The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1856-11-29


The pagers are giving currency to rcports
and expressions Of belief that Buchanan 10
in favor or bringing Kansas into the Union
- : Free State, and viii exercise his inau-
soee 10 that end. This 10, as we look upon
il, sheer nonsense. We presume it 10 true
that under his permission il was asserted
throughout Pennsylvania and other import
ant districts. Immediately before the election,
when the assertion could do no harm else
where, that he was 10 favor Of that policy
But that was mere elec.ioneering trick, re-
sorted to ~ last expedicnt when every
thing looked desperate. 1t was . disgraceful
trick to employ, untruly. But it is entitled to
no significance except as trick it would be
wholly unreliable as shadowing forth his flu
tare policy, or as indicating even his person
al inclinations. He is committed the other
way. Openly, before the world, by common
understanding, he is committed on the other
side Of the question. He was the leader Of
tina. party who have taken position on the
other side,--or, rather, he is the cat's-paw
OF the Negro. Aristocrats who lead that party.
Thepolicy Of Pierce was specially sane. ion
ID, and the continuance Of it, ~ to Kansas,
was the question 10 issue,-the question on
which they fought, and won. And it riu be
continued. II the thing can be so slurred owe,
~ NOS to weaken Buchanan's ADMINISTERS.
tion IN the North, it will be done. II il
can be done by shifting the responsible.
ity Of it to any extent from his administra
ton, be sure that it will be. But Kansa'
will be brought in as Slave state, at al
hazards, II possible, and with the active in,
huenes OF Mr.. Buchanan and his administra
aon, " asesaary. If any man calculates
different from that, we believe he allow,
himself to be grossly deceived. The met
who, 1t this late day, do not believe that th,
Slavery Propagandists rule the Black DeA
ocracy, utterly and entirely, and are fully
determined to accomplish their purpose,
though its fundamentally, By any necessar,
means, it will be hard to arouse to sense O
any thing which they do not see. The mel
who rule that party are not class special,
devoted TO the polite management of par
~; 1t 10 not their study how to strengths,
and preserve the influence Of the Black Dem
ocratic party; their object is the Extensio,
OF Slavery, and they viii sacrifice the part
before they will sacrifice that. Indeed, tn
party ID of very little consequence except 8,
Tar - Il can be employed to that end. N,
body understands all that better than Buch
anan. No body 10 more ready to be thei
supple tool than Buchanan. No body ha
less power Of manful resistance to such par
y Influences, less capacity to strike out TO
himself bold and independent course upo
any grsa public question, than Buchanan.
a The St. Louis Democrat has length
and forcible article in favor of making Kan
sas "a Free State. 1t says that the interest
OF the -slaveholders of Missouri woul
be greatly subserved by il; that while tn
non-slaveholders Of that state number near
ly . million, the slavholders number onl
twenty-five thousand; that the interests 0
the million should command the preference
in public policy, and therefore it declares 70
free white men against negroes, for free Ia
'sbor against slave labor, and for the right
'snd interests Of eight hundred thonsaa
against those of twenty five thousand"
All right, and polite, and wise. An
though it may not be prudent, under exis,in
circumstances, publicly to discuss the CUES
ton, Is there anything in the argument 70
Kansas that viii not apply to Missouri a
well?
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