Washington telegraph., 1856-05-07

racy, that, instead of properly terming
the Missouri Compromise "a barrier to
Slavery" they might, with more proprie-
ty, call it ga barrier of Freedom" And
thus reconciling his pretended devotion
to the rights of the Union, to his Free
Soil friends, Mr.. Douglas, to whose course
parallel can be found in the acts OF
General Pierce, is held up as the friend
of constitutional rights, and the model
of national man.
We have said parallel to the career of
Mr.. Douglas can be found in the acts of
General Pierce. His recognition OF the
preponderance of the Free-Soil element,
in the conglomerate, of which he is a
small integral part, by the selection OF
the Freesoiler, Redfeld, to succeed Judge
Rronson-his covert sneer and insulting
mock of the South, by the selection of
Southern man for the guardian of North
ern interests, are of themselves acts which,
in their influence upon the body polite
and the national mind, have been pro-
ductive of nothing but evil, and calcu-
lated only to foment the unhappy differ
ences of opinion which exist between
people who should be a unit In their de-
votion to the interests of the whole
But even these failures-to speak lenient-
ly-to manifest determination to be
President of the people, and not the pam
derer to a-horde of office-seehers, are alb
solutely nothing, compared with the crown
ing act of President Pierce's vascillating
and time-serving career-the appointment
of Reeder to be Governor of the Terrific
ry of Kansas. This Territory, the ex-
treme Northern limit of the bounds to
which Pro-Slavery men seek to extend
their peculiar Institution" is, geograph-
ically considered, only the extension of
the line, which Southern men who wish
to preserve their rights intact, seek to
establish, not by force of arms, but by
Virtue of the operation of law, the con-
stitutionality of which, only the radical
fanatic seeks to deny and disprove.-
Elected by an almost unanimous manifes-
tation of popular confidence in his integ-
rity, General Pierce, when called upon by
the voice, not of faction, but of reasonable
appeal to his intention to obey the re-
ouirements which the South had right
to impose upon him, preferred to pander
/ to the reasonable horde at the North, by
selecting one of their most infamous in
struments as Governor of Kansas, than
10 rebuke their treacherous Vaccinations,
and lend the weight Of his moral influ-
ence to the Union men of America, by
the selection of man who would prove
acceptable to all conservative men, and
not utterly repulsive so the feelings Of ev-
cry individual save and except the gang
of traitors of which Reeder has been ac
hnowledgcd the head and front, by his
return, as their representative, in the
halls of Congress, by these very men,
| This is another act-and these acts are
matters of history, and in their scope and
bearing, influence and effect, are acts OF
treachery to the spirit, if not the very
letter, of the Compromise Measures OF
1850, upon which, and the nature and
provisions of which, viewed in their rela-
lions to the Constitution of the United
States of America, the February Platform
of 1856, was framed and adopted. More
over, in view of their adherence, by word
and deed, to these provisions, the candi
dates of the Amcsicrn Party were nomi
mated But having taken up so much
space in reference to details which we are
compelled to notice in connection with
our Platform, we are forced to defer unit
our next issue, our endeavor to show that
the views of the American party, the provis
ions of the platform, and the requirements
of the Constitution, blend so perfectly to
gether, and form so harmonious whole, thai
they who support one support all, and la
Dor for the real good and advancement
and perpetuity of the interests of the
Union.