Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1856-10-08

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ance.
1 find the whole party of the nation as
sembled in National Convention, with but
one individual dissent, expressing lis 'un-
qualified admiration Of an Administra-
iion which has lent itself as the tool and
accomplice of all the wrongs inflicted
upon Kansas, and by IFS venality and i'm
becility brought the country TO an intes-
tine war.
/ fnd all its Representatives in Con-
gress, with three Individual exceptions,
laboring in earnest zeal, by speech and
vote, 10 cover up the iniquiiies ofihis Ad-
ministration and the border ruffians of
Missouri, and 10 supPrese fair investi-
cation of outrages which shock both bu-
manity and rePublicanism, and defy the
Constitution and the laws.
find these same representatives, after
The truth was elected in spite of their ef-
forts, sill refusing TO relieve the people
from code of laws imposed upon them
by foreign army, and still refusing to
admit them into the Union, only for rea-
sons which, in the cases of nine existing
States, had been declared untenable and
of no account.
find them disregardiug a Free Con-
stiluiion adopted in legal, constitutional
and time sanctioned manner, (and which
no man can doubt TO have reflected the
will of the people, and supporting law
10 produce a substitute, which il is easy
to show would have perPetuated is the
State Government, the usurpalion which
had by force already seized upon the
Government Of The Territory.
find them refusing 10 make approPri-
ations for the army, un,css that army is
to be used 10 enforce code of laws vio-
laiive on their face, OF the Constitution,
enacted by Legislature in violation of
the laws oflhe United States, and impos-
ed by foreign force upon conquered and
subiugated American citizens.
find them in word, stcadily aiding by
all their Congressional action, 10 make a
Slave State in northern ATTITUDES, and
that too, against lie will OF its inbabii-
ants.
1 find that one member, who more
than any other stood out against ihe en-
slavement ofhis while fellow citizens, is
refused denomination BY the Demo
cratic party of his district
find in the canvass now going on,
that the whole tone ofiheir party press is
in the same direction. When the first
startling intelligence of the ouirages in
Kansas reached the States, their editors
denounced the foul wrong in terms of fi-
ting indignation. 1t was but a spasmod-
ic effort, however, and in Difference 10
the South, and the prevailing sentiment
of the party, they hSve dropped of, one
after the other, until now, so far as have
been able to ascertain, there is not Dem
ocratic piper which dares boldly 10 justi-
fly and defend the Free State party, and
denounce their invaders. In place of en-
couragement and sympathy for their out
ragged fellow citizens from the North,
there is little else than jeers and iIicule
for the oppressed and suffering condition
-misrepresentaiion Of their motives and
conduct, and a pretended incredulity of
the statements and appeals which they
send their brethren of The States.
| find their speakers exhibiting the
same spirit-some of thsm ignoring the
question entirely; others Of them treating
il with peryersions, misreprese ntaiions,
and false issues; and others taking OPEN
y The side of the oppressors; but no one
of them advocating the cause of Kansas,
or favoring her admission under the Free
State Constitution, adopted by her people.
In the public demonstrations and pro-
cessions of the party, ind banners and
devices containing brutal insults, in re-
sponse TO the appeals of that people for
protection against unparalleled wrongs,
calculated, as no doubt they must be in
tended, to prepare the masses for con-
tinued refusal of justice and protection,
and relentless persistence in outrage
and oppression.
| find all the Democrats S)uth, and a
| portion of the Democracy North, boldly
repudiating the Kansas-Nebraska bill, by
insisting that Slavery has right to go in
to The Territories, in spite of Congress or
the people; and that The inhabitants Of the
Territory have no right TO pnss Terrific
rial laws 10 forbid or exclude it. Demo
cratic Representatives from Pennsylva.
MIA even, in the Senate and House, hold
and proclaim these opinions, while other
Representatives from Pennsylvania, with
other Democratic leaders from other
States, declare themselves publicly to be
non-commiital upon this hercsy; the in.
inevitable tendency of which, it is easy
TO show, will be 10 prevent almost entire
ly the formation Of any more Free
States.
Having originated a movement myself,
to aid our people by sending them men