The Placer herald., 1855-12-15
The Danger.

Underneath this heading, referring TO the
magnitude Of the issue which in 1856 threat
ems to shake the confederacy and test the
strength of that sacred instrument Inherited
from the patriots Of the revolution, the
Washington Union quotes the language of
four Of our most distinguished statesmen,
three of them now Senators in Congress, and
the other lately Vice President of the United
States. They consider the times as full of
peril, and regret in the most earnest terms,
the combination of fanaticisms which, in the
free States, openly declares itself hostile to
those compromises that secured the adoption
of the constitution, and furnished the only
hope of an enduring Union. Upon the texts
furnished by these eminent statesmen, the
Union remarks:
The necessary result of northern and
southern parties would be dissolution of
the Union, and it was the evident tendency
of the popular mind at the North to such a
fatal issue which called forth the impressive
warnings contained in the extracts above
They deserve to be seriously studied and pom
dered over by the solid men of the North
who have a substantial interest in the stabil-
ity of the government. 1t becomes them to
inquire into the real object sought to be at
tanned by the prominence given to the trou-
bes in Kansas. Is it not clear that Kansas
is now used as a means of keeping up and
increasing the anti-slavery feeling, and of ag-
gravating the sectional antipathies which are
relied on for the ultimate formation of pure
ly sectional parties? Is it really a matter of
such vital concern to the people of the North
that Kansas should be free State, that a
civil war should be invoked for the attain
ment Of the object? Does any rational mind
doubt that slavery will ultimately exist or
not in Kansas according to the interests of
those who shall become citizens! To these
the Kansas law submits the question, and by
them it will finally be settled, in spite Of the
interference of outsiders, whether from Mas
sachusetts or Missouri. The whole Kansas
difficulty will soon settle itself, if designing
politicians would cease to make its affairs the
subjects of sectional agitation.
In these views we are strongly cOrrobor-
atcd by the recent movements for the fusion
of all shades of anti-saverv men into com
mon organization, under the name of the ''re-
publican party" This is desi@ned to be the
northern party, as is clearly shown by the
fact that its single is hostility to the insttu-
tions of the South, and it has appropriated
the popular name of republican" to conceal
the odium of its real abolitionism. The alb
surd idea of restoring the Missouri Compro-
mise has been used as long as it was avail
able for the purposes of agitation. The real
purpose Of combining the whole anti-savery
sentiment in one organization is now openly
proclaimed, and the republican, movement
develops fully the whole scheme. If this
movement is successful, the first grand step
towards dissolution of the Union will be
taken-a northern party will be inaugurated
whose sole object will be to wage warfare
upon the South. The next step will be
promptly taken by the South, and then will
come the end to which the patriotic Senators
Cass and Slidel are looking with so much
concern and just cause Of alarm The rem
edy against the threatened catastrophe is in
the hands of northern men. They have but
to fall back upon the strict reading of the
constitution, and set their faces firmly and
persistently against all agitation which seeks
to raise up party upon mere sectional
grounds Let the constitution and the laws
of Nature rule, and abolitionism will soon
become as contemplate for its impotency as
it is reasonable in its designs.