Mountain Democrat., 1857-09-26
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the Democracy OF those States arc ulsSat-
isfied with the Administration because of
tho policy adopted by Gov. Walker in
Kansas, and which has met with the ap-
prOval of President Buchanan and his
Cabinet.
If the fact that ultra secession papers
of the South and the Abolition press of
the North, have strung their Instruments
to the same key and are harmoniously
playing the same tune Of opposition to
Mr.. Buchanan, is an evidence of aught
save the Nationality of tho principles by
which tho Administration is governed, we
are unable to perceive it. We want no
better proof that Mr.. Buchanan is adhe-
ring to and carrying into execution that
Gnti-sectiOmGL sentiment Of the people Of
the Union which elevated him to his high
position, than the fact that the extremists,
North and South, arc acting in concert
against him. Those men never did be-
long to the Democratic porty. True, some
Of them in tho South gave him reluctant
vote upon the ground that Fillmore could
not be elected and Fremont they could not
vote for.
We have expected this insignificant and
impotent opposition: Insignificant, be-
cause its pulse beats not in unison with
the great heart Of the people; impotent,
because through the Administration it
aims at the integrity Of these States. In
respect to numbers, too, how insignificant
is this scnseless, mushroom opposition in
the South.
Those papers which, for the last quar-
ter of century, have been the organs Of
the Democracy, which have governed and
directed the movements Of our party in
the South, arc not with the disaffected,
but steadily adhcring to principle, are re-
buking the grumblcrs in such language as
traitors and plottcrs Of treason merit.
The KNhsas question has been worn
thrcadbarc, buta few, general, undisputcd
facts in connection with it should not be
lost sight Of Years since it was evident
that on the plains Of Kansas sectional
political battle was to be fought The in.
itiativC was taken by the formation Of
Immigrant Aid Societies" in some of the
Northern States. They sent large bodies
of men to that territory for avowedly Sec
tional purposes. The character and dis
position Of men who could be induced to
cmigratc under such auspices, could not
have been Of the most pcaccable and in
dustrious nature. They went, not to seek
a home, but to advocate and sustain, at
every cost, certain sectional DOCTRINES
They went, not to cultivate the soil, not to
develope the resources, not to add to the
wealth or industry Of the new territory,
but to prevent the introduction of slavery
into it. Their coming was the signal for
the inrOad of similar class from the slave
States, who entertained antagonistic feel
ings. The result Of the meeting between
such contcnding parties was obvious
They were prcdisposed to quarrel and did
quarrel. The Government cndeavored to
enforce to the letter tho principles of the
Compromise Measures of 1850, and as the
enforcement of those principles would
have secured equal and exact Justice and
rights to all the inhabitants of the terrific
ry, it was not acceptable to those whose
only object was to gain an advantage over
their advcrSarics. For party feeling ran
high, their blood was up, and neither par
ty would recognise good in a measure
which did notimposc eUH upon the other.
Acts of turmoil and rebellion, aggrava-
ted and encouraged by fanatical press
and party, in the hope thereby of elccting
Fremont, followed as a natural consc-
qucncc. But tho people hocked to the
Democratic standard and sectionalism was
prostrated, we trust forever. Now and
then, as in the talked Of opposition to the
Administration, it may cause ripple in
the onward flow of our prosperity as u
nation, but it can never again cndangcr
our national existence. Gov. Walker is
at length placed at the head of affairs in
Kansas, and we know he has done his duty
imp0rtially, because he is opposed by the
ultraists Of both of the excited parties
now struggling for asccndcncy in that ter
ritOry. Had the New Orleans Delta ap-
proved and the New York Tribune disap-
proved, or rice rerSa, his course, we should
have questioned it. But when We find
the disunion Delta and the Abolition 7ri-
bWne joining voices in dcnunciation of
Gov. Walker, VIC feel quite sure that he
has done just those things which the pco-
pie Of the U. S. wanted him to do.
This new fledged opposition comes not
from Democrats, but from the shattered
remnants Of those corrupt political organ
izatiOns which the Democracy have but
lately beaten down. Upon the agitation
of the slavery question those political vul-
lures fattencd, and when that was by the
Democracy taken from politicians and left
to the people to dispose Of, they find their
Occupation gone" and unite in condcm.