The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-09-13
LOOK TO rHE QUESTION AS IT Is.

LOOK TO TIE QUESTION AS 1T is.
1t is every way proper that should not under the in
auence of the excitement of the hour forget the simple
issue and the plain facts of the political contest in which
we are engaged Our enemies-we do not call them ri
vashave evaded the issue and perverted the facts We
will very briefly refer to hem.
The question before the public to be settled by the pres
emit presidential election is when reduced to the simplest
FORM the equality Of the States IN their rights and potVus.
Human nature is precisely what it has been in
all ages We have it in the example before US. Ambi.
tous with u.s. bent getting power indifferent as to
the means and reckless of the consequences have aruy
isrepresented the whole They have been unwilling
their countrymen with the truth swift judg-
ent they know would be passed against them. The peo
pie everywhere in country prefer to do right in regard
all political questions rather than inct wrong and in
Justice. They have great stake in the former benefits to
be derived from it in the present and the future and
rious misches apprehend from the latter. They have
pampered appetite for oiceno diseased ambition for
pery of their private interests the protection of their
lives their liberty and their property form the chief end
of every thought and act which they devote to the
public interest. This may be fairly stated 10 be the
object Of the people in the choice of President They
the aboonist who is against the Bible and against the
equality Of the States and that the black republican, who
seeks the political Is will not state the truth be-
fore the people, but resort to low and despcable perve
sona What is less signally true in the conflict in
which we are engaged is that the ambitious leaders
of the party to which REFER when the is stated
as to make the truth plainly when the facts charged
against them proven when they taken in the
mission OF the very offences of which say they
guilty with hardhood for which the reprobate of the
stocks and Of the prison is peculiarly distinguished they
deny thing and about to reconstruct their false
distortions with more intense zeal and redouoed inge
nuty.
1t is in this state of the contest therefore that we have
stated simply the question which is really now submit
ted TO the people 1t is of political life or death to our
country. Wewil prosper may perish by its decision
We repeat 1.-THE question in the political conflict now
pending is shau equal rights er beesn the States 1t is
question of the sovereignty of the people In other
tries they have sovereignty Their rulers possess it
We equal and independent States. The rights and
powers which any State aid the people of that State
have every other State and the people thereof also have
The people Of State may claim for themselves what they
may deny others, Every State in the Union has acted
constitution None nterfered because they had no right
to do None questioned it. because the right to do
that did not exist The Congress of the United States
passed act by which they simply said that Kansas and
Nebraska should frame each constitution TO suit itself
conormaby the guarantees of that of the United States
The latter respected admitted and sanctioned slavery in
any of the States that might choose maintain such an
institution The Kansas and Nebraska act did no more
than recognise the poer Of the people to exercise the
right of scgovernmen and to regulate for themselves
their own domestic institutions as the other States had done
for hemsslpea
This then presents the simple question of the equality NJ
the Satesf Out of it springs another. Ii is this Which
STATE phieh set Of States has higher claim TO certain
sovereign rights than other States of the confederation
Who will his2 Who will answer II by declaring
the particular States that hare right TO- and aOH exercise
this odious prerogatveH Is there a man who will dare
to do 1t before the American people either in the NORTH
East West South Not onel Yet this is The question,
The very question, which is pending before the people
upon the result of the presidential election.
Our political enemies disguise the question They dare
present il II is II they continue this decep-
ton il may be ata to existence "a nation II II
brHgs those into power who determined 10 do that
which viii force a separation Of this Union We there
fore American brethren Of the North that they
are thus artuy praetised upon by designing men, who
are leading them under false preences and who seek
power the price Of civil war; and the destruction Of the
government We ask them to pause before they cross the
Rubcon-the last line Of demArcaon that secures tn.
peace the safety aud the independence of the respecy,
States.