Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1857-08-20

dead, and its name would not answer the
purpose they had in view. II vas deemed
unwise to assume the name Of Americans
o: Know Nothings, for that party had been
able to take bur one track in the Presiden-
tial game, and must soon die out.
After viewing the ground, it was agreed
that the party should change its name from
the Iav-and-order party to that o the ma
tional democracy. The democrats had just
elected the President and would have ma
iority in Congress and if the pro-slavery
party in Kansas should assume the name of
usliona. democracy, it would bring them in
favor with the administration and with Con-
gress, and at the same time secure 20 their
party the services of the Free State Demo
erals rom the Northern States. Time has
proved that this Vas good move and great
advantages would result to the party from it.
This was the history of the pro-slavery par
;y in Kansas, and under all u names il had
remained sound on the goose and the charge
that the prc-slavery men in Kansas has so d
out to the free soiiers IS infanously false.
He was glad 10 IN form the p o-slavery men
of Pate that The prospects % the party
were bright. an. that if We will do our duty
in the future as well as we have done it in
the past success was certain.
In regard TO Governor Walker he said he
did not endorse everything he had said, but
was not prepared to take grounds against
him yet. Walker was good manager and
a keen man, and he thought he understood
him. He believed when Walker held mis-
secret councils with the President and his
cabinet that they were chalking out policy
for Kansas. The people should remember,
said he, that majority Of the cBbine, were
Southern men. and he believed that Walk
er's tripe to the Northern States after his
consultations with the President and III his
talk North about Kansas becoming free
State had a design in it. The object wac
TO ge: himself endorsed by the Northern
press and the Free State papers f Kansas,
and after he had succeeded in this he could
put down the Free State den in Kansas by
the strong arm OF :he government and
point to his endorsement by the Northern
press and the Free state press in Kansas
for his Justification. He believed in Walk-
er, though he would not endorse him fully
apd believed he could be managed very
easily. In regard to the nomination of ex-
Governor Ransom for Congress, in Kansas,
he regarded this The best piece of policy
they h.d yet done. 1t ~as a capital move
He would get the democrats from the North
ern States to man. Ransom was sound
- nj I'll,
and he must not be suspected by the pro.
slasery men.
Mr.. Buchanan and his administration were
to come down TO the work right and not
play false. HIS sincerity and that of his
cabinet was to be tested, and he shoold and
would be made to do right or they would
blow him and his administration into ten
thousand pieces. They should do right or
the national democratic party should be
broken up, for Kansas Was determined TO
have her right. He expressed himself san
guine aboui the sounduess OF Mr. Buchanan
and knew he had to do right or be blown
up.
The national democracy had elected a.
large majority to the constitutional conyen-
tivn, and pro-slavery constit:on would be
made, and he believed that it would be sub
mitted to a vote of all the people that were
in the territory on certain day, of which
due notice would be given to the people Of
Missouri. When that was done the people
must protect their slave property and get
up the same feeling they once had up, and
that election would tecarried as easily ashley
lad carried any of the other elections. The
free Statemen in Kansas were resting un-
DIR the belief that they had large major-
ty in the territory, which was fact, but
they were not on their guard; the men OF
the Forlhern States were not on iheir guard
either, but the pro-slavey men were. He
coHjoined it upon them 10 keep this matter
still and not blab it bout, but lay low and
keep dark, and work for the great stake
Properly managed, success was certain. He
knew more about Kansas and the pro-savery
party than any one else. He had spent
large sum OF his money, and raised great
deal from others, all Tor the cause in KaL-
sas. and pro!essed 10 know all about it
He had organized more Of their lodges and
taken more people into them Than any other
N n, and ne knew what was going on.