell the whole truth, we have A acrip.
 tural right to hold Yankees too as slaves nm ths
 same principle. You may think it some draw.
 back that the right is reciprocal that if we bsve
 right to hold them as slaves, so they ifs,tufh
 have right to hold us in that condition if Rev,
 can reduce us to it. We must be wide awake.
 and keep on the upper side of the principle,
 while. others are held down beneath it. Such, Democrats, is the doctrine of slavery
 that we are to propagate in New England, and
 generally in the North. 1
 Do you say that the undertaking is hope. less one?-that the heresy of anti-slavery sen. timent and the strength of anti-slavery pre- judice, are too deeply rooted to be removed. Remember that the truth is mighty.
 Then the lesson of past experience is encour. aging. Just consider what revolution of sen. timent has taken place at the South on the subject. Time wss, and that within the recol. lection of many of us, when the Southern pco- pie themselves regarded slavery as an evil-as something that was to be deplored but of which they saw no way of immediately ridding themselves; and which, therefore, they must manage in the best manner they could while they waited for some safe way of escape from it to be opened by the Providence of God. Such was the avowed sentiment of all classes, lay and clerical. Behold what change The cotton-gin, which rendered the production of cotton profitable, and increased the value of slaves, opened the eyes of eur Southern breth. ren on the subject, and laid them open to con. viction; and they were net slow in discovering that the Bible sanctions the institution of slave. y. An entire change of opinion has been wrought Slavery is no longer subject for apologies-an evil to be abated or removed. It is Christian institution and to be vindicated, to be sustained, to be perpetuated, and to be extended Dr. Palmer, in an eloquent and i'm. pressive sermon preached at New Orleans, Q few weeks ago, speaks of it as a sacred trust, and he solemnly admonishes his brethren of their religious obligation to protect it at all haz ards and at any sacrifice. Such great change of sentiment in the South, should certainly en. courage us in our efforts to indoctrinate the North.
 But here at the North also there has been, in our ranks great progress in the right direction. Why, Fellow-D Democrats, how lately we ourselves were in the dark and full of weak scruples, and unreasonapIv p.~,-..--I-- the subject. How madly we spoke against the extension of Slavery! Now, most of us have emerged into the light. The tone of our pa. pers how changed! Still further and still bet ter, not few of our old Whig adversaries are now with us. They hail as we do with entbusi- asm, such national religious patriots as Dr. Ra- phael and Dr. Vandyke. They are prepared to with us in this work of reformation. With the enterprise so well begun and so far advanced, can we entertain doubt of ultimate success a4ar
 More anon. A NATIONAL DEMOCRAT.