The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-09-17


election to the United States Senate. This was
doubtless the origin and the programme Of
Atchison, in the conception of this beautiful plot
His earlier confidential confederates at Washing
ton, including Jefferson Davis Senator Mason,
and other rabid secessionists, had larger schemes
and dreams in view in adopting the plan Of their
Missouri pioneer. Mr.. Pierce and Mr. Douglas
were simply entrapped into the plot with the
tempting bait of the Cincinnati nomination; but
being in, it became the manifest policy of each
TO outrun the other in the race for the suffrages
OF the niger driving Southern democracy. Thus
| it was that at the meeting of the Cincinnati
Democratic Convention, Mr.. Pierces eyes had
been SO fully opened to the scheme of Atchison,
Davis Mason and company, that he had thrown
of the fimsy disguise of popular sovereignty in
Kansas, and had become the active chief of the
rufiian policy of making the Territory slave
| State by fire and sword.
The Cincinnati Convention endorsed the trea-
son but rejected the traitor. A double policy
was adopted-the ruffian policy Of Mr.. Pierce
to secure Kansas as a slave State, and the
| policy Of nominating man who could prove an
| alb in the Nebraska BILL in order to secure
| the Presidency and the spoils But the abb
of Mr.. Buchanan avails him nothing. He
has accepted the Cincinnati platform. He
pleads the Kansas doctrine of popular
sovereignty in the North, while he charms the
most ultra secessionists with nis sympathy for
Atchison in Kansas, and his craving appetite
for the island of Cuba. He tells us that he is no
longer James Buchanan, but the embodiment Of
the Cincinnati platform and the anointed instru-
ment Of the Cincinnati democracy, of which Mig
ger driving secessionism is the head and Pierce
and Forney the tail.
To sum up: The Kansas-Nebraska bill was
the result Of conspiracy among two or three
restless ambitious and reckless secession demo-
cratic politicians-its doctrine of popular soye-
reignty was a premeditated fraud deliberate
piece of treachery Of the most infamous kind,
for it opened Kansas alike to slavery and anti
slavery settlers Subject only to the constitu
ton OF the United States;" and the moment it
was discovered that the invitation would proba-
bly, result in the exclusion of slavery from the
Territory, the system Of border ruffianism and
democratic terrorism was commenced. The
cheat being thus partially detected, through the
brazen-faced connivance of the administration
with the border ruffians, the democrats Of Con-
gress first attempted to staye off an in
vestigation into the facts, for fear of uglier
disclosures but failing in this, they con-
fessed, with the proofs before them, that
squatter sovereignty was humbug and
a trick, and they graciously proposed new
Kansas election or two, and to place the absolute
control Of these elections in the hands Of Mr..
President Pierce, as the safest expedient for the
restoration of law and order.
This is all that was offered in behalf Of Mr.
Buchanan by the democrats Of Congress. They
adhered to the validity Of that spurious Missouri
Kansas Legislature; they denounced its acts as
cruel, unconstitutional, savage and infamous but
they would rather "stop the wheels Of govern
ment' than abolish that infamous Legislature
and its affiliated federal and local authorities
They gained their point, with the aid Of Mr.. Fill
mores members of the House. That Missouri
Kansas Legislature, the administration, the Dor
der rufians, and their common policy Of making
Kansas slave State by system OF terrorism
which would be disgraceful even to savages, have
thus been adopted as part and parcel of the ma
chinery Of the democratic party for the election
Of James Buchanan.
To what paltry, petty and contemplate sources
we may thus trace the greatest events in the his
tory Of nations Who could have believed three
years ago that thedesperate necessities ola despe
rate and reckless frontier democratic politician
like Atchison could possibly result in less than
three years in civil war in q Territory uninhabit
ed in 1853, except by Indians, and in arrayng the
two sections of the Union against each other, the
North upon Southern man and democrat, and
the South upon Northern man and an old fede-
rast-the one for Kansas as q free State, by
constitutional means, and the other for Kansas
az slave State, through the power Of q military
despotism? Yet thus we stand-Fremont against
Buchanan-the North against the South; aud
this Is the exact question, not whether Kansas
shall be free State or . slave State but whether
Kansas shall be a slave State from the expulsion
or determination Of the free white Northern set
tiers by military crusade, in violation of the
constitution, the laws, and every instinct Of de
cency and humanity, and by the government Of
the United States!
Against this hideous and alarming policy Of
military coercion for the extension Of slavery
into free Territory, the masses OF the North are
ralying upon Fremont; and in behalf Of this dis
organizing policy Of subjugation, the South il
unit upon Buchanan. Fremont has the consti
tuition and the right on bis side. His position is
that of justice to the North the South, and the
Union because the constitution i with him. Let
the people SO decide, and this agitation will be
ended.
The MAINE ELEcTToS.-0ur democratic organs
are lalorinp hard to figure up little cold com