The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-10-13
The Reign OF Terror-Win Free People
any Longer Endure 1t:


The Reign OF Terror-Win n Free People
any Longer Endure 1t.
A reign of terror has hung out its black flag
of sedition treason and notification over one-half
the American Union. In all our Southern States,
excepting little Delaware there is as little of po-
litical liberty as in Russia; and meaner, and
more sneaking, and more remorseless espionage
over the liberty of speech and the public press
than in any of the Italian provinces of Austria
Under the auspices of the Jacobin democracy
this invisible and lawless despotism of the South
has become as memorable as the savage Commit
tee of Public Safety of that horrible first French
Revolution; and as blood thirsty as Robespierre,
Marat and Danton. Such is the fierce and shame
less despotism which reigns over the South, and
such is the government to which the rotten de-
mocracy are laboring to subdue the North, under
threats of dsunion, robbery Of the public trea-
sury and civil war.
This overshadowing evil Of the day is the ripen-
ing fruit of those seeds of corruption and discord
which were planted at Washington by this Pierce
administration. There was in 1853 peace upon
the slavery question-Mr. Pierce was pledged to
continue this peace, and studiously to avoid any
thing calculated to disturb it. But, false to the
people, false to his pledges and faithless to his
trust in every way, he re-opened the box of
Pandora, and scattered its seeds Of mischief
broadcast over the land He sold himself and
the peace of the country, his party, his character,
his conscience his body and SOUL for that paltry
mess Of pottage-thes support of the nigger-driving
leaders of the democratic party at the Cincinnati
Convention. But they had sucked him dry like
an orange, and they cast the empty shell away.
They sought another man, equally reliable as an
instrument, but better calculated for their pur
poses of public deception in the North. We see,
however, that so far from there being any abate-
ment in the Southern democratic policy of ter
rorism and notification with the nomination of
Mr.. Buchanan his name, his influence. his
pledges and his authority have all been used to
sink the constitution in Kansas, at Washington,
and in fourteen States of the Union, and to
threaten us with disunion and an armed invasion
if the rest do not submit.
For practical purposes Of their own-ior Office
profit, spoils and plunder-Jeff. Davis the demo-
cratic Mephistophilcs at Washington and Atchi-
son, his right hand man in Kansas, and poor
Pierce, their supphant tool, set this policy Of
ruflian tyranny in motion. The results have
disgraced the country in the eyes OF the whole
world. Armed invasions Of ruilian mercenaries,
terrorism. ballot stuffng, spurious Kansas Legs-
latures and their bloody laws, have been fol-
lowed up by the Dragons sabre, the rufian
musket, pistol, bayonet bowie knife; by murder
scalping. robbery. aud other crimes too revolving
TO think of, until the plains Of Kansas have been
REDEEMED with the blood of its unhappy settlers,
and blackened with the ashes Of their houses
burned TO the ground.
Next, we see this contagion Of terrorism break.
ing out at Washington--n fights and rows, aud
fearful homicides and in brutal violence, even
within the sanctuary of the American Senate
chamber-and next we find the whole South
under rigid blockade Of democratic spies and
informers to cross which passport is as ncces.
sary to New Yorker or Pennsylvania as at the
Austrian frontier. Anywhere beyond Delaware
il is only necessary for some hireling demo-
cratic vagabond to get up the hue and
cry Of abolitionist T" against any Northern
stranger, to put him in peril OF his life
South OF Mason and Dixon's, in fact, this coun-
try Is under despotism worse than that Of Aus
tria because il 4 lawless, invisible and IRE
sponsible despotism. 1t il, however, complete
despOtism Of a rlfiian democratic reign Of terror
There Is no such thing as a free press in the
South, except here and there a straggler close to
the Northern border: there Il no such thing ~
free speech. except here and there on the part OF
a man whose position influence and family asso-
ciations-Mr. Bolts. for example--rcnder it dan
gerous to disturb him.
Such ere th, bitter fruits Of this wretchcd
Pierce administration and the demoralized demo.
cratic party. reduced to the whip and spur Of the
digger driving disorcanizers and disunionists ~
the South. T. this tate Of things any longer to
be endured. VIII the people Of the Nor,h-still
free, still living up to the free gifts of the cons.
tuition, free speech free press, and the rghtof The
people peaceably to assemble in the discussion Of
public ahairs-will this free people Of the free
North thus consent 10 vote themselves under
Southern niger driving despotism scarcely -
humiliating to free born white man THAI
lA-tn+ We inlS III All -
robustness; for when free born white man can
consent to have his pen aud his voice under the
control Of censorship like that Of the mlian
Southern democracy, and can cry hurrab' for
The party which thus tics him up in bondage he
i ready to mount the block and be sold at aue-
tion like a niger. We await, upon this qucs-
ton, the judgment tomorrow Of the free people
Of Pennsylvania.
kASsAs-GoyERNoR GEARY CLEARING THrH
| Orrs-According to a despatch which we pub
lisbed yesterday, from Chicago, party Of Kan
sas emigants, chiefly from Ohio, Illinois and
| Wisconsin, to the number Of about 200, including
women and children, on arriving at Taber. Iowa