Washington telegraph., 1856-10-29


to an indefinite number, which would sus-
tain us in our position The extract fro m
the Bulletin, given above, is sufficient to
show how widely the two wings of this
pretendedly national party differ, and at
the same time how little right they have
to impute to themselves superiority over
the party whose candidate has declared
that he knows no geographical distinction,
that he knows only his whole country, his
duty to that country, and who is fixed in
his determination to administer the laws
of that country in the light of clear
understanding of, and manly devotion to
the right.
To the issue-Free Kansas and Slave
Kansas. We have, from time to time,
in the columns of the Telegraph, exposed
thoroughly the manner in which the Dem
ocratic party have warped the meaning, or,
to speak more correctly, manufactured
meanings of the nature of the provisions
of the Kansas-Nebraska bill to suit the
latitude in which it was presented to the
people as ''the issue" Wedo not deem it
necessary again to produce the extracts
from the speeches of DOUGLAS, DODGE,
SHIELDS, RICHARDSON and Others of their
class, made before their Free-Soil constit-
uencies, the sum total and substance of
which was, that ''the provisions s'-to use
the words of Gen. SHIELDs-'Sof that
bill, would work with such powerful force
and effect as to keep all territory which
might afterwards apply for admission into
the Union as a sovereign State free, even
to the Isthmus of Darien" These speech
es are familiar to our readers. And they
are equally apprised of the fact, that this
Kansas bill has been represented as Civ
ing to the South, rights which she did not
enjoy prior to the repeal of the Missouri
Compromise it has been said that the
passage of this bill would result in some
tangible, appreciable benefit to the South !;
and we all know that Mr. FILLMORE, be-
cause he. in view of the possibility of ma
king Kansas Slave State, called the re-
peal 81 the Missouri restriction "a boon
to he south has been denounced as un-
friendly to the South; and now we ask
YOU what is the upshot of all this p
One would think, fellow-citizens, that a
party thus divided against itself occupied
a position sufficiently humiliating, but
there is yet lower deep, and we have
now to show You how this Democratic
party, divided in opinion On point of
vital importance, has, t. say the least of
it, sha,nc;ully fused with the Free-Soilers
of the North. basely succumbed to their
insoleat demands, meanl yielded up
what tn Southern wing was ready TO de-
mand at the point OF the sword as their
birthfig:i:. and that, too, without even thc
poor recompense of Il mess of pota"e---
The suim VI the matter is this: Two
months ago there was hardly the slightest
probability that h!r- BUCHANAN would
be able TO carry Northern State. And
that because ne was the recognized candi-
date OF 4 party whose avowed intention
WIS t. make Kansas Il Slave State VIII
the most unscrupulous demagogue in the
land dare to deny that such was the openly
expressed determination of the Southern
wing of the BUCHANAN party. The move
ments the Missouri slavery propagandists
and the numbers who went to the territory
with theavowed purpose of making ita slave
State, declared it. Well, the BUCHAN-
AN men, seeing the utter hopelessness of
the cause in which they were engaged,
resolved on a bold stroke of policy. They
would show the North they were not the
Slavery party, and this in spite of all the
proof which they had given to the contra
ry- The Richmond Enquirer recently
put forth an article entitled 1.-The false is
sues of the canvass" We give the con-
Guiding portions:
Black republicanism pretends to find in
the repeal of the Missouri restriction incon-
testable proof of the sectional ambition
and aggressive spirit of the South This
is another false impeachment of the mo-
tives of the South, If We revert to the
speeches of the supporters of the Kansas
Nebraska bill, We find distinct and en-
phatic disavowal of any aggressive pur-
purpose on the part of the South The
repeal OF the Missouri restriction was not
intended as a mersure of slavery extension,
but of atonement to the constitution for
an outrage upon its spirit, and to the
South for violation of its rights and dig
nifty. All the South contended for in
the support OF the Kansas-Nebraska bill
was recongnition of its equality under
the constitution and all the South now
claims is, that Its people shall not be driv-
en- from the common territory by the
Sharp's rifles or emigrant aid societies.
The South simply demands that the
fair and legitimate expansion of its social