Kanawha Valley star. [volume] (Charleston, Va. [W. Va.]) 1856-1861, 1856-10-07

reason in her seat and gone mad.
But to a calm observer. it presents it.
self before the South At least in an atti-
tude far different from that which chart
~ would assign to il. 1t presents itself
in The unenviable position of aiding and
abetting and playing second fiddle to a
party which it processes to scorn. with
which the old line Wings boast thst they
have never connected themselves. Instead
of uniting themselves with their former
gallant foe-the Democratic party-for
the security Of the constitutional rights
ofthe South, from which Southern Wings
never shrunk before, they have united
themselves with party which condemns
the Kansas Act, condemns and repudi-
ates the handy work of the South, in the
Congress Of the. United STATES in 1854,
when and where the Wings and Demo
Gratis of the South manfully forgot their
party differences, and united together in
yindieation of Southern honor and the
rights guaranteed to the South by an in
disputable provision of the Constitution,
Such q position ought rather to elicit
the disgust Of the true old line Wings Of
the true South, than the scorn and con-
tempt Of, the Democracy. For the Wing
party ofthe South to unite with US in tn: r.
peal of the Missouri Compromise, aye
more, for a Wing Senator in the United
States Senate from the South, supported
by his party, to introduce, as an amend
ment to the Kansas Act, the very clause
that repealed the Missouri Compromise
supported and then sustained by the
whole Wing party Of the South. for men
calling themselves cold line Wings" to
meetin solemn Convention, and not only
desert the very law which has the marks
Of their patriotic action, made upon it in
1854, but to condemn and vilify it, is
not only to play the traitor but to seek to
profit by the treason. -...
By reference to the records of Con-
gress for 1854, now in this town, it will
be seen that the clause in the Kansas Act,
the Missouri Compromise, was
put there by Mr.. Dickson, Wing Senator
from KY. and supported by the whole Of
the Democratic Senators from the South,
excepting the slave, SamH Houston, who has
ong since lost his reason and manliness
in the whiskey- bottle, not yet restored by
his pledge to the Sons of Temperance,
and by all the Wing Senators from the
South, excepting one whose name we do
not remember, but if we did, Of too
much obscurity TO- be named. The Des
nocracy Of the sout il rallied around the
noble and gallant Wing leaders of the
South in 1854, in the manly and fearless
of Southern Rights, y in the
of life and death between the
South and the Constitution on the one
part, and the North, with the still
etto pointing to the bosom of the Con-.
on the other. And the strug-
gle ended in the most signal tri-
lmph Of moral right over the physical
orce of numbers that has been presented
o the world in the history of modern
civilization. That triumph was the
Kansas Nebraska Act. 1t gave to the
south all the Great Calhoun and the
Tres Of the Republic asked for the South
md the Constitution. 1t gave to the
people Of the territories the right to
make their own laws, subject to the Con-
alone, and takes from Congress
he right it had usurped by the Missouri
Compromise, the right to, prevent the
,itizen of the South from carrying his
'laye to the territory, and left the decis-
on Of that right to the Supreme Court of
.he United States, whore the South has
been willing to leave it-from the begin
ming. Such is the Kansas Nebraska
Act-nor more or less. And the whole
agitation that followed that Act, and that
IS now existing, arose from the fact that
some of the people Of the South car
red some negro slaves with them into
Kansas. This the treacherous abolition
sts Of New England determined to stop,
md to effect their purpose organized the
Emigrant Aid Society with a capital of
63, OOO, 600, and sent armed bands of
paupers and fanatics into that territory
for the purpose Of forming the territory
into State at the earliest possible period,
and excluding slavery therefrom. Ifthe
people of the South had not opposed force
against so infamous fraud, then they
would have been as treacherous to the
spirit of Yorktown Il the Cowpens as the
National old line Wing Convention has
proven itself to Henry Clay and the