The true Democrat., 1855-04-17
The Election in Kansas.

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 In the recent triumph of the entire ro.slave- " ticket in Kansas not single free-soier be- ing returned to the Legislature-we hail the fruit of the much abused act of Congress or- ganizing the Territories of Kansas and Nebras. ka. By the repeal of the Missouri compromise by which the prohibition of slavery in these territories was removed, we have the brightest promise of greeting at no distant day a new enactment cf tue Nebraska Kansas low none but
 e-soilers and aboAtionists a0ere alloaoed to ca- grate. The first election in Kansas resulted in the triumphant election of pro-slavery dele gate to Congress, while the one just held has resulted in the election of members to the Le- gslature entirely of southern feelings.
 While the South may regard this victory of southern principles with pride, our people must warner and more stubborn conflict with the enemy-a conflict in which the whole South will be deeply interested and summoned to bear part. It will come of i'll the halls of the next
 
 Legislature will be to pass laws P. otecting slave property, and these laws will be submitted to Congress at its next sitting for its sanction and approval Every effort will be made ty the aboltionists and free-soilers to reject and annul them. Residence to such step of course must and will be offered by the South, if necessary, to the bitter end" The principle that every people have the righ. to legislate for themselves upon their domestic matters is the doctrine of the constitution, reiterated in the Nebraska Kan sas act. It is founded in justice and right and it's maintenance is the only safe. guard for the South and the only tie that can long bind to- gether these United States. When it is violated and broken when Congress determines to transcend its constitutional powers and under take to legislate upon the domestic concerns of either the States territories, preventing slave ry in the territories and prohibiting the admis- sion of new slave States, a state of things will be brought about that will become utterly unen- durable in the South.
 Let the South then be prepared for the con- test. We have compromised long enough, and we have now nothing left to compromise upon. The doctrine of non-interference by Congress in the domestic affairs of the people IS principle that admits of no compromise. Itmust either be maintained inviolate or surrendered, and thatit will ever be surrendered by the South has never been entertained we presume, by the most pu- silanimous among us. We cannot abandon the principle without at once abandoning the idea of preserving the fugitive slave law upon our statute books or preserving very long intact the constitution itself.
 While the future is full of evil forcbodngs 1t is not without much hope. The Union has successfully braved many storms and bitter, bitter must be the struggle that will rupture it's last tie and scatterit to the winds The fanatics, l desperate and reckless though they may be, will pause long before they strike the last fatal blow The South must be firm As in the case of the Kansas election, union, firmness and activity on the part of the South, will not only insure the maintenance of the principles and institutions of the southern people, but will most probably avert the dire calamity which, at this moment, is hanging like cloud over the Union.