Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-12-22
FRANCIS P BLAIR AGAINST SLAVERY
EXTENSION.

Francis p. Blair, n native Of Kentucky and now
n citizen Of Maryland has been invited 10y the Re.
publican Association of Washington City to be
como It's President. lie declines the appointment
but accompanies his declination with II letter ex-
pressing his opposition to the further extension Of
slavery and his desire to have the Government
brought into conformity to the views o, Jefferson.
on this subject, as expressed in his support of the
ordinance of 1887. Mr.. Blair was the friend and
confident of General jackson, and editor of the
official Organ the Globe during his administration
and if we are not mistaken he followed the for.
tunes of Mr.. Van Buren, on to the Buffalo Platform
in 1913.
We copy the closing portion Of his letter in which
he sets forth the benefits Of this restrictive policy;
If the majority favorable to the policy built up
with our Government will unite, accept the issue
rendered by the Administration and make the re-
peal of the repeating clause Of the Kansas act
paramount in the impending contest for the Presi.
dency, all .sill be restored that has been lost to the
free institutions, by opening the Territories North
and South to slavery. The Compromises of
1920 and 1850 being restored, there will not be an
inch of the territory of the United States, once ex-
empt from slavery on which it can legally intrude;
and Mr.. Atchison's attempt by an armed force to
carry out the notification plotted in the caucus
which gave birth to the Kansas bill, will, like the
attempt of his prototype, Mr.. Calhoun, to give
effect to South Carolina qualification, be paraly zed
by the frown of an indignant nation, made potent
by an honest and firm Executive.
And there will end the career of those gentle
men who arrogate to themselves the exclusive
tutelago of the Democracy Of the country, as end
ed that of Mr.. Calhoun and his prosolytes, vho
took the peculit r charge of the Estate Rights
party. They sank, under the universal conviction
that their zeal for State rights was an ardent pas
sion to reach political power, at the hazard of
extinguishing in the blood Of the people the wise
and free institutions it had cost so much to es-
tablish.
Our innovating Democrats, who put under foot
the representative principle; who violate the known
will of their constituents; who scorn their inst?uc-
tiOus to redress the wrong they have committed:
who reply to the ~suffrages that condemn their con-
duct, that they are no. democratic ~suffrages who
in the plentitude of their inability, read out of the
Democratic party Maine, New Hampshire, Connec-
ticut, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana,
Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin and Iowa, because
they will not submit to the will of these, their rep
resentativcs, who have set up a test which must
ever exclude Massachusetts,, Vermont and Rhode
Island from its ranks who have Sartered away
rights secured to them all by comuacts-wiil soon
learn that Democracy does not reside in the or
ganization Of intrigucs, but in the mass Of the
people.
1t is the glory of our great Republic that its
Democracy springs up from the soil and fOurishes
in the fresh air of our widespread country and
that its rich harvest, imparting health, strength,
and spirit to our whole system, is gathered annu-
ally at the polls. The Democracy which is bred in
caucuses and cabinets is a sort of hot-bed species
suited to the taste of epicurean politicians, whose
a~ppetites are their principles. Incumbents and
expectants of Offices and dignities claim a sort of
patent right in the machinery ofGovernment tocre
nte n democracy adapted to their purposes. Their
innovations in tie machinery are contriyances to
renew their privileges for new terms, and the
people are the subjects who are to be used up in
ito pay tribute for this privilege, and take pride
in the skill of the operators.
The telegraph wires and the Cincinnati Conven-
ton are to bring all the mastery combinations of
the Administration in contact with the masses at
the appointed time. But will the wires work !?
Undoubtedly the people, far and wide, will have
their Instructions from the operators; but the re-
Spouse will probably be a thunderbolt to those who
have violated their rights, spurncd their remon-
strances, and as a consequence, have arrayed broth
ers from the different sections of the Union to
shed each others blood, in civil war, on the plains
of Kansas. Yours, respectfully,
F. P. BLAIR.