Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1856-10-06
OTHELLO,S OCCUPATION
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OTHELLO'S OCCUPATION
The latest news from Kansas assures US that
Gov. Gieary has laid the axe at the root OF the
eyil and By his firm course has quietea Kansas
and left the Wooily Heads nothing to harp upon.
This is really too bal Why could not he wait
until after the electiong Why did not belet the
Herald and Tribune's correspondent continue to
have food for excitement, to send over the North
70 rnske rotes for FrsmontG We haze been told
b. Rseder that the Law WAS AGAINST the Ere
nontaqitstors, the freedom shriekers, and BY the
Tribune's correspondent, that noise Of murders
aid border rufian aggressioHs WAS neces-
ssrv to ensure the success of Fremont, and well
have they iabored 70 keep up the huTrah and
confusion. Now they hare nothing left. They
cannot got dong on the Missouri Compromise
question, because their party have always op-
zo,Sl that line and have always r0ted agGiElst
the admission Of Stare States s9Htd Of 90 deg.
80 min, thus violating the very compromise
they now pirate and mourn about They
never wanted this line because they feel under
1t a sort of obligation mot strong enough to
bind them) 70 admit slave territories south Of
Sc deg. 80 min They do not ike to let the
people of the territories form, their own
government as they might admit slavery,
and hence they opposed the Kansas bill
What then is their position: Why simply that
slavery shall not go into the territories no matter
who wishes to take it there. If every man in
the territory says he wants slavery, this Ere
mont party says you shall not have it We are
our masters, yoit are our tohite sLaCG', and you
strH Heoe M contribution tint are do not aa-
miro. This is the real position Of Fremont, and
yet it did appear so monstrous to the people all
over the Union that its authors feared to go into
the canvass on this direct issue, and got up the
Kansas troubles as the real ammunition of the
canvass. 1t was to be tho "a FOUNDER, and toit
alone did they look for success Murder by
the slayeocraey, "border rufianism, i" "Atchison
Co." and every horror that subsidized press
could invent were relied on to excite the mind OF
the good people of the North and hide from
them under this veil the real issue, namely, that
the Black Republican party tCOuM make stares
of the p1ite men Of a territory. This game Of
tactics has done much in the North TO lead
astray well intending men, Many Of the good
men at the North hare bit the hook thus eau.
tlously baited, without knowing the true nature
Of the poison which was contained on the
point Of the hook and under the bait
No;y the manufactures are cut Of metal and
what is to he done2 Agitation or VIC are
dead" is the cry of the party, and forthwith
theY get up story niong our border that Wise
is going to hang the FreInonters without benefit
Of clergy, and we were actually written to by
some Pennsylvania for copy of the p-oclama.
ton. This is the game of the party. Fremont
says "hemust so answer about his religion as to
hurt no one and gain votes" and thus they go.
We candidly believe that but for the rascality Of
the first Governor Of Kansas and theinefiiciency
of the second 1--WE judge merely by his acts, though
he may not have had power to do otherwise)
there would not have been corporai's guard
now surrounding Fremont His party embers
would have died ont and no fuel have been found
to reEindie it Had a man OF nerve, honesty
and judgment been first sent to Kansas, instead
Of having Lane and Reeder now Prancing up
and down the country retailing their falschoods
for party: purposes, they would now be atoning
for their crimes 10 the Penitentiary or else been
hung long ego as traitors Border RulEianisu1
would have hid no existence, because it would
and the whole country would have settled down
into ucquiesconce with the principles of the
Kansas bill.
Even now. just one month before the election
unless new murder" or "raw head and
bloody bones" story can be invented the party
viii drop of in the North. The Democratic
principle of letting the people Of the territories
form their own constitution and determine their
own institutions must prevail, if the people will
only look at it. They will look at it if LEFT
month in quiet. Kansas is quiet. 1t is now
worth Lanes head to try to dsquiet it What
then must be the next hobby? We must wait,
for else their party is dead, aud Marposa is not
rich enough (now that all the gold has been dug
out of it) TO pay the subsidy due the Herald
alone. Something must be started to raise the
breeze? What will it be?
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