Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1855-12-29

issue rendered by the administration, and make
the repeal of the repeating clause of the Kan
sas act paramount i'm the impending contest
for the Presidency, all will be restored that
has been lost to free institutions, by opening
| the territories North and South, to Slavery
! The compromises OF 1920 and 1850 being re-
stored, there will not be an inch of the terrific
ries of the United States, once exempt from
slavery, on which it can legally intrude and
Mr. Atchisons attempt by an armed force to
carry out the notification plotted in the eau
Gus which gave birth to the Kansas bill will.
like the attempt of prototype, Mr.. Calhoun.
to give effect to South Carolina notification,
be paralyzed by the frown of an indignant na-
ton, made potent by an honest and firm exc
cutive.
And there will end the career of those gen.
tlemen who arrogate to themselves the exclu-
sive tutelage of the democracy of the country,
as ended that of Mr. Calhoun and his prose
ytes, who took the peculiar charge of the
State Rights party. They sunk under the
universal conviction that their zeal for state
rights was an ardent desire to reach political
power, at the hazard of extinguishing in the
blood of the people the wise and free ins,itu-
tions it had cost so much to establish
foot the representative principle who violate
the known will of their constituents who
scorn their instructions to redress the wrong
they have committed who reply to the suf-
frages that condemn their conduct, that they
are not democratic suffrages who, in the
plentitude Of their infallibility, read out of the
democratic party, Maine, New Hampshire,
Connecticut New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio,
TpJi
Iowa, because they will not submit to the will
of these, their representatives, who have set
up test which must ever exclude Massachu-
sets, Vermont and Rhode Island from its
ranks who have bartered away rights secur-
ed to them all by compacts--will soon learn
that democracy does not reside in the organi-
zation of intriguers, but in the mass Of the
people
1t is the glory of our great Republic, that
its democracy springs up from the sofl and
tiourishes in the fresh air of our widespread
country and that its rich harvests, imparting
health, strength and spirit to our whole sys-
TEN, is gathered annually at the polls The
democracy which is bred in caucuses and cabi-
nets is a sort of hot-bed species suited to the
taste Of epicurean politicians, whose appetites
are their principles. Incumbents and expec-
tants oi Offices and dlgnltleS claim sort OF
patent right to the machine of government to
create democracy adapted to their purposes
Their innovations in the machinery are contri-
vances 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 Con
vention are to bring all the mastery combina-
tions 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 ope-
rators ; but the response will probably be
thunderbolt to those who have violated their
rights spurned their remonstrances, and, as
consequence, have arrayed brothers 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.