Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1855-09-06
From the Union Of Sunday last.

The Kansas Register.
We are in receipt of the first number of we'll
printed and well-conducted newspaper, under
this title, printed ut Leavenworth city, Kansas
Territory, by Archibald w. Sewer, and edited
by Mark w. Delahay. We have been much
interested in reading the articles of the Register,
and cannot sufficiently admire the dignity and
the force with which they are written. The
Register states its objects and its principles fol-
lows:
To set forth truthly all the capacities of our
fertile Territory noting the variability of climate,
and the geological, neurological, and agricultu-
raj developments Of the country, the increase OF
population, commerce, and wealth, that our
climate, soil, and products may be known and
understood abroad; giving an account of the gov
eminent surveys as they progress and such other
general news and information us we may be able
TO collect having relation to Kansas, will claim a
share of our attention.
"The Register will be free from all sectional
prepossessons; will stand firmly by the sover-
eighty of the people, defending their right in
moulding for themselves their oion lalcs and siilu
lions The Register will stand firmly in the front
ranks doing battle for the supremacy of the laws
OF the land, and if it fails, it will be found at the
head of the column, leading the patriotic lovers
of the American Constitution; adhering to those
political landmarks laid down by Jefferson and
Jackson, and regard them worthy of imitation as
much at this day and hour as when the host Of
the Hermitage was at home.
" The Register will stand upon the basis of the
Nebrasda-kansas bill. Firmly believing those
principles Democratic and right, we shall defend
them under all circumstances. The Regisie,
will not advocate give its support to secret
political conclaves that spring up on the ruins OF
factions, whose growth is produced at the hour
and pace of mushroom, and with duration OF
like vegetable briefness. The Register will only
countenance political conventions that sit with
open doors, and admit full and free discussion be-
fore the world
we have advanced too far in works of inter-
nal improvement to stop short of completing all
needful works begun or contemplated, and our
voice will be for aiding every legitimate effort to
forward that branch Of wealth and national
power We are convinced that objects which
tend TO advance the commerce of the States and
Territories, afiording the General Government
facilities for transport in time of war; are within
the implied powers of Congress, under the Con-
stituton, and legitimately commendable for ap-
preparations from the national treasury in their
execution.
:" In all questions of territorial acquisition we
shall favor or.oPPose, as our convictions of RICH,
and necessity may seem to require without re.
ference to the wishes Of our Northern or South
ern friends. We shall be content with the per
petua Union of the States, and leave it to modern
reformers to quarrel about revision and amend
ment OF our Natioal constitution, for the purpose
OF increasing or diminishing the powers under
that instrument"
Thus much Tor the prospectus Of the Register
In the editorial columns of the same paper, upor
the necessity of organizing the Democratic part,
and electing National Democrat TO Congress-
the editor says:
:" None but such man can be of service I,
the people of Kansas delegate A DELEGATE
thus elected will command the respect of all anC
thereby much good can be accomplished for on,
Territory. Certainly man whose political plat
form is wholly made of pro-slarerp-a man who
makes slaveryin Kansas the only issue-will fine
himself in situation in the next Congress where
he will neither command respect, nor have the
slightest chance To do any good for the people o.
Kansas Territory. He can be pro-slavery mar
provided he plants himself upon the Democrat,
platform, and then, if elected, he may be able to
successfully serve the people ofthe Territory"
There is great sound sense in these suggestions
and they may be profitably contrasted with the
extraordinary course which is now being pursued
oy reckless and extravagant men in the legisa
ture and by portion of the press of the Terrific.
ry equally reckless and extravagant Denuncia.
tons OF some OF the soundest patriots of the conn
try, abuse of the Executive for not Welding d
the unjust demands of violent men, and the cree
ton of platform in which the announcement
OF slavery is the test imposed upon settlers from
North and South--all this can only result in !
reaction, such as those who now stimulate these
excuses will regret all their lives The national
democratic party of the country have not hesita.
ted to denounce and to expose the deliberate md
wicked purpose Of the abolitionists of Massa chm.
sets in organizing companies of fanatics to oo
forward and seize the Territory of Kansas in ad.
vance; nor have the sound democratic journals OF
the North failed to charge upon these aboHtionists
the grave responsibility of provoking the excite.
ment which has convulsed the Territory of Kan.
sas from the beginning. But it is not to be ex.
pected that one wrong can be made right by
another wrong, and that the fraud of portion
OF Massachusetts, can be corrected by the violence
Of portion of Missouri
With no desire to interfere in the local politics
OF Kansas, we cannot refrain calling attention Ia
the assaults upon General Whitfield, the dele
gate In the last Congress, who, southern man
born as he is, identified in all his interests and
feelings with the South, is, nevertheless bitterly
assaied as a candidate for reelection because he
calls himself ga national democrat" and ga
trend OF the administration of Franklin Pierce. -
The Platte .Hrgns, Missouri paper, published at
Weston, on the borders of Kansas, and the Kan
sas Leavenworth Herald, oppose Gen Whitfield
almost exclusively because in his letter of last
year he announced himself national democrat
and friend of the present administration. For
tunately Tor the true interests of the Territory.
however, and for the perpetuity of the rights of
the States so far as the latter are involved in this
struggle, the democratic party is neither extinct
IN Kansas nor powerless in the Union: and for
tunately, too, the national administration is in
all respects the faithful representative of the de-
mocratic party.