The Kansas herald of freedom., 1856-11-15

1 is no crime so black and damnable that hi,
party do not approve and consecrate) stir
the Southern blood to madness. 1t therefor,
fears the following result and calls for help
The good men, the old citizens, the religion.
men of the North, must bestir themselves, O
FremOnt's election will dissolve the union O
| the States, the union of father and son, O
husband and wife, of every human and socia
tie, and the worst of all, the union of man witt
his Maker" Then chaos comes again.
tt is needless to multiply extracts OF
quotations. for every leading Democratic
paper in the South is as full of treason
as an egg is full of meat.
Thus we see that the leaders and or.
gans of a great conspiracy, threaten
society with anarchy, if the people
in the legitimate exercise of then
Legitimate rights, choose to elect to the
office of chief magistrate, the man as
sumed to be their choice 1t cannot be
the threat is made in very wantonness.
Some potential reason must have die
tated such terrible resolution. Can it
be the character of the man himself
Is he one of those depraved and wicked
monsters, of whom we read In history
stepped in every vice and stained with
every crime Is he ofthe race of those
gigantic criminals whose shadows dark
en- ages. Nero, Tamerlane. or Bor-
gia? No such accusation is made
The allegations of his enemies. whether
facts or fancies, represent him merely
as the type of American Democracy, a
self-made man, who, by force of mind
and muscle, and courage true as steel,
raised himself to national eminenee in
the noblest fields of enterprise, until he
was seen afar, as if the Rocky Noun
tains on which he first planted the stars
and stripes, were the pedestal of his
fame We cannot find the cause we
seek in the character of Fremont, for
even the caricatures of his biography,
represent him in succession as poor
boy, hard student, bold wooer, a
brave soldier, and heroic explorer
man who toiled from the beginning,
achieving success at every step, until
his reputation rose SO high and shone
so bright as to attract the eye of the
people, which dwelt upon it as upon a
new planet in the armament.
Neither will his opinions on the
slavery question give the solution; fol
he is merely opposed to the extension
of slavery into free Territory, and a
majority of our Presidents were of the
same opinion. Fillmore, Taylor, Van
Buren and Jefferson were hostile to the
Introduction of slavery into new Terri
tories; and no one thought that their
election was any cause for the dissolu-
ton of the Union. We must try again,
and as the metaphysician failing to ac-
count for certain ideas in the mind by
any theory which assumed an external
cause, bethought him of analysing the
mind itself, where he discovered thail
origin, so we shall detect the source OF
the disunion phenomena, within the
party itself, whose blasphemy, fury,
and political and social abominations,
have been heard during the canvass like
the shrieks of the maniac.
The disciples of Calhoun are original
nullifers, secessionists and disunion-
lists and necessarily fillibusters, pi-
rates, and Prc-Slavery fanatics. They
burn to realize the Southern Republic,
embracing the slave States of the
Union, the islands in the Gulf, Mexico
and Central America-the same en-
pire which Aaron Burr protected. This
traitorous faction has otficered and led
the Democratic party since the time OF
Polk. 1t holds the reins and guides
the chariot. Assuming the livery OF
Democracy, Its leaders succeeded in
getting themselves appointed postil-
lions and guides, and hence, instead Of
progressing smoothly along as usual,
we find ourselves entering deeper
glooms and approaching preeipices, and
if we murmur at the course pursued, we
are threatened with instant destruction
by the desperadoes who have US, or
think they have US, in their power.
The Calhoun conspiracy commenced
In the time of Jackson, when IL was
weak and hopeless. Now il Is power
ful, thanks to Pierce and stratagem,
the policy of weakness, has been sBpsr-
seded by audacity, the policy OF
strength. Both Polk and Pierce owed
their election to It's influence, anu they
rewarded it by patronage but It's pres
ent greatness is mainly attributable to
the latter, who placed the highest and
most lucrative Offices of the Govern
ment in It's hands. 1t regards every
measure OF the Federal Government,
purely In relation to its own schemes.
1t tries everything in politics and leg
islation by one standard, not whether
it is good or bad in itself, but whether
it viii forward or retard It's darling en-
terprise. This morbid ambition OF
founding Southern Republic. consist
ing of two classes-masters and Slaves
Like Europe under the barons, with
the cities left out, is the fruitful source
of all our troubles. Slavery was put
into the disunion programme more as a
means than an end, because it was found
that Slavery was the only interest with
which the entire South was identified.
The necessity of keeping the real de-
sign back, pushed slavery into the fore
ground. which has consequently become
the overshadowing question of our pol
itics. 1t should be remembered, that
the making of this issue was an after
thought and that the conspiracy first
planted itself upon free trade, and SUBJ
sequently changed its ground more
than once. before it finally settled down
upon the niger as the most polite ex-
pedient. The task to be accomplished
was the overthrow of the Union, and
after several trials, the slavery question
was found to be the only lever strong
enough for the werk and the Southern
Planters determined to make the mig
ger do that as we'll as everything else.
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