Year: 1859

s Both the Independent Balance and the P Gazette quote part of an article rom the :: New York Day Book in reference to the late election in Connecticut, to prove the uh- soundness of northern democrats on the question of slavery. True, the article quo t,d does not even prove that the Connecti- cut democracy were not willing to stand by the constitutional rights of the south, but simply that they did not make slavery the prominent issue in the canvass. ii they truckled or yielded to the spirit of abolition ism as the Day Book intimates then we say with that paper, "it deserved, of course to be defeatel, for it grossly insuted the popu- lar intelligence with its pretended, silver washed issue of popular sovereignty. .'

 After the quotation referred to, the Bal ance asks:

 "Democrats of Arkansas, will you be any longer deluded with the idea that your northern brethren in ihe democratic family are any safer guardians of your southern rights than any other party? Tine idea IS an unmitigated humbug, q transparent cheat''

 A short time ago, that paper said that the whole stock in trade of democracy was nigger. It was sick of the slavery question tired of sectonalsm-disg with the slavery question. Well, in State elec ton the negro question is subordinated and lol he swears that the democrats are oppos- ed to slavery. At the north there are two parties. One is the opposition. Ofcourse their views, dogmns and theories are in op- position to the other party. They combine the black republicans, irce-soilers and abo- litionists. There Is not free negro at the north who IS democrat. And they make war upon their adversaries by calling them < the nigger drivers, " the slave holding democracy" ''the allies of slave and other approbrious epithets. Now if the argument of the Balance is worth the ink it is written with, it proves such men as Seward, Hale, Giddings, Wilson and Sumner, the veriest fools that ever breathed They are oppos- ing the democracy and see in that the bar rier to their further progress. x6ut an Ar kansas editor tells them that it's all revers- ed. The democracy, he says, are abolition ists, and as a natural sequence, it follows, that the abolitionists are the safer guardians of southern rightsl If one face of the pro- position is true the converse must be. Ii the democracy at the north is anti-slavery the opposition must be proslavery or they are not in opposition.

 And absJlred as this stuff is, it is exactly what is attempted to be crammcd down the throats of sensible men,

 Men of Arkansas, can you be made to swallow such "unmitigated humbugs?''- The game they are playing is very transpa- rent First, they try to create the impress sion that the democracy at the north are not to be trusted. Second, that between the two parties there is very little choice. By 1860, they will find that Seward, or the black republican candidate is a first rate state rights man and to be preferred to a democrat. Just now they can find very little difference between white and black; in fact, white is rather the darkest color, next year the black will be the favorite hue and they will swear it resembles the snow, while pure white will be the color of dark ness. So they go. The very Day Book from which they quote is printed at the north, is a pro-slavery journal and demo- cratic. How, in the name of common rea- son, is it that aH the pro-slavcry journals at the north are democratic? And how is it that aH the abolition sheets are opposition? It is perhaps useless to notice these things, for the proposition of the Balance is too ab- surd to find believer but it serves to show the progress these fellows are making in going over to the black republicans.