White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1857-11-12
The strueeIs = Kansas.

After all the fierce agitation with which
the whole country. North and South. has
been eonvulsed in regard to the Affairs N
Kansas, it appears that the slavery ques-
ton was not actually a issue in the re-
cent election there. The candidates Of
both parties we've on the same side Of that
question. AHsf tke Democratic eandi-
dates are free STATE men: and were publicly
pledged to act as such should they be
elected. The struggle was merely for
party success, and, had the Democrats
been victorious, the result as to the az
clnsion Of slavery from Kansas would be
precisely the same as it will be now when
the victory has fallen on the side of the
Republicans.
What, therefore, has the South gained
by the terrible agitation of the slavery
question which distinguished the last
Presidential campaign and absorbed all
other considerations. The event has
proved that the success Of Democracy or
Republicsnism was a mere choice Of free
soil administrations. The Democratic
patty was bereft of all semblance of
nationality. vast sectional party was
built up in the North, the election of Mr..
Fillmore, the only candidate whose success
promised any hope of struly national and
conservative administration, was prevent
ed by a see-saw game Of mo chance for
Fillmore" which was shouted and echoed
and re-echoed from both sides of Mason
and Dixon's line, but the South has gain
ed nothing and the whole country has
lost much. The Democratic administra-
ton, and the Democratic oagans, and the
Democratic leaders have coldly turned
their backs upon the South to whom
they made such magnificent promises,
and now csrelessly shont, "Let 90 Raa-
sas," rather than allow the prospect of
future Democratic successes to be marred.
Visions ofproud offices and plump trsAsu-
ry pickings have obliterated from the
memory Of the Democracy eli the false
promises made during the canvass to win
the support of the South, but never in
tended to be fulfilled. Republicanism
has raised its reasonable cry Of Let the
Union Slide" rather than slavery should
not be excluded from Kansas, but Kansas
Just as it was before all this
dreadful commotion, dedicated to free
soilism. The bonds of the Union have
been weakened, and strained almost to
breaking, the patriotic spirits ofthe peo-
pie have been debased, desolation and dis
tress and confusion are spread abroad
over the land, but what has been gainedf
literally nothing but the oppor-
tunity for Democratic partizans to fill
the public offices and fatten themselves
at the public crib. The whole Of this
terrible agitation has been great cry for
little wool. 1t was the labor Of the noun
tain to bring forth ridiculous mouse
The South went fishing for whale and
caught sprat. The moral Of ell Ibis i
plain. No Northern man can tkil to 20
i. No Southern man should ever forget
i. The agitation of the slavery question
IS alike Improbable to both sections, and
'raught with danger to the whole Union,
and no party should be trusted or cOun-
enanced by the people of either section,
which tries to make the slavery question
\ political issue, or relies for success upon
appeals to sectional prejudices. These
have been done by the Democracy and
he Republicans. They have presented
10 other issue to the people. The very
essence of their organization renders them
of presenting any other issue,
md the seal of popular condemnation Of
heir unpatriotic and denationalizing
course should be promptly set upon them
both by the reputation of them by the
masses of the people.-LOu-
ssiIIe Journal