The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-08-19
THE STRUGGLE BETWEEN TRUTH AND FALSE
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HOOD.
The fundamental issue between den racy and republ
canism is contest between truth and asehood Repub-
licansm the offspring Of q fasehood and its whole
power consists in the with which the vgor
its youth and early manhood it maintained the combat
with truth The final result of the conflict as certain a.
that "truth is mighty and will prevail" is mere ques-
ton of time when the victory win be contaminated As to
the triumph, sooner or later there be no doubt
Republicanism its origin and Its strength to the
assumption that the repeal of the Missouri restriction by
the passage of the Kansas bill was measure for the er
tension of slavery This assumption false in its org-
nal inception has been false every time it has repeat
ed and is AS false now as it ever When first
nounced the sehood found ready credence in the anti
slavery feelings and sentiments OF northern men, and every
possible device has been to by unscrupuous
demAgogue to keep up the deluson During the last
republican speaker journalist has discussed the
Kansas bill without building hs arguments upon the false
assertion that it pro-sarery measure and without
drawing his conclusions from these false premises Truth
crushed down in the first conflict with this fsehood
but il subdued and can be made TO surren-
der renewed the upon the earliest opportunity
and has since constantly maintained itself in the field
gradually but surely growing in strength until it brough,
its foe to the issue which is pending and which
prove thnt "truth crushed to earth .c rise again
In the present great conflict between truth and asehood
the Of the democracy depends upon the establish
men in the northern mind Of single proposion-and
that is that the friends Of the Kansas bill did pass
and do not advocate ii for the extension Of
slavery but enable the people Of Kansas
decide for themselves whether it should be free or slave
territory The this proposition is established re
PubcAnism 10 have vitality and the triumph Of
truth is complete
There are, comparatively, few al this dsy who dispute
the abstract principle that the people of every political
community ought exercise the privilege Of determining
the character Of their local institutions The very
fact that there any who this principle only
proves that the progress Of truth although sure is fire.
quenty slow in eradoang fasehood Because the dsmoe-
racy overwhelmed in 1854 upon the assumption that
they advocating the Kansas bin as pro-slAvery
measure it does follow that the assumption was truth
full The time when II rank beresy to maintain
that the people have right to govern themselves The
advocates Of the divine right Of kings esorted to every
shift whether by argument force TO crush out the idea
Of popular sefgovernment-ust the republicans are
laboring defeat the application Of the same idea in
Kansas. Truth, however was finally an overmatch for
flsebood in the former struggle certainly win be in
the latter
What have said indicates distinctly the paramount
duty Of every democrat in the pending ssue-ths duty il
TO undeve the northern mind in regard to the true char
acer and object Of the Kansas law not true that the
extension Of slavery III. object Of the bill but Il 10
true that IL was intended TO promote the perfect equality
Of the States by securing TO the citizens Of each and all
the right Of settling in DE Territory and when thus set
ed determine for tbemseves whether slavery should
should not exist This is the truth the whole truth
and nothing but the truth 10 the Kansas issue Wben
ever or wbe-.rsT or by wbOmsOever, differ. on.o,
rbuted to the b the truth Of the case violated !,
Alike se that the measure was supported by men who de-
sire to see slavery in Kansas and BY men who desire to
see the Territory free State il is also alike trus
that some prolavsy expected the measure 10 be FOL-
lowed by the establishment Of slavery and that anti
slavery mSn expected TO be follow ed by the exclusion Of
slavery hut these conflicting divisions and erpecat,op.
were compromised by agreeing that the natural law Of
peaceful and spontaneous immigration should decide b
tween them, and that IL should be either free or slsv,
State this law should decide The fac ouVbt m, a n
forgotten, that whilst majority Of the supporte of m
bill were proslsvery men in Congress many them fank
and expressly declared that they supported II with the
conviction that the national Law Of emigration would
make the Territory free This conviction was based mon
another fact which shows that the compromise was not "A
vOrabo to the wishes Of prOsAvsrr s-tbat aet s that
the anti-slaVerv PORTION Of population CONSTITUTES
large msjory, and Of consequence the natural law of
immigration vopld give them decided advantage in the
decision Of the character Of the domestic Institutions Of
Kansas To recognition Of the perfect equality
Of the southern States and sgtAting subject