Republican vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1857, 1857-07-25
NUMBER 80.
The Secessionists in the Next Congress,

The SeCessiOnists in the Next Congress.
The menace has been thrown out in sew
eral papers that unless the administration
either recalls Walker, or expresses its un-
qualified condemnation of his course in Kan
sas, it will not receive the support of Their
representatives. of the South in the next Con-
gress When it is remembered that there
are really but two parties in Congress, and
tlat epcry gote aoithdroun from tie Nation
al Democracy IS a pos1tire gain to the
Btoch Republicans, we can ascribe this
threat to nothing else than the temporary
insanity of those who made it, Their course
completely at the mercy Of Black Repubii-
can representatives, as if they were in
positive majority. Buttheir madness would
demonstrate the truth of what we have al
ways contended, viz: that the national De-
nloeracy are far better guardians of the in
terests Of the South, than the sccessionists.
Fer If the detection Of a few secession
lists shall leave us at the mercy of the Black
Republicans Of the lower House of Con-
gross, conservative Senate of national De-
mocrats and the veto power of a national
Democratic President, will be what the
South will to have look to for protection. =
IF this threat is to be carried out by some
half dozen secession members of Congress.
and they shall refuse to act with the great
national Democracy and oppose the admin
istration, where viii they gof With what
party in Congress will they unite their for
tunes?
The Blaek Republicans and the seccssion-
sts, however they may differ, will both OPP
Tose the Administration. Can their threat
be construed otherwise? # hey cannot SUI
fciently t,ust the national Democracy with
the interests Of the South, to cooperate with
that party, into whose hands will they con-
tide their sacred charge? Certainly not into
those Of lie Black Repu blieans A pretty
figure, half dozen impracticable secession
lists will cut in Congress, claiming the ex-
elusive right Of determining what the South
shall do. Would not this eminently con-
eiliatiug attitude help US a great deal The
six or eight self-eonstituted guardians Of the
South would cxcommunieate all who sup
ported the Administration. Now the DEM
seratic Cengressmeh from Virginia. Tonnes
see, Kentucky. North Carolina, Arkansas,
Louisiana. and Florida, will, beyond doubt,
cooperate with the Administration and the
national Democracy. \ Virginia Congress-
man would rs soon jump from Lopg Bridge
into the Potomac, with dozen bags of shot
attached to his honorable person. as to re-
fuse 10 cooperate with the national De,noc-
racY II he did, the execrations of an out
ragged constituency would drive him into
private lie for the rest Of bis natural ex-
istence.
Goncediag, however. that the secession
lists peaa ncthing more by their menace
than that they viii not sustain the Admin
istration as far as It's policy in Kansas is
concerned, does this narrowing of the ques-
ton to single issue place them in any bet
ter position In what way msst the Kan
sas imbroglo come before Congress? Ne
ccsFayily. we suppose, this must be done
upon some question relating to the adop-
ton or rejection Of a Constitution adopted
either By a n'yority Of the people Of Kan
sts or by the bogus Convention of Topeka.
The Constitution, which has been APP
proved by majority of the actual residents
of Kansas, is that which the Administration
and the National Democracy win sustain,
should its adoption by the people of Kansas
have been obtained without fraud, violence.
or foreign interference; and against all such
influences the Administration appears to
have sufficiently guarded. The Black Re-
publicaas will, if Che course of .ae Tribune,
the great organ Of that party is any index to
abolition sentiment, bitterly oppose any 9th
er than tie Topeka Constitution. Walker
and the Administration are now the objects
Of the Ief51taeS NEST fesoeous assaults. be-
cause they insist that a majority of the peo-
pie Of Kansas must determine whether
slavery shall Or shall not exist in that ter
rtory when it becomes State. This plan
Of submitting the Constitution to the people
is also bitterly opposed by the politicians Of
the Keitt and Yancey school. But what
viii they do whea the question comes up
in Congress between the Topeka Coasti-
tation" and the Constitution Of the people
OF Kansas - They have signi6ed their
determination not to sustain the Admins
traton in its Kansas instructions to Walk
! er. They demand, before they will come
to the aid of the Administration, the dis
missal of Walker, and it is no. probable
that the Administration will make the
slightest concessions TO such monstrous
demand The national Democracy, North
aud South, will sustain the Administration.
They will reject the Topeka Convention aud
acknowledge the sovereign right of the peo-
( pie Of Kansas to choose what shall be their
organic law Although none detest the
Black Republicans more than the ultras of
{ the south. yet refusal upon their part to
cooperate with the national Democracy,
would place them, as far as the Kansas
question Is concerned, like the Blacl, Re-
publicans, in open opposition to the wise
and patriotic policy Of the Administration,
Rich. Enquirer.
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