Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1857-03-13

uphold the Missouri Compromise, which
did this very thing, down to very recent
day-certainly to within ten years. Is
there a man living who believes he would
have recauted these recorded coasictions
of his better days if his Presidential aspi
rations had not required it?
Mr. Buchanan boldly denies to the
People of Kansas any power to inhibit
Slavery until they shall come to form a
State Constitution. Well, Sir, those pco
pie hare formed State Constitution, and
petitioned Congress for admission under it
the Peoples Branch of Congress voted for
their admission into the Sisterhood OF
States; but they were spurned from the
Capitol simply because that Constitution
forbids Slavery. We know all about the
pretexts FOR this rejection; but they arc
just such as you and your present suppor.
tiers contemned and set aside in the admis,
sion of Michigan. Had the Topeka Con,
stitution legalized Slavery, three -four'hs
of its ConsressiOna. opponents would have
been its warmest champions.
But the time when the People of Ter
ritory shall decide the Slavery question
for themselves ais, happily, matter of
but little practical importance" says the
new President. All, Mr. Buchanan, it is
of mportance-great importance. With
your Supreme Court really 10 decide, as
the mass of your party assert, that slave
holder has the same right to take his slaves
into any Territory and hold them there as
slaves, and demand the protection of the
law in SO doing, as freeman has to take
his horse or OK there, the time when the
People may exclude Slavery settles the
whole question. The STAKEHOLDER plants
himself on their soil in defiance of "Squat-
ter Sovereignty; the inhabitants of iLe
Territory may be ten to one hostile to
Slavery, but they must submit to see it
coiling its folds around them without a
show of resistance 1t establishes itself
wherever it will; the Territory is a Slave
Territory in spite Of itself; its laws are
perforce slave laws; its institutions are
irresistibly moulded and shaped by the
genius of Slavery; how is it to escape
from the Shiny, scaly clasp of the serpent
thus silently winding around it? Do YOU
think the earnest advocates of Freedom in
the Territories are fools? You may
" cheerfully submit" of course you will
to whatever the fce Stockholders and one
or t,oo douyitaces on the bsnch Of tie .Sa-
pren,e Court may be ready to utter on this
subject; but not one man who really de-
sires the triumph of Freedom over Slavery
in the Territories will do SO, We may be
constrained to obey as law whatever that
tribunal shall put forth; but, happily, this
is a country iu which the People make both
la'cs and julyes, and they will try their
strength on the issue here presented.
Mr.. Buchanan promises to protect the
People of Kansas in the enjoyment of
"Popular Sovereignty" We shall be
very glad. to see this promise fulfilled
The innocence with which our new
Chief Magistrate felcitates himself on the
prospect of a speedy end of all agitation
respecting Slavery, is refreshing. The
overthrow of the Missouri Restriction, the
subjuga,ion of the People Of Kansas to
the despotic rule of the Missouri oligarchs
by such gentle means as the fraudulent
election of the bogus Legislature, the sack
of Lawrence aud the murder of many
Free State men, having brought US SO near
the Millennium, We shall see how speedily
its inner sanctuary is attained. Let US
watch and wait. But let US whisper in
your ear, Mr. President, that true Peace
follows Justice, and can not be secured by
the most elaborate varnishes Of legalized
Wrong.
Mr.. Buchanan reads US lecture on the
blessings of the Union, and the atrocity
of calculating its value, which We trust
the chronic disunionists (nine-tenths of
whom voted for HIM will take to heart.
The new President proceeds to reprobate
corruption in high places, deprecate extra
VACANT expenditures, approve the reduction
just effected i'll the Tariff, condemn appro-
pratiors for dubious enterprises, recon-
mend an increase Of our Navy (Which we
trust will not be made), and rather ginger
ly, apologizingly, and deprecatlngly, aud
yet We are & lad to see surely, recommend
the construction of Military Road to the
Pacifc-by which We trust he means
Railroad, though he is very shy of saying
it. lie avows himself opposed to meddling
in the domestic concerns Of other nations,
except such m,eddiing staHj be essential to our
own satety-an ominous and, We think,
needless exception. He would have US
treat all nations humanely and justly
that is, as he explains it, no worse than we
treated Mexico in stealing Texas and ma