The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1862-05-08

The Democratic School OF Free Thinkers.
(John W. Forney in the Philadelp phia rrcss
History, which is the torch t,arer Of
Time, is most eloquent comncu'ator,
and one of his bests texts is the record
of the Democracy upon the slave Qucs-
ton The Democracy has henn the nur-
sery and the school to hostility to slave,
~. Not only the old apostles, hu, most
Of the new ones, have either started this
sentiment, or have followed somebody
who did start it. The Wings were nev.
er ns rapid to see the arrogance and
shame Of slavery as the Democracy; and
this may be consequence Of the differ
idgs Of the two old parties the Demo
Gratis being full of progress and inquiry,
the Wings full Of cent; C with the cid
order of things, SO that they might not
be called upon to take the task Of think
ing outside of their leaders 'ollowin@
this train of thought, YOU will >,? that If
Jefferson was the orponen: Of slavery
even in his own State Of Virginia, his
disciples, the raukest Democrats of sue,
ceedinc generations, Benton, Van Buren,,
Silas Wright, Francis h. Skunk. Wm
Leggett, VIM. {. Bryant Hannibal Ham
lin, Benjamin Tanpcn, not to mention
the men Of the present aud veiy recent
periods, have taken the same course -
The Wings Of the States have generally
acted with these men, be cause Of their
inherent dislike Of the Democracy but
the Democrats, who left, or fought their
party on the slave issue gave to their
new views, asserted under so many trials.
Intense smphasis H. very few cases have
the anti slavery D,mocracy been nholi-
tionists-they wero always practical and
common sense mcr, @od hence have been
the most effective opponents cf the slave
barons. The incid,rts that have marEcd
their independence Of the heM5cratic
Organization, because that organization
refused to break the shackles Of the slave
holders and their tools, from john c.
Calhoun t. James Buchanan, arc full Of
significance, and deserve to be pondtred
By all thoughtful and conscientious men.
The registers Of tic nuliiG,rs to Gerer0l
Jackson's proclamation were tie early
out groupings Of the slave despotism,
and made host Of Democrats fees to the
peculiar institution. The overthrow Of
Martin Van Buren, in the election Of
1910 by the aid of Southern electoral
votes. ard bis defeat for the nomination
in 1914 in the Baltimore Convention by
Suuthern leaders, and the removal of
Francis = Blair from the organship Of
the Washington GloJe, the Old mouth
piece Of the radical Democracy, each and
ali being so many evidence. Of the grow
iDy aud exactinc spirit Of the slave por-
er. transformed hosts of Democrats into
AMI slavery propocandists; and while
these aggressons served to consolidate
the slave influence, they weakened it in
the free North and Northwest The an
nexation of Texas succeeded by the war
with Mexico-both supposed to be, and
intended to be, Southern triumphs-tave
proved to be practical Northern advan-
tages, as the result will show for Texas
will! henceforward be the grave Of slavery,
as Mexico must be the promised land TO
the free and disfranchised coored races
Following these came the Comprcmise
Measures Of 1850, in which the South
lost immeasurably by the intolerance Of
Calhoun in the Seuate, aud the defeat Of
Davis in Mississippi. Then came tie
repeal Of the Missouri Compromise, and
the subsequent violation of the act of
Congress that abrogated it, in the scan,
dalous prescriptions and tyrannies in
Kansas, and the removal of Rceder, un-
der the joint influences Of jefferson Da
Wis and Caleb Cushing Every step OF
the shareholders in these fifteen years,
supposed by them to be an advance, was,
in fact, a drawback, and when, at last,
James Buchanan sough: to complete
these series of aggrcssions, in the Lee
compton aud English bills, the bonds of
party were suddenly looscd, and thousands
who had denounced the Re, e,ublcans as
cnenlics Of the South, found them earn.
estly co operating with them in a common
erous man. Long before the tyranny Of
Buchanan eliminated in the atrocities
which made war inevitable, Douglas
and Walker, the leaders and thinkers for
millions of Democrats in the South and
North found themselves acting with the
Republicans and when the conflict came
there was scarcely disiu:erested Demo.
crat who did not locate the whole respon-
sibility Of the war upon the authors of
the events to which have referred.
Here is an unchalenged and uuan-
swersble history, He who reads it care
fully need have little doubt as to the fu
turc Above all, he should avoid being
misled by the delusion that the Democ-
racy are now, as on former occasions, the
guardians and exponents of slavery. At
this moment there is not an old Demo
cratic statesman, at least among the sur
vivors of the Jackson school, in the 10y
al States, who is not the conscientiou,
foe of the slave oigarchy. need only
mention ia proof of this assertion, such
names RS Robert j. Waikcr. George Ban
croft. Daniel S. Dickinson, David Tod,
W. F. Packer, Andrew johnson, Amos
Kendall, Martin Van Buren,, and Francis
=. Blair, to give the read + something
worthy of reflection and self examination.
B~There are two men in Congress
who deserve the halter as richly as any
two malnfactors that ever disgracad a
gallows We mean, Senator Powell of
Ky, and Representative Nallaudigham
of Ohio. They arc both traitors at
heart, and 50 far as they dare, they man
ifest their treason to the disgrace of Con
gress and the country Buffalo Err
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