The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-10-14
THE ISSUE STRONGLY STATED BY NATIONAL
ANN A''S WING

THE ISSUE STRONGLY STATED By NAIloNAL
The great body Of the nation ssys the st. Louis Repub
o.r, stands ranged in two divisions for Buchanan
and the other for Fremont And while for the former In
varv State Of the Union tens Of thousands rayng and
struggling with enthusiasm that is inspired by national
considerations and love for the Union as II exists under
the compromises Of the constitution it now happens that
for the latter with exceptions too few to be taken into the
account and too feeble have any influence on the final
result the effort is made TO organize the campaign upon
northern field exclusively and determine the question who
sha be the next President upon grounds defended by
northern men aloneby sixteen States alone-and those
grounds the very in which the fifteen remaining States
are chiefly interested We need not dwell upon this point
any further than to say that the republican platform has
but one plank During the whole OF the canvass thuS a
they have rung their changes upon but one note Kansas
and slavery every other plank originally adopted was
TO be thrown overheard this remaining sufficient to
Aoa the party-broad enough and long enough to hold
them all And from all the speeches. resolutions sermons
pamphlets of the oraces of this party but one thing can
be inferred they intend to do everything on the principle
that the North has the pooey and aOH rule.
They Justify II on the ground that the North has the nu
mercal majority And since the design of the party Is
interference with the affairs of individual States and those
southern the South necessarily and eectuay excluded
from ENJOYING the benefit Of the democratic principle that
the majority shall govern unless willing to become party
to warfare upon itself and Its institutions and prop
erty which, right or wrong others have the right to
interfere with
This sectional party proclams that it will have Pres-
dent Senate and Judiciary willing to cooperate with such
majority as they can place in the House No one can
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columns Of the journals in the interest of this party and
not have seen thing avowed with remarkable una
nimity-that when they shall have the President, then
they can and will do that which hitherto the President
and Senate standing bulwark against the torrents OF
an ungovernabe and blind anacsm have restrained them
from accomplishing They have said that the North will rule
or grind opposition opposing Senate as grain
of corn ground between the upper and neither milestone
They have said that the North viii rule and compel the
South to submit to the domination of northern party,
or drive it to disunon as choice of evils The whole
argument is menace we have the power we are able
to compel youand that too, in reference to an exclu-
svely southern neresand you must yield and acquiesce
or wage hopeless in contest where you are the NIL
nory, orsecede. And to what end this power is to be
directed we not left in doubt The fierce excitement
which has grown to be chronic hate of the South
will not aayed by the barren of the election of
the Chief Magistrate of this conederacy The election OF
Mr. Fremont is but stepping in progress. The
leaders declare that they intend yet morethat Mr. Ere
mont and his administration be but agents. nsru
mens through whom they design to carry a more
tended scheme of aggression upon the South There can
be but one opinion upon this point Mr.. Fremont will not
be allowed to stand STILL He will not be his master
M az, will he tha pbo
have so dsastreusy succeeded banding the North to-
gehe for southern crusade Senator Hale declares that
Fr6mOuts election will be step IN the direction Of general
emancipation Kansas and the Territories but small
part of the plan of this campaign
Senator Wilson proclams that fundamental object in
the election of Fremont is to lay The foundation Of policy
that shall emanepate three millions and half Of sidpes
And another senator STILL Mr. Seward, chimes in with
these very bold avowas of the designs of his party and
says upon Mr.. Fremonts election slavery WiH be
Mrown either peacefully and largfully under The constitution
or rH cork the subversiOR Of the constitution, Nth lis
opn opsrllros. And, more recently yet Mr. Speaker
Banks declares that the North must begin to govern
more-which means that the South must come down
its marrow bones and humby acknowledge allegiance to
the dominant power of the North seeking the overthrow
Of the institutions Of the South though in existence from
period older than the revolution recognised and acqu
esced at formation of the Union and protected by
the solemn provisions of the constitution.