New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-04-28
SHAM DEEOCEACY BECOMING
ASHAMED OF ITSELF.


ASHAMED OF ITSELF.
II is one of the most hcallhlul and cheering
signs of an improved public sentiment that the
inyctcrate champions OF profitable Wrong begin
at length to rcpudiaic its advocacy and deny
that they were ever its partsans. Thus, per
son who is introduced to the general public as
1.-THE Hon. Geo. Is. Smith, has been making a
Comprehend speech in the Legislature Of Wis
con,in, wherein he says:
"Mr. Speaker II hes often been said since this war
began thrt The DEMOCRACY s!mpaHcd with The Rebel
ioa-tlai the Democracy Nas ia favor Of Slavery Sir,
il If not tuC-thc Democratic party ncYer had any
sympathy witn Rebellion. with Slavery The Demo
cratic party has always been opposed o the institution
OF Saic-y-fhey have always dcplored its existence
here aad AN except hbotouis.s pfctions 10 The organ
ilation Il tie Republican party regarded slavery as
State institution, with Which TIE Government o! thf
United States had nothing 10 do
We quite agree with thc Hon. George 'hat
Slavery waS very generally regarded as State
institution up to the time that it attempted to
divide and subvert the Nation; which, we think
even he must perceive, materially altered the
case. But let rs refresh his recollection with
a few instructive facts:
The State Of DELAWARE was one of the very
first to adopt the Federal Constitution, and was
thenceforth known a. a Federal state; support
ing for President George Washington (twice),
John Adams Owice), Charles c. Pinckney
(twice), DE Witt Clinton, and Rufus King,
respectively. II had never voted for candi-
date Of the old Republican party ill l-2l, when
il cast It's vote, with that of every other State,
for Mr. Monrocs reelection. In ~, II divided
IFS votes between Crawford and J. q. Adams;
but it voted thereafter for John Quincy Adams,
Henry Clay, William III. Harrison (twice),
Henry Clay again, and Zachary Taylor respect
lively. Since then, il has voted for Franklin
Pierce. James Buchanan, and John &. Brcckin-
ridge successfully; and for the simple reason
that the shareholders of the lower counties re-
gardcd the modern Democratic party as the bull
yark of their peculiar institution Those
counties (Kent and Sussex, containing
seven eglths Of the slaves and but half the
free population of the State, were formerly The
Federal and have since been The Democratic
stronghoIds, electing the Democratic majority to
the present Legislature.
But this is not all: Not only is Sham Democ-
racy the recognized bulwark Of Slavery in
D. laware, but Slorry has been HaiaidHed there
for The beneft Of Democracy Projects Of cman-
cipa,ion have been oYerborne in the Legislature
by the solid vote Of the Democratic party; and
now Delaware continues a Slave State, after
MARYLAND has chosen a Convention expressly to
rid herself Of the giant curse. Every one
knows that the growth of the State is retarded
and her wealth and thrift iearfully diminished
by Slavery: that if her real estate were taxed
to pay for the l,793 slaves remaining there in
1860 and they liberated and sent about their
business, every propcrty-holdcr therein would
be richer for the Operation-that the increased
yalue OF the land would far more than pay the
price of the slaves. Yet Democracy forhids
Emancipation simply because Emancipation
would PROSTATE Sham Dcmocracy-because the
Democratic ascendency, such as it il, could not
survive the extinction Of Slavery.
Turn now TO MARYLAND, whereas every
decently informed politician knows-Balimorc
anu lllt tbuuiifS Mtlt llc
Of JellersOnan Democracy from the outset;
while tn Counties down the Chesapeake Bay
were Federal from Washington's time to Jack
sons, and then Wing until Slavery upset oil old
political relations. Now they 60 democratic
that is TO say, Pro-Savcry; elccting Demo-
critic delegates to the Convention by an over
whelming veterinary Of them Federalists and
Wings OF other days, but now calling themselves
Democrats, because they cling to Slavery and
are as nearly Rebels as they dare DO while they
remain on this side of the Potomac, instead Of
following the sons and nephews ofmany of them
into the camps Of Lee and the saddles of j. T..
i. Steuart.
There are enough more such facts-for Ken
lucky strikingly illustrates the same general
trutb-but what need of theml Tho Hon. |
George Il. Smith can hardly enter low grog-
gerry in Wisconsin without hearing Democracy
expounded by its more ardent votaries as con-
sisting mainly Of hate of "niggers" and hos
lility TO "Abolition." These apostles of Mr..
Smiths political church eel No necessity i'm