Kenosha tribune & telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1856-1859, 1857-12-03
Kansas-rhe Democratic Split.

some members OF tne HortneTn wing VI VIC |
Democracy are beginning to find out there is
cause to fear for the fate of Kansas, notwith-
standing their incredulity before election. We
are not disposed TO give them much credit for
this late zeal i'll the cause in which we have been
so long engaged, and which has heretofore not
only sneers and revilings from them. Ever
since the Kansas Nebraska act was passed, re-
pealing the Missouri Compromise, the aim and
object of the Southern Democracy has been just
rs apparent as it is now. We might have sup
posed that the Eruption of Missouri Border Ruff
fans, and the violence and lawlessness enacted
at the first election in the Territory, and the out
rageous laws enacted by the bogus Legislature
then elected, wo'd open the eyes ofevery northern
Democrats, to the interest of the slave power,but
they saw nothing in all that iniquity to condemn.
When the administration sent an army into
Kansas to enforce those tyrannical and uncon-
stitutional laws of bogus legislature, and to
protect the border rufians in their lawless dep
relations upon the real citizens of Kansas, they
saw nothing to condemn, but attempted to make
Bleeding Kansas" mock and byword, and
those who labored for the right, they reproached
as Freedom Shriekers," "Kansas Shriekers,'
and all that sort Of thing.
Now, when we have only the bitter fruits o
the course they have upheld and approved, and
encouraged, it is perfectly fair to doubt the hon
esty of this eleventh hour repentance. The DO
gus convention which has framed constitution
repugnant to the entire peepleof Kansas, have al
along had the sympathy of norther Democrats
and this Notwithstanding they knew from the
6rst that it not to be submitted to the people
If they hoped otherwise, their course has beer
such as to lead their southern slaveholding al
lies to the conclusion that however much they
might ask for Slavery, would be yielded with
out murmur, They are fairly and emphatically
committed, as members ofthe Democratic party
to what has been for years the acknowledged
Democratic policy-the naturalization and ex
tension of Slavery-and if they now repudiate
that policy they must evidently repudiate the
party and come out of it.
The Union newspaper, the organ of the ad
ministration, and the expounder of Democratic
faith, has declared in favor of the bogus con
stitution, and against It's submission, to the peo
ale. The President and his cabinet have an
animously adopted the position of the Union, land
i. is already decided that Kansas must be admit
ted at once with that costitution, regardless of
! he wishes her people
| Senator Douglas, and some other northern
doughfaces, either from motives of sef-interest
or from temporary qualm Of conscience are
protesting against this decision, with how much
much effect we shall see The following, from
the Chicago Times, douglas paper has the right
sound and if the Little Giant" with his
northern compeers stand up to it they may
accomplish something, if it is but to open
still wider the eyes of the people to the inten-
items of the Democratic Party.
"If the person conducting the Union were q
sane man he would know that Buchanan would
never have been President nor any of his cab
met now in Office, had the Democratic party in
1856 limited at the possibility of the people of
Kansas being denied a vote on their constitu-
zion, and yet he Washington Union in its issues
of the 18Th, 10Th and Doth inst can hardly find
words enough to express its qualification that the
principles of the Democratic party have not or
iy been shamefully Gisregarded but actually
frampled under foot in Kansas. The Union may
rxult, but the Union is not the administration
and the Union is not the Democratic party. The
Democratic party stands pledged in every ham
ct in the United States to secure to the people
of Kansas The privilege of making their own
newspaper and cabinet officer stood at every
cross road throughout the land forbidding it.,
must be made good"