Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1856-03-15

ueaieoG III pdoic OF private l1e depend on the
chances of civil wBr Whenever this issue comes.
the North will find an auxiliary in the same
! Union party in the South that sustained Jack
| son, and my constituents will have the proud
pre-emncnce of having first given in their ad-
hesion to this the really patriotic party of their
section.
Tie repeal Of the rspcaling clause of the ham
sas--Nedrdska act, would be the finale of all the
existing commotionS and of the eager ambition
which originated them. If this single line is
Inscribed on our Flag we shall conquer under
| it. 1t will be the Union Flag.
The repeal of the Kansas Nebraska clause.
overtlIrowing the rights of the Free States. is
a vital, pressing eXigency. 1t is the issue made
by the acts of the administration, and is the
| only one producing the existing excitement
1t should be moved at once in the House of
Representatives, as practical mode of redress
ing the wrongs and rebuking the aggressors,
and to give notice that the majority of the
people of the Union mean to vindicate their
rights and the cause of Free Institutions. in
the most direct manner and also that Slave
holders may have warning in advance, not to
hazard the property they valne so highly, in
Territory from which by solemn covenant Sla-
very was interdcted and which the sovereign
power of the country has resolved to reinstate.
This warning is necessary to preclude the plea
of vested rights as having effect in favor of
such as 60 into kanas or other Free territory
with Slaves ; a plea which was urged success
fully i'll Missouri. 1t is necessary too to estop
owners of slaves from claiming indemnity for
slaves, freed by the act Of Congress, recogniz-
ing such Territory on coming into the Union
as Free. Even if Kansas were admitted al the
present session of Congress as Free State, the
Repeal ought to be urged to prevent the rope
tltion OF the Kansas outrageS, in New Mexico,
Utah, and all the Territory of the United
States, the Nebraska act having (in violation
OF the prohlbitory laws or treaty. opened them
all up to similar inyasons For these reasons
and many more that might be urged, touching
the policy of the measure, | hold that every
issue should merge in that of Repeal
There is one view more which duty to nv
Southern constituents prompts me to present
for consideration. In the South both the old
parties, Wing and Democratic, have blended
their strength, to secure the conquest of the
free territories for the Slave Institution. Mr..
Caruthecs, staunch Wing of Missouri. when
asked where were the Whig party, answered
that its soul had transmigrated into the De
mocratlc body in the South, and while pro-
nouncing the proudest culogium on Henry
Clay, whose principles he still held as his DO
litical faith, admitted that the measure on
which the slave holding section had planted its
standard had identified in its support the Wings
and Democrats of the slave holding states
however differing on other questions. The
South Americans, although all connection with
them was reprobatcd by the Democratic Cau-
Gus of the House and by the official organ of
the Administration at Washington, were con-
strained to support Mr.. Aiken, the Admins
tration candidate for Speaker at the close of
the contest. This proves that all political or
ganizations hostile as they are on all subordi-
nate questions upon the sectional policy of ex-
tending Slavery to Territory hthel to free, are
one and indivisibIe The success achieved by
the Southern politicians by inducing all the
Northern aSpirants for the Presidency to run
a race for the favor of the South in showing
who would go farthest and fastest to make
surrender of the rights of their constituents TO
the slaveholding section, leaves no public man
in the South any other alternative than to re-
linquish his position or insist on that great
conquest for the sayeholding interest to which
it was contrved to give the appearance of be-
ing a voluntary boon rendered by the North to
the South. 1t is this strategy which renders it
impossible at this time for those among the
people who favor the compromises, to rally in
the South to maintain what they are sensible
honor ard good faith recognizes as binding,
because made by its own statesmen, then in
command of the Government, and sanctioned
by their own consent In the South there can
never be a party to assist in redreSsng this
wrong until the North diSpels by its unanmty
the illusion, that its people are willing to ac-
quesce in it.
The hopes depending on party leaders, con
trolling everywhere the old organization of the
Democratic party in the free States and the in
tluenCe and patronage of the administration
have done much to stife the voice of the mas
scs in the free States. If they will in the ap-
preaching Presidential election unite all parties,
indignant at the violation of the rights of the
North, to assert them, as all have united in
the South to deny them, the injustice will soon
be rcmedied. When the North is true to it.
self, there are multitudrs in the other section
who will perceive the iniqu;ty it has suffered,
but who would never see it, if tamely acquesc-
ed in. There are thousands in the South who
are sensible of the danger to themselves in the
breach of the cOmpactS about savcry-who eS-
mate truly the consequences of rupture of
good feeling between the sections and who ra-
ther than bring matters to the arbtrament to
which they seem to be Fastening, would will
ingly see the broken compacts restored--but if
from want of concert of action, the North, how
ever injured and excited can make no effectu-
al resistance, it may prepare for Il repetition of
indignities and wrongs to which those who of
fer them will set no limit when there is no bond
to submission This Republican Convention
is a nucleus which it may be hoped will gather
around it the masses of the North who are re-
solved to redress the wrong perpetratcd by the
passage of the Kansas-Nebraska act. " Re
publican party" was the early designation of
that which subsequently took the soubriquct