Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1856-11-14

The EXTENSION OF SLAVERY Grand Pro.
grdm,ne Of JcfnSon Ddris-Sldrcry Ertcn-
sion 10 he The Union p, cscrring Plank in the
Democratic Platform.
The New Orleans Delta one Of the most
ralid disunionist Buchanan journals in the
country, takes Buchanan's election for
granted, and claims all tho credit for the
South. 1t closes its article as follows
Mr.. Buchanan, if elected will owe his sue
cess entirely to the reaction in the Northern
mind, caused bv the determined attitude of
the Southern party. We may he called ez
tremists. or fre-catcrs, or what mott does
not matter While we cannot be driven into
the abandonment Of princIple to serve party
success. we are ready to maintain the rights
and institutions of tho South. even to dis
union. This conviction we have fostercd in
the Southern mind 1t is pity it was not
lostored there twenty years since. 1t would
have saved 10 the parties n deal of trouble.
Bu; the Southern party has something else
to do now Having checked for time the
black republican crusade, we must push tor
ward those reforms at home which are neccs-
sary for the assertion and maintenance Of our
equality in the Union. or of our nationality
and Independence out of it.
Remember that Nicaragua and Cuba are
vastly more Important TO us than Kansas ter
ritorv, though we should not renouncc the
latter. Mexico is not far off. The genius of
comm rcial empire heckons to us from Te-
huantepec. But Nicaragua is the great po-
litcil nucleus. and while the " national"
men Of the South are busy over the spoils of
the victory won through the courage and
b1ldness of the Southern party, let us put
forth all our strength in Nicaragua.
We have only four years to prepare for the
great contest of 1850. Give Walker the
power. and he will solve not only the Central
American question, but with it that Of Cuba.
Once firmly established in Nicaragua, he will
restore the West Indies to their original con
dition. as slave colonies. 1t can be demon
strated that the comparative decline of New
Orleans commenced with the abolition pol
lev Of England in the American tropics. 1t
only requires the defeat Of Walker in Nicl-
ragua and the Africanizatlon OF Cuba to make
the decline more than comparative, perhaps
irretrievablc. 1t only requires, on the other
hand, the reorganization of Central Amer
lea, as a slave producing country, with the
redemption of the West Indies from negro
barbarism. to make New Orleans the centre of
vast tropical empire. and to realize. in con-
ncction with the Pacific trade, the advantages
to which she is geographically entitled.
This is a work for the Southern party. We
have shown our power in national politics,
let us give it practical directions at home.
In the foregoing we have briefly reviewed
the causes which led to the reaction in the
North, and sketchc1 the assumption that
Buchanan's election was a certainty. But
what will be the Specification of his election,
with regard to all the important questions of
I-.1I IL
the solution of time. So far as it may con
vev rebuke to the anatical spirit of the
North so far as it may be an eiiectual pro-
test against the open attempt of one section
to subject another to the tyranny of a hostile
mai so far as it may show that the resistance
policy on the part of the South is really the
only policy that can save the Union and our
rights and our honor, at the same time,
thus far, at least. 1t will he Il triumph for
the South and a valuable lesson to politicians,
of both sections. 1t will prove that North
crn interest is superior to Southern fanati
cism and that slavery, through the subject of
sectional agit,tion. is really the strongest
conservative national element in the Union.
What the northern wing of the democratic
Congress may do with the slavery question
shall have t. leave to future develnpem"nt.
We fear however, it is deeply imbued with
the non extension theory to which so many
democratic leaders, North and South, have
given their sanction. 1t was no good omen
to see the younger Van Buren, and John C.
Breckenridge making speeches from the same
Platform and IN the same cause. and the elder
Van Buren, and Mr.. Buchanan embracing mp
on the same construction of the Nebraska
bill
These omens have not been improved by the
proluSe declarations made by democratic
speakers and journals of the North. that the
black republicans uttered " infamous lies -
in charging Mr.. Buchanan with being in ia
v0r of slavery extension. Why so earnest IN
this denial if the Northern democracy desires
to preserve the political equality of the South
to which the extension of slavery is essentIlll
But after all, W have the Ostend manifesto
to which Mr.. Buchanan is pledged. There is
sound enough Southern doctrine in that, and
if Mr.. Buchanan shall live up to it, well and
good we will be the first to throw the mantle
Of forgiveness over all his past political sins
| OF omission or commission. Meantime, as We
have often said before, though not unexcep
tIonahle, he is our choice for President but
in supporting him we have chosen to do st
with our eyes open, and have desired that tn,
southern people should have their eyes oper
also. If they vote with them shut it will b,
no fault of ours if deceived in any particu
lar they cannot shake their heads and say W,
did it.
The future is yet problem. Assuming
Mr.. Buchanan's election to be certainty
the horizon is still misty. But of this ",
feel sure; the Northern reaction against Ere
mont is due to the resistance policy and the
| Delta and other so called extremists and dis
unonists of the South, have been the tru,
| Union savers.