Republican vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1857, 1856-07-05


West to preserve the equilibrium Of slave
power in the Union. This we bad ac-
quired by the annexation, and its pro-
slavery phase would have been preserved
By running the Missouri line 10 the Pa
cific. MIR. Polk contended il did 50 ex-
tend every body else except Mr.. Calhoun
so contended, but in spite Of friend aud
foe be offered his amendment to the Ore
gon bill which conceded that it did not
so extend, and he, not James Buchanan,
lost the value Of the extension TO the South.
He made il geographical line. applying
only to territory acquired from France and
Spain. Mr.. Buchanan and Mr.. Polk, and
myself, and all others urged it was a china
tory line, and dat il did run to the Pacific.
To concede Otherwise was 10 put our
hands in the lions mouth of majority J,
concede that we had not the fixed fact OF
the line TO the Pacific, and was to leave us
to the mercy of majority against US. We
be voted down without that admission.-
The cost Of not running that line to The
Pacific, may be valued thus to Virginia
We now get thousand dollars for sound
slave; we then would have gotten from 3
to 5000 for an operative in the gold mines
of CallfornIa-400, 900 multiplied by 5000
or even 5000 will show our immense. loss.
One billion Of dollars wouldn't com rensate
Virginia for her loss in not running the
hne on to the Pacific. The North had
fixed the line, they had the advantage Of
it until annexation II. was then our turn.
and we did not take it. That was not
Mr.. Buchanan's fault. Had i: been so fix.
ed, Ebo-shins and Gizzard feet then, could
not have poked their noses North into the
dominion Of Jack Frost but then. free
soilism couldn't have poked its nose South
of that line as il has done since the com.
promise of 1850. Yet. though thus pro.
posed by the South. and Buchanan, the
Pharisees and hypocrites who are now
bowling over the repeal Of the Missouri
CompI omise, were the very men to oppose
the extension of the Missouri line and to
making it fixed fact Their reproack to
Mr.. Buchanan, and TO the South, is equal
led in injustice by the reprcaeh which
SOME Southern men have castsin upbraid.
ing Mr.. Buchanan for the proposed ex,en>
sion Of the line to the Pacific. The gene.
rous and just Douglas has done him Justice
in tina. behalf and has taken upon himself
his communion Of participation in the act.
Mr.. Buchanan was equally sound on the
Kansas Nebraska bill. He didn't know
that Mr.. Buchanan would have proposed
or introduced such measure at that time;
but it had passed /; had repealed the Mis-
souri, Compromise had returned US to
siatu quo ante 1919 20, it had but follow.
ed out the COMPROMISE measures Of 1850,
with the line of 1919 30; and il left us,
as we ought ever to have LETT our origi-
nal rights under the Constitution. His
fsiends Of Pennsylvania, in nominating him
at Harrisburg. had, excluding the idea of
sguatter sovereignty, adopted the principle
It non-intervthtion BY Congress 10 pre-
vent OF exclude slavery, and of State equal.
ity in the territories leaving the rights of
all 10 be guarded by the Constitution [; and
immedi lately upon his return home. he a.
dopted their nomination Of him placed on
this platform. This was Identification
enough with tha, measure. 1t was all
which could fairly be asked or given BY
HIM and his friends. In addition this the
plineipls of the Kansas Nebraska bill has
b, en.incorpor ated into the Democratic plat
form, by the Convention al Cincinnati, ane
thereon he stands, unrese:vedly, without
adding to or taking away single plank
Of its principles. And it was well, and
it was wise that the Democratic party ask.
ed no more than this. 1t was well tina,
they did not attempt TO exclude every maj
from pretensohs TO the Presidency, be-
cause he did not happen to "introduce" this
measure l, " ould have been going to fal
t. have thus secured a monopoly of preten.
sions for that high office. to those only who
happened TO be members Of Congress, or oil
tie the Executive at the tiine of the pro-
posal OF particular measure, Men there
were outside as well inside the Congress
and the administration, who approved OF
the "in;roduction" Of the measure, though
HE country was not consulted about ITS in.
PRODUCTION and there were many men
sound on slavery, who did not approve oil
ITS "introduction" and yet who would have
roied for IL, and Would no,o fight against
its repeal 1t would no, have done. he re.
peated, to have made Kansas Nebraska
bill, hobby-b for privilege few, to ex.
clude all others from the race for honors,
there vert other "weig htier matters Of the
law" aud mode Of manl;esting souundness
other than upon than particular measure.
AS the bill was proposed and passed, as j,
did repeal The Missuri line, and carry out
the compromise Of 1850, though that com.
promise COS. us so much as it left us where
the Constitution fond US; the Convention
did well, on the one hand, to adopt the
principle of the Kansas Nebraska measure,
against the hypocrltes who had bitterly OPP
posed the extension oil the Missouri line to
the Pacific and ON the other hand, to ex.
clude the conclusion that the office OF the
Presidency was to be exclusively occupied
by those who happened to have the oppor-
Ilunity, at a particular measure, though some
of its friends had themselves previously
gone tor the extension Of the Missouri
compromise line to the Pacific, and some
had gone very far, if not fully, Tor the vii.
mot Provlso itself! did very well te
save the Kansas Nebraska bill from the
odium Of bling made monopoly to sub.
serve The aspirations of a special few. Il
did well moi to exclude from the support
OF the South such freEds as Pennsy lvania
aud her representative man. 1t did well