Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1856-10-01

of their own, Many of them believed it TO |
be an evil, but they could not help it. They |
had the wolf by the ears, and they could |
neither hold on with comfort nor let go With
safety A general emancipation would have I
been a virtual surrender of the whole South |
cru country to the black race, probably the !
extinction of the whites in their own blood.
The fate of St. Domingo and the British West |!
Indies forbade such thought: 1t was IN
this condition that they we're assailed by every
means which malice and cunning could dovisc
in order to increase the Danger and difficulty
Of their situation. Have they not good
right to complain bitterly of a party which
was doilg all it could to murder them, their
wives and their children.
They did complain. But their complaints
were uttered in vain. General Jackson call
ed the attention Of Congress 10 the subject
and bill was brought in to prohibit the trans
mission Of incendiary documents through the
mail, but the South was in the minority and
the bill was lost 1t was not only lost, but
tue proposition to prevent the United States
mail from being prostituted to the purposes of
assassination and murder, was made the ocea-
sion for n new cry of Southern aggression,
and every northern man who favored it was
again called dough-face, coward and traitcr.
In the present canvass, the Abolition party
has strength which it never had before
The dissolution of the Wing party has left
many men without political connections, and
some of them have 4 causeless feeling against
the Democracy which makes them embrace
any doctrine, and risk disunion itself, rather
thsn join US. Many of the adhering Know
Nothings were led over bodily with their
eyes shut, into the pit-fall of Abolitionisn.-
They have, out of these materials, formed Il
party which they dare call Republican. Yes,
combination OF men, acting uuder the influ-
once of opinions formed and developed in
England gated by British emissaries-
advocated by the British press, and aiming a
direct blow at the only strong republic on
esrth-such a party adds to its other sins the
base hypocrisy of calling itself by the sacred
name of Republican.
Their only battle cry at this moment, and
for some time past, has been Kansas Kan
cas-. Kansas! Mr. Puchanan will be elected
President, and this Kansas question, with all
its incidentals, will pass away among the
things that were. When that happens, the
people of this country will look back with
wonder at the scenes now cnaeting, and think
with amazement of the storm which few
fanatics and traitors could raise on a question
SO simple and so easily adjusted
The Territorial government of Kansas was
organized on principle which permitted the
men who might inhabit the new State to de-
ternline what should be its laws and institu-
tons. Thus it expressly declared: - It be-
ing the true intent and meaning Of this act
NOT to legislate slavery INTO any State OF
Territory, nor to exclude it therefron. but tc
leave the people thereof perfectly free to form
and regulate their domestic institutions in
their own way subject only to the Constitu-
tion of the United States
That, too, was the very principle of the
Compromise of 1880, with reference to Cali
fornia and New Mexico, and advocated BY
Clay and Cass, and Webster. Let Wings
Democrats. and Americans, all men who
love the Union, listen to the language of the
patriot Clay in his celebrated report introdu
cling the Compromise bill : 1t is high time
that the wounds which it THE Wtlmot Jroriso
has inflicted should be healed up and closed
and that to avoid IN al future time, The agi
tation which must be produced by the con
fiict of opinion on the slavery question-exist
ing as this institution does, in some of tn
States, and prohibited, as it is, in others
the true principle which ought to regulate tn
action of Congress in forming territorial gov
ernments for each newly acquired domain
to refrain from all legislation on the subjec
in the territory acquired, so long as it retain
the territorial form of government, ,--leavin
it to the people of such territory, when the
have attained to condition which entitle
them to admission as a State to decide f
themselves the question of the allowance Q
prohibition of domestic slavery "-(Sce Con
gressional Globe, May 10, 1850, page 945
Certainly no man of ordinary foresigl
could have believed that honest men in tn
North, after contending for this doctrine fiv
or six years ago, would turn around and re
pudiate it now But these hypocrtical pre-
tenders complain of the repeal of the la
known as the Missouri Compromise, by whic
Congress legislated slavery out of Territor
north of s6 deg 80 min, and permitted it I
exist in all Territory south of that line; an
yet, in the platform they have made for the
candidate and party, they solemnly resolve
that .',ce deny the authority Of Congress, of
Territorial Legislature, of any individual
association of individuals. to give legal ex
tcnce to slavery in any Territory of the I'm
ted States while the present Constitutio
shall be maintained" Res. ID, Rcpublica
Platform, 1906.
Thus the very Compromise, which the Al
olitionists al moment pretend should NJ
have been repealed, because, as they allcge
was binding law and compact. they in I'll
next so!emnly resolve was no law-no con
pact nay more, that it was beyond the pow
er of Congress or of any human power
make such law while the Constitution sha
last. But pass from this to anotht
topic
Some disorders have occurred in the co,
test of opinion which has been going On
Kansas for two or three years between IL
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