Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1856-10-02

, platform in which it is renounceG and Of
: which ne consents to stand. With regar
to the Missouri Compromise he stands il
the same position with Mr.. Buchanan, ant
the Interpreter Of his opinions at Washing
ton. the American Organ, so called by way
of distiacsion, is daily occupied with attempt!
to prove how much more Southern are hi:
opinions than those of Buchanan himself
The repeal of that compact of honor, Mr.
Fillmore does not propose 10 disturb. 1t i:
the fountain, says the Commodore, Of evils
innumersbie, but it is not to be stanched; i,
is to fow on forever. Mr.. Fillmore, like
Mr.. buchanan, is 20 let the South have its
own way.
What, then, is to be done7 Why, the
agitation is to be "se,tled," answers the gal
liant Conmodore; "the country is to be
saved, y sslhe North is to be satisfied and the
Sou n n to be satisfied" "the people by vo-
ting aqaisSf Fremont and Buchanan are to
give 4 pfpper- expression of opinion on the
subject Of the Compromise" That is what
is 10 be done. Very clear, is it not, and
very satisfactory! The worthy Commodore
steers by chart on which every thing is
laid down with most astonishing distinctness.
In the midst of these very clear reveia-
tions of the true American method Of put
ting an end to present evils and preventing
future ones, he turns round and triumphant
ly asks What do the Buchanan men adviser
Most worthy Commodore, they advise the
same thing that you do. They advise that
the country be saved; they advise that the
people give proper expression OF opinion
on the subject OF the compromise; they ad-
wise that the North be satisfied and the
South be satisfied; they advise "that the in
habitan:s of the territories be allowed to
form their own social and domestic institu-
tions for themselves, subject only to the
provisions of the constitution" which means
that the slave-owners forming the oligarchy
Of the South may introduce and possess their
slaves in any territory in spite OF the inhab-
tants, so long as it is not State. The
Buchanan prescription for the great evil of
the time is made up Of precisely the same
ingredients as that of Mr.. F. llmore.
1.-THE repeal of the Missouri Compromise
be such nm outrage as Commodore Stockton
declares, it strikes us, plain men, that our
true policy is to connect ourselves with
those who propose some definite and ration
al plan for remedying its evils. II "the
fratricidal war" of which he speaks arises
from the attempt to introduce slavery into
the territories in violation Of a compact of
honor, let US restore the compact in spirit
at least, if not in name, and revive in full
force the Jefferson policy of keeping slavery
out of the territories OF the Union. This
is what the party who support Colonel Fre-
mont propose: this will satisfy the North;
this will satisfy all reasonable men of the
South The politicians of the slave States
It will not satsfy-there is nothing which
will satisfy them, short Of the direct ac-
know ledgment of the nationality of slavery
and The conversion of our federal govern
ment into an engine for its unlimited prop
agation.
When Commodore Stockton comes again
to revise his political chart, which we coun
sci him to, do at his earliest convenience, let
him seriously consider whether the object of
szvrig sh 66gptry md settling the slavery
question m;gft not be reached by this course
with far greater certainty than by any which
he will find laid down by the persons to
whom he is now giving his confidence.