The mountain Democrat., 1863-08-29
Abolition custom House Emisssriss.

all flush with money, extravagant IN thelr
adulolion of their masters, savage in their
abuse Of Democrats, lou6in their express
sions of admiration of the negro, brutal
in their comments on the South, childish
in their arguments, and vehement and
blasphcmous in their denunciation of the
FtCORStitution. Four Of the former
Brockway and Dudley, on Monday night,
and Goodwin and Sears, on Wednesday |
night--labored industriOus!y, bot fruit
Icssly, to convince the people that the
Constitution was a piece of worthless
parchment, of no binding effect, which
the President could disregard, override,
trample upon at his sovereign pleasure
1t appeared to be their determined pur'
pose TO bring it into contempt; they rid
iculed it, mocked it, and illuminated all
who reverence it. Sears is excuSa6le; he
is ninny on general principles, and,par-
rot-likc, has to repeat what those who
employ him place in his mouth. Not so
with Brockway, Dudley and Goodwin
They are lawyers, Indifferent ones it may
be, aud they knew that withos. Consti.
tuition we would have no Government;
and that the President is as much bound
to respect and maintain it the humblest
citizen; and that whosoever violates it is
a criminal Each and all of them, with a
duplicity sublime in its audacity, endeav.
ored to make the people believe that the
Administration is the Government -
They threw the whole blame Of our diff
cultes upon the Democratic party and the
South, forgetting that the records Of Con
gresS prove that that party and the South
ern Senators al! approved the Crittenden
Compromise which, had the Republicans
voted Tor it, would have settled our ma
tional troubles harmoniously; forgetting
that for years the Republican party has
laborcj to dissolve the Union. Is this
not so' Who, we ask, in the language
of another, was it that began the anti.
slavery agitation in 1886? Who was it
that flooded Congress with Abolition peti.
tons, and the mails with Abolition docu
mentS, under color of the right Of petition
and the right Of free printing? Who was
it that ran the underground railroad p
Who was it that got up the Anthony
Burns riot in Boston, and the Jerry res
cue at Syracuse that raised mob in ev-
cry city and village where attempts were
made to restore fugitivcs to their masters?
Who was it that promulgated the "higher
law" and proclaimed the "irrepresSible
conflict? Who was it that caused the
whole country to ring with denunciations
Of Daniel Webster FOR his patriotic speech
of the 9Th of March, 1850. and strained
every nerve to thwart Henry Clay in the
last great effort Of his life to cxor else the
Abolition demon? Who was it that
scorncd and spat upon the Compromise Of
1850, and declared that the slavery agita.
ton, which that compromise declared set
tied, should never die out till the fugitivt
slave act was taken off the statute book
Who was it that kept making speeches
and presenting petitions in Congress for
its repeal? Who passed the personal lib.
elty bills to nullify it? Who mourned
old John Brown as martyr, and impi-
ou>ly compared the gallows OH which he
met felon'S fate,t the Cross Of Calvary?
The party which has employed Brock
mGl, 3u1iey, Goodwin and Sears to de.
fend its treason! Stand forth, We agita.
tors, 0nd behold the blood upon your
hands The pitying heavens will never
weep rain enough to wash them clean.
Goodwin and Sears, with disgusting
servlity, had much 10 say with regard 10
supporting the Govcrnmcnt--meanngt the
AdministratiOn-unconditionally. Hav.
ing made slaves Of themselves they wish
to drag down others to their degrading
level. Unconditional support Of the Ad-
ministration is favorite cry of the party
which has fostcred the sectional bitterness
which brought these troubles upon the
country. To be considered loyal" we
must give an unconditional, unquestion-
ing, slavsh support to every measure the
Adminstration-which its minionS, Good.
win and Sears among the number, insist
is the Government"-may see fit to in
augurate. The Constitution is nothing
State and individual rights are nothing
common sense and past experience are
nothing. True, such despicable, abject
acquescence in the exercise of unlimited
power by the servants we have engaged
at fair salaries to look after our interests,
converts the servants irto despotS and the
people into loyal subjects. But nothing
less will satisfy the demagogues who de-
mand an unconditional support of the
Government" The right to freely discuss
and peacefully oppose the measures insti.
tuted by the administrators of the Gov
ernment, is essential to the preservation
of Liberty. The men in power are our
servants. We pay them their vi ees, and
it is their duty to look after our interests.
We have perfect right to ask whether
they perform their duties honestly and
faithfully, to reprimand them if they dis.
please US, and to hold them to a strict &C.
countability for their conduct. The con.
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