The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1856-10-23
THE NATIONAL ERA: WASHINGTON D. C, OCTOBER 3d. 1856

now bending all its energies in favor of the
Southern doctrine of SLAVERY EXTENSION
Has not this been the leading idea of the party
for the last two years? Was not the repeal OF
the Missouri Compromise a measure directly
in favor of Slavery Extension? Do you deny
it? Was Slavery in Kansas before this repeal
No. Could it go there? No. Has it gone
there SINGER and is it there now7 Yes. Why
But the repeal of the Compromise was not only
a measure favoring the extension of Slavery
but it was done expressly to open the Territory
to Slavery. Do you doubt it? We are not lef,
to our own conjectures, and to what letter
writer's say, to determine this matter. This
very purpose was avowed in the United States
Senate by no less parsonage than the Hon
Josiah j. Evans, Senator from South Carolina
in his speech in reply to Mr.. Sumner, delivered
June %, 1856. Iquote:
"Well, sir, Kansas, although it is but one
State when added, ioiU be good agains
THREE MORE. And was it strange, then
that the South should desire possession OF
Kansas, merely as a guara,teef These, Mr.
President, are the reasons why we desire
Kansas but it was not allowed. The very
instant 1T WAS OPENED TO THE SLAVE
: POPULATION, that instant there sprung up
q continuance, machinery was set in opera
ton, of which do not choose to speak-the
object of which was to DEFEAT THIS ACT
OF CONGRESS, and, as was said by the
Senator from Massachusetts,, to deoote this
6 Territory to free population"
Thus you see, that when the Compromise was
repealed, the Territory was opened to the star.
population ITO Sldrery; and that the efforts
of the Emigraut Aid Society, and the people Of
the Free States, to devote the Territory to fret
pOpuldtion-to make a free State of twas to
DEFEAT THIS ACT OF CONGRESS- !" hence it is
plain, and it is here avowed that "this act oil
Congress- which repealed the Compromise
aoas TO make Kansas a Stare State! Remem
Der, this was said by United States Senator
on the floor of the Senate, in the presence Of
Douglas, Cass, Bright, and all the Northern
Democratic Senators; yet no one denied it, OF
made any explanation, but tactly acknowledged
that it was true. IT WAS TRUEl
/ next give you an extract from another dis.
tinguished Democratic Senator, the Hon. A. G.
Brown, of Mississippi, delivered in the United
States Senate, April %, 1856. This is the man
who visited Mr.. Buchanan after the Cincinnati
Convention, to inform him of his nomination
and who said of him, in his letter to Hon. S. r
Adams, published in the Richmond ENQUIRER
of August q, 1860 In my judgment, he is
as scorthy Of Southern confidence and Southern
votes, as Mr.. Calhoun erer vas" In his
speech, he says:
"The advocates of STATE RIGHTS have al
ways held that the Territories are the common
property of the States that one State has the
same interest in them as another and that q
citizen of one State has the same right to 20
to them, as a citizen of any other State. The
corollary therefore has been, that q citizen OF
any one State has the same right as the citizen
Of any other State, to 90 into the Territories
and take Nth him ,chatecer is recognised a.
property in the State from achich he goes
Thus, If a citizen Of Massachusetts may 90
and take Uith him bale Of goods, citizen
{ of Tennessee may 90 and take a barrel OF
Whtsky; and "a citizen Of Neao York may
90 and take horse, q citizen of Mississippi
may go and TAKE A SLAVE. IL must be
So on else the EQUALITY OF THE PAR
TIES is destroyed. Tennessee becomes infe.
rior to Massachusetts, and the rights of the
Mississippian are inferior to those of the New
{ Yorker"
There is no misunderstanding or evading
this language. Let no one doubt now that this
doctrine of EQUALITY means the right to carry
slaves into the free Territories and If into
them, into the free States also. And this doc.
trine you support, reader, if you support Blu
chanan and the Cincinnati Platform.
Lest it should be said that l have given only
the testimony of shareholders and Southern Dem.
ocrats, will give you little from the other
side of the line. But do not forget, 1 beg you,
that the National" Democracy is the same
in all the States, North and South. The follow.
ing is from the speech of Hon. John Cadwala.
der, of Pennsylvania, made in the Hall of Con.
gress, March s. 1856. Mr.. Cadwallader is a
leading Democrat, and "intimatepersonal friend
of Mr.. Buchanan" He is speaking of Kansas
and the Repeal, and you will see that his testi-
mony agrees with that of Senator Evans
"But as the Mexican laws locally in force
had excluded Slavery from these territories,
1.-THE territories acquired from Mexico,) the
application ofthis principle 10th was illusory,
so far as any possibility of participation in
their further settlement by shareholders might
be concerned. Property in slaves was thus
in effect excluded wholly from their limits.
The principle of the former partitions having
become inapplicabe, and slaveholding settlers
having been altogether excluded from this ter
ritory, the slareholding States ,cere, Of right,
entitled to an naturalization for their toss,
if it could be afforded, by GIVING TO THEM Ac-
CESS WITH THEIR SLAVES 70 OTHER TERRI
TORY. This principle was the MORAL BASIS of
that praiseWorthy Legislation Of l854"-the re-
peal Of the Missouri Compromise!
Here it is distinctly avowed again, on the
Of the Compromise was to open the Territory to
Slavery. Two bold champions of the Modern
Democracy avow this in their places in Con
gress-one in the House and the other in the
Senate-and no one denies IL! Who now will
believe the lie, that it was not the intention of
the Kansas Nebraska bill to "LEGIsLATE STA
VERY INTO THE TERRITORY?
| One more extract, and / am done. In the
Richmond Enquirer Of September 3, 1856, we
have the following:
| The election of Mr.. buchanan may, and
| prabably aoll, originate reaction in public
| opinion, that ciU ENCOURAGE THE EXTENSION
OF THE CONSERVATIVE INSTITUTION OF SLA-
| : yERY2 1t would be reoctiOadry increment
IN FAVOR OF SLAVERY AND CON
SERVATISM."
| And again, in the same article:
| "Let the South present compact and I'M
divided front. Let her show to the BARBARIANs
that her sparse population offers little hopes
: Of plumber her military and selfreliant hab.
its, and her mountain retreats, little prospects
of victory; and her firm union and devoted
resolution, no chances of conquest. Let her,
If possible, detach Pennsylvania, Southern
| Ohio, Southern Indiana, and Southern Illinois,
| from the North, and make the highlands be-
tween the Ohio and the Lakes the dividing
line. Let the South treat wih CALIFORNIA,
. and If necessary, ALLY HERSELF WITH
RUSSIA, WITH CUBA, AND BRAZILli"
Thus you have the whole programme Sla-
very Extension into the Territories. by fair or
by foul means and then into the Free States,
and all over the Continent; or if unable to do
that, on account of the "barbarians" of the
North, then detach Pennsylvania, Southern
Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois The election of
Mr.. Buchanan will turn the scale in favor of