The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1857-01-31

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wi Il not allow wrongs committed by party
Of the South and of the North to be visited on
all their southern brethren, nor sanction re-
taliaton as Il fit political remedy. They have
settled the policy. that it wrong has been
done, reciprocal! wrong is not redress. They
have put the seal Of their condemnation on
revenge as princi pie Of legislation, and have
refused letters of marqle and rcpriSai against
the South for wrong legally done, and rcquir-
ing the remedy to be pursued Ivy other means
than raid against Southern institutions
| They think that the evils Of civil war are
greater than the evils Of another SLAVE terri
tory: and the policy of the Republican party,
while it did not Justify, did tend to kindlc
civil war. They have resolved that there
Slial. he no attempt to grasp the rcins of
power on principles which tend to exclude
every southern gentleman from Office, and
neccsSitatc decision by the country Of the
great question whether one half the people Of
the Union will be governed by the other half
for that was the only practical result OF the
success Of the Republican party. Honest
though their purpose may have becn-as de-
voted to the Union as the friends Of Mr.. Buch-
nnan, their position was unsocial, and their
success dangerous.
The great argument at the South has been
and there is no Democratic gentleman here
who has not heard it., and will venture to
say there are very few who have not used it
the argument everywhere used at the South
was, that ii was a question of independence,
and not Of administration; that it was ques-
ton, not whether the ma ority should rule,
according to the great constitutional principle
but whether majority obtained under the
| forms Of the Con situation, in such manner
as practically excluded all southern gentle
men from participation i'll the conduct OF
affairs, ought TO he Submitted to! Not that
there were no friends of Mr.. Fremont to fill
the offices, for his fifteen hundred votes would
pretty well answer that purpose; nor that
there was any reason which perenptorily for
babe any one from accepting office, though
inclined so to do. nor that, IN point of fact, it
was at all certain that there could not be
found men enough who would fill them
northern Cmg:anls would fulfill that condl-
| ton; but b, cause the condition On which alone
any party can fifty and safely be intiusted
| with the Government, is the possession Of
power and friends enough crcry,rherc to carry
Oh the Govcrnm ent with the men Of the State
to BE- govcrncd-so that domestic govern
ment shall not assume the form Of foreign
domination. Instruments Of any power may
always everywhere be found; but office III
such hands paIiakes of the nature Of dcspo-
tism; and such men alone were at the dlSpo-
sal Of the Republican party III one half the
States Of the Union. They would doubtless
have rendered high Office to men Of high po-
stion in the South; but the condition prece-
,lcnt Of conformity of political views and
principles was wanting. They could not AID
in forming an Administration to whose crca-
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opposed. Thus practically the Republican
who represented no body OF southern support
erS or northern men, toconduct, the Govern
mcnl; and that is what is meant by Il purely
sectional party--tileir radical and incurablc
defect. They, by the simple statement Of
their position confined themselves to the free
States. Equal candor would have equally
confined the Democratic party to the south
ern States, for the objects and principles Of
the southern Democrats found, so faras ! can
SEE, no supporters in the North. They owe
their little remaining power there to II com
mon name and an ambiguous resolution COW
erng a radical hostility of purpose and prin-
ciplc; but honestly or not, they fulfilled tina,
Indispensable condition of carrying on the
Government, that in most Of the northern
States there were Il minority content to vote
| for the candidate Of the coalition OF the north
| ern ard southern Democrats, and to be silent
| about their differences the sole distinction
between the scclionalism of the Democrat and
the scctionalsm Of the Republican,.
The great lesson is taught by this election
that both the parties which rested theft hopes
on sectional hostility, stand at this day con
dcmncd by the great majority of the country,
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the country.
The Republican party was hasty levy, en-
masse, Of the northern people to repel or re-
vengc an Intrusion by Northern votes alone
Win its occasion it must pass away. The
gentlemen Of the Republican side of the
House can now do nothing. They can pass
no law excluding slavery from Kansas in the
next Congrcss-lor they arc in a minority
Within two years Kansas must be a State OF
the Union. She will be admitted with Or
without slavery, as her people prefer. Be-
You'd Kansas there is no question that Is
practically open. speak to practical men.
Slavery does not exist in any other Territory
| likely TO exist anywhere; and the Republican
party has nothing to do, and can do nothing.
1t has no future. Why cumbcrs it the
ground
Between these two stand the firm ranks of
the American party, thinned by assertions,
but still mistaken. To them the eye of the
country turns In hope. The gentleman from
Georgia salutcd the northern Democrats with
the title of herocs-who swan vigorously
down the current. The men of the American
party faced in each section, the sectional
madness. They would cry neither free nor
slave Kansas; but proposed safe administra-
| ton of the laws, before which every right
would find protection. Their voice was
drowned amid the din of factions. The men
of the North would have no moderation, and
they hate paid the penalty. The American
party elected a majority of this House: mad
they of the North held fast to the great Amer
lean principle of silence on the negro question
and, firmly refusing to JOIN either agitation,
stood by the American candidate, they would
not now be writing, crushed beneath an
utter overthrow. If they would now destroy
the Democrats, they can do it only by return
ing to the American party. BY it alone can
a party be created strong at the South as well
as at the North To it alone belongs prin-
ciple accepted wherever the American name
is heard--lhe same at the North as at the
South, on the Atlantic or the Pacific shore. -
1t alone is free from sectional affiliations at
either end of the Union which would cripple