Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1856-07-17

ieSs anu trcaSOnaDle ulsoDeuleuce 10 the power,
whose sovereignty it comedies
1t does morel 1t taints with its own shame
less infamy the name of Washington, by using
it as shield against the vengeance Of peo-
pies Indignation Where did that venerable
name yield itself to sustain characterization, or
to defend treason? What part of his history
will sanction the action of any combination of
men against the legal authority of an acknow
lodged sovereignty? He was the impersona
ton of law--the embodiment of conserva
tism--the unfinching supporter of order, and
the great teacher of submission to rightful au
thority. And yet, with brazen effrontery
which only equals their objectionable treason,
these Black Republicans, with Fremont at
their head, seek to gull the people, by naming
their infamous doctrines Washingtonian
But while it utters sentiments, which it sup
poses to be extremely virtuous and elevated, it
asserts doctrines whose essence is the ex-
tremest despotism.
We submit to any honest Northern man,
whose virtue is not wthered by the blghting
influence of this outrageous fanaticism. We
submit to any candid member of this so-caed
Republican party, if it is not essential despo-
tism for any other authority than that which is
the representative Of people to forbid them
to have what they do acant or to force them to
have what they do not aoant.
How is Congress to forbid you, citizen in
Kansas, who have paid for your quarter sec
ton, from working it with what labor you
please Does Congress represent you? Have
you voice in its deliberations? If not re-
presented, is it not the essence of despotic
power for Congress to make law which shall
forbid you to use your own property as you
please? Is it not tyranny for those who have
no common interest with you in your affairs,
to prevent you from doing what your interest
may prompt you to do?
And yet this is the so called Republican
doctrine. The common territory is open to the
favorites of its leaders-but closed to the peo-
pie of half the Union. Instead of the broad
banner of an equal constitution to protect her,
the South is driven from the land purchased
with her own money, and won by her own
valor, by the hordes of Abolition under the
black flag of tyranny and injustice.
He, who with heroic hand, planted the en-
sign Of the country upon the palace of the
Montezumas, is excluded, as unworthy to
dwell upon the territory acquired by his exer-
tons. The valor Of the South is rewarded
with the badge of debased inferiority
Is this freedom, or despotism? Is it justice
or rank injustice and wrong?
"That the highwayman's plea, that might
makes right, embodied in the Ostend circular,
was in every respect unworthy of American
diplomacy, and would bring shame and dis
honor upon any government or people that
gave it their sanction"
Such is flower ~ plucked from the garden
of the Republican creed Fragrant, as it is, il
falsely attributes to the Ostend circular prin-
| ciple, which serpent-like, is coiled beneath the
fair appearance of virtue it was designed to
exhibit
Talk of the highwayman's plea! Who uses
| it? The Democracy who render to Caesar
the things which be Casar's? Or those, who
with the pretense of virtue on their lips, organ
lie sectional power, to shut out from all par.
ticipation in the privileges of our system OF
government, those whose equal rights entitle
them to it, and whose treasure and valor was
expended TO secure them2
Which is the highwayman2 Which the
pirate2 Where waves the black aag2 Who
uses the plea-of might to give the right
The Southern minority which appeals to the
Northern majority for mere justice; or the Sec
tional Republicanism which appeals to North
ern passion and prejudice to perpetrate outrage
and dishonor upon the South
The principles Of Washington and jefferson
Does Colonel Fremont remember that the
organization lie represents, The Father of his
Country propheticaug condemned; and that
The line he aims 10 restore, Jefferson denounced
as The signal Of disunion9 Does he remem.
Der this2 Or, in his journey to the Rocky
mountains, has he forgotten it2
Gin contemplating the causes which MAY
disturb our Union, it occurs, as a matter OF
serious concern, that any ground should have
been furnished for characterizing parties by
geographical determinations" Such is the
language Of the Father Of his Countryl
The Republican party has sectional basis
exists in but sixteen Of thirty.one States-and
is organized to prescribe the other fifteen
Statesl
Is it not party characterized By geographic.
cal determinations Is IL then Washinqto.
nian
In speaking Of the Missouri question, Mr..
Jefferson said
But this momentous question, like a fire
bell an the night awakened and filled me icith
terror. | considered it at once as the knell Of
the Union. 1t is hushed indeed for moment.
But this is a reprieve only not a final sen.
tence. A GEOGRAPHICAL LINE, coincidinq nth
marked principle, moral and political, once
conceiced and held up TO the angry passions Of
men, aclH nerer be obliterdted and eUery ne1v
irritation ,rjH make n 1eeDer and doo,,o,