The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1856-11-13

kfsg in the very beginning of the canvass, they
might have carried all three of the States, at
Z least, Indiana
Z Let experience teach wisdom. Let the rock
on which the Republican cause has split in
I Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Indiana, be
marked out distinctly on the political chart for
the benefit of future navigators.
There is still another cause of the defeat of
! Republication in the States named-the want
of general intelligence and drilling on the sub
ject of independent political action against the
. Slave Interest pray heaven this cause, opera
|; ting in Southern Illinois, may not have lost us
that Statei BY examining the action and
votes of the old Liberty Party, it will be found
that it scarcely ever acquired foothold in New
Jersey, in Eastern and Central Pennsylvania,
in Southern Illinois, or in Indiana, except in
certain localities. In all the other States, and
in Western Pennsylvania and Northern Illinois,
!. it was always in the field after 1910, sometimes
! decided the close contests of the Wing and
, Democratic PARTIES and, by the animated dis
cussions to which it gave rise, gradually pre-
pared the Public Mind for concentration upon
the great issue. The political press, now en-
gagged in the Republican cause, would do well
to take heed to this fact. We have noticed in
two or three papers in Boston and New York,
| formerly Wing, unfriendly illusions to the &C.
ton of the old Liberty Party-unwise as un-
| friendly, and indicating too little information
in regard to the history and philosophy of Anti
Slavery political action.
The New York Epening Post says that the
Free Soil Party of 1910 was the germ of the
Republican Party of to-day but it should not
forget that the Liberty Party of 1910 was the
germ of the Free Soil Party of ls4s; and he
, who attempts to disparage it, 1.-THE Post does
not, as if it had ever avowed principles or pur-
sued policy different from those of what is
called the Republican Party, is either poorly
informed, or influenced by an unmanly dispo
stion to shun the unpopularity that attaches to
all great movements in their earlier stages.
Some of our friends may be disappointed in
the result of the contest we are encouraged
Our opponents are deeply disappointed, and
we'll they may be. They have elected the Pres
ident, but not obtained popular verdict in ia
vor of the present Administration, or of the
policy to which the President elect is pledged.
Two millions of votes are recorded against
them, while of the fifteen hundred thousand
they may count in their favor, how many in
the free States signify appreciation of the re-
peal of the Missouri Compromise, or of the pol
icy of Slavery Extension? How many, indeed,
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impression that he is too conservative and
peaceful in his temper to give loose rein to
Slavery Propagandism We know many hon.
est Democrats who voted for him, because they
did not believe he would give countenance to
filibustering or propsgsndism. And how many
in the free States were deluded by the repre-
sensations of artful politicians, that the policy
of Squatter Sovereignty after all is sure in the
long run to work for the benefit of Freedom
These decisions cannot last forever. In every
struggle, the scales fall from many eyes, and
accessions are gained to the ranks of Freedom.
In every struggle, the old Democracy at the
North IosAe ~! the ;rue Democracy gains, ~
the Truth is made manifest.
What is there to dishearten the friends of
Free Territory? They have carried eleven
States, containing white population larger
by three millions than the white population of
all the saveholding States. They have reduced
the so-called Democracy from the control of
fourteen free States in 1854, to the control of
but three or four in 1856. They have defeated
Gen. Pierce in his own State, Gen. Csss in his
State, and, we hope, Douglas in his State, thus
fastening the brand of condemnation on the
conspicuous actors in the repeal of the Missouri
Compromise. They have exposed the weakness
of Know Nothingism acting as a separate Par
ty; come out of the contest with undiminished
power; and are again marshalling their forces to
save the country from the curse of Slavery Ex-
tension. Finally-snd this fact we commend
to the attention of the Dsunionists- have
demonstrated the thorough contempt with
which the people of the free States generally
regard the threats of Disunion. The Richmond
(Va.) Enquirer, and other papers of its tribe,
so soon as they had reason to believe the con-
test decided in favor of Buchanan, without
awaiting details, took great credit to themselves
for frightening the North. Speaking of the
potency of the threat of Disunon they boosted
that it had answered its purpose; and now
they would lay it by, to be used again when
the occasion should call for it'll How deep
must be their modification to find that thew
owe their escape from irretrievable defeat SOLE
ly to the Intervention of Fillmore Know Moth.
ingism Their miserable clamor about a dis.
solution of the Union failed to friehten even
the people of Maryland, who cast their vote for
Fillmore and Donelson.
A few words, now, as to the future
The Missouri Compromise was repealed, to
open the way to Slavery in Kansas, and in all
Territories of the United States, now existing,
or to be hereafter acquired. All the measures
of the Administration since then have sub
served the purposes of the Slavery Extension.
lists. That repeal, and the policy supposed to
be established by it, we're fully endorsed by the
resolves of the Convention that nominated Mr..
Buchanan, and by that gentleman himself in
his letter of acceptance. If true to those re-
solves, his Administration will be, what the
present Administration has been, favorable to
Slavery Propagandism. We have no reason.
judging from his antecedents, from his charac
ter, from his avowals, from his relations to the
Party of which he is the exponent, from the
temper and purposes of the leading men of
that Party, to anticipate that he will be false
to those resolves.
We must then be prepared for the perpetua.
ton of the policy of Propagandismsin Kansas.
for further demands of the Extension;sts in