Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1855-08-18

DoUGHFACEIsM.-This expressive term is ap-
piled to a certain class Of Northern men, who
while always expressing their opposition to sla-
very and its encroachments yet always persis-
tently and most ingeniously oppose every mode
whatever of political and practical action to
protect Northern rights To the abolitionists
of the Garisonian school they say that chattle
slavery is all wrong, and they are as much
opposed to it as anybody, but it is local in
Stitution with which we have nothing to do, and
cannot disturb it without destroying church and
and state. To the Freesoilers and Wlmot
proviso men, they declared they were utterly
opposed to slavery being extended to the new
Territories, but it was necessary to pass the
proviso at the risk of southern excitement, for
slavery would not 90 to those territories in
any event. The Fugitive slave law they
admitted was very tyranacaland disgraceful to
the people Of the Northern States great and
cruel hardship, but the constitution required
the return Of Fugitive Slaves and the North
must yield, or endanger the Union.
Had you asked one of these plant persons,
in the beginning of last year, if they would be
willing to give up the Missouri Compromise at
the demand of slave holders, they would have
been Indignant at the bare idea "Give up The
Missouri Compromise Destroy that time
honored and sacred compact Let slavery OBJ
tain foot-hOld on our own soil of Nebraska, a
soil consecrated to freedom No indeed ! Let
the South try if she dares but she never will,
she has more sense but if she dares, we will
never yield to such ignominy and injustice p
The South did try it, and she succeeded as she
always does, for she is united and in earnest
and where are these valiant Doughfaces now !?
Have they acquired any manly courage any
sense of their rights, and any resolute determ-
nation 10 assert them ? Not in the least The
dough is more prominent that ever.
Never has the meanness of doughfaceism
been more evident than in its opposition to the
Republican movement which it stigmatzes with
the name of Abolitionism. The Republican
party proposes to lay aside every issue connect
ed with the question of Slavery but the question
of its extension into national territory. 1t
does not assail Slavery in any of its so-called
vested rights. 1t does not molcst it any state.
or in any of its conditions. 1t is not even a
question of Slavery as regards the slave them
selves. 1t is, in fact an assertion of the erights
Of the free citizens of the Northern States to
certain territories awarded to them by compact
and prescription. If shareholders are to possess
these fair territories then Northern men are
shut out, unless they will consent either to be-
come shareholders, or the serfS of Shareholders.
There is no other alternative, except the entire
abandonment of territories which were theirs
by every claim of justice and right.
For the assertion of Northern rights and for
endeavorlng to preserve the government of the
nation from coming under the complete control
of the Slaveholding power, Northern doughfaces
denounce it as Abolition, a one-idea party, and
predict that if it succeeds it will destroy the
Union This is the old story the Union is in
danger the lovers of the Union must come to
the rescue to put down the Republicans, or the
country will be ruined
And what do these Unon-savers propose in
the emergency? Submission Nothing in the
world but submission. If the South wants
Kansas as slave State she must have it, or
she will upset the Union, which if we NAV
believe these doughfaces, is so weak and
ricketty that nothing can save it but submiss-
ion, submission, SUBMISSION !--PiHsburg Gazette.