Bedford Inquirer And Chronicle

What the Democrats have done for the South.

The Hon. James L. Orr, a distinguished member of Congress from the State of South Carolina, has written a letter about public affairs to a friend in that State, which has been printed and circulated in pamphlet form. In the letter Mr. Orr urges the citizens of his State to sustain the Democratic party; enumerates the good deeds that party has done for the South, and among other things, he mentions the reduction of the odious Tariff of 1842. We publish the following extract from the letter.

"Since then, (1843) the Northern Democrats aided us in bringing into the Union Texas, a magnificent slaveholding Territory, large enough to make four States, and strengthened us more in that peculiar institution, than was ever before done by any single act of the Federal government.—Since then, they have amended a very imperfect Fugitive Slave Law, and given us now a law for the recovery of the fugitive slaves as stringent as the ingenuity of man could devise. Since then, they have aided us by their votes in establishing the doctrine of non intervention with slavery by Congress in the territories. Since then, they have reduced the odious Tariff of 1842, and fixed the imposts of the revenue not on the protective basis. Since then, they actually have repealed the Missouri restriction, opened the Territories for settlement and enabled us, if the South will be true to herself and aid in peopling Kansas to form another slave State. In 1843 a man would have been pronounced insane, had he predicted that slavery would be introduced there by the removal of Congressional restrictions."