The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-08-26

voice OF an offended people shall interpose ut
once for peace recoucilation and concord, this
Kansas war may be aggravated into general
fratrcidal war between the North and the
South. This would at once break UP the
Union, and after sach collapse the restoration
Of the fragments again under one common gov
eminent would be utterly impossible, save
through the coquering arm of some military
chieftain, and the cohesive appliances Of Mili-
taIy dcspotism.
The danger is before us in a tangible shape
The high road to disunion leads through Kansas
and this road TO ruin has been opened by the
Pierce administration; and the spoils democracy
and their Ostend candidate have cheertully con-
sented to walk therein. 1t is the treachery the
mbecility, the double-dealing and skulking cow
ardice of this Pierce administration, and the en-
coumgement it has received from corrupt and
reckless party Of conspiring spoilsmen, that have
brought us to this critical pass.
Thus fools rush in where angels fear to tread,
And thus desperate political gamblers play their
desperate game Of rule or ruin. Had Mr.. Pierce
been man of moral courage he would have
seen the Kansas-Nebraska law faithfully execut-
ed; had he been guided by the simple considera-
tons Of honesty and fidelity to the constitution,
there wonld have been peace among US of the
States and peace in all our borders. His inaugu-
ration was hailed as the advent of peace; but his
retirement may possibly be marked by general
civil war. Such are the evils of feeble and
vacillating ruler like Pierce, in the hands of
such scheming and reckless managers as Cushing,
JEFF Davis and Forney and such will be the dis
astcrs Of a continuance of this Pierce policy and
these Pierce managers over Mr.. Buchanan as
PieFces successor and legatee.
There is way Of escape, and way Of safety.
Congress may yet provide the ways and means
for peace in Kansas; and the American people
may very readily provide security for the future
in the election Of Fremont. In 1910 General
Harrison was carried up to the White House as
upon an avalanche, upon the simple plea that
"things cannot be worse than they are, and may
be much better with change in the govern
ment.- So now, as we cannot possibly have.
with any change that may be made with the
overthrow Of the spoils democracy, more mis-
chievous policy at Washington than that Of Pierce
and his managers, we have nothing to fear, bat
everything to hope, from the election of Ere
mont. We repeat it, everything to hope;
for while Mr.. Buchanan is blindly pledged
TO walk in The footsteps Of this unhappy
man Pierce, we have in Fremont the rep
rcsentative of an independent people in an
independent candidate whose only pledges are
for the Union and the Constitution, and against |
border ruffianism and buccaneering forays into |
our neghbors' territories.
Having shown that, if there be now existing !
any danger to the Union it exists in Kansas, and
that this double-dealing and imbecile Pierce ad
ministration and the spols democracy are respon-
sble; and knowing, as we all do know. that Mr..
Buchanan is pledged TO pcrpetuate all the abomi
nations of Piercc's border ruffanism with some
filibus,ering additions on larger scale, it ne
cessarily follows that the first thing TO demand is
the Intervention of Congress for peace in Kansas;
and that the next thing for the peace of the whole
country is the election Of Fremont sud . new
administration. We cannot cure cancer by
bread poultice. We must strike at the roots OF
lie disease.