Show democracy aud slavery for forty years the democratic party did nothing else than defend the institutions of slavery its zeal tor those institutions commenced with the missouri compromise in 1820 and continued until the kansas difficulties in the every adale it admitted was admitted to increase the slave power its annexation of texas was a democratic move to extend tha power of slavery and not content enacting the domestic slave trade whereby not legs than fifteen thousand slaves were annually sent from virginia and the more northern negro rais ing states into the distant south it eafen passed the famous fugitive fuga tive slave abot in 1850 to fasten the fangs of slavery on the north by this act wholly democratic the north was turned into a legalized hunting ground for fugitive slaves and many a poor free negro was dragged from the north into the galling bonds of slavery he had LO redress the law provided that in no trial or hearing under this act shall the testimony of such alleged fugitive slave be admitted in evidence neither was he given the right of a trial by jury which the constitution of the united states grants in suits at common law where the avalne valne is more than twenty dollars but were appointed to try the fugitive slaves and the government offered a premium on kidnapping for it allowed a commissioner twice as much in caise he sur rendered the alleged fugitive to the claimant as he should receive if he released him ten dollars fur declaring a man a slave and five dollars for declaring him a freedman it also authorized the appointed ministers of this law T to summon and call to their aid the bystanders or posse of the proper conaty aud it commanded all citizens to sid in the execution of this devilish democratic of legislation all of this was done by the party which our colonel now belld us actually put more men into tho field than the republicans in the late civil war which may ba true when we consider which side they were put in on it is strange that jsn who know bauer should indulge in auca deliberate the democratic party continued to be the slave power right up to the war and when the republican party gained its victory on an aati slavo r platform in 1860 the democratic ad ibm in power did all it could to linsten and aid rebellion after the boys in bine had been more than three years in the field fighting for the flag and had well figu redeemed their country with precious blood the democratic party met in a convention at chicago and declared the war a artil anre in their national platform that was bot very encouraging words for democrat who it is now claimed were fighting in such a large majority for the union in a war brought about by the democratic parly |