The Placer herald., 1856-04-12
AUBURN. APRIL IL, 1856.
Nigger Worshipping, in its Republican
Phase


composed at first Of body of earnest, rest
less zealots has been gradually increasing in
importance as political element, and for
the past ten wears have been considered of
sufficient importance to attract to its man.
agement politicians equally notorious for
craft and the basest selfshness.
We remember this party, at first as a lot
of fanatical objectless zealots, without organ
ization or any practical motive for action,
but clamorng from their pulpits and other
rostrums, for the freedom of the black man
generally and drawing sickening pictures of
the tortures supposed to be endured by the
slave. Some even went SO far as to declare
for amalgamation of the white and black
races in the United States.
Proceeding upon the abstract idea Of the
great wrong Of enslaving human being,
and never once referring to the constitutional
obligations existing between the people of
the different soyercignties as States, by their
incessant din they induced many persons to
svmpathise with their doctrines; as was in
deed quite natural with persons who heard
but one side, of theory eminently humane.
At length moulded and restrained by the
superior cunning of these desperate politi-
clans, they raised the standard Of free-soil,
and forthwith they howled forth their deter
minaton to attach to the United States no
more territory, having upon it society en-
bracins as one of its domestic institutions
slavery. Upon this they clamored both in
and out of Congress, until, by collisions be-
tween the Southern man and themselves, a
strong sectional feeling was engendered, and
it became necessary to enact some law the
better to secure the rights of property under
our Constitution-and the fugitive slave law
was enacted by Congress.
No sooner was this act passed than it was
assailed by these politicians in the most tu-
rious manner, and the execution Of it was
only enforced in rare cases, by the patriotic
exertions Of the authorities, sustained by firm
democrats, and wings Of the old school. Its
repeal was declared to be one of the cardinal
issues To say that the law was but the Ell
forcement, in practical FORM of the proVis-
ions Of the Constitution, was considered by
them, (admitting your premises) but poor
subterfuge, as there was binding upon theil
conscences "a higher law" that claimed ale
glance. Appeal to them by all that men
hold sacred in our Union and national exist
ence, and you were answered that ''the Union
might slide"
They were determined to be satisfied with
nothing short of all they demanded, without
regard to consequences The cause Of hui
man liberty, they said, was too sacred to be
restrained within and controlled by, any OBJ
legation of an earthly consideration. Even
the most sacred compacts became as ropes of
sand. before their furious onset
The men Of the South contended for the
Missouri Compromise, and that States formed
south of latitude SO deg. 80 min., might Of
right become settled by them, and that they
should be protected in taking their property
there, and that such States as were formed
therefron1, with slavery as a domestic nstitu-
tion, should be permitted to come into the
confederacy without further inquiry than as
related to their organic laws, under the ma.
tional compact. The line, established in the
years 1919 and 1920, be it remembered was
established in violation of what was then
conceived to be a principle, but all parties
acquiesced in it ''ss a compromise" The
compact in letter only included the public
domain then known as the "Territory of Lou.
isiana" and which embraced the present
State of that name and all the lands which
our Government had any pretension to own
west of the Mississippi river, except Oregon
ling to concede it as lasting arrangement
and when Texas was added to the Union the
same rule was extended to the public domain
Of that State-north Of SO deg. 80 min. was
to become free States, and south of that
States might become slave.
They had twice conceded thus much to
the teachings, and, as they regarded it, the
prejudices of northern men.
In ls4s, when the territory of California
was acquired by the United States govern
ment, it was contended that this line should
Be extended to the Pacifc,-that inasmuch
as the South had in good faith to what they
conceived to be the sacrifice of their gifts
in order to have peace and good fellowship
had given away the slave territory of Louis
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