Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1856-07-12

ing only right, and opposing only wrong, ask
the verdict of the country upon that question,
which involves her coequal participation in
the blessings of the common Union.
1t is obvious that she will surrender the
strength of her position by creating an issue
within herself upon the propriety of the intro
duction of the bill to repeal the Missouri Com
promise, and to re-enact the State equality
upon which the Union rests for, if it was
improper to introduce the bill, it must have
been, because it was liable to some charge Of
wrongfulness, or at least that our rights neither
required nor demanded it. And hoio, then,
soiM this admission, can she, aoith brazen face,
assert that Black Republicanism is sorong in
repeating phat she admits was aorong, or in
restoring sohat she admits ioas no prong upon
her, b,a oas proper, and should not hare been
repealeds
Let the South by implication, or expressly,
make this admission, and the verdict upon the
issue joined must be for her enemy. The
Southern people cannot, admitting the impro-
priety of the repeal of the Missouri Compro-
mise complain of its restoration, or success
fully, because they cannot conscientiously, OPP
pose it. If that repeal is to stand, 1t mast be
upon the ground that IT WAS RIGHT We can
defend it on no other ground. To admit it
was wrong, and to insist on its non-repeal, is
to defend wrong, and to make personal issue
in its defence, or it is to beg for a concession
to weakness, what cannot be demanded as Of
right. In either case, it is dishonor, which
the South will never incur.
That any considerable party in the South
are prepared to shrink from this issue, we
cannot, do not believe. That through an error
Of Judgment or the zeal of blinded parti-
zanship, the South may be divided upon this
issue, the events of the past few weeks would
lead us to apprehend.
The Democracy Of the Union are wholly
united upon this principle of the Kansas bill.
They have unanimously in national and State
conventions recognized and adopted" it.
Their candidate has boldly, again and again,
proclaimed the restoration Of the equality OF
the Constitution, and the abrogaton of all poll
teal inequalities between the States, as the
watch words Of the canvass. The issue, which
Black Republicanism proposes, JAMES BUcH.
ANAN, the champion of the South, nobly, earn
estly meets, and submits it to popular arbitra-
ment.
Can the South refuse him as her champion ?
1t is answered, she should prefer another; and
that other, Mr.. Fillmore.
We will not at present advert to the ante
cedents of this gentleman, nor to the position
he holds as the candidate of a party which the
South has just repudiated?
We only ask, does he stand by us in the
issue3 Does he espouse oar cause9 Is he
prepared to defend and maintain it against our
foe?
We answer, he is not with us on the great
issue! He does not espouse our cause He
will not defend and maintain it. He condemns
the position we have taken as "reckless and
,oanton" Our Northern friends he either de-
nounces by indirection, or in satiric vein hopes
God may forgive them, as he freely does. He
speaks of the Kansas law as Pandora's box,
from which emerge all the evils now affecting
the country and insinuates it was introduced
" to aid in the personal advancement Of its
author" This agitation of which he speaks
is the result of Black Republican fury, that
the Constitution has been restored, and an I'M
constitutional reproach upon the South has
been repealed And yet Mr.. Fillmore, ne
glecting to see its unreasonableness, and I'M
able to see the justice of the bill, imputes the
Abolition storm to the reckless and wanton"
adoption of measure to aid in the personal
advancement of the friend Of the South, Ste
phen A. Douglas
Can the South meet the issue, with a man
who comedies the wrong upon which Abolition
bases the contest2 With one, who denounces it
as the offspring Of the personal ambition of
him, whom Abolition hopes to crush2 Nth
one, who adopts the platform which her sons
repudiated, and which condemns alike the Mis-.
souri, Repeal and the Kansas bill? Nth one,
who will not now say he will veto bill 10 re-
store the Missouri Compromise, and to repeal
the Kansas Law?
1t was but the other day, upon the motion to
repeal that law and thus restore the "Compro-
mise," and to erpel slarery now in Kansas
from the Territory, % that Mr.. Fillmore's
Northern friends voted for it; viz: Broom.
Harrison, Hauen, Whitney, and perhaps others;
and three Of them, the same evening, spoke to
slayeholding people, to ratify their favorite's
nomination for the Presidency.
Now can any Southern man dream Of pre-
ferring, upon this issue, Mr.. Fillmore to Mr..
BUCHANAN Can he consent to divide the
South with the enemy at his doors? Can he
abandon that gallant Northern Democracy
which, true to the Constitution, stakes its be-
ing upon the maintenance Of Southern equality,
and grapples with our foe, upon the soil of tbs
North Will Southern chvalry abandon its
most gallant friends for those who are con-
ant NTH lnla e