Daily American organ., 1856-08-15

petter cause, Win bravery scarcely parallel
ed, and soiU to execute equaled only by his
dauntless courage. He, too, is humbled to the
dust. The chalice prepared by him for ano-
| ther, has been returned to his own lips The
| arrow has rebounded and pierced his own boz
SOM:
"Keen were his fangs, but keener far to feel,
de nursed the pinion which impelled the Steel"
The very friends of those who initiated this
mad scheme, and brought to its support all the
power and patronage of this vast government,
have, in one portion of the country at least,
deserted them. Their heads have been placed
| upon the block, and the axe applied by the
very hands of those that they have caressed !;
and while they have permitted their bodies to
aorithe in all the agonies of a death struggle,
they have turned contemptuously away, and as
If to show how ineffable is their scorn, they
are seeking now to elevate to the high places
| from which the schemers have been dragged,
the very man, who, above all others in this
| country, can smile cOmplacently at his fallen
rivals, and in the deepest recesses of his cold
and antiquated heart, laugh at their calamity.
And yet this venerable Democracy wraps itself
up in its own dignity, and instead of offering
some practical healing measure to the country,
looks out with cool and deliberate unconcern,
and, in deep sepulchral tones, says to the peo-
pie of this convulsed government:
"There is no remedy--we can do nothing-we
stand upon a .f,aaiity, which we ourselves have
forced upon the country, and now let what will
come, we leave you to the fierce passions the vio-
lence, the bowie.knife and the rifle Of infuriated
men, to protect yourselves If you can or to suffer
and bleed and die if you must"
The very principle which was introduced by
the Kansas bill, and upon which the Democra-
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repudiated and secuted out of the Territory,
and the neao principle introduced of permitting
everybody outside of the Territory to pre-
scribe the government to the entire exclusion
Of every one within it. And yet no arm Of this
government, strong enough to accomplish its
purposes, has ever been interposed Fraud
and violence have stalked abroad, and blood
has flown, and yet no interposition, by the ad-
ministration, until the act has been consum-
mated, and then only force too puny and i'm
beetle to restore order and enforce obedience.
And now this Congress is to adjourn, and no
practicable remedial measure is proposed by
the Democracy, at all adequate to the subsist-
ing troubles Nothing concihatory, nothing
healing, nothing salutary to the repose and
peace Of the country is proffered by that party,
that claims for itself all of nationality, all Of
conservatism, all Of patriotism. But desire
to do no injustice.
A bill has been introduced and has passed
the Senate, at the instance Of the Democracy,
which, its friends claim, is the great panacea
and have no wish to detract from it whatever
of merit that measure may possess. / am free
to say, that upon its face that bill bears the
semblance at least of. fairness and if all our
teachings heretofore from those who have
claimed to be the peculiar friends" of fre
II fo.,io I'd -
fact, so large preponderance of actual citi-
zens in that Territory who desired to have
Kansas a free State rs has always heretofore
been represented, there could be but slight
objection urged against the measure by any one
who desired to see the question settled, and at
the same time desired also to see Kansas adj
mitted into this Union as free State But
unfortunately for the success of that measure
the information which has been spread all
over this country by the friends of free Kan
sas, as to the. great superiority in numbers
of the free State men in that Territory, is now.
pronounced fabulous, or at least doubtful, by
those men themselves. And again, in antici.
patton of the passage of this Senate bill, from
information recently received, which, to say
the least of it, comes from source entitled,
in the absence of more reliable testimony, to
no little credit it is understood and believed
that that class of men who, from the first, have
set out with q fixed determination to estab-
lish slavery in that Territory, and are labor
ing sedulously to accomplish that purpose,
have already taken the necessary steps un-
der the provisions of that bill to control the
destiny of that Territory to suit themselves;
and, with that information staring us in the
face, in connexion with the notorious fact
that almost every man here, whose sympa-
thies are with the slave party, and who would,
were it left to him, establish slavery there,
is for that bill, and desires its passage, what
ever Of fairness may appear upon the face of
the bill itself, or however plausible may be
the arguments urged by its friends in its IA
vor, it never can receive the sanction of this
House, and therefore it offers no practical
relief either to Kansas or the country. For,
come what will-differ as widely as we may,
as to what measure of peace should be adopt
ed, whoever or whatever may be affected by.
it. it is due to fankness and to truth to say
that no measure more favorable to the estab-
iishment of slavery in Kansas, than the Ter
ritorial bill ITSELF wholly unaided by any other
legislation looking to that end, and divested
of every appliance brought to bear by out
side influences and considerations, can ever
receive the sanction of majority of the
House. And it is worse than useless-it is
the sheerest mockery, therefore, to propose
anything that can afford new legislative aid,
even in the slightest degree to the establish
ment of slavery in Kansas. If then, this is
the uLtimatum of the Democracy, we can, with
out doing the least injustice, insist before the
people, that they turn deaf ear to all their
entreaties, afford no relief proffer NO healing
measure, but c0mplacently fold their arms,
planting themselves upon their .fadtity, and
leave the country to work out its own sal
walton, as best it can. So far, therefore, as
National Democracy" is concerned, the "old