The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1854-09-28

teal question: connected with Slavery to act
upon: why agitate it any longer? Let us have
done with sectionaism, and once more move
together, an unbroken, harmonious, Democrat
10 Party.
They are either blind, or wicked, or both.
The appropriation of Kansas to Slave Labor
was but one object of the Shareholders, and the
subordinate one. Their great object was. 10
strengthen their political power, and facilitate
their settled policy of aggression and suprema-
cy. And this they hoped to attain, by repeal
ing q law which evidently involved the assump-
ton that Slavery is an evil and by establishing
Principle, in virtue of which whatever acqui-
sitions Of territory might thereafter be made,
their claim to continue or institute Slavery
therein should forever be unchallenged. Con-
fidently did they expect on the strength of
the impulse they were sure they would re-
ceive from such triumph, to force the North
ern People to assent to, if not aid in, their i'm
mediate designs upon Cuba. This was the
cherished policy of the Slave Power-this the
policy which the Administration was pledged
convenient to ignore it; and there are men in
the free States, who were really offended by the
passage of the Nebraska Bill, now stupid
enough to forget, if indeed, they ever under
stood it, For once, the majority of the People
of those States seemed to gain a clear insight
into the real meaning Of tho Slave Power.
They regarded the act not as an isolated ono
not as the offspring of accident, caprice, or any
temporary cause, but as at once the offspring
and evidence of "a settled policy of aggression
and expansion on the part of the Slave Power,
growing out of its necessities, its habits, and
instincts, resistance to which was duty, cost
what it might. IF they could not prevent the
passage of the act, their plain duty was, to
punish all who aided or abetted its passage,
thereby obtaining at least partial indemnify for
the past and to place such men in the Federal
Legislstrre and in the Executive Department
as would provide security for the future.
This is the work to which the People of the
free States turned their attention, when it be-
came evident that the Nebraska Bill was to
pass, as an Administration measure by Ad-
ministration influence: This is the work in
which they have been engaged ever since, and
which will be completed only when Congress
shall have been purged of treason and servility,
and the Administration of the Federal Govern
ment placed on the side of Liberty.
The first fruit of the new movement was the
defeat of the Administrations forces in New
Hampshire the latest result the disorganiza-
ton and prostration of the Hunker Democracy
in Maine Two Anti-Nebraska Senator'S will
DO sent from New Hampshire: two have been
elected from Connecticut: one will be chosen
from Vermont, to take the place of a submis-
sionist: the vacancies from Maine and Massa-
chusests have been filed by men of sound prin-
ciple in a word, after the next session of Con-
gress the entire delegation from New England
in the Senate of the United States will be
unit on the side of Freedom. So far as that
section has yet had an opportunity to act, the
came work of reformation has been accom-
plished in its representation in the other branch
of the Federal Legislature. Macdonald, who
voted for the Nebraska Bill, Fuller, who play
ed fast and loose during the preliminary stages
of the measure, although he voted finally
against it, and Farley, Hunker Wing, who
after his vote against it, betrayed willingness
to scquiesce, have all been thrust aside, to
make room for consistent and determined OPP
ponents of the Slave Power
Out of New England, but one free State has
had the opportunity to give an authoritative
expression of its willard that, a State from
which little was to be expected: but even Iowa
has been redeemed, the Anti-Slavery senti-
ment having obtained the control of the Legie-
lature and the Executive, and certainly elect
ed one Representative to Congress, if not the
other. If s1ch change has been wrought by
the prevailing agitation in such a State, what
may we not expect from the other States of the
West?
How have ehese results been accomplished
By a union of tho opponents of Slavery, and of
the Administration, which is but its organ
by the united action of Wing, liberal Demo-
Gratis, and Free-Soilers or Independent Demo-
Gratis In New Hampshire, Connecticut and
Iowa, the union has been one, chiefly of co OPP
GRAFTON, the parties severally retaining their
distinct organization. In Maine and Vermont
it assumed the form of fusion, although in both
States strong efforts were made to maintain
the old Wing organization. In Massachusetts.
Pennsylvania, and New York, the policy of
separate organization, with cooperation, is at
tempted. In Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois
and Wisconsin, an effort, quite successful on
the whole, has been made to unite all the ele.
ments of opposition into one Party, under the
title, Republican, in disregard of all former Or
CARNATIONS.
Now, were the only object to be accomplish
ed, the punishment Of misrepresentation from
the free States and their substitution by true
representatives, it would matter little how the
work were done, whether by the cooperation
of existing organizations, or union in a new Or
ganizstion. But this is not the only object.
Throw an Anti-Slavery majority into the House
of Representatives, and let the Administration
remain under the control of Slavery, and the
work is but half done-the Executive veto will
interpose against all Legislative reform, and Ex-
ecutive influence will undermine your repre-
sentative majority. In Congress you will be
bsfflsd, and at home confronted and defed by
powerful and active Party, vitalized by Ex-
ecutive patronage. The movement now on
foot in the free States must embrace in it's
scope an Anti-Slavery revolution of the Admin
istration, as well as of the Federal Legislature,
or it will provea failure
In view of all this, the question whether the
opponents of Slavery should keep up old polti-
cal organizations, or resolve themselves into