Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1858-03-03
A word to Honest but Misguided Demo

A valced friend sends US the following
powerful appeal to such members Of the
! Democratic party as are now antagonising the
old organization on the Kansas issue. The
argument presented cannot fail to show those
Democrats who still adhere to the position OF
DOUGLASS, WALKER and FoRNEY, that con-
tinuance in that company must ultimately lead
/ them into the camp of the enemy. The wrl-
ter of this appeal was himself Free-State
I Democrat, and therefore directs his facts es-
/ pecially to those of like political Ieaniugs.
/ He says eff the question presented 70 our
consideration in the admission OF Kansas to
| the Union of States, under the Leconpton
! Constitution. were a final and conclusive one.
and destined to make her slave State erre-
rocaJly, in utter defiance of the wishes of a
vast majority of her citizens, then the Presi-
dent, aud those who agree with him, would be
wrong, utterly wrong, in the course which
+, they recommended But such would not be
the case. The course recommended by Pres
ident BUCHANAN would eventually and speed
lily, too make Kansas a free State, that is,
| presuniing, as has been SO often asserted that
three fourths of her inha abitants are opposed
to the institutions of slavery.
Then why longer continue this factious ep-
position to the masses of their old party friends
/ Without they are prepared to cast off all ale
gience to the Democratic party, and join Mt
once with tue Black Republicans. they
committing moral treason, because they
giving aid and comfort to the common enemy.
Let them remember that the Black Republ-
can party is composed of the same men who
under different names-cnaaged as often us
F.. the chameleon changes its tluts-havc opposed
every measure proposed by the Democratic
party since the days of Thomas JEFFERSON
Let them also remember that every impOr-
tant measure ever proposed by the Democrat
lc party, however much 1t may have been op-
posed and yillifed by their political opponents
at the tune, has become the settled policy OF
our government, SO much so, that our oppo-
nents, even when possessed of tempory power
have not sought to change them. No party
need seek stronger endorsement of the uni
form wisdom of its measures. The acquisi-
ton of the Territory Of Louisiana, SO bitterly
opposed by New England, has been to her
merchants an untold fountain ofwealth Who
would be SO insane now as to advocate
the recession Of florida, Texas, New Mexico
or California? The cOuntry owes all these
acqul :ltlons Of territory to the Democratic par
ty Including Louisiana, they have lncreas-
ed our territorial extent from $40, coo square
miles to nearly 5, 600. .000, and have added to
our wealth and resources in an infinitely grea
ter ratio. The Independent Treasury Sys-
TEN, once. so strongly opposed, IS now univer
sally recognised as an emineuty wise meas
urc So with the Revenue Tariff, the refu-
sal to re-cbarter National Bank, and a host
of measures Of a minor importance. They
were all bitterly opposed by the opposition,
and are now admitted to have been right and
proper So viii it be with the present oppo-
sition to the admission of Kansas under the
Lecompton Constitution. The timid may fall
ter and draw back under natural feeling of
dismay, but the Democratic column, shoulder
to shoulder, firm in the conscious rectitude of
its course. will march on as heretofore, and
achieve, as its merits, a final and decisive vic
tart