Editorial ties the success of the Republican Party to its stand against slavery and the Slave Power in the Democratic Party.
Editorial turns Democratic insults against the South.
Independent Democratic Congressman pledges to hold the Democrats and the South to the concept of popular sovereignty and excoriates the Buchanan administration for scandals. Editorial suggests that the slavery issue is just as heated and contested in the South as in the North. The article further ridicules and maligns Taney's rise to power. A tirade against a compromise court ruling in Ohio that allowed 4 men accused of kidnapping fugitive slaves and 15 people accused of aiding fugitives to go free. Repeats the Republican claim that the effect of extending slavery is to eradicate the white population in slave states.