The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-06-25
The Union and the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES and
their Pledges.

The Union and the COnstitutl0n-P0rtiesa ana
their Pledges.
One of the small sized organs of the self-com-
placent democracy, printed somewhere in this
locality, in reply to late article of the HERALD,
undertakes discrimination between the several
parties in the field for the Presidency, and their
respective pledges Of loyalty to the Constitution
and the Union, to the prejudice and condemna-
tion Of all concerned, except the great demo-
cratic party
We are told that there are parties who pro-
fess great devotion to the Union, and profess to
love it, while laboring to rend asunder every tie
which binds that Union together"-that the
Northern anti-demCcratic organization is q sec
tonal party-that its success will drive the South
to revolt and secession-that in the election Of a
sectional President the South is reduced at once
to the condition of sublugated province''-that
with sectional parties the only remedy would be
some constitutional check to restore a sectional
equality. like Mr.. Calhouns project of two Pre-
sidents" or dissolution; and finally, that no
toriously Northern geographical party is already
formed dangerous to the Union, and deemed
by Washington worthy Of especial caution" and
much against this solemn counsel"
This is the substance Of the argument Of our
little democratic organ against the Fremont re
publican party. 1t is sectional party-danger-
Gus to the Union, and unworthy the confidence of
the people. The democracy alone are national
loyal and conservative. But we demur to this
mere party opinion and snap judgment. What
b., fant % no 40 hot
is fact that the democracy have placed them
selves upon a platform Of inflexible 10y
atty and attachment to the Constitution and the
Union-it is fact that the republican party
have done precisely the same thing. 1t is also
fact that these two parties are as widely sepa-
rated upon the slavery question as Massachusetts,
ard South Carolina. They are divided upon
different construction Of the constitution. That's
all. But who shall decide when doctors disa-
gree as to what is the constitution? Mr.. Web
ster. 1.-The great expounder," has construed it one
way, and Mr.. Calhoun, another great expounder,
has construed it another way. SO with the two
principal parties before the country.
According to the Calhoun explanation con-
corning the Territores-accepted by Judge
Douglas as the true Interpretation of the Kansas
Nebraska bill-the constitution carries the insti
tuition Of Southern slavery with it wherever it
goes-has carried it into Kansas and protects it
in Kansas against squatter sovereignty and
against Congress. Slavery thus being constitu-
tionally established in Kansas the people thereof
cannot disturb it until they shall have assumed the
rights and prerogatives of a sovereign State. The
constitution therefore, as interpreted by Mr.. Cal
houn. and as accepted by M Douglas and the
democracy upon being applied to Kansas, makes
it slave Territory, and will be very apt to make
it slave State. Governor Wise, Of Virginia,
feels SO well satisfied upon this point as to pro
mise his constituents, substantially, that with the
election of Mr.. Buchanan stout healthy niger
worth now thousand dollars, will be increased
in cash value to five thousand The republicans,
on the other hand, contend that the constitution
does not carry slavery into the Territories-but
excludes it from them that Congress may pro-
hibit its introduction into Territory, but cannos
introduce it; and this party further demand that
Kansas shall be admitted into the Union at once
as a free State.
Both the democratic and republican parties,
therefore practically, are sectional parties. for
thus they respectively stand =
Democratic party-Kansas shall be a slave
State
Republican party-Kansas shall be free
State
If, then, the republican is Northern sectional
party, the democratic is a Southern sectional
party and the contest is battle of the sections.
Such being the case, if Buchanan or if Fremont
be elected, we shall have sectional President,
the one being pledged to the South, the other to
the North-the former to the extension, the latter
to the restriction, of Southern slavery. How ri
diculous, then, to be prating Of the South az
subjugated province" with the election of a
sectional President" when there can be no other
result than sectional President" one way or
the other
Returning to the main issue, we maintain the
ground that the only question upon slavery in
this canvass being this-shall Kansas be free
State or a slave State ?-and all parties being
pledged to the constitution, whatever may be the
result of the contest the Union is safe-perfectly
safe. Our small sized democratic organ under
consideration, says that there are parties who
profess great devotion to the Union, while labor
ing to destroy it. This may be so. We know
very well that there have been speeches in Bos-
ton, in Charleston, and in Alabama, and else
where, North and South, and in both houses of
Congress at Washington, threatening disunon,
revolution, sedition and secession and that anti
democratic niger worshippers, and leading
democratic niger drivers have wed with
each other in this species of seditious
oratory. But when these bold, mouthing
disorganizers and demagogues are brought for
ward for the suffrages Of the American people,
there is no more preaching Of treason. Seditious
abotionsts and ire-eating secessionists feel that
they are upon their good behavior-that they