The Nevada journal., 1855-11-23
FRIDAY MORNING NOvEM BIER %
Tyranny Of Southern Sentiment.

We prate of democracy But does the DEM
ocratic sentiment of the country rule in the
national councils? Is it heralded from the
stump, or disseminated by the press? Do the
honest opinions of majority of American free.
men find expression in the laws of the land?
No, we are governed by the tyranny of an
Oligarchy as exacting and inquisitorial as ever
existed. Occasionally the desire Of the majority
breaks out in words, the press gives expression
to the popular sentiment. and from the stump
and the forum is proclaimed in living eloquence
the true policy of the government but the
"raw head and bloody bones Of dissolution is
held up in terrorem, as the dire alternative Of
Al attempt to exercise the rights Of the great.
est number, and sooner would the patriot see
his conceived rights foregone, than the unpar-
aleled evil of dissolution befalI the Republic.
Paint that calamity in all its horrid deformity,
and hold it up to the gaze of men and public
sentiment is hushed, the press murmers itself
to sleep and the orator is silent and dumb.
Great is the attachment of the people Eof the
north to the Union. Frem them the cry of
dissolution never comes. They are taught
from their earliest infancy to adore the great
confederacy of states, and its disruption as
calamity of untold horrors not only to them
selves but to the world.
The fervor Of religious zeal in the bosom of
the enthusiast is not less all absorbing than the
0f ha of = a.
Union Of the States. But designing dema.
gogues, principally from the South, knowthis
and hold up the defaced image of onr nation
ality as the malicious result ofnon. compliance
with their exactions. An evenly balanced
state ofparties when partzan feeling runs high,
throws the power Of controlling the govern.
ment and sitting public opinion in the hands
ofFectional agitators, to whom party princi-
pies are secondary and subservient to local
prejudces sand interests. And these avail
themselves of the advantages of their position
to appropriate everything to themselves. To
what other cause is it owing, that from the
North containing two thirds Of the entire pop
nlation of the states and where education Is
more generally dif'used, that but four Presi-
dents have been elected to serve but four wears
each? One third ofthe people living in Ger.
tain section have controlled and monopolized
two thirds of oil the offices of the government.
The spirit of dictation by southern demagogues,
is shown on all occasions. Millard Fillmore,
than whom more national man never breath
ed, was repudiated by South Carolina in l848.
and VIM. 0. Butler, substituted in his stead.
Texas calls upon the southern states to Join in
crusade against the General Government be-
cause of the disputed boundary of New Mexir
CO. Quitman Of Miss. convenes the Lecisla-
ture in extraordinary session to protest against
the action of Congress on the subject ofslavery
In the District of Columbia, when by the deed
OF cession of the state of Maryland transferring
the territory exclusive Jurisdiction in all cases
whatsoever was ceded to Congress.
The Fugitive Slave Law was distasteful to
the Nbrth-it looked to many like an expert
ment to test the powers of endurance of the
free states. 1t was presented for them to
swallow. They reasoned it was but the car
rying out of a provision of the Constitution
which is sacred compact-the Southern GLIB
Of dissolution" impended over their heads
and between sense of duty, and the fear Of
ghost evoked on all occasions the impalata BILE
dose was taken.
All sectional differences were now supposed
to be allayed. Even VIM. II. Seward. apd
Horace Greeley, extorted from themselves the
confession that the Fugitive Slave Act was the
law Of the land and must be obeyed till repeal
ed. mo agitation,or dissolution is your DOOM
was the stereotyped cry-word of the south
but the doctrine of squatter sovereignty was
yet to be preached. The Kansas, N Nebraska
Bill was passed. An agreement as sacred as
the Constitution itself was violated. Yet the
consequences of the repeal of the Missouri
Compromiss were but distractions. There
was no reason why the people of Territory
are not as competent as those of State to es
tablish the institutions under which they art
to live Even in this last act of imposition
there was q strong probability of.acquiescence
But squatter sovereignty assumed another
phase under the domination of Atchinson
Stringfellow, and the inroad Of hundreds o
Aissourians. Non.interference changed it.
definition to suit the emergencies of the mo
ment. And now the North is seething like
caldron, and dissolution, with all its varia
tions is rung by the South. How it will end
the history of pas! e4actious is perhaps oil
augury.
R- We have received report of til,
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