The Union and journal. [volume] (Biddeford, Me.) 1858-1882, 1863-03-20
For tho Union and Journal.

the entire resources Of the Government dur.
ing its continuance, and entailed upon the
country and tho present Administration q
public debt Of moro than seventy millions,
and disarmcd the North. l propose to show
now beyond oil controversy, that Democratic
policy has caused the ebollion,-that II ha,
for long series Of years been increasing the
numerical strength and the material resources
of the rebels, while 1t has during the same
time been weakening the power Of the North
to resist.
The head and front Of the rebellion is
slavery. No free State has joined in it.--no
slave State has failed to join in or sympthize
whit. Slave holders evety where are rebels
on compromisers. The corner stone Of the
Southern Contedcracy is slavery, and the
limits and the extent Of the Rebellion are
every where defined by slavery.
or the first thirteen States. there are but
six, which now tolerate slavery, and but
four in Rebellion, the other two, Delaware
and Maryland, having been held back by the
non-slaveholding people within their borders,
aided by tho strong arm of the Government
So it has been with Missouri, Kentucky and
Tennessee, which States have given about as
much aid to one side as the other. Thus we
find only four OF the original thirteen States
as such in actual rebellion. None will pre-.
tend that these four State, alone, viz: Vir.
ginia the Carolinas and Georgia, would have
made war upon the other 80 States. But
six more have been made rebel States by
Democratic policy and Democratic votes.
Congress has the power and a perfect right
under the Constitution to make these six
States free, and would have done 30, had
they acted in accordance with the example
and precepts of the fathers Of the Republic
or the dictates Of humanity, as regarded the
future safety Of the Union. They ICON
grcss) could have applied the Jeffersoniar
Ordinance of 1887, which excluded slavery
from the Territory we then owned to oil
newly acquired Territories or they could
have refused, as their predecessors had done
in another case, to admit them as States with
slavery. But democratic doughfaces in Con
gress having majorities, and acting under
the orders of their masters, the man-owners
resisted the prohibition of slavery in the
Territories and went in body for the nd
mission of Slave States into the Union, not.
withstanding the warnings and the persis.
tant urgency and opposition of tho other
party and the most intelligent patriots Of
the country. ...
10 reconcile tho people to these unwise
and wicked proceeding, magic catch.words
were invented, such as popular Sovereign.
ty," &c. This phrase was interpreted to
mean that the slave holders might do as they
pleased with the negroes, provided only, they
would give Democratic politicians Offices
If this phrase has any ineligible meaning,
and is the true doctrine, II us much requires
Congress to admit communities of robbers
and corsairs into the Union, as States, as II
does to admit Slave States. BY such stu
pendous hunbugs, the rank and file Of the
Democratic party have been divided into the
support of WEAKNESSES so wicked in themselves
and in their consequences so injurious to tho
country. By making tho six slave States,
the Democratic Party have more than doubled
the numerical strength and material re-
sources Of the rebellion.
BY similar arts. the Democratic leaders
have lessened tho ability Of the North to re.
sist tho rebellion. It has been the policy Of
those leaders to SOW and disseminate among
their followers fanatical hatred of negroes,
because, If they should regard negroes as
human beings, with souls, feelings. aaec-
tions, hopes and aspirations like other men,
they would hardly consent to be made in.
struments to crush them, like reptiles.
Tho Democratic voters have been told that
negroes are black. But as they did not
make their color themselves, and rs large
part Of the slaves are nearly as white, rs
their masters, who begot them, this argu.
ment has prcjudicod only the ignorant and
who suppose that the devil
and his angels arc oil blackmen.
They have been assured that negroes smell
strong when they perspirc. But as whites
do the same, this is only thrown in as a
make-wait. r
They have been assured, that negroes are
inferior in mental capacity to the
whites. But since we have oil manner OF
white men among us, from the ignorant and
brutal up to the refined and intelligent, this,
If true, furnishes no moro reason for enslav.
ing negroes than degraded white men.
Democratic voters have been alarmed by
the repeated assertion that IT the negroes
are freed, they will all rush north and de-
prive them of their work and their wages,
and have not been informed, rs they should
have been. that slavery alone has driven here
the few negroes We have among us,-thas
the negro belongs to warm climate. and
will never leave it but upon the direst neccs-
'ity.
Then again the Democratic masses have
been assured that the Southern slaves arc