The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1855-04-26

such Independent Democratic papers as the
| Wilmington Independent, Columbus COl,tm-
ban. Ashtabula Sentinel, and Cleveland Leader.
| TAMMANY HALL Observation-Disclosures
RING THE QUESTION.
| Tammany Hall demonstrations used TO Gre
| ate some sensation; but of late years they
have not produced any sensible effect on the
| political stocks. The Ne,o York Erening Post
| of the Goth contains a series of resolutions,
adopted at meeting of the Democratic Re-
publican General Committee of New York,
April 5, which that journal pronounces every
sensible" having the real Jackson ring in
them" They announce that, while the evils
of war are dreadful, still they with be cheerfully
borne by this country, rather than have its
rights invaded or interests damaged by Spain
that, if Spain commit an offence against us,
and do not give prompt redress, we ought to
| fog her: that should war be forced upon
us, we shall take indemnity either in money or
territory, Great Britain and France to the con-
trary Notwithstanding that filibustering is a
thing not to be tolerated. and the President
undoubtedly Will suppress it: that a general
system of internal improvements by the Gene
raj Government is unconstitutional that rigid
economy is right; that the Presidents success
sive vetoes are orthodox and wholesome that
religious freedom and our present liberal policy
towards foreigners ought to be maintained
that the Prohibitory Liquor Law is unconstitu-
| tional in several points; the Wing manage
ment of State affairs illjudged, prohigate, and
| vicious; and the city government of Mayor
Wood eminently praiseworthy. One other
matter the resolutions embrace-they "afirm
| adhesion to the doctrine of President Mon
roe against the interference of foreign Govern
ments in the affairs of the nations of this Con-
tinent." This is simply, nonsense. From Mon
roe's time to this day, foreign Governments
have been repeatedly interfering in the affairs
| of the nations of South America, and some
| times of Central America, and we have borne
it all with exemplary patience, now and then
trying to frighten the world with discharge of
blank cartridges from the Cass battery.
But we call attention to these resolutions,
chiefly as indicating the platform on which the
National Democrats are willing to unite with
their Southern brethren. Know Nothingism is
discountenanced, the Siauery Question is ig-
mored. Not word emanates from Tammany
FALL about the Nebraska Bill, pro or con-,
about the armed propagandism Of Slavery in
Kansas, or the two hundred millions bid for
Cuba and its slaves. The Sachems either
think these unimportant items, or fear to bring
a faint on their Nationality" by expressing
any opinion concerning them.
! And yet, the NeO York Ereniag Post, which
| some months since accounted for the decease
OF an Anti Slavery paper, ON the theory that
| hAntiSlavery doctrines had so thoroughly inn
baed the press generally, as to reader needless
tie existence of journals specifically devoted
to the subject, is delighted with the resolutions,
AID this ignoring policy:
| e."These are very sensible resolutions, and
h.ve the real Jackson ring in them. They
look as if we might again have Democratic
party in this State worthy of its hereditary fame
1t is source of peculiar qualification to OBJ
serve that the management of our local politics
has at last got into the hands of men who do
not think that Slavery is the only institution in
the United States of more importance than the
Constitution"
) And, it might have added, who do not attach
tae slightest Importance to the past, present, or
threatened aggressions of Slavery.
The inconsistency of respectable journals of
the class to which the Post belongs is painful,
end most mischievous. The doctrines they in
ohlcate in theory, they coolly disregard in prac-
tee. Political evils, which they magnify in
word as of transcendent Importance, they
tsrust out of sight in the programme of party
setion. In the paper in which the editors CON-
mend Tammany Hall for saying nothing about
slavery, in plain words, for ignoring the sub
lsct, they comment severely upon the outrages
&C the shareholders in Kansas, closing with the
allowing plain talk, which is anything but in
J armony with the "real Jackson ring" of the
ammany resolves.
The people of Kansas, therefore, according
10 the admission of the shareholders themselves,
lave Legislature which they never elected. |
The game is not likely to stop here. Having
keen once undertaken, it will be boldly played |
ont, and by and by we shall have Constitution
drawn up for Kansas, and adopted, the work of
Atchison and his crew, with the framing and
with the accepting of which Kansas will have !
had nothing to do-a Constitution copied from
that of Missouri, with all its clauses establish
ing Slavery, and fencing it against the danger |
OF future extirpation.
We believe that the people of the free States |
Fad already determined that the shareholders |
stould not occupy any part of the region cover |
81 by the Missouri compromise, and that Kan
sts should never have their permission to enter |
t,e Union as slave State. Why did not Tam |
rlany Hall say that?] If but the germ of such |
sn intent existed in the Northern mind, this |
enormous fraud this wrestling of the power of
election from the real settlers of the Territory,
this attempt to force upon them q hated insti-
triton, without regard to their wishes, will ex-
pand that intent into fixed, jealous, unaltera-
Bile resolution. Kansas must come into the
Union as free State, or not at all. That has
the Jackson ring; but what sound gives Tam
hany Hall on that point? n
| 3 1t is well, doubtless that the champions of
tae Nebraska bill have been driven to these
Frauds and violences in order to execute their
original design of securing at least one slave
State out Of what was originally the Nebraska
region. The North is perpetually relapsinp
into apathy, and needs outrages like these to
beep it awake to its own interests. [Aye-and
wen such as these must fall when the Post and
is followers are satisfied with such resolves as
taose of Tammany Hail. If, after the prohi.
ttion Of Slavery was removed, there had been
{; fair struggle for the ascendency in Kansas
u Epfwpen tho marty of Clo,o..