Year: 1859

THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY AND OLD BROWN.


The democratic party in the North are
striving (not without success, we suspect) to
make the late enaeute at Harper's Ferry a
leading element in the elections about to
take place in New York and New Jersey,
against tie black republicans. Undoubted-
ly there is great confusion in the black re,
publican press as to this affair Some ap>
prove of Browns proceedings, some condemn
them very decidedly, whilst other presses
approve Of his principles but condemn his
practice But how was it when Brown was
carrying on his enterprises of numbering
Shareholders and freeing slaves in Missouri
and Kansas? The few killed at Harper's
Ferry are not to be compared in numbers
with those slain in Kansas. Yet what dem
ocratic press at the North called for the
puushmen. of the murderers, slave and
horse thieves in Kansas? If the laws had
been enforced in Kansas for the protection
Of shareholders and their ownership of their
slaves, Brown would have been hung. He
never would have lived triumphant in crime
to plot its preparation at Harper's Ferry
But with democratic Office holders, under
democratic administrations, from the iucipi


ency of the territory, force and fraud and
bloddy violence was allowed to be success,
full Successful in Kansas, is it surprising
that the emissaries of abolition should turn
to the frontier States to carry out within
their limits the policy of insurrecion and
freesoil domination The one was the nat
ural consequence Of the other; and why
should those who were Indifferent TO the
one, now lift their voices in loud agitation
against the other The reason is obvious
In the case of Kansas, Northern Democrats
and Northern abolitionists were well agreed
in any policy which would make Kansas a
free State Even now, two thirds of the
democratic party in the northern States are
in favor of Douglas expedient of squatter
sovereignty, to exclude or drive out slave.
holders and slaves from all common territo>
ries. Such a policy involves violence and
blood, just as much as the Harper's Ferry
enterprise. But it seems impracticable in
Virginia. This enterprise to run off or
emancipate slaves in Virginia has failed
The elections in New York and New jersey
take place this day, and Browns emeute is
seized on to carry these elections against the
black republican party. The patronage of
the State Government in New York is far
greater than the patronage of the General
Government; and by these elections, the
government Of those States goes under the
control of the democratic or the black re,
publican parties. Let no one in the South
suppose tbas the denuneiations by the dem
ocratic party of the North, in its presses or
its party meetings, of Brown aud his treason,
springs from love to the South, or sim,
pie fidelity to the Constitution, The chief
cause of theiT denuncations sre-1 Party
success. q A fear, not love, of the South.
No party of the North designs dissolution
of the Union. They all understand the
Importance of the South to their enrichment
and sggrandizement Even the abolition,
lists do not mean to drive the South beyond
their intervention and control, by dissolving
the Union. The success of their schemes
is wrapped uo in the Union and they will
equivocate and deny just as often as the oco
casiOus of their policy shall require A
skiiful angler lets the fish run when strong
and alarmed at the hook. The people at
the North have great deal yet to- get out
of US; and if the democratic party should
defeat the black republican, party at the ap-
preaching elections, it Will only show that
they are just as wise as they have ever
been. To weaken, subject and use the
South, but not to lose her, is their policy
When adapted to their rule, then the old
expedents If pluuder will b. resorsed to-
In those very States Of New York and New
Jersey, at the last fall elections, the demo,
cratic party rivalled the black republican
party in their zeal for protective tlriffs.


Charleston Mercary