The Kansas herald of freedom., 1858-04-17

ed that because man does not know
enough to supsrintend his own business
/ that he must Of necessity be good for
something somewhere. and that for max
ling laws for the government of his neigh
bors.
The Democrats Leaders.
It is remarkable and not Insignificant
| fact that the present leaders and drivers
of the so-calIed National Democratic .
i party, were all educated in political
school adverse to that of partisan De-
mocracy. President Buchanan was an
active, jealous, ont-spoken Federalist
throughout the earlier part of his life, and
| as such was repeatedly elected to the Leg
islature and to Congress. Chief Justice
Taney was also trained In the school of
John Adams, Hamilton, &c, and has
never yet pretended to apostatize from
their faith, though In the gensral recast of
parties which followed the presidency of
Monroe, he took the side Of Gen. Jack
! son, then boiling candidate against the
| regular Democratic nomination for the
Presidency. Robert Toombs, who is the
| ahlest and most effective National Dem
| ocratn in the Senate, was Harrison and
| Clay Wing down to less than eight years
since. Alex. FL. Stephens, who leads the
National Democracy "a in the House, was
rabid Wing till since General Taylor's
| election; John Cochrane, who is Steph-
/ ems first mate, was a Van Buren and
Adams Free Soiler in '48. Senator Doug
las, who has always supposed himself to
be Jackson Democrat, is now generally
cast out by the Buchanan organs as a
Black Republican. In view of these
facts, we submit that it matters little
whether a man is henceforth called a
Democrat or not.-.Ne.o York Tribune.
The experience of Senator DOUGLAS,
who never cast else than democratic
vote in his life, is the experience of thou
sands in other parties. While j. B. GID
DINGs, SALMON P. CHASE, JOHN P. HALE,
DAVID WILMoT, and thousands of other
good anti slavery men were trying to ral-
ly the anti-slavery element of the country
on the Buffalo Platform, against the ag-
gressions of the Slave power, Horace
Greeley, the editor of that same n. Y.
Tribune, was inditing editorials trying to
persuade the Free Soilers of Ohio to give
their support to Gen. Taylor for the Pres
idency. He was very bitter upon Mr..
Giddings and others, charging them with
being actuated by selfish considerations
in leaving the Whig party.
-Four years after, when this same anti
slavery element was e-organized at Pitts
burgh, with JOHN P. HALE as the candi-
date for the Presidency, to resist the en-
croachments of the slave power, and the
| fugitive slave law of 1850 in particular,
Mr.. Greedy gave his enthusiastic support
to Gen. ScoTT, who planted himself firm
ly upon the .fnaIity of the compromise
measures, and who declared that if
elected Presidenthe would do nothing to
impair the efficacy of the fugitive slave
law.
/ In 1856, Mr.. Greedy had succeeded in
getting on the platforms of the Republi-
can party, which was substantially the
Free Soil platform of '48 and the Free
Democratic platform of '52. Not that
only but he has been at work from that
time down to the present, laboring to
crowd the old standard bearers from the
platform which they generally invited
him to occupy with them. They are ex-
periencing Just what Mr.. Douglas is ex-
periencing from the Federalists, Wings,
Know Nothings, and renegades from Other
parties, who have crowded themselves
upon the Democratic platform.
And the same thing is observable in
Kansas. Those men who came here in
the fall of 1854, as the forlorn hope of
/ freedom, and who sacrificed everything
for the cause, with the hope of preventing
Kansas from falling into the hands Of the
slave power, among whom were Gen.
Pomeroy, DR.. Robinson, Judge Wakefield,
s. D. Houston, and a host of others !;
these men, who have never wavered for a
moment in their devotion to the cause,
are now to be pushed aside by class of
new corners, of the Ihacher and linton
stripe They are to fare the same fate
which the Adventures of the Democratic
party are melting out to Senator Douglas
But such is the experience of the world.
The noisiest, meanest pro-slavery ruffians
along the Missouri border, are those who
are from the Northern States, and who
have proved recreant to early education,
and to maturer convictions. The most
rabid, fire-eating Free State men in Kan
sas, who are as destitute of arguments as
they are of brains, are those who two
years ago were sustaining the Democratic
party in the States, endorsing Frank
Pierce's administration, and some of them
were bawling at the height of their lungs
more recently, for james Buchanan, De-
mocraey, and Free Kansas. Such men
would as soon trafficin humanity as in a
mule if they could only make money
by it.
Laie from Washington.
The latest Congressional news from
Washington is down to April 9Th:
| On motion of Mr. Montgomery of Penn
lsylvania, the House proceeded to the re-
consideration of the Kansas bill
Mr.. Montgomery moved that the House
adhere to Its amendment to the Senate bill.
by the substitution Of the Cnttenden pro-
vision