ving the
abrogation of the so-called slave-trade treaty
with England, allowing the South to supply herself
with labor as she may see fit, would give,
indeed, unquestioned assurance of his disposition
and courage to follow the principle of the
white-basis to its logical and constitutional consequence_."

It declares that the sending home of the Africans would be "a
practical reversal of the Dred Scott decision," and adds,--"We have
no fear that our people _will long remain passive under such an
accumulating weight of inequality._" [2]

Is not this explicit enough? and does not the "white-basis"
sufficiently explain what is meant by the systematic depreciation of
the colored race in Mr. Cushing's letter?

The Democratic Party is the party of "Progress." What is the
direction of that progress likely to be? What is the lesson of the
past? Hitherto this party has been the ally and the tool, not of the
moderate, but of the extreme propagandas of the South. The
Carolinians with their Scotch blood received also a strong infusion
of Scotch logic. They felt that their system was inconsistent with
the immortal assertion of Jefferson in the Declaration of
Independence, and with the principles of the Revolution,--that its
extension was a direct reversal of the creed and the policy of the
men by whom our frame of government was established. They accepted
the alternative, and assumed the aggressive. The principles of the
Revolution must be crushed out, the traditions of the Fathers of the
Republic repudiated,--and that, too, by means of the party calling
itself Democratic, through which alone the South could control the
policy of the government.

Accordingly, a reaction was put in motion and steadily pressed,
precisely similar in kind to that organized by Louis Napoleon
against the principles of the French Revolution, and supported by
precisely the same warnings of the danger of civil commotion, and by
appeals to the timidity of Property and the cupidity of Trade. The
party which had so long vaunted the derivation of its fundamental
truth from the Law of Nature was compelled to make it a part of its
creed that there was nothing higher than an ordinance of man. The
party of State-Rights was forced to proclaim that a decision of the
Supreme Court was sovereign over all the rights of the States. The
party whose leading dogma it is, that all power proceeds from and
resides in the people, that all government rests on the