Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1860 — What the Democrats Indorsed. [ARTICLE]

What the Democrats Indorsed.

The Democrats who voted for Win. N. H. Smith of North Carolina for Speaker, have demonstrated that the animus of their party is slavery and nothing else, as we showed last week. Mr. Cox has professed great abhorrance for the slave code, and at one time refused to-vote for any one who was not in favor of tiie Douglas dogma; but rather than do anything for the cause of free labor he would even vote for the slave code. The Washington States, the Douglas organ, in speaking of Smith, says: “He advocated the slavery code for the Territories, lie is from Hartford county, N. C., is a lawyer bv profession, and was fur many years solicitor in that judicial circuit. This was his first term in the House. He was elected to Congress by the Whigs and Americans.”

So ho! A pretty man, that, to be supported by a popular sovereignty Democrat! Elected by the Whigs and Americans against a Democrat and in favor of the Slave Code! This is the kind of men our Licking county Democracy go in for! Their Representative not only votes for a Know Nothing, but for p Slave Code Know Nothing rather than for a free labor Whig. Nothing like Slavery! But, says Mr. Cox, in reply, Mr. Smith never was in a Know Nothing lodge. Perhaps not—can’t say—lodges up—but the party is the same, and he was a member in good standing, in the Know Nothing party. Hear what Mr. Mallory, of Kentucky, said when he nominated him for Speaker! “I announce that I have been instructed by my party, formally to putin nomination as candidate for Speaker, Wm. N. H. Smith, of North Carolina.” By my party. Hear that, Mr. Cox! You supported the candidate for the American party, and so went over to Americanism, because Americanism meant Slavery; you supported a slave-code American rather than a free-soil Whig. Again hear Mr. Vance, (South American,) friend of Mr. Smith, from North Carolina. He said: ‘SMr. McClernand and his friends had voted for the American candidate, and should not his (Vance’s) political friends reciprocate!” Exactly! The Democrats had hugged the Know Nothings, and surely the Know Nothings should hug back again. What a loving time they must have had! With what admiration would our Irish friends look on when Pilate and Herod were thus made friends, and our Representative, with all his enthusiasm of the “brogue,” conquered his prejudices and sacrificed dear old Ireland in order to secure a Speaker that was a Know Nothing and was in favor of the slavecode!—Newark North American.