Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-07-13
SPIRIT OF THE MORNING PRESS
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP

AN EFFORT To DISRUPT THE DEMOCRATIC
PARTr-BLows AIMED AT THE SOUTH's FU-
TURE BY SOUTHERN HANDs-The earnestness
with which the opponents of the Democracy at
the South seek to avail themselves of every
passing political thunder cloud, as means of
dlsrupting the Democratic organization of the
two great sections of the Confederacy, is worthy
OF better cause. Ever since sectional issues
have unfortunately disturbed the peace and
harmony of the country, they have lost no op-
portunity to create throughout the South, the
belief that political union with Democrats of
the North is worse than death to the South.
Yet whenever practical (if indirect fraterniza-
ton, with even abOlitionism itself holds out
shadow of hope of vanquishing the Democra-
cy, though the latter may be contending man.
fully for Southern rights, they hesitate not to
adopt it as their own policy for the time being.
None are so vehement defenders of Southern
rights as they, when Southern rights may not
be IN danger; and none so surely recreant to
them, when real danger approaches through
prospect of success by a union with all other
political lattudinarians of all other sections of
the country, to fasten upon it government of
latitudinarianism, which, if successful, must
ehS uSSliuOSlOh VI COulueTn rights In
the Union. These facts are so patent to all who
are familiar with the political history of the last
quarter of century, as 10 render the task of
explaining them in detail, needless labor ON our
part.
Their last humbug cry is that President
buchanan Is q traitor TO the pledges upon which
he received the support of the South in the late
Presidential election, because, forsOoth, he has
not recalled Gov. Walker from Kansas Mark
how plain tale, reader, will put them down.
President Buchanan pledged himself to the
maintenance of the principle of the Kansas
Nebraska act accepting the exposition Of that
principle enunciated in the resolutions of the
Cincinnati Convention, which, also, in all its
consequences was accepted by all the South as
represented in that convention. There was as
little mental reservation in his act of acceptance
as all he has had occasion to say or write since
upon the subject directly or indirectly. proves.
as in the acceptance of the South lin the con-
yentiOn) of his views, as the constitutional and
fair reading Of the right and duty of the Gen.
eral Government in the premises and every
line he has since written, and every word sub
sequently spoken by him on the subject. has
been in strictest accordance which his Dledpes
above involved. He proclaimed his purpose to
be what the Democratic National Convention
(under earnest Southern Advocacy laid down
as being his duty. Viz: in administering the
affairs Of the General Government in the Terri
tories, to know no North, no South, no East, and
no West; and to take due care that every man
justly entitled to voice in shaping the future
institutions of Territory, and no others. come
from what quarter they might, should be per-
United to usurp that right. To this the South
said Amen-not only to his pledge to prevent
outside interference in the domestic affairs of
the Territories, but to that promising to secure
TO all who emigrated to Territory, designing
in good faith TO become residents there. the
right TO an equal voice in determining the char
acter OF the institutions under which they were
TO live hereafter.
He has charged with the government of Kan
cas-, gentleman ofegual reputation as a states
man, with the first living American who has
not yet reached the Presidency; who, besides,
had been earnestly pressed on him for Secretary
of State, by almost the unanimous voice of those
in public life known as the most earnest and
enthusiastic defenders of and advocates for
southern rights. Circumstances prevented him
from gratifying them by that gentleman's Sc
lection TOR the Secretaryship of State 1t soon
became his duty, however to fill position of
more importance TO the supremacy Of the prin-
ciple for which the South cOntended so earnestly
In the Cincinnati Convention and in the subse-
quent national election, than any other within
his gift; and he offered it to him-to the candi-
date of most of the Southern rights Democ-
racy Tor Secretary Of State. lie could give no
more substantial earnest of his gratitude to the
South for her gallant support Of him lin the
Presidential electiOn,) and of his purpose to
carry out to the letter the policy and pledges
OF the Cincinnati Convention upon the Kansas
questionable policy and pledges Of the South
than was involved in that offer. 1t was accent
ed in the spirit in which it was rendered Viz:
in the spirit Of gratitude to the Southern rights
interest for the abiding confidence that interest
nad manifested In so earnestly supporting the
recipient for the second Office known to our sys-
tem-the Secretaryshipof State The new func
tionary, ere starting for Kansas, received in
structons drawn up in strict accordance with
the pledges mentioned above, so far as the alb
sOrblng question is concerned embracing not
word more or less. As in duty bound. not only
TO the constitution and the law, but to the Pres
ident and to the South, he has striyen to carrv
out those instructions with earnestness and
zeal; undergoing, in so doing, an amount of
physical labor which his feeble frame is illy
calculated to bear, and which a man of less
moral nerve would have shrunk from in dismay
and dispair.
lie found matters so confused, and the people
Of the Territory in so much turmoil concerning
their future, that To accomplish the TRIUMPH of
The principle he was sent ont tn carry throu IN
tnumphsntly he deemed it tie be necessary on
ms part to take the stump. In so doing he
conceived it his duty to appeal to all to sustain
the principle in issue (of the Kansas ebraska
act who we're justly entitled to voice in de-
termlnlng the future of the Territory-to those
OF them who were its opponents and the bitter
enemies of the South, as well as TO its friends
and the advocates of the adoption of Soutbarn