The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1856-10-30

with more tenacity and ability for this, as we
believed and now believe, palpably illogical
position, than the able and talented gentleman
from Georgia, Mr. STEPHENS
! This second moral battle was desperately
fought, and the friends of Freedom once
more triumphant. The committee have closed
their labors-have now returned and unfolded
the scroll of infamy which the friends of Mr..
Buchanan for fourteen weeks labored to suppress.
! The Democratic party denied the existence of
frauds, and contended the so-called "border
ruffians' were fighting for claw and order
that they were maintaining the laws passed by
the Territorial Legislature, and that friends
were resisting those laws and now, when the
overwhelming evidence of the fslsity of all this
is about to come to light, they talk of pleading
guilty, and putting themselves upon the mercy of
the court. If they had been really ignorant of
these things and had not put into requisition
the power of the Federal Government to awe
the freemen of Kansas into submission 10 fraud
ulent and tyranneal laws, nations clemency
might have been exerted in their behalf The
President bowed to sectional influence and
turned prosecutor against the free people of
! kansas and the friends of Mr.. Buchanan, in
! Convention assembled in Pennsylvania as well
as here in this House, with but two or three eX-
! ceptions, and at Cincinnati, endorsed and ap-
| proved the action taken by Franklin Pierce.
|
| preaching Presidential election? Far and wide,
| it will be given out that Mr.. Buchanan disap-
| proves of the course of the Pierce Administra-
ton in reference to Kansas, and thus another
| fraud like that of 1874 will be attempted upon
| the people of the North. Then the so-called
| Democratic party in Pennsylvania fought under
| the banner of Polk Dallas, Skunk and the tariff
of 1872; and the only question in Pennsylvania
was, as to which of the two candidates was to
be considered soundest upon that particular
measure. So far as the protective policy is con-
cerned they cannot deceive urpeople any longer
as they have distinctly unfurled to the breeze
at Cincinnati the banner of free trade, for the
first time, openly and distinctly avowed by them
in Pennsylvania.
| DISSOLUTION or THE UNION.
| Another part OF the Democratic programme a.
the old and oft-repeated story and bugbear Of
dissolution of the Union. Whilst in the South,
they increasingly apply themselves to the single
argument, vote for Mr. Buchanan, because he is
the soundest man upon our negro question, and
because IN his election can carry Slavery into
all the Territories of the Union; and because in
/ his election, this account, the value of our
negroes, as Governor Wise, of Virginia said,
would be preserved and increased; in the North
! they elongate their faces and hang their heads
and prate nothing but dissolution of the Union
Dissolution of the Union, for the establishment
of the Jeffersonian doctrine of Slavery non-ex-
/ tension Nonsense! Dissolution of the Union,
for arresting the progress of an evil admitted to
4 be such by the fathers Of the Confederacy. and
/ for the arrest Of which they repeatedly inter-
| posed their power and control! Dissolution of
/ the Union, for preventing the growth of "A sys-
ten which believe have shown is gradually
undermining the wealth and strength and POD
uation OF this grand Confederacy! Dissolution
! of the Union, because we will not consent to
have the beautiful and fertile Kansas, "A country
twice as large as Pennsylvania, and capable OF
maintaining population of ten millions, erected
into slave State Lying, AS it does, almost
directly west of Philadelphia, the great me-
tropolis of my own native State, and brought
within close proximity to il by railroads in pro-
greSS of completion, il requires no prophetic
vision TO and tell the amount of interest the
city of Brothery Love has in its preservation as
the home of the enterprising and Industrious
! freeman.
Kansas and Nebraska secured to Freedom sou
build mp population of millions of thrifty agri-
cult1rists, manufacturers, and artisans, and the
rolling swelling tide trade running into count
less millions, will help to increase the magnificent
keen and shrewd PERCEPTION Ui n I Sty The
even when the far Northwest was an illmitable
forest, and Inhabited alone by the Indian and the
panther, grasped the destined mighty future Of
Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin.
aud persisted in the policy Of the city of New
l. iOIh 10 Teicu us arm IN tnat direction, and
grapple the teeming wealth which that country,
as he most surely predicted, would one day un-
fold. Kansas and Nebraska Is a still greater
Northwest, already almost grappled BY the city
OF Brotherly Love; and if not destined in the
providence of God, 10 suffer under the blight of
Slavery, will prove to Philadelphia a reservoir
OF wealth, from which she will draw perpetual
and never-endmg supplies Kansas and Ne
braska, If free, are destined 10 have population
of thirty millions; if slave, it will never rise 10
three, as free white settlers refuse TO 90 where
the masters lash takes the place of the freeman's
will.
Let Philadelphia but continue to be influenced
by the lyRS tHttuiS OF dissolution of the Union
about which such men as her Reeds Biglers and
Cadwaiaders, are constantly pratiDg, and the day
is not far distant when her commercial inter
ests will reap the fruits of timidity at which
even Southern men join in the laugh of derisiob.
Dissolution OF the UniOn for preSuming to elect
II President and Vice President north of Mason
and Dixon's line, when the retrospect of our
political history for but a very few years points
them to jackson and Calhoun, both from Southern
States to Adams, and Rush. and Harrison, aud
Granger, Northern men, for whom these very
men who pirate disanIOn cast their suffrage
Sir, was pleased to hear the noble stand On
this question taken by the honorable gentleman
from kentucky, Mr.. Cox, a Southern man If
Northern men would but read his speech they
would drive dehaagOgues from the stand. who
would dare TO talk 10 them about disuniop.
That honorable gentleman declares that the peo-
pie of the United States have the undoubted
right to select, if they choose, their President
and Vice President from either side of Mason
and DixGns line, without offence to the people,
North or South. lie Justly ridicules the cringingr
creature who fears To vote his own convictions
for any such unbranded reason.
Another Southern gentleman llr DAyIs1 from
Maryland juStifeS Northern men in throwing their
votes for the man who represents the principle
of nOn-extension OF Slavery, when Southern men
of all parties throw themselves in the opposite
direction, Whilst ho condemns sectionaiism in
either, he points To the fact of Southern men
going TO Mr., buchanan, because they believe ne
IS soandest on the slave question and charges
Mr.. Buchanan and his friends with having created
a sectional party in behalf OF the peculiar inter
est of Slavery, justitying, in his opinion coun-
ter sectional party north Of Mason and Dixon's
line
let the legislation of the country be such AZ
will make it flourish, and there will be no danger
OF dissolution Of the Union If we have happy
and prosperous homes, we will not trouble our-
selves about localities, and whether we are north
or south VI Mason aud Dixon's line our theme
will be, the Union as it was as il is now and
tor all time TO come. As long rs demagoguas
and doughfaccs in the North are found travel.
ling about, making disunion speeches, there viii
be found madmen enough in the South to ioiu
in the silly cry.
Why talk about an event which can never hais>
pen This Union is bound together by an in
dissouble tie, which, like the Gordian knot cam
not be Embossed; and to cut it would be treason
Il IS bound together hy rivers ana mountains, by
cities connected in great commercial enterprises
by the grave of the Northern soldier in the .Soutb
and the Southern soldier in the North, and bs
hat pnY, al nag. ton. lid Il.