New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-06-30
rae, as It Is at this day, and second to none /" an
expOunder of ia doctrines;

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expouDder Of its doctrinesi
"Our platform tells YOU resistance 10 The law
treason, and treason shall be rebuked: The pcmoc
racy uphold tie iaw in Kdnsas while the Negro
Worbipers, who do not like the law ere Ior snootine
down the officers. Thi, was the whole Kansas am
Guilty"
We give portion Of one ofthese democratic laws
BE .naend BY the Governor and Lsg's'i's <''s"o'y
"snerIos ia II an, FREQ person BY speaking or writing -
,. .h Of ' q. III oauss pint
pohsb write circulate or cause ntrodoeed nso .n
T:,or Az, Sool paper n.sssin. rsnpAt
t.shs spy denial Of the st Of psoo :" noa e q.
pu.hsd nponn At hard labor for term notIe"ths1
two G.. M Who /. conscientious, opposed to holda.
the sI. Of ..y prosecution for Any
violsiiG, Of sny Of tho sections Of this a1s'
Here, then, we have one plank of tho platform
on which the Buchanan Democracy stsnd-and one
that 10 not confined TO the Territory Of Ksnsas but
hiss been illustrated at the National Capitol by
Brooks of South Carolina upon the head of Sum-
ner, while Mr. Douglas stood by ia ,itly approving
or rather not interfering for fear he might be mis-
understood. Not only do Buchanan and Douglas
uphold the laws Of Kansas, but, according to sur
e1pounder, resistance to them is held to be trea-
son, and is TO be rebuked as such. Now we taSe
it Mr. Douglas does not mean that resistance to !he
law of itself legally constitutes the crime Of trea
SOD, or that even the shooting down of officers would
be treason. In this State we have had several in
stances of resistance to the law to that extent
and no one thought the perpetrators guilty Of
treason. BY the Constitution of the United States
treason consists only in levyiDg war against the
United States, or in aiding and abetting such war;
Whatever may be the theory ofMr Douglass B,r-
der Rufian Democrat, at law the G)vernm snt has
not yet become COMPOUNDED with its officers. I'm
doubtedy, therefore, Mr.. Douglas used the word
treason in political sense. The spirit Of the Kan.
sas laws, their provisions, the object Of their en-
,tment, and the elements of their validity are so
based on and coincide with Border Rufisn Democi
racy, that resistance is political treason. What
though the introduction and establishment of
Slavery in that Territory is the object of those
lawsf Was i. not for that object the Missouri
Compromise was repealed! What though they
aim at that end by violence TO the nalenabe rights
of independent humanity-the rights of free speech,
thought and action-and impose mental shackles
upon the citizens far more degrading than the fet-
ters that clsnk upon the limbs of colored bonds
men? Have we not heard on the floor of the SEN |
ate the menace, 1--WE will subdue yOui" What
though they derive their only claim to vitality from
an overwhelming armed Eruption from Missouri,
driving the citizens from the polls, depOsing the
Judges of Elections, and by perured returns cOnsti
tuting Legislative Assembly in open violation Of
"Squstter Sovereignty" the alleged base OF the
Nebraska bill Was not that bill in all its
history elements provisions and objects, fraud on
the country What though those laws have thus
far received their only sanction from successive
ihvasions from the State of Missouri and other
Slave States, hunting down the people, laying
waste the Territory with fire and sword, pillsging
their towns, desOlatng their homes, arresting and
nay, revelng in the blood Of their most
Influential citizens Does not the cresture who, as
Chief Executive of these States has permitted, d.
rected and employed these atrocities, still occupy
biz station unsca,hed by vengeance human OF d.
vinei Nay, has not this action Of his, as well as
that of Douglas, that of Atchison and Sringfellow
been approved by the Cincinnati Convention, and
eceved the approval of its candidate for the Pre-
deney'