Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1856-01-03

L wv NNH''hNi"h "he AAftiu "a ANN S1uHFAuANNh W
he United States: aud from the siIe ice on the
subject in the State conventions called to rat
| ify the Constitution. It may we'll be presumed
that these also were unanimous IN their appro-
val Of what had beend done under the confeder
acy. and in the new Constitution. To restrain the
introduction and limit the extension Of slavery.
And may not men of all parties now unite 10
restore what the patriots Of all parties, during
the first seventy years of our government, con.
Iributed to establish?
The work Of restoration is simple and easy,
lif the men who abbor the late innovation on
he long sett~d policy Of the nation can be in.
duced to renquish petty differences on trans.
tory topics, and give their united voice, in the
next Presidential election, for some man wh ,se
capscily, fidelity, and courage can be relied
upon TO oppose the issue which the present ad
minlslraton has made to control it. The con.
test has grown out of presidential aspirations
} The decision of the people at the polls, ia
choosing Chief Magistrate. will end it. Sen
ators will easily comply when the nations de-
mand is backed by presidential power and pat
5 ronage, and hopes OF the future. which animate,
, the leading members OF the body.
} The administration has slaked itself on the
support ofthe party of privilege-of class in
. teresl- which makes il unii 1t con6des in
the success which has crowned the oligarchy
everywhere in the Old World, and secured its
triumphs on the maxim, divide and conquer
, 1 he wings an democrats Of the South are a
combination, 10 carry into the next Presidency
! some candidate absolute in maintaining tue re-
pealing clause Of the Kanzas bill, which nul.
I lifes the principles Of the ordinance, the pro.
visions OF the constitution made 10 give them
effect, and all The compromises which have
been made in pursuance of them, with the
, sanction of all sections of the Union.
: If the ma aonty favorable TO the policy bull
l up with our government will unite, accept ttt
: issue rendered by the administration, and max,
E the repeal rf the repeating clause Of the Kan
, zas net paramount in the impending contcs
h for the Presidency, all will be restored thai
: has been ostt, free Institutions, by openins
n the territories North and South. to slavery
The compromises Of 1890 and 1850 heing re
e stored, there will not be an inch of the terri
!. tOrJ OF the United States, once exempt from
slavery on which it can legally inlrude; an,
!. Mr.. .AtchlsOn's attempt by an armed force Il
$ carry out the null fcation plotted in the eau
Gus which gave birth 10 the Kanzas bill, will
It like the attempt ofhs prototype, Mr.. Calhoun
to give effect 10 South Carolina notification
y be parayzrd by the (rown OF an indignant ma
:, lion, made potent by an honest and 6rm exec
e utive.
J And there will end the career Of those gen
/. tlemen who aIrogate to themselves the excu
|. sive tutelage OF the democracy of the country
e as ended That of Mr. Calhoun and his pros,
g ytes who took the peculiar charge of the 'Slar
!. Rights party, They sunk. under the unive
ID sal conviction that their Zeal for State Righi
lr was an ardent passion to reach political powe
le at the hazard of exnguishng in the blood
ID the people the wise and free institutions it ha
r cost so much TO establish
Dr. Our innovating Democrats, who put undt
IL foot the representative principle; and voa
Of the known will of their constituents: who scor
+ their instructions to redress the wrong the
Of have committed; who reply TO the suffrage
h that condemn their conduct, that they are nc
: lem ocratic sulirages: who in the pleutlude
III their infaIlibiity. read out of the democrat
- party, Maine, New Hampshire, Connection
a New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indian,
1n Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Iowa, b,
Of cause they will not submit to these, their rel
he respntalives, who have set up test whiC
ed must ever exclude Massachusetts, Vernon
We and Rhode Island from its ranks; who ha,
IA bartered away rights secured to them all
compact soon learn that democracy do
he not reside 10 the organization Of intriguers, b
OF in the mass Of the people.
as 1t is the glory of our great Republic. III
ry its democracy springs up from the soil al
"a aourishes in the fresh air of our wide spre
&. country; and that its rich harvests. mpart
! health, strength and spirit to oHr whole sysel
eS is gathered annually at the polls. The demo
nj racv which is bred in caucuses and cabint
is sort Of hotbed species--suited to {
IN taste of epcurian politicians, whose dppetit
a are their principles Incumbents and exp
lr- tants o. Office and dignites claim a sort of I
nts tent ri gbt in the machine of government
err create democracy adaped to their purpos
es, Their innovations in the machinery are ct
ing trivances to renew their privileges for n
ng terms, and the people are the subjects who I
err TO be used up in Ito pay tribute for Il
the privilege, and take pride in the skill OF the o
ro- orators.
The telegraph wires and the Cincinnati c.
ea vantion are tn hrinu all the maStprtv con hi