Year: 1859

very are as sound as any mans at the

 south. The late discussion in the Tract

 Society at New York revealed to us the

 fact that many of the clergy, pious, vene-

 rable men, not only approved the institu-

 tion of slavery but said that God having

 commanded Moses to purchase slaves of

 the heather, if the slave trade was right | | then, it was right now. In Ohio, in the |

 vicinity of an abolition college we find | iuries resisting all abolition influences and

 finding men guilty of rescuing fugitive slaves. In Cincinnati, as bad as it once

 was, runaway slave is now at discount

 and is quietly taken home to Kentucky-

 If the north was so overwhelmingly anti

 slavery as the Balance insists, the Union

 would not hold together day. There is

 strong conservative sentiment at the north;

 there are a goodly number of just and true

 men there, and they are to be found in the

 ranks of the democratic party.

 We must notice one or two other points

 made by the Balance. It Is in the south

 and not in the north, that the Balance says

 the democratic party agitates the slavery

 question and that the democrats north are

 mum on the question. And to prove this

 it quotes pro-slavery articles from a demo-

 cratic pro-slavery journal complaining of

 skulkers and dough faces, and driving them

 out of the party because they do not meet

 the question fairly. There should be no

 opposition to slavery in the south, and all

 discussions have been forced upon her.

 We are heartily glad to see excitement

 upon the subject, for, as it is discussed, truer

 views are taken and more guards thrown

 around the institution. Years ago, hun

 dreds were found too careless to deny the

 oft repeated assertion that slavery was an evil. The agitation of the question has re- } suited in the enactment of one law in Ar } kansas, perhaps the briefest, and certainly one of the best on our statute book. It runs thus:

 "No slaves shall hereafter be emancipated r in this State''

 But the Balance don't want the question agitated. When the south is smitten upon one cheek she must turn l the other. When African slavery is

 denounced as a crime and a sin, she must e not attempt to show 1t is sanctioned by l human and divine law. The democratic party must not resist aggression, for fear ' of awakening the anti-slavery spirit at the north, as if it was not now raging like a e Hiawaian volcano. Again, with all sub- Q mission and due deference to the logical e abilities of the editor of the Balance, we r submit that the very extracts he makes e from the Day Book to maintain his posi- d tion prove the very reverse. Did he never e hear it said that C exceptions prove gene ! ral rule" The Day Book does right il e scolding recusants and skulkers But al > well attempt to prove that parent has nc a children because he or she whips them whel : they do wrong. In some localities, demo /, cratic presses and leaders may make conces

 sions to the antislavery feeling to gain n temporary victory. When they do this Q we are glad to see the Day Book or an 'e other northern democratic journal las It them. And the fact that it does this ot shows that they have departed from demo n- cratic principles by so doing. We hop

 that the Day Book may succeed in drivin at every one of these time-servers from tn n ranks. Defeat upon principle is preferabl n to victory without it.

 K Quoting the Day Bookupon us as demo r cratic journal itmust not impeach its ow

 witness. Now the very quotations ,, makes shows that his witness scolds the

 politicians and journals for not remaini1 .le true to principle. And that principle "the constitutional rights ofall the States cs First the Balance says there is no slavel to party. Next, it proves it by copying { ,s article against deserters, or those who sho nv willingness to desert from that party. 1t. the principles of the democratic party nor lv are not founded upon the Dred Scott dec ,r- sion, why does a sensible journal ins Ne

 York call those " skulkers,' who show of unwilingness to stand thereon?

 However much it may shock the nerv hat or ruffle the fine sensibilities of the edit y ra- of the Balance, we are afraid that the

 mocratic party will continue to agitate t ne "nigger' question, not only at the sou an but at the north. It will be one of t n issues in 1860, as it was in 1856 " a beat Fremont as the free-soil champi its then as we hope to beat Seward or Be as as the anti tslavery candidate in 1860. Al de to do this we will have the aid of go we men and true at the north-of democra we who are sound upon that and every otll ow question. The issues are made up and sl is very is one of them. And the sooner tn ,n- are settled, one way or the other the bett of for all parties. With an abiding faith nd the power of democratic principles and co len fdence in the conservative men of t the north, we look for victory and perpetui

 of the Union. However the Balance m md fix it up-however it may pooh! poe

 and sheer, 1t is fixed fact that abolitio lif- ism to succeed has to conquer democracy the that the democratic hosts stand betwe er- the black republicans and the temple .- that the hopes of the south and of eve hat lover of the Union rest and depend up ike the democratic party. And if the Balar are thinks the thread a slender one, let 1t go the work to strengthen and not to sever it, sm his fate and the fates of all are involv oes As to the assertion of the Balance, u or when the south becomes unit on the S ex- very question, then the north will unite lteS anti slavery we muSt be Dermltted to