The Kanzas news., 1857-10-31
Democratie progress.


Our ultra friends of the oligarchy ought
to be content with the rapidity of the pro-
gress which their northern Democrstic toad
les and servants are making toward full
acceptance Of the Calhoun platform. Men
who. a few years ago, were loud in their
protestations of devotion to the Wilmot Pro-
yiso, and in their opposition to slavery ex-
tension, are now found advocating the very
opposite In the most extreme manner. The
President has fully given in his adhesion to
the slave propaganda, and his Silliman letter
openly defends the doctrine that 'sSlaye-
ry exists by virtue of the Constitution in
every Territory belonging to the Fedora
tion,' - and Pennsylvania has by her late vote
loudly approved of these sentiments. The
Supreme Court declares that .'negroes have
no rights that white men are bound to re-
spect," and the Northern Democratic party
by endorsing that doctrine have paved the
way for another step that they must take to
be consistent, viz: to deny the right of the
people to legislate slavery out of any State.
This viii be unhesitatingly swallowed-no
dose being too nauseous for the stomach of
modern Democracy.
At the present moment the Virginia
Lennon case is being argued before the
Supreme Court of New York. This case,
it will be remembered, involves the right to
carry slaves IA transitu through the Free
States-a right which the laws of that State
deny Charles O'Conner, New York
Democratic lawyer, and an unworthy de-
scendant of the great Irish patriot of that
name, is Counsel for the Oigarchy, and
well and fly does he do his dirty work. He
places slavery high and dry above State
control, and puts it under the wing of the
National Eagle. His speeches as reported,
putting aside the legal part of them, would
have better fitted the darkest purlieus of
/ Egypt, than the Supreme Court of the En-
pire State. He indulged in all the sneers
about fanaticisnn, DC, usually found in
Democratic orations, and when asked by the
opposing Counsel as to whether "the child
| of slave woman born in the State while
in tranSitu would be a slave?" replied in the
affirmative, and tauntingly remarked ''that
it would be no disgrace; the soil was no
mere holy than that OF Mount Vernon, trod
l by Washington" This is the gist of it
O'Conner is consistent to his views of ne
groes being property.
Whatever may be the decision of the New
! York court, this case will be carried before
the Supreme Bench, and it is useless, in
view of the Dred Scott decision, to specu-
4 late upon what will be the verdict. Judge
: Taney viii find that as the Constitution re-
cognizes the right of property in negroes,
it also guarantees the right of trdnsitu
through every part of the Union. This
!, will be swallowed readily by the lickspittle
snivelling Doughfaces of the North. We
do not complain, for if we believed that one
, human being could hold property in anoth-
er, we must of course acknowledge the right
: to carry it and use it anywhere and every
where for his benefit. The only true ground
, upon which the opponents of Slavery can
, stand, is to deny totally, now and forever
f the right of any person, in any place or al
; any time to hold Or exercise property in OIL
t over any member of the human family
Republicans Free State men of Kanzas
: this is tie only true and fundamental ground
and upon it alone can you meet the real is
sue. We do not complain of the position
D of the Democracy. for we hold that every
step they take at the dictates of their South
ern masters, will virtually be the cause o
progress In the ranks of the friends of Free
dom.