The Nevada journal., 1856-05-16

who planned and erected our Union, If not
about to be realized, are imminently near
a consummation. A great crisis to our
free institutions is approaching with rapid
and fearful strides. The petty jealousies
Of sections, wrought upon by selfish ambi-
ton, which the fathers of the republic fore
saw, and forewarned their posterity to
avoid, are now worked up to that pitch,
which nothing but the conservative ele-
ments of the American party can ever
hope to allay.
The bulwarks of the nation, the chief i'm
mortal statesmen who formed the compro-
misses of 1850, are no more, and the sacred
guarantees to the Constitution, are no Ion
ger upheld but till partisan ambition sees
an opportunity to violate them.
In the constitution as it came from the
hands of its formers, there were stringent
and conservative principles embodied suf-
ticient to ensure its perpetuity, and pro-
tcct each and every section of a once har-
monious Union in all its rights. But the
statesmen of those halcyon days when per-
sonal ambition was secondary to the good
and glory of the commonwealth, though
they saw nothing but calm upon the SER
vice ofthe experiment, were filled with ap-
prehension that it might in after days be
swept with the tornado of factional strife.
The rolling years have brought us to the
fearful period. Time had so weakened the
bonds of fraternal affection which at first,
subsisted between the States, that in 1850,
the patriots whose hearts could not for an
instant brook the thought of discordant
and discovered Union, with holy fealty
to the land they loved, without distinction
Of party or section, banded themselves to-
gether to resist encroachments and restore
by solemn enactments harmony to the
American family. In spirit of concili-
alton and compromise the finality meas
ures were adjusted. Faction showed its
head but it found suporiic in the conser
tism Of the masses and thus returning qui-
ct gave promise of a glorious future
But the lull in the political elements was
only aprelude to storm.
That so-called Democratic party, eter-
nally prating of its nationality, to which it
can lay the same claim as the Thugs of In
dia to religion, generated in its bosom a
mana little giant in his capacity for evil
who unloosed the demon of discord
bound else by the patriots of 80 for a
thousand years.
The principles of the Kansas-Nebraska
Bill it is not our purpose to call in ques-
tion, but as policy measure it was fraught
with danger to the Union.
The tide of fanaticism had been rolled
back by such men as Webster, Clay and
Cass, and bounds had been set to mark
where the rights of stat es ended and Sec
tional interference began. The golden
fruit of the compromise was just beginning
to be gathered and appreciated, and halo
OF glory surrounding the brows of the
Statesman who gave quiet to the country
by the inality measures, when Douglass,
guided by the ill.starred ambition of the
youth who sought an unenyiable immor-
tality by firing one of the proudest tri-
umphs of Grecian art, attempted to place
his name one niche higher in the temple
OF fame, by the violation of guarantees as
sacred as the Constitution itself, and deem
ed necessary to carry out to the fullest
effect the provisions of that sacred instru-
ment The Missouri Compromise which
had effectually healed dangerous breach
between the sections of the Republic, was
practically aInulled, and the spirit of the
measures of 1850 violated if not abroga-
ted.
Like the boy who set the ponderous
wheels ola mill in motion, frightened at
|ie lerripie revolutions, the little giant
and his party are powerless for remedy.
The tried patriots of half a century are
gone. Here is party justly chargeable
with the political disorders Of the country.
1t has broken the peaceful bonds, which
every lover of his country had hoped
would endure forever. 1t has arrayed
section against section. 1t was pledged to
the compromises of 1850, as finality to
the slavery question, but proved false to
its vows at the earliest moment. 1t knows
no other faith than Punic, and cannot be
trusted. 1t is the natural ally of slave
ry,' according to Buchanan. Conserva-
tive men cannot number themselves in
the ranks of n Marty Dreunant with OWL