Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1857-01-05

Monday Morning, January =. 1887.


by Mr.. Brooks of South Carolina in which thu
deceptiyeuess of the Cincinnati platform and tn,
duplicity of the democratic leaders IN the late
canvass are no longer sought to be disguised
and in which the distrnst and foreboding OF thi,
famous and favorite champion OF Southern demo
cracy Are openly confessed. The patty with
which Mr. Brooks is allied have succeeded in Sc
curing the administration for the next four years,
BY the ariful and unprneipled course on which
he animadver,s, bat they cannot. by that means,
or any other, avoid meeting, in practice the is
sues they so iogeniously eyeded in the campaign.
Kansas still presents for solution the difficult
problem of slavery in the Territories. Mr.. Buch-
anan will soon be compelled to make known. in
terms no longer admitting OF double construction,
his plan for the adjustment of that controversy.
and his opinion of the constitutional rights OF the
STAKEHOLDER in respect to the Territories. The
reading public are familiar with the varions the
cries that have been promulgated. discussed and
are now held by different parties and sections.
The President will be obliged soon TO let the
country know with which division of parties and
the country his sympathies and convictions are
affiliated: whether with those who hold, as do
the Wilmot Provisoists. that Congress has power
and should exercise il to forbid slavery in the
Territories; or with the squater sovereignty
men. who maintain tina, tho Territorial Legisla-
ture may, at any time, interdict it, or with those
who adopt the Southern ground, that tho ques-
ton cannot be determined until the people of the
Territory meet under full authority. to adopt
organic laws and found a state goyernment--and
that until that time shall have arrived the slave
holder shall have the right TO go with his
;,,a TAR nd hpi hold nd
use it under the guarantees of the constitution
and the protection of law, us the ankee has TO go
with his implements of husbandry or manufao.
ture, and bolG and ihom. Upon this latter
proposition not only is Mr.. Buchanan not com
mitted in favor OF the Southern view, but there
is no DENYING that the Northern and Southern
branches of his party are irreconcilaby at issue
upon it. The exigeneies OF party and the para
mount desire of success have heretofore pre-
vented the managers from fully exposing tho
impossible chasm which separates them, but this
cannot much longer be done. The yawning gulf |
is there, and cannot be hid.
The speech of Dir. Brooks is thus noticed in
the Wing:
Mr. Brooks sets ont with the declaration that he Is
"not much OF national Democrat p and that +" in
ance nor confidence lie next proceeds To assign
the reasons for his position and refers to the action
of the Cincinnati Convention he and Mr.. Orr being
the only members OF his delegation, who advocated |
the represenation OF South Carolina in that confen-
ton He points to the fact that all those in any way
identified with the struggle on the Nebraska bill |
were deliberately and nnjusty set aside at Cincin-
natl TO make room for gentleman, who was alb
sent AT the time from the country, and :" who had no
place in the picture OF the fight Speaking OF the
many eminent and worthy Democrats who bore
conspicuous part in the long and desperate contest
preceding the passage Of the Kansas act, and who
were therefore entitled 10 thc rewards of the victory
achieved he uses the following language; Our old
leaders lin the Nebraska struggled had been gallant,
yigilanl successful. They were entitled 10y every
right to the glores Of The victory which had been
won since upon them rested the responsibilities OF
the measures passed, aud whatever odium might to
them attach Northern prejudice aud Northern In
tired had been specially directed towards the Pfes-
dent who had approved and towards the iiustrious |
Senator (Mr Dougasl who had motured, the Kan
sas.Nebraska bin They had been identified with the
principles Of the bill, and, in sustaining them,
but sustained its principles and, in rejecting them
we seemingly declined the naked issue which the
Kansas bill presented, confess that when saw the
distinguished leaders To whom have rcterred-able
statesmen and each 4 resident OF a free State-pu ]
aside aud another leader chosen who had no place
in the picture of the fight my faith in Northern De-
mocracv was again shaken. | reasoned with myself
in this way: if Northern Democracy Is SO tender
footed upon the Kansas bill to reject Northern men,
even New Highlander, because of their too intimate
connexion with it, what security have we OF the South
that our construction OF the act will obtain in the
policy of the gov srnmeni what security have we
against construction which hal been suggested
and upon which the Senate had been congratulated,
and which, in my judgment is as fatal to inter
ests as the positive enactment which had been re-
peaed. II noa-connexion with the bill and absen-
teesm is necessary to gid the pill, how do know
but that may be rejected when its essential eompo
nents are ascertaned?'
Mr. Brooks, himself supporter ofthe Cincinnati
nominee, confesses that enough has transpired to
show that his apprehe nson in regard to the nomna
ton and election Of Buchanan account ofhis mon
connexion" with the Kansas bill were not without |
. foundation. He thereupon cites the fact, which no
has dared TO dispute that at many of the Demo
cratic meetings in the North, during the late canvass
the people were rallied under banners upon which
was inscribed Buchanan, Breckenridge and free
Kansas and himself asks the queston-"Have not
large plarards been exhibited here upon the floor Of
Congress with these words ia the largest ettera up
on them and the word free in italics? We are told
by our Democratic friends ON the floor that nothing
more meant than that the people of Kansas should
beee 10 decide upon the subject ofslavery for them
selves. What meant is not the question How
he rds unba NV In hat