Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1856-06-13
The Political death struerIe.

The POLITICAL Death Struggle.
Those who suppose that the friends Of
Douglas and the Kansas-Nebraska measure
will cordially support Buchanan, and that
his nomination will prove a strong one. were
never more mistaken. The Democratic
Convention has condemned the oriOinators
Of the Kansas-Nebraska bill to political
death; and viii not these men die hard p
Even in the Convention, a southern Wing
lately made Democrat by the slavery
lpropagandism Of the Kansas-N Nebraska bill
made a glorifcation speech in which the
fatal truth was told, that the original Kan
sas-Nebraska men were slaughtered, but he
hoped they would yet be resuscitated. How.
thing you, will Douglas and his crowd Of
followers relish the speech of that Kentuekv
Whig, who, once in the ranks of the friends
of the Missouri Compromise, comes into
the fold of the Democratic party, and avail
ing himself of the benefits Of the repeal of
that compromise, helps stab the very men
who accomplished that repeal, and then
opens the wound and tells the convention
and the world to look at it?
The anti-Nebraska voters in the Northern
Congressional Districts have decapitated
those unfaithful servants who dared disre-
gard the known will of their constituents,
and there IS scarce free state man. who
voted for the Internal measure, left in Con-
gress to tell the tale. Awed by such an
emphatic verdict of the people, the Dem
ocratic convention have played the timid
game; approving the principles of the OBJ
noxious measure bat slaughtering the con-
coctors Of the scheme; hoping that the sac
rlice of men, will atone for the mighty of
the law.
1t is marked feature in the history of
the events which brought about the nomina-
ton of Mr.. Buchanan, that neither he nor
the convention have dared approve of the
Kansas Act. Both have endorsed the prin-
ciples involved in the measure, but cautious
ly refrained from saying that the passage of
the act was necessary or wise. On eYerT
hand, in the crowd at Cincinnati, was It
openly proclaimed, that, although party de-
manded the approval of the act now that
1t Is the law of the land, still, vengeance
should be visited upon the heads of those
who by deyising the law, so unnecessarily
placed the Democratic party in jeopardy.
Is 1t human nature, therefore, for those
thus sacrificed, to lie down and give up
their political breath without struggle -
The game Douglass and Pierce played for,
was,the Presidency they depended upon the
slavery interest to accomplish the object,
and did the biding of the south by taking
the lead in the passage of that bill; their
slavery allies, having used them to the ex-
tent of their present necessities, now let
them drop, without regret, into political
oblivion. 1t was the timid policy which
prevailed at the convention: a policy ,ohich
never won Democratic VictOry at the
polls. Mark that
Mr.. Buchanan cannot enlist the bold men
of the party in his support; he is a repre-
sentative of the conservative portion,-that
portion which casts its vote, it is true, but
never takes off ats coat for the battle. This
timid policy is the death rattle in the throat
of Locofoism. The party has slaughtered
tn men who had given it vigor, and has
taken as its standard bearer, one who, hav-
ing boasted that not drop of Democratic
blood flowed in his veins, joined its ranks as
soon as success offered chance of prefer
ment.
The nomination of Mr.. Buchanan, on the
first thought, will, to nine persons out of
ten, appear as a strong nomination; but re-
Election viii fast change this oppinion, as
success with such man, so nominated must
be in direct violation Of every principle
which for the last twenty years has called
out the strength of that party.
CleveIand Herald