The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-10-01

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ism or sectionalm against the Fremont republi-
can party or their candidate.
Where, then, can we fasten this odious charge
Of a sectional and geographical organization,
but upon the democratic party and the democratic
candidate? Why was poor Pierce SO igno-
miniously set aside at Cincinnati? 1t was be-
cause he had SO debauched himself and tie
party with that intense pro-slavery sectionalism
Of JEFF. Davis and Atchison that they could use
him no longer. Why was Mr.. Buchanan taken
up? Because his skirts were comparatively
clean-he could prove an abb; and yet they
gagged him, and tied him hand and foot to tie
same altar. Nay, worse than this he is not only
bound to continue the policy of Pierce in Kansas,
but he is publicly held to that Ostend manifesto,
and publicly proclaimed as sure to make it good
by stealing Cuba, at all hazards, and Mexico be-
sides, for the benefit Of vast and separate pro-
ected Southern confederacy.
Thus far Mr.. Buchanan is clearly sectional
andidate. But we cannot stop here. The pre-
fences Of nationality of the corrupt party sup
PORTING him are false pretences One fact is
worth cart load Of mere professions and pre-
fences. The acts of this democratic administra-
ton and the Cincinnati platform which includes
Atchson and the Ostend manifesto-are facts
which fix the sectionalism Of this party; but the
worst feature Of this bitter sectional warfare upon
Fremont has been too much overlooked. The con-
stitution lives in the North, like aourishng tree,
under whose amplitude of shade men Of all parties
and all sections may freely assemble together.
In the South, State laws, Jacobin clubs and Judge
Lynch have almost universally stifed the freedom
Of the press and free speech, and abolished that
sovereign right ofth people peaceably to assem-
BILE" for the discussion of their grievances. At
this moment, there is as much real popular po-
litical liberty in Rome, st. Petersburg or Pekin,
as in Richmond, Charleston, or New Orleans.
The alien and sedition laws, which hurled the
elder Adams and the old federal party from
power into public disgrace, were humane and Ii
beral compared with the revolving democratic Sc
cession terrorism which now silences the voice of
the press and the voice of the free thinking man
throughout the South. Democratic, we say, for
this spurious modern democracy governs the
South, makes its laws, visible and invisible, and
executes them.
This, then, is the sectional party-the Buchanan
democracy. 1t subverts the constitution in the
South, lynches or exiles the man who dares to
speak or print, except by a gracious permission;
and then, with an impudence which approaches
the sublime, it pleads its nationality, denounces
the North as sectional, and comes among us bold
ly threatening to dissolve this Union unless we
obey orders and elect Buchanan. But, enough
We hope that Governor Floyd, on Thursday, will
enlighten us on the difference between free
speech in Wall street and the absence of free
speech in Richmond Our opinion is that that
party which puts an embargo upon free speech
and free press, and free assemblages of the peo-
pie, in fifteen States of the Union, is sectional
party, in the most odious and intoerabe form
We also think that it becomes insufferable when
it threatens to demolish the Union unless it can
e secured in the spoils by the votes of the free
North.
VIII Governor Floyd be good enough to en-
tighten us upon this subject? for here in New
York we have no Governor Wise to threaten us
with Kansas slavery code if we say anything
,alculated to impair the price Of niggers.