Republican vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1857, 1856-09-06
NUMBER SO.

sembly for disturbing a Compromise. How
can the present position of the South be jus
tilted if the Nebraska bill is conceded to be
a violation of fath-a disturbance of an an
Gent compromise The Old Line Wings
of Virginia, in order to aim this blow at the
Democratic party, have placed themselves
upon the identical ground occupied by our
non-slaveholding adversaries. The whole
agitation at the North is based upon what the
Old Line Wings of Virginia publish as o
truth The South maintains that the Mis-
souri, Compromise was disturbed and render
ed imperative by the North. The Northern
agitators assert that it was rendered inopera-
tive by the Kansas Nebraska bill for the
benefit Of fhe South. The Old Line Wing
friends of Mr.. Fillmore, in Virginia, pro-
nounce the Northern view wrong. If the
Old Line Wings and Mr.. Fillmore are right
upon this subject, the South cannot accept
Land retain this "boon' which she obtains by
fraud upon her own plghted faith, with
out bringing some discredit upon her public
character If we are reaping advantage
from outraged faith and disturbed compro-
misses, how can we resist the demand for res
titution or redress which is now thundered
from the North? The Old Line Wings are
driven to answer infinitely more 'repugnant
to every sentiment of national honor and mo-
rality' than they can possibly represent the
doctrine of the "Ostend manifesto" which
they so fercely denounce In their sixth
resolution they declare that they will ''resist
any repeal or modification of the Kansas
Nebraska act, as calculated to renew aud luz
iuence the strife that at this time endangers
the rights and the union of the States" Ii
the Southern people endorse these senti
ments, in what an ignoble character do they
appear? They have just gained an advan-
tage, or, as Mr.. Fillmore expresses it, OBJ
tanned "a boom by fraud upon their
pledges and by disturbing an ancient COM
promise. They admit the fact and reply to
the demand for redress by coldly informing
the aggrieved party that they will not sub
nit to any remedy without strife, and if he
expects peace, they must be let alone with
the fruits of their own wrong. We have
wrested Kansas from the North fraudulently.
and now we tell the North that VIC will dis
solve the Union if they seek to recover their
violated rights. Such are the positions to
which Mr.. Fillmore's Southern friends are
driven in their eagerness to sustain him and
to unite efficiently in the general war upon
the Democratic party on account OF its acs
ton in reference to the Kansas Nebraska
bill-a measure sustained by large MAORI
ties of Southern Wings in both Houses of
Congress, and without whose support 1t
could not have passed. The votes of only
two Southern Wings in the Senate and sew
en- i'll the House of Representatives are re-
in1 re tc thol
| less, denounced by the recent Wing Con.
vention in Richmond as "a measure of ag-
tation by the present Democratic admins
tration for mere party ends'--a charge,
which, whether made for mere party ends
or not, will b. sustained, we believe, by the
large constituency of the Southern Wings
in Congress whose active corporation 50
eminently contributed to the passage of the
act. But Mr.. Fillmore, it seems, so lately
repudiated as the candidate of the Wing
party, and now so highly eulogised for SER
vices and abilities which they could neither
discern nor appreciate while fresh in their
recollection, has denounced the measure. -
Selected by the American party of the u.
States as n candidate for the Presidency,
and approved as such by the Wing Conven-
ton in richmond, it is now deemed impor-
tant that even his free-soil proelivities fhall
be supported by his Southern friends. Tho
disclaiming all utilization with the Black Re-
publicans and Americans the Wings of the
South who in opposition to the Democracy
shall unite witt those partisans On the great
questions which now agitate the country,
must become their confederates in effect, if
not in name. The nomination of Mr.. Fill
more we feel assured, can have no other eff
feet on the Presidential election than to de-
yolvet the choice upon the House of Repre-
sentatives. With no prospect whatever of
his being elected, yet a small vote given to
him might carry the election to the House,
where III the present organization of par
ties, the Black Republicans must have plu-
rality, if not a majority Of the States. In
such crisis, we cannot believe that the
great body Of the Wing party in the South
can be persuaded to sacrifice her best inter-
ests from mere spirit of opposition to the
Democracy.
The Democratic party, however, does not
shrink from the responsibilities of its posi-
ton. 1t makes no attempt to eyade the is
sue, but boldly and distinctly meets it with
out the slightest thought or appearance of
wayoring, and without regarding any storm
which may be raised against it. Adherence
to the doctrine of non-intervention by Con-
gress on the subject of slavery in the Terri
tories is made the test of party allegiance
The principles of the Kansas Nebraska bill
are cmphatieally adopted as applicable both
to the past and the future organization of
Territorial governments. The Cincinnati
Convention, for the expressed purpose of
meeting Ibis issue, announce the position Of
the party in the following admirable terms:
1.-The American democracy recognize and
adopt the principles contained in the organic
laws establishing the Territories of Kansas
and Nebraska, as embodyimg the only sound
and safe solution Of the slavery question up
on which the great national idea Of the peo-
pie of this whole country can repose in its
determined conservatism Of the Union--non-
interference by Congress with slavery in the
State and Territory, or in the District of Co.
lumba; that this was the basis of the Com
promise Of 1850 confirmed by both the De-
moeratic and Wing parties in National Con-
vcntion ratified bv the neonla in the olee