Marshall County Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1855-1859, 1857-12-10


,ention to make a Constitution to be 50
submitted. Mr.. Buchanan will doubtless
sustain the action of the Convention, for
he is reported TO say, "tlat bis wishes are.
and his will would be, to have the Consti-
tuition submitted to the people; but in as
much as Congress authorized the Conven-
ton, and they were required to submit the
slavery clause only to the people. having
done that, he must sustain them, and leave
it to Congress to send back the Constitu
ton to the people," In this, he and Gov.
Walker are at directly opposite points. The
Governor insists that the action of the Con.
vention shall be repudiated, at once. and
an enabling act passed for q new Conven-
ton, to submit the Constitution to the PEG
pie. In this position he is sustained BY
The whole democracyof the country, and il
Mr.. Buchanan sustains the Convention. he
will find a majority of Congress. and nine
tenths of the democracy of the Union
against him. As a simple matter of di-
plomacy. or rather propriety, in adhering
to fixed rules, probably Mr.. Buchanan is
right in his position. He stands sworn to
execute the laws. The Convention has
acted within the limits of its authority, and
were compelled only by the abstract. or
understood and not expressed principles
of the Kansas Nebraska bill, 10 submit the
Constitution to the people, and not by any
positive directory law; and Laving done SO,
Mr. Buchanan could only say, as demo-
crat, and not as Executive, that he would
like it otherwise-while as Executive, he
would be bound to recognize the action of
the Convention as valid. they having done
what they had right--legalIy speaking
TO do. But with Gov Walker, and the
people. and Congress, it is different. The
one has the right TO demand, and the other
to command that the Constitution shall be
submitted to the people for sanction or re-
lection, and if it has not been done, (and
the Convention had the right to 10 it, it
should be done now, and wW be done; or
every man who opposes it, will merit and
receive the unqualified condemnation of the
American democracy. And the removal
Of Gov Walker OH this issue, will be re-
GREETED and rsprehehded by the whole peo-
pie, without exception. Neither the Wash
ington Union, nor any other paper, nor ally
number Of them, can make the Democrat
ic party and unmake it, nor principles for
it, at their pleasure. Its principles are
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., progressive per-
marent, and unchangeable and when lead
ers undertake to innovate. or interpolate, OF
temporize, the sound and independent SEN
liment Of the masses will crush them by
their slrai sht forward, answering move
ment So it ought to be, so it will be, SC
is it now manifest from the universal ex
preston Of the people on this one question
The long continued efforts of the blatant
Abolilionis.s OF the States to erect thei
own party in Kansas, has proved toia
failure; and the honest few among the Re
pubicans in the States, condemn jim Ian,
and his cotemporaries as hear,ily as we do
There are but two parties in Kansas, among
those composing the decent portion of th,
actual residents, and those are TIE PRO
Slavery and Fee State parties regard
less CT all other political considerations
As soon as the ballot-box was resorted I,
there for an expression of opinion upon thi
question, all doubt was instantly dispelleC
by an unequivocal majority against slave
ry: thus putting at rest forever that ques
ton. With this action Of the people o
Kansas, the last plank was drawn from tn
platform of the Republican party in tn
States, and left them with nothing to stant
on but the ground of Opposition to tn
Democracy, without why or where
FORE" The New York Tribune tacitly ad
mits this by saying that il is best to let tn
Democrats have it all their own way now
and let them carry out their ideas in full
for they could never have better time
We think that thfs-though uttered in tn
spirit of the fox to the grapes--is eth
truth fifty spoken" The only thing tina
remains to be done now, is to see that tn
people of Kansas adopt their own Consti
tuition at the ballot. box, and whatever
may be, the true doctrine of our confedera
ton will have been carried out, and an eter
nal monument erected to the truth of on
party principles. The wailings owe
:" bleeding Kansas" the howlings owe
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