Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1856-10-15
Shall Kansas Be Free

Shall Kansas Be Free,
Here in Ohio, the Buchanan orators
assert hat there is no doubt but Kansas
will come into the Union as a free State,
and that Mr.. Buchanan, and the Demo-
cratic party are as strongly opposed TO
the extension of slavery, as the Repub-
licans themselves. They make these as
s%ertions in the face of the fiat con:radic
tons of the whole Democratic party.
south, made by every paper. and speaker
south Of Mason and Dixon's line; in the
face of The fact that Buchanan and the
whole party have not only approved OF
every measure, and of the general policy
of the administration Of Mr.. Pierce, but
by the Cincinnati platform, they have
formally endorsed, and adopted them as
their own. The administration of James
Buchanan, could be but a continuation
of the same disgraceful trucking to the
slave power, the same outrages upon
freedom, and upon all the rights CT the
citizens of the free States, the same en-
dorsement of the odious border rufian
code, and the same disfranchisement OF
freemen.
Willard Fillmore is as deeply pledged,
both by his recent written statements, as
by his every antecedent, to the slave
power; besides his election is utterly u
Of the question.
There can be therefore not the Slight
est hope for freedom in Kansas except by
the election of John C. Fremont. By
the platform of the Republican party,
upon which be stands, by the words and
acts of his whole life, by his open and
urdisguised opposition to slavery, by his
repeated declarations, he stands pledged
60 the policy of freedom in the Terrific
ries, and against the extension of slavery.
The issue is distinctly presented
There is no dOdgingi it. The Democratic
party are pledged to extend slavery, to
make new slave states, and to sustain
the wretebed code of Kansas mock laws.
The Republican party oppose them all.
There is the issue, and the only issue
between the two parties. and it remains
for The voters of the free north, to reas-
sert the doctrines of the Declaration CT
independence, that all men are born free
and equal: that they have certain inalien
able rights among which are life, liberty
and the pursuit Of happiness, by voting
for John c. Fremont; or to violate every
principle in that charter of our liberties,
by raising to the highest Office in the gift
that James Buchanan, who upholds and
endorses the policy of the present ad
ministration, which has tra1npled in the
dust every dos!rine contained in that
Declaration.
Judge Orchard On the Compensation
Bill.
In his speeches through the county,
Judge Birchard has been astonishingly
eloquent upon the Compensation Bill
He charges Mr.. Giddings with having
vosed for a bill which increases the pay
Of members of Congress up TO the enOr-
NOUS sum of $4,000 per year. Well, we
have u doubts whether this increase Of
pay was necessary, but it was not a Re-
publican measure. The Bill originated
with a Democrat, and was passed by
Democratic votes, almost one half of the
Republican members voting fer it, and
almost one half of the Democrats. There
fore. if the bill is wrong, both Parties are
equally responsible fer it.
But ii is of Judge Birchard that We
wish to speak in particular. His con-
~sistency is most admirable. He harpst
upon the extravaganza of allowing mem
bers of Congress $4,000 per year, while
he Himself. during the ever memorable
time, when he was a salaried oaice of
the United States government at Wash
ington city, received the snug little sum
of three thousand FIVE hundred dollars
per year.
%. Tmporo. 0, Nores.