The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1856-02-07

except in his submissveness to the Olgarchy-
a man of no mark, only from the fact that he
sits in the Presidential Chair. Behold his
power. The sixteen millions of freemen of the
North and West are anxious that Kansas should
be free-know that the vast majority of the
actual settlers there are in favor of keeping it
free-see that their rights have been grossly
outraged by reckless marauders from Missouri.
But, suppose the President let loose the soldiers
at Fort Leavenworth against them in their eff
forts to save themselves, by State Govern
ment, from the clutches of the Propagandists-
that he should even enrol these men into Federal
service against them-what could the sixteen
millions do? Franklin Pierce, with the Fede-
raj sword and power against them, could work
his will, small a man as he is and there would
be no help for them, save in Revolution! Do
they not feel how imbecile they are, with the
Federal Executive always against them? How
impOtent must be all their efforts to make the
Union tributary to Liberty and Justice, so long
as they permit its Executive here to be the
representative and agent of the Oligarchy?
The friends of Freedom must take posses
sion of the Executive in 1856, and from that
hour forth, administer its farreaching powers.
Let them discard every question calculated to
prevent concentration Of political force for this
end. Let them not waste time and energy, and
furnish their adversaries with cd cdptandum
objections, by constructing a cumbrous plat
form, and particulariziug everything to be ac-
complished, nOw and hereafter. The one spe
cihc issue at this juncture is-not an altera
ton of the Naturalization laws, not modfca-
ton of the Tariff, not the abolition of the inter.
State slave trade, not the admission of slave
State, not the restoration of the Missouri Com.
promise-but the federation or prohibition of
Slavery in Federal Territory. AS test, an
assertion, and the establishment, beyond ques-
ton, OF their supremacy, the Oligarchy assume
that Slavery exists. of right, in all Federal Ter
rltory, and are determined that it shall so exist
In fact. We plant ourselves on the original
policy of the Government ON the great funda-
mental doctrine of the Ordinance Of 1877. and
say in all Federal Territory there shall be no
Slavery nor involuntary servitude This is
enough. Less ought not to say-more is
dental candidate, man who, we know, is true
to this doctrine and embOdies IN himself and
his purposes, the whOle Idea and Policy of
which 1t IS the linden.
Adopting this course, why may not the
friends of Freedom, the Republicans of the
United States, carry the election of 1856, and
place the Government on the side of Liberty?
Or, failing then, certainly lay the foundation
for success in 1860?
But we must have union. We must not sac.
rhce, compromise, evade, or conceal, our
movement. We must not attempt success on
side issues. We must not seek merely an ad-
vantage, by passing by men clearly and boldly
representing our movement, and selecting as
our standard bearer, one who does not thor
oughy appreciate it, one who is not willing to
follow it out to its legitimate consequences
who is not imbued with its spirit, who is not
identified with it-selecting him simply on the
old Wing ground of availability, because he
might run ,oeli, and, if elected, might be more
respectable than the incumbent displaced
Finally, we must take care that the Repub-
lican Party be neither Third Party, nor
tributary by any completely to any other party
or movement. 1t must be first, it must be one.
Men who have been Democrats, Wings, Know
Nothings, or Independent Democrats, by party
ties, or who are such yet in principle. must of
necessity compose the materials of this great
Republican Party; but it must be an aggre-
gate of individuals--not a conglomerate of fac
tons, not a partnership of parties, each seek
- vDJ0.. "a AIS own, but-an
aggregation of individuals, associated together
only for one great object and sustaining no re-
lations to any Party, Order, or Association,
which would prevent them from acting in good
faith and with single eye.