Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1857-12-17
New Kansas Trouble.


DOWNWARD TENDENCIES OF THE NORTHERN DE-
MoCRACY.
1t is reduced to moral certainty that Mr..
Buchanan in his message to Congress will
adopt the Kansas programme of the Lecomp-
ton Convention. and sustain that programme
for the settlement of the. slavery issue-pro-
vided, always, that this question of slavery
shall be submitted to the popular crucible of
a fair and honest election in Kansas. On the
other side, it appears to be equally certain
that the hostile attitude assumed by Governor
Walker will be supported by Mr.. Senator
Douglas, of Illinois Senators Gwin and
Broderick, of California, and other Northern
democratic members of Congress, and by
some Of the more prominent of our democrat
ic journals, and upon the broad ground that
popular sovereignty requires that the Kan
sas State constitution itself, and the whole of
! it, should be submitted to the people, slavery
and everything else.
Here is well defined line of separation be-
tween our Northern democratic apostles of
Territorial popular sovereignty" whatever
that may be, and the President and his Cab
met.
But we see that many of our scheming
politicians are focking to Washington, with
the determination, at all risks, to make a
grand explosion on this Kansas business, upon
the secondary issues of the Lecompton pro-
gramme. Robert j. Walker, the Governor
of Kansas, appointed to bring the trouble to
a quiet settlement, leads the way in reopen
ing this box of Pandora. Mr.. Senator Doug
las, full of his ideas of the importance of his
position as the godfather of popular sover-
eighty" ranks himself on the side of Walk.
er, and the Chicago Times and Colonel For
ney's Press, and that usually cautious spoils
organ, the Boston Post, and various Other
Northern democratic journals, join in this
Walker movement for the humiliation O
the democratic party, and the reduction o
all prrties to hostile sectional and disunior
organizations.
Thus, strange and incredible. AS it may ap
pear Governor Walker, Senator Douglas, ant
their partizans and organs, that were si'
months ago in the front ranks of the democ
racy against the nigger-worshippers, are nov
volunteering to accomplish the very objectfo
which Garrison, Seward, Weed, Greedy an
their confederates have been laborng for twer
ty years-the final disruption and destructio
of the democratic party. If this were all W
might survive it but as the the next ste
must inevitably be the reconstruction of pal
ties upon purely sectional basis, the ugl
question obtrudes itself upon us--how lon
can the Union survive this practical politics
, separation of its people =?
The crisis, however, is none the less a que
ton of the continued unity Or the speedy di
, solution of the democratic party. All tt
' most powerful and popular of our Protestar
, churches have been rent asnnder upon these
4 tional issues of slavery. The great whig pa
ty was swallowed up among these quicksanC
, and the late formidable Know Nothing part
+ under the pressure of the slavery agitatio
has vanished into air, like chaff before Il
wind. With split among the democracy
: Congress upon this Kansas squabble, the d
: mocratic party goes by the board, and theme
forth all government issues and measures w
depend upon sectional supremacy, or Sc
e tona compromises enforced by threats al
i plots of rebellion.-New York Herald.