Daily American organ., 1856-08-27
A Strange Remedy.

A Strange Remedy.
The New York Herald of yesterday proposes
a strange remedy for the evils which now af
tlict the country and threaten general confa-
grafton of our institutions. 1t says:
"Having shown that if there be now existing
any danger to the Union, it exists in Kansas, and
that this double dealing and mbecle Pierce admin
stration and the spoils Democracy responsible;
and knowing, as we all do know, that Mr.. Bucha-
nan is pledged to perpetuate all the denominations
Of Pierce's border rufianism, with some flbuster-
ing additions larger scale, 1T necessarily fol
lows that the first thing to demand is the inter
venton of Congress for peace in Kansas; /; and that
the next thing for the peace of the whole country
is the election of Fremont and new administra-
ton. We cannot cure cancer by bread poul-
tice We must strike at the roots of the disease"
1t is perfectly true that this administration
is responsible for the present state of excite
ment and alarm which exists in the country,
and for the consequences which may flow
therefrom,-it is true also that it is the duty
OF Congress to intervene and arrest the further
continuance Of civil war in Kansas, but it is
utterly absurd and more than absurd-it is
criminal to hold out the false notion that the
election of Fremont and the Inauguration of n
sectional dynasty can restore peace to the
country.
1t does not follow, that though "a cancer
cannot be cured by bread poultice, the pa
tient should take arsenic enough to kill him,
In order to destroy the cancer-nor docs it
follow that though a doctor should always
"strike at the roots of the disease" in order to
cure it, he would be justified in cutting his
patients .jugulars to obtain eight ounces of
blood Such remedy would be as certain to
kill the disease, as the burning down of dwell
ling would be to drive, away the rats which
infest it, but it seems to us that such remedies
are rather worse than the diseases for which
they are prescribed.
A purely sectional contest has been created
by the folly of this departing administration
and the recklessness of that sham Republican
party which has assumed to be its only antag-
onist 1t has become a war of factions-a
strife for political supremacy between extremes.
1t is rapidly becoming geographical war, an
open fight between the North and the South,
and nothing but union, prompt, speedy,
and effectual union, between the conservatives
Of the whole country, can save the people from
one Of two conditions-anarchy or despotism.
1t is not to be disguised that there are men
at both ends of the country, moral and polit-
ical traitors to the Federal Union, who are
secretly aiming at the overthrow of this gov
ernment, men who openly discuss and coolly
calculate the losses and gains of their perilous
scheme-and who intend to destroy the
Union If their efforts, insidious or open, can
bring about such result These men and
their satellites, North and South, fan the flame
of discord continually and earnestly, and they
will agree with their antagonists on no other
point but that of keeping alive this sectional
contention.
The remedy for existing evils, as prescribed
by the New York Herald, the leading press Of
the Republican party, under the guidance of
Seward, Greeley, and John Hughes, is this:
elect the Observation-Disclosures Cath
olic-candidate 10 the Presidency! The rem
edy, as prescribed by the Washington Union,
the Richmond Enquirer, the Van Burens and
the Bentons, is. this: elect the squatter 500
ereignty-- Ostend- manifesto .JSli6ustering -pi-
Gticatland- stealing -loso-Wdges candidate for
the Presidency Strange remedies these to
restore peace to this distracted country
Do the advocates of Fremont hatter them
selves that his election to the Presidency would
bring peace, quiet and repose to the South ?
DO the advocates of Buchanan flatter them
selves that his elevation would bring peace,
quiet and repose to the North They all kno,o
better-they knoaO that this sectional war
would only have commenced, as to its viru-
lence and intensity of bitterness, when either
OF these candidates shall have been elected /
They know that this sectional war would oaly
terminate by the absolute defeat and prostra-
ton Of one or the other of these sections, or in
a dissolution of the Union. The Northern agi-
tators rely upon their numbers for ultimate
victory--the Southern agitators depend upon
the spirit of the South, and If this fails them,
then upon final secession for a victory over the
North,