Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1856-11-13

We cannot think of any less desirable
position than that in which Mr.. Buchanan
will find himself al the moment of his in
auguration as President of the United
States. There stands the Kansas question,
and we would like TO have somebody tell
us how that matter will be settled! The
idea that the people of the Territory are
to decide upon the establishment of the IN
stitution of Slavery there is secuted at the
South and has been for long time past.
Let Mr.. Bachanan lay the line of justice to
the questions which there await decision,
let him send there his mercenary troops
with orders to show equal justice to all
parties, and the gangs Of reptiles that IN
fest the Territory from every den of the
South, fIom every gambling he'll of New
Orleans and Mobile and from all the bar
bareus regions of the Platte country will
find abundance of chivalrous defenders on
the floors of Congress, as they have alrea-
dy, under the Pierce anarchy. No; the
pledge has been made at the South, it has
been repeated in thousand speeches and
promulgated in hundreds of newspapers,
that Kansas shall be brought in as a slave
State in order to restore,,the equality of the
States on the floor of the Senate. Let
slavery drag them back as it may in the
popular branch, in the oligarchic, in the
aristoratic scale of power, the Democratic
party is pledged at the South to throw the
State of Kansas and they, the lords of the
Southern soil will demand that the pledge
be fulfilled to the bitter end. ~
At. the North the hoodwinked masses
will begin to get their eyes open in the
course of a year or so. About ten days
before the election of Tuesday we travelled
across the State of Ohio, and the dead
walls as we passed called eloquently upon
the Democracy to rally for "Buck, Breck
and Free Kansas" 1t was their battle cry
and when an orator wished to make point
or raise cheer, he had but to say in their
meetings, 1--WE too are in favor of Free
Kansas! We go for elf-government and,
we know the majority in Kansas are for
freedom" Why, one of their organs In
this city wound up the campaign with the
declaration: Kanses wiU be Free State
of course. We wish to put it on record
that the State of Pennsylvania was stump
ed in all the Northern and Western por-
tions at least, by men who claimed that
the "Democracy" were in favor of making
Kansas Free State and if Mr. Buchanan
were elected, the influence of his admins
tration would be thrown upon the side
of free institutions. We appeal to
those who heard Senator Bigler and John
Van Buren in this city if that was not the
burden of their song. Well; if the pledge
to the South be kept, what becomes of the
gulled and cheated democracy" of the
North! If the North gets its claims, look
out for squalls below Mason's and Dixon's
line. Such is rough outline of the position
of the Kansas matter, provided it be not
settled in this Congress by some coup d.
etat.
But, of that army of patriots who will
go down to Washington, like the Egyptian
locusts, on the fourth of March next, to
deyour everything "green," what can we
say! Think of the scores who will be rea-
dy to put themselves to great trouble for
their country's sake. Then Pierce's favor
ties will claim the right to remain in Office
because they have worked with the rest for
Buchanan. What unheard of cliques,
what struggles to save the Uuion! We
can look on from safe distance while the
Kilkenny cats eat each other up.
We need not expatiate upon the policy
which Mr.. Buchanan marked out for himself
in the Ostend Manifesto. Cuba is to be sto-
len, Central America made subservient to
our wishes and sectional interests, made to
harmonize. A rare four years sketch out
before us. The programme is full of in
terest. We shall watch its fulfillment with
intense anxiety.-Pits6urg Gazette.