The Kanzas news., 1857-12-05
Decentralization of the Pro-Slavery
PARTY

| Buchanan's election was a Southern tri-
umph. The decision of the Supreme Court
IN the Dred Scott case. by which the rights
of property are proclaimed the most sacred
OF all rights by which the being who is
designated ''person" in the Constitution is
transformed to a mere chattel, absolute and
impersonal, and by which the enfranchising
virtue of Free Soil is annulied within the
Territory of the United States, is the great
est triumph which the South has achieved
since the foundation of the Federal Govern
ment. And apparently victory is constant
to the standard of the South. The Nation
al Democratic party has prospered during
the past year. The opposition majorities
have been either reduced or overcome, and
the opposition minorities lessened, wherever
elections have been recently held.
The Congress elect is Democratic, by a
large majority, and the minority is divided.
Seemingly the power of the National Dem
ocratic party is based on a firm foundation,
and Its ascendency sure for an indefinite
period. The obvious corollary is that the
Intellectual fires of free labor viii continue
to pale before the superior genius of the
South.
A closer scrutiny of the horizon will dis
cover other signs deeply fraught with an
other meaning. The result of the late cleo
tions in the free States, rightly understood,
attest the dominancy of the Free Soil senti-
ment. The belief is universal throughout
the North that Kanzas will be free State,
that Buchanan sympathises with the Free
State men in that Territory, and that he will
cooperate with them in consummating their
enterprise. 1t was this belief which ope-
tod in and
large numbers of the Republicans passive,
and sublecting the contest to the exclusive
arbitrament of local questions. If the con-
trary belief prevailed, if it was even sus-
pected that the destiny of Kanzas was not
finally settled. we should have seen repe-
tition of the Fremont majorities. Whether
the North will be wholly Republican-one
solid column-depends upon the issue of
the struggle between freedom and slavery
in kankas.
The South is divided upon this question.
The more sagacious leaders of the Southern
Democracy see the necessity of leaving
Kanzas to fulfill her manifest destiny They
have learned that she cannot be tortured into
slave State, nor cheated into a slave STATE;
that no force, however brutal, or fraud, how
ever diabolical, can ''subdue'' the fixed re-
solve of her people. They wisely bow to
power which they cannot conquer or cir
cumvent. How despicable is the conduct
of the other Southern leaders who are still
intent upon forcing slavery upon the Terri
tory! They censure Walker for the very
few honest acts of his willy and subservient
career. They pass resolutions of confidence
in Walkers master. Too vindictive to toll
crate an act of justice in a subordinate Off
cer-too cowardly to asssil the great almo-
ner who feeds hungry politicians = they
compromise with their vengeance for the
sake of the spoils. Participation in the spoils
is among the dearest of Southern rights.
They know that the vast majority of the
people of the Territory are Free State men,
yet they are bent upon outraging them by
the imposition of an alien and detested in
stitution simply as badge of conquest, for
no other purpose can it serve. They tram
pie upon all natural and political right, and
appeal to the law as vehemently as the crafty
Jew of Venice: They resist the democratic
principle of holding sacred the viii of the
people, countenance an instrument which
emanates from the last avatar of Missouri
ruffanism, and yet fatter themselves they
are the Democratic party. Such democracy
will soon find a dishonored grave The
South is radically divided. The organs of
Jefferson Davis have actually read out the
frontier slave States, including Virginia,
from the ranks of the pro-slavery party.
The organization which abolished the Mis-
souri, compromise and called up the spirit
of sectional discord, is certainly demoral-
lied.
How wildly the history of Kanzas illus
trates the comparative strength of the two
sections. The Missouri compromise was
repealed to add another slave State to the
Union. The South was backed by the Fed
eral Government-the North had only her
intrinsic strength to rely upon. NotWith-
standing Federal bayonets, Federal money,
stout and plant official tools, Missouri inva-
sions, Palmetto regiments, and a host of
warriors, Gen. Atchison, Col. Titus, Gen.
Reed, Major Buford, and all the other bri-
gand leaders, yet the unstimulated energies
of free institutions overmatched them all,
and saved Kanzas. Could anything show
more plainly the weakness of the South? And
what becomes of the balance of power
the theory of Calhoun and Caleb Cushing
The next Congress viii admit at least two
new free States-legitimate Developments of
Northern institutions. By the peaceful
method of immigration, the free States wi
den the area of free soil. By war. forcible
annexation, and lavish expenditure of the
public money, the territory of slave soil is
increased. The purchase of Cuba. and the
piracy of Walker, are now the only means
which the South relies upon for restoring
the balance of power, but the scale in which
her weight is placed viii kick the beam to
the end of time, or at least TO the end OF the
struggle Missouri Democrat.
The PoPE ON SLAvKRY-"Not only does
the Christian Religion, but nature itself, cry
out against the state of Slavery. Pope