Year: 1859

ignaton as just and proper. So far also car
the Douglas Democracy of the country agre,
with the Union 1t is indeed bloody pro
gramme; for it can never be carried into eff
feet without the pouring forth of seas o
blood The first step in this "bloody pro
gramme' is to be the refusal Of Congress. %,
having in that body Free Soil majority t,
admit any more slave States into the Union
This will be simply an exercise of the abso
lutte power which may reside in a majority
The next step is to remodel the Supreme
Court of the United States, and reverse the
decision which delares that slaves are recog.
nized as property under the Federal Consti
tuition. This is to be a work of time The
effect Of such decision will of course annul
the Fugitive Slave Law and all similar en-.
actments, and contine slavery where it al.
ready exists, rendering it impossible for a
Territorial Legislature to protect it at all, as,
according to the Dred Scott decision, it may
now do The final step is to be the amend
ing of the Constitution of the United States
in such manner as totally to abolish the in.
stitution of slavery in the length and breadth
of the land.


Truly, this is fearful vision to contem
plate. The very first step would be attended
with n shock which woull throw off from
the Confederacy a majority of the Southern
States. Then would come an attempt tc
force the Federal Laws upon those refractory
members. Resistance would be made-civi
war would ensue-the negroes would rise in
insurrection armies, and murder and conla.
grafton and wide wasting destruction would
make a map Of horror of the South and a
scene of woe over the whole Union, long be-
fore the "bloody programme" had more than
begun to be filled out.


This is Senator Stewards programme
Now, let us see what is the programme of
Senator Davis. 1t is simply this: The Su.
preme Court having decided that slaves are
property, and that it has right to 90 into
the Territories of the Union, unquestioned
Congress must pass a slave code for the rro
lection of that species of property Both
Seward and Davis are for Congressional in
terventon-the one against slavery and the
other for it. Kansas N ebraska Democrats
are for leaving the people of the Territories
to regulate the matter for themselves, and to
protect slavery or let it alone, Just as they
see fit The next step, so far as we can Judge
from the receLt speeches Of Senator Davis,
Is secession-a wild and fearful STEP This
step is to be taken, whenever it shall be
found that the voice of the South is wholly
disregarded in the councils of the Nation
when the full measure of protection that they
demand for slavery, not only in the States
but in the Territories, is refused by Congress,
and when various circumstances, not nee.
essary to be mentioned in detail, shall hap
pen. One of these circumstances would be
the election Of an Abolition President; and
Republicanism, as defined by Seward and
Lincoln, is now Synonymous with Abolition.
ism they having declared that the States
must all be either free or slave, the relation
Of free and slave being impossible, in their
view, either morally or politically consider.
ed, to be maintained. In reference to this
point, Senator Davis says, in his recent speech
before the Legislature of Mississippi:


at seems now to be probable that the abol.
tionists and their allies will have the control of
the next House of Representatives, and it may
well be inferred from their past course that they
/ Will attempt legislation both injurious and often
sve to the South. | have an abiding faith that
any law which violates our constitutional rights
VIII be met with veto by the present Executive.
But should the next House of Representatives be
such as would elect an abolition President we
may expect that the election will be so conducted
as probably to defeat choice by the people, and
deyolve the election upon the House.


whether by the House or by the people. if an
abolitionlst be chosen Poes:dent of the Uuited
states, you will have presented to you the ques.
ton OF whether you will permit the government
TO pass INTO the hands of your avowed and impi
cable enemies. Without pausng for your an.
swer, ! Will state my own position to be that such
result would be a species Of revolution by which
the purposes of the government would be de
stroyed and the obsery ance of its mere forms en-
Titled to no respect


In that event. in such manner as would be mnSt
eXpeldent, should deem il yOur duty to provide
Tor your safety outside of the Union with those
who have already shown the will, and would have
acquired the power, TO deprive you of your birth
right and to reduce you to worse than the colon al
dependence of your fathers 4


AS when had the privilege of addressing the
| legislature year ago, so now do urge YOU to the
neediul preparation to meet whatever contingent
cy may betall us The maintenance of YOUR rights
against hostile power is a physical problem,
and cannot be solved by mere resolutions. Not
doubtful OF what the heart will prompt it is not
the less proper that due provision should be made
Tor physical necessities. Why should not the
Stale have an armory for the repair of arms, fol
alteration OF old models so as to make them con
form To the improved weapons of the present day
and lor the manufacture on a limited scale of new
arms, including cannon and their carriages the
casting OF shot and shells, and the preparation o
liked ammunition"


Now, what is to prevent the clash IF these
two extremes Of feeling-and we have giver
the most moderate extreme (if we may us,
the eXpression) of Southern opinion-what
is to prevent an almost immediate precipita-
ton of all the evils which so fearfullv loon
up before us, as we contemplate the marshal
ling of the two great sections of the country
as sections, for war? If the political contes
ofls60 is to be purely a sectional contest ther
is no doubt upon earth that Northern Sec
tional President will be elected But, i
there can be any national platform presented
with national candidate upon it, scctiona
feeling will be abated men will refuse to tax
extreme ground, and the North and Soutl
may be reconciled.


The old Democratic Platform, of 1856, w,
are humbly inclined to believe, with a can
ddate upon it in whom the people can hav