The Nevada Democrat., 1856-10-01

mental luea, announces 10 every OOutucfh up
prehension a crusade of government against
Slavery far without and beyond Kansas although
the spirit and tendency Of its electioneering APP
peals as whole in prose and verse the lead
ing articles of its papers and speeches OF its or
atOrs, are to excite contempt or fear of one en-
tire geographical section, and hate, or dread, or
contempt, is the natural expression it leaves in
the northern mind and heart; yet that nobody
anywhere ought to be angry, or ought to be
that the majority must govern, and
the North is a majority; that it is ten to one
nothing win happen; that if the worst comes to
the worst the South knows that it is wholly to
blame, and needs the Union more than we do,
and will be quiet accordingly.
But do they who hold this language forget
that the question is not what ought to endan-
ger the Union, but what will do it +? Is it man
as he ought to be, or man as he is, that we must
live with or live alonef In appreciating the in
fuences which may disturb political system,
and especially one like ours, do you make al
lowance for passion, for pride, for nfrrnity, for
the burning sense of even imaginary wrong
Do you assume that all men or all masses of
men, in all sections, uniformly obey reason; and
uniformly and wisely see and calmly seek their
true interests Where on earth is such FOOLS
Paradise as that to be found? Conceding to the
people of the fifteen States the ordinary and av-
erage human nature; its good and its evil; its
weakness and its strength for one, dare not
say that the triumph of such party ought not
to be expected naturally and probably to disu-
mite the States. With my undoubting convic-
tions know it would be folly and immortality in
me to risk it. e
Certainly there are in all sections and in all
States those who love the Union under the ac-
tual Constitution as Washington did, as Jay,
Hamilton and Madison did, as Jackson, as Clay,
as Webster loved it. Such even is the heredita-
ry and habtual sentiment of the American heart.
But he has read life and books to little purpose,
who has not learned that "bosom friends" may
be "to resentments soured," and that no hatred
is so keen, deep and precious as that
"And to be wroth with we love
Win work like madness in the brain"
He has read the book of our history to still
less purpose who has not learned that the
friendship of these States sisters but rivals SOW
ereigns, each with public life and body of in
terests and sources of honor and shame OF its
own and within tself-distributed in two great
opposing groups-are of all hannah ties most eX-
posed to such rupture and such transformation.
have not time in these hasty lines, and there
is no need to speculate on the details of the
modes in which the triumph of this party would
do its work of evil. Its mere struggle to carry
the government, as that struggle is conducted,
is mischievous to an extent incaculable. That
thousands of the good men who have Joined 1t,
matter. Iappeal to the honor and conscience
ofmy country that if it were the aim of great
party, by every species of access to the popular
mind, by eloquence, by argument, by taunt by
sarcasm, by recriminatiOn, by appeals to pride,
shame and natural rights, prepare the nation
for a struggle with Spain or England, or Aus
tria, it could not do its business more thorough
ly. Many presses many speakers very many,
set a higher and wiser example, but the work is
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the government to the Northern section of States
l turn my eyes from the consequences. To the
fifteen States of the South, that government will
appear an alien government. 1t will appear
worse. 1t will appear hostile government 1t
will represent to their eyes vast region of
States organized upon anti-slavery; flushed by
triumph, cheered onward by the voices of the
pulpit tribune and press; its mission to inaugu-
rate freedom and put down Olgarchy; its con-
sttution the glittering and sounding gencrali-
ties of natural rights which make up the declar
alton of Independence. And then, and thus, is
the beginning of the end.
If necessity could be made out for such a
party, we might submit to it as to other una
voidable evil, and other certain danger. But
where do they find that? Where do they pre-
tend to find it? Is it to keep slavery out of the
Territories? There is not one but Kansas In
which slavery is possible. No man fears, no
man hopes for slavery in Utah, New Mexico,
Washington, Minnesota, Oregon or Nebraska.
A National platform to give them to freedom is
about as needful aud about as sensible as q ma
tonal party to keep Maine for freedom And
Kansas-let that abused and profaned soil have
calm within its borders, deliver it over to the
natural law of peaceful and spontaneous emi-
gration-take off the rufian hands; strike
down the rife and bowie knife-guard its
strenuous infancy and youth till it comes of age
to choose for itself, and it will have forever
what it chooses.
When the policy, so easy, simple, and just, is
tried fairly and fails, it will be time enough to
resort to revolution. 1t is in fact, because the
duty of protection to the local settler. was not
performed that the Democratic party has al
ready, by the action of its great representative
convention resolved to put out of Office its own
administration That lesson will not and must
not be lost on anybody The country demands
that Congress, before it adjourns give the Ter
rtory peace If it do, time will inevitably give
it freedom. ..
have hastily imperfectly expressed my opn-
ion through the unsatisfactory forms of a let
ter, as to the immediate duty of wings. We
are TO do what we can to defeat and disband the
geographical party. But by what specific ac-
ton we can most effectually contribute to such
a result. is question of more difficulty. 1t
seems now to be settled that we present no can
didate of our own. If we vote at all, then, we
vote for the nominees of the American or the
nominees of the Democratic party AS between
them, shall not venture to counsel the wings
of Maine, but deem it due to frankness and hon
or to say, that while entertain a high appreca-
ton of the character and ability of Mr. Fillmore
1 do not sympathize in any degree with the OBJ
jects and creed of the particular party that NOM
mated him, and do not approve of their organi-
cation and their tactics. Practically, too, the
contest, in my judgement, is between Mr.. Bu-
chanan and Col. Fremont. In these circumstan-
ces, vote for Mr.. Buchanan. He has large ex
rience in public affairs, his commanding capaci-
ty is universally acknowledged; his life is with
out stain. / am constrained to add that he
seems at this moment, by the concurrence of
circumstances more completely than any other,
to represent that sentiment of nationality tole-
rant warm and comprehensive, without which,
.ri4hou4 incroaso of Irhich America is No lnnn-