St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-10-09

ings of their orn tools and hireliags, sup
ported and paid by them for commit
ting the very outrages which they res
tail with so much gusto, and denounce
with such extravagant, yet tranquil
horror. No party ever presented such
a batch of inconsistencies as the pres
cnt advocates of Fremont. One por-
ton Of the party advocates universal
liberty-that "all the states must be
free or all slave" else the Union must
slide" Another branch says eve
have nothing to do with the negro Or
his freedom ave are only working for.
the benefit Of the white man. Such
was the declaration of Mr.. Caleb Smith,
in a recent speech in Washington !;
while another branch of the party,
headed by the New York Herald, Mr..
Fremont's personal organ, openly and
boldly advocates slavery The Herald
of the goth ult., in an article upon the
negro race, m which the editor points
out the retrogrades of the colored
man wherever left to self govern
ment, as in Hayti, British West Indies
and elsewhere, closes his article with
the following startling position, which
commend to the care full reading of
the Free Soil advocates of Fremont in
Iowa
"Why then is this country to be agitated to
1 its centre for such race? Why is such race
to be thrust forward to an equality with the
whites? The answer is plain enough The
movement of aboftionism is not humane
one. 1t is the mere cover to the designs Of
political agitators, who have no other hope of
political success than what may be gained by
fratricidal agitation. This is the true intent
and meaning of their pseudo philanthropy; and
for this Kansas has been made the theatre of
bloodshed and insurrection. The Southern
States perceive clearly enough that their safety,
their independence, and their welfare are in
danger, if abolitionism obtains the ascendency
in this government, and that servile war
must follow if its policy is carried OUT
4 The Herald there says that it does
mot blame the South for making COM
mon cause against common danger,
nor for striving to maintain their con-
stitutional rights, and that in spite of
all the noise made by fanatic fools
| (both men and women) the Stewards
and Stoves, the rights of the South
will be respected by majority in the
North, and adds: a.1if " 3f
a J" The Kansas question settled, all further
agitation would cease; and that it will be set
tied on some honorable terms we do not can
not doubt we prefer that It shall enter the
Union as . slave state, in order that this bal
ance OF power may be maintained, believing
at the same time that II will be Of no tiisad-
vantage whatever to the slave population or
the free states-no infraction of the laws of
God or man. In these sentiments the friends
OF Col. Fremont, as We are connectedwith them,
heartily concur"
I Comment is unnecessary. After
blindly raising fearful sectional strife
which it VIII now be almost impos-
siblc to quell, having deluged Kansas
with all the horrors of civil war
and raised a whirlwind of excitement
through the country almost equal to
that which preceded the French revo-
luton which was only drowned by the
blood of its thousands of victims
flowing from the guillotine, these Re-
publican managers, even before the
campaign is closed, coolly insult the
honest masses who have listened to
| their hypocritical cant for Freedom,
by telling them that their blood has
flowed, theirmoney been squandered,
merely to elect candidate who was un-
able to run on his own merits, and that
they have converted the towns of Kan
sas into common garrisons, barracks
and guard-houses for common cut
threats, and if necessary they would
with their own free willing hands
yield up the ancient fabric Of our Con-
stitution ~ merely to secure success
and the spoils of the approaching cleo
tion.W bfG .'s.t'l's
Turn now to the following SEN
timent uttered by the Democratic can
didate, Mr.. Buchanan sentiment
which deserves to be written in letters
Of gold and emblazoned from every
house-top in the land 4 s. 80
J" Most happy, would it be for the country If
this long agitation were at an end. During
its whole progress it has produced no practical
| good to any human being, whilst It has been
the source of great and dangerous evils. It
has alienated and estranged one portion of the
Union from the other, and has even seriously
threatened its very existence. To my person.
al knowledge, it has produced the impression
| among foreign nations that our great and gao-
rious confedemcy is in constant danger of dis
| solution. This does us serious injury, because
acknowledged power and stability always COM
mand respect among nations and are among
the best securities against unjust aggression
and in favor of The maintenance of an honor
able peace" .54 LIN
Patriot! ponder all that over! What
practical good has slavery agitation
done to- any human being? fit goes
on who can calculate the evil it will
certainly do the country But let sla-
very agitation sink and our glorious