Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1857-07-18
That the policy of the Administration in relation
to Kansas is endorsed by every Abolitionist and
Freesoer in the Union, cannot be denied. :,

That the policy of the Administration inreation
to Kansas is endorsed by every Abolitionist and
Freesoiler in the Union, cannot be denied.
81. Register
The Register is utterly mistaken. Mr. Buchanan
is denounced by few ultras in the South and most
bitterly reviled by the abolitionsts Of the North,
for his in relation to Kansas. The abolition
lists in Kansas-the trainers, for example, of the To-
peka Constitution, still threaten that in certain
event they will maintain their Constitution and pro-
coed with their revolutionary government; and Mr..
Buchanan has announced to them, through Gov
Walker, that if they dare attempt this, he will Wis
it them with fire and sword. Now, the abolition
lists of the North, general thing, insist that The
Topeka Constitution is the only valid act that has or
can be performed in Kansas. Mr.. Buchanan de-
carcs that to cling to and to endeavor to carry out
that Constitution, is to commit treason and yet we
are told that Mr.. Buchanan's policy in relation to
Kansas {" is endorsed by every abotionist and free
soier in the Union" Why, the simple statement
carries it's own refutation with it.
But what right has the Editor of the Register to
be concerned about Kansas, seeing that, if he had
had his way, the Missouri restriction would have
manned unrepealed and not the first slave could have
set foot in the Territory? True, the Editor for
the repeal, and reoiced over it act of signal
Justice to the South and restoration of the Consti
tuition but he has sights SINCE and he noao
declares he regrets its repeal! In his issue of the
18th instant he says
"But, We shall be told that we approved the re-
peal of the Missouri Compromise, and assuredly we
did, but we do not hesitate to say, and Demo
mOcratic friends may make the most of the dec!ara
tion that while we believed, and do believe, that the
original enactment of the Missouri Compromise was
a wrong to the South and that it's repeal was no
cause OF offence to any portion of the Union, we
would have voted against the repeal If could have
foreseen the results which have ensued from it. We
trusted the Democracy, like smple.on, and, along
with many Others were trapped"
We record this with regret. One more gallant
champion has bcen-not lost to the South we trust;
bnt he has dropped his lance and lowered his plume
in the very midst of the battle. The South had ev-
every thing to gain, and nothing to lose by the re-
peal. Without IT. slavery would have had no chance
whatever in Kansas; with it, it has gone there and
may be permanently established. But if it should
not be established in Kansas the South, we repeat,
can lose nothing by the repeal, for the plain reason
that the aboltionis,s of the North have never re-
spected the line referred to- but have resorted time
and again to the "Wilmot Proviso" to prohibit sa-
We have nothing to do with the motives of our
contemporary in turning this sudden somerset; but
it deserves to be mentioned that Col. Puryear the
K n candidate in the 9th District who voted against
the repeal of this od:ous restriction, is Just in
close quarters and the Editor of the Register could
not so to his relief without ignoring and taking back
| his former deliberately expressed opinions on this
question. In doing so, however, he has not only
! deserted Mr. Badger and nineteen twenteths of his
| political friends who were in Congress from the
South when the Kansas-Nebraska bill was passed
but he has positively taken ground against them
and is holding them responsible, with the admins
tration of Mr. Buchanan for the present troubles in
Kansas He has just Jumped out of the frying
pan into the fire." We know his tNebraska
friends ".tried' him some for his former gallant
advocacy of Southern rights, but he bore it for a
time like man yet as soon as COL Puryear began
to roast him. he made the jump. Now let him
scorch We can do nothing for him and all we car
say for him is, that the 'aSolitionists and frecso
ers' to whom he has referred as endorsing the ad
ministraton, regret quite as deeply as he does the
repeal of the Missouri restriction.
Our contemporary says he &c trusted the Democra
cy like simpeton," and has been trapped" l
he trusted them without investigation, and agans
his better Judgment he deserved to be trapped
but what if he trusted them after full hear
ing and of his own accord-has he not trapped
himself? Let him answer at his leisure and lie
him, if he can, meet the facts We have presented II
this article