Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1856-09-26
Dolitifal.
A TRUE VOICE FROM OHIO.

We transfer to our columns from the
Plaindealer, of Cleveland, the leading
editorial article of that paper of the 18th
instant. We publish it without the ex-
cision of single sentence. 1t ought to
be read carefully by every American. -
1t contains truthful statement of the
origin and progress Of the present agita-
ton upon the subject of Kansas, and is
accompanied with such patriotic rehec-
tions as do equal credit to the head and
heart of the writer. If the presses and
public men throughout that State push
the discussions before the people with
like and continued energy, doubtful as
it may now seem, and difficult as it may
be. we have great reason to hope that
the democracy will triumph there in the
Presidential election;
The KANsAswAG-THE CRIME AGAINST
KANsAs.-We charge the Kansas war
upon the black republicans and their
party leaders. The just verdict of a
great people will soon, VIC trust, award
to them the unreasonable guilt and in
fanny of arming for battle, brother against
brother, in an infant Territory, and of
seeking to place in clannish conflict the
northern men against the southern men,
with view of stirring up sectional ha-
tired among the northern people, at the
risk of our glorious Union, and all as
the means to an end-to secure the first
triumph of a geographical party in this
country,
When Senator Douglas introduced the
KansasNebraska bill and pressed it
through Congress, we all remember the
proclamation issued by Seward, Sumner,
Chase and Wade, calling upon The people
Of the North not to submit to the law.
and not to permit, as was the intent of
that bill, that the people of Kansas make
it free or slave State, as majority of
the actual settlers, when they came to
form State constitution, upon obtaining
the usually required population, should
decide. The whole purport of the ap-
peal was for the North, as the North, to
prevent this at any and every cost; that
by the northern section, as section, the
law should be repealed and stricken off
the statute book that it was Infamous
that the people of new Territory should
be free to have what social institutions
the majority should prefer; that every
northern democrat consenting to this
doctrine had sold himself to the South,
and was traitor to his own household.
They swept the northern States on
this issue for the time by an unholy
league with native-Americanism and by
pressing into their service every bad
passion and evil imagination, and by mis-
Interpretation of motives-the only "a
valuable political capital Of the abolition
lists and their sympathizers. They de-
nounced jackson because he recommen-
ded Congress to prevent by law the cir
culation Of incendiary documents through
the mails Of the South-denounced Van
Buren, as northern man with southern
principles, because he declared his pur-
pose to veto any bill abolishlng slavery
in the District Of Columbia, so long as
Maryland and Virginia, who gave it to
tie Union, should opposc-denounced
Tyler and Polk because they favored
annexation with Texas without requiring
it to first abolish slavery-denounced
Henry Clay and Daniel Webster, and
every northern statesman that dared to
denounce abolitionism as dangerous to
the peace and safety Of the Union.
They were resolved that, no matter
what the peace and safety of the whole
country required, the slavery question
should never be taken out Of our nation
al politics; that as often as new State
sought admission into our Union, section
shall ever oppose section, and each strive
for every advantage over the ether; that
henceforth on such occasion aboltionism
and slavery propagandism should, one
or the other, ride rampant over the best
interests Of the country.
This was the issue then. They got
the majority in the lower house of Con-
gress. In the Senate they could do no
thing. The democracy, though borne
down, stood boldly forth as the cham.
pions Of the rights Of all alike. They
showed no fear Of the consequences to