Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1862-06-10

TUESDAY MORNING.. JUNE 10. 1909.
Tar argument made BY the higher
,.v-i.es q to-day is that the negro is
lust a. good .. white man, and is v o..
tbv frank and position Of equality with
the best of the Circassian stock. Inc
arpumen. is not new. The out-and'out
Aboli,iop,s.s proclaimed the same idea
LONG AGO. and when the Black Republ''
can party was organized it was with the
view Of drawing Its strength from the
..me doctrine. This was not 80 stated
in it, early days, because an open de-
claration Of the kind would have driven
the true conservative and common.sense
element from the organization at once.
There the declaration which follows
was temporarily voted into the Republi-
can platform:
"That the maintenance lnviolate of
the rights of each State, and especially
the right Of each State to control and
order its own domestic institutions &C.
cording to it's own judgment exclusively
is essential to that balance Of power on
which the perfection and endurance OF
our political fabric depends"
This resolution was to convey the
idea to the conservative element which
the willy managers sought to draw into
the Abolition meshes, that it was no
part Of the mission OF the Republican
party to interfere with slavery as it ex.
listed in the Southern States. 1t was
merely a bIind-a bait to conceal the
Jaws of the trap. To-day the same
managers of the party inform the peo-
pie that it is perfectly right to interfere
with the domestic institutions of other
States, and further claim that it should
be the main and sole object of the pres
ent war to carry out their real purposes
to violate the rights of those very
States whose rights are declared by the
above extract to be inviolable. The
mask has fallen off, and the deformity Of
the organization is revealed.
The charge that the Democratic party
is 10 favor Of perpetuating the system Of
negro slavery is false. The Democratic
party stands upon that question to day
just as it has always stood, under all
circumstances. 1t takes no cognizance
Of the institution whatever, but simply
asks that the States which adopted it
shall be lett to do as the please with it
without outside interference. The
Democratic party claims that neither
the Administration, nor Congress, nor
the Government has any more right to
NEEDLE with the domestic institutions
of any State than they have to NEEDLE
with the domestic arrangements of any
foreign State or Government. This
Government has just as much right to
abolish slavery In Cuba, to-day, as to
abolish 1t in Georgia.
The Democratic party takes no other
guide for it's conduct than the Constitu.
ton, which expressly gives any State
the right to recognize or ignore slavery.
The true end and aim of this war should
b. to uphold that Constitution just as it
reads to-day, and to perpetuatc the
Union as it was before the rebellion
broke out. To do this our Government
has abundant power, without infringing
at all upon the domestic regulations of
any State. Let all such as have risen
up in rebellion be put down and made
to acknowledge the Constitution. II
any domestic institution of the rebel
States happens to suffer while the Gov.
eminent is enforcing its power, so be it
but we most emphatical'y deny that a.,
such institution is SO inimical to the hf,
OF the Government that it must b,
removed IN order that the Union an,
the Constitution may be pcrpetuated.
Let no Democrat be deceived: tn,
greatest enemy of the Government is tn,
Abolition dogma-is thelove of the doc
time of extra.constitutlonal measures,
They must be met and defeated.
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In the Onion Again.
Every drop of water in the noble ole
Mississippi river, together with its tr,bu
ta,ics, is in the Union again to-day
The old flag waves over every inch Of it
The victory achieved by Gen. Halleck al
Corinth, and by Commodore Davis a,
Memphis, has broken the back Of the
rebellion in the valley OF the Father o
Waters most hopelessly, aud ravigatior
Is once more opened. 1t has been about
thirteen months since the river wa.
thoroughly blockaded at Memnhis