Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1856-01-24

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the territory had been made free, would vote for
| the admission. The principle would then be es
| tabIi.hed and the predictions Of Northern Demo-
crafts would need only time for their verihcation,
that iii we acquire the Continent to the Is'hmus
Of DafienH no man wouldcver see another slave
! territory on this continent" IN the opinion Of
OK Senator Aichison. whose authority will not be
questioned by Southern Democrats:
IF Kansas is abolitonized. Missouri ceases
10 be a slave State, and New Mexico becomes
free State, & California remains free State; but
if We secure Kansas n SLAVE State. Missouri Is
secure view Mexico and Southern California. II
not all of II. become slave States; III n word.
the pros periy of The whole South depends Oh the
kansas struggle.
With this view of the facts does it not rass
comprehension that Southern Democrats in Con.
gress should DO sustaining and encouraging the
Northern policy, by voting for an advocate of
.quatter sovereignty for the Speakership! YET
such i the fact We invoke the people Of thu
South of all parties IT, ponder well upon their
conduct. aud render that Judgment on it which
truth, justice aud the proper regard for their
rights demand. We close for to-day with an
extruct from late speech in Congress of Mr..
Etheridge, of Tennessee, which, though we have
heretofore published ills pertinent 10 the sub
iect we have been considering, that We again in
yi,e for it the perusa of the reader:
am called upon now to affiliate with that por-
ton of the Nebraska Democrats who tell me that
hy the de strnciion nf the Missouri compromise
line the people Of the North will override the
South and carry their free institutions as lar
even as the Isthmus of Daricn. Why. sir. see
no difference brtween the Republican party
Black Republican party, ifyoj please and that
portion OF the Nebraska Democrats at the North
who have taken n stand in favor of sqnater
ereignty. because they all war ON the insiitn-
tiou- Of the South The only difference between
this Republican par y and those distinguished
men at the North who have supported the Kan
50 Nebraska bill, j.. a. 10 the means Of destroy
ing slavery at the South Whv sir, Senators
aud Representatives who voted for thnt BILL went
home and defended their course on the ground
that the bill was in favor Of freedom.
Now. | ask my Southern friends what they
mean by this Nebraska test! ] want to know
what difference there is between the Northern
opposer- Of the Kansas hill, and those Northern
men who have supported ii on the ground TINT
they had redundancy of populate N. and that,
with their twenty millions of people emigrating
rapidly in Il direct line to the West backed
by the immense immigration from Europe and
aided by alien sutfra 5es they could go there and
not only make Kansas and Nebraska free States
but, in their own language, "carry the war into
Africa by creating free States south of the Mis-
souri, Compromise line And some have boasted
that the counirywest of Arkansas. and Northern
Texas. itself, would fall victims Ia their rapaety
and all be converted into free States. The only
difference know toexist between your North
orn Nebraska Democrats and the Northern
Republican party i, as to- the best means If hedg
M, in and destroying the institution Of slavery.
You may oxann. the speeches Of most of those
gentlemen of the North who have justified their
action on the Kansas Nebraska bill, and you will
find TINT they have placed their justification ON
the ground that it was the best thing that could
he done to destroy slavery. Thore are gentle
men here who have done