True American. [volume] (Steubenville [Ohio]) 1855-1861, 1857-04-29


free white inhabitants of the slave states.
Were this question presented in its naked
deformity before the American people
there could be no doubt that my position
just stated, bold as it may seem would be
sustained What prevents the open ex.
preston of such popular feeling and
judgment, honest and patriotic as they
are ! The answer lies in nutshell, and
if every man who feels a revolt of feeling
or check. of his judgment in giving his
political action in favor of the new doc
trine will enquire earnestly Of himself
why he does so, the response will be
prompt uniform.
Democracy! Democracy is talisman-
ic word with which heretofore certain
men have been able to conf Ire. 1t would
call up spirits from the vastly deep and
they would come at the calling. But
those spirits always came in the guise and
garb of spirits of liberty.
Now however the leaders of the Dem
ocratic party have bucklered the new
claims of slavery to their bosoms and the
prestige Of democracy. is to carry them
triumphantly, if possible, over all the he
redilary and cherished principles of the
American people. say jfpOssible.
The prestesses of the democratic Del
phie Oracle utter responses capable of a
favorable Interpretation, but true to the
examples Of their great prototype the re-
sponses are readable with equal facility
either way. II you cross the Hays"
said the oracle TO Cresus, "you will
overthrow great empire" When the
deceived monarch saw his palace in
flames and himself in letters stretched on
the pile about to consume him he was en-
abled 10 read the prophecy Alright. In. The
free states active, democratic leaders pro-
fess great anxiety that Kansas should be
free state, but the restriction of slavery
by Congress was in their view unconsti-
tutional and the people must settle the
matter for themselves, but not until they
form 2 state constitution, and in the mean
time it is all right that invaders enact
laws for their government, that they are
robbed, murdered and deprived of all the
rights of freemen by the combined action
of corrupt judiciary and the United
States Army, and any resistance, indiyid
ual or concerted, is treason, and when al
length they refuse in body to be dupet
by shallow pretence of admitting then
10 the exercise of their rights that also is
enough 10 deprive them of all sympathy
or protection in the eyes of those men,
All free state settlers in Kansas are il
, their nomenclature abolitiOnsts, and there
fore entitled to no rights, not even of life
, Men selected and sent there to enforc,
these tyrannical laws, who on ar occula
view of the enormities praclised unde
them, turn from them with loathing ant
disgust are instantly ostracised from tn,
party.
Those who without finchng do the
work assigned them by their masters are
rewarded by being invited to go up high
er. Modern Jefreys are held above al
praise by their employers.
The Wheeler case in Philadelphia
the Dred Scott case in the Supreme Court
the Burns case at Boston, and the scene
enacted respecting Kansas, including TIN
passage of the Kansas, Nebraska act, ar
concerted parts of drama by which sla
very is if possible, to be made the spiri
and essence of this Union. The tenact,
of the Democratic bonds is 10 be tn
means by which the result is 10 be ac
compIished.
Whenever | hear man protesting
desire that Kansas should be free stale
abusing the settlers there for what they
have done, and for what they will not do
and justifying Franklin Pierce and Jane
Buchanan for their course, branding al
who Justify or excuse the real settlers il
Kansas as abolitionists. | am at no los
where his real wishes in the premise
are. If | wished Kansas free, | shoult
never think of following the lead Of tha
man, should naturally conclude that hi
real wishes were those which his action
were adapted to accomplish. CIVITAS
-4saes-
!, The EMIGRATION WEsTwARD.-Pa
pers on The route of travel from Bufial
10 Chicago represent the flow Of popula
tion Westward as very large. 1t appear
, 10 be difusing itself over the countr
, west of Wabash, and large portion q
f it will remain east of the Mississippi
Railroad lands in Illinois and Wisconsi
attract portion whose larger means en-
able them 10 purchase farms skirting tn
l great channels of communication. A lik
G influence draws many to Iowa and Mis-
! sour. A more numerous class seek tn
cheaper lands of Minnesota, Nebraska an
Kansas. The Cleveland Ploindeale
says that colony of thirty, nearly a
: " able bodied men " of the vicinity, lie
that city on Friday last, to settle in Jefiel
= son county Kansas. The Toledo Com
!, mercial says that hundreds pass theI
i daily, bound for the Territories.
e adds: