The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1858-05-28
"A dark and fatal Fridays

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Lecompton seoundrclism. From an arti
Gle under the above caption, we make SOM,
extracts:
I" This wicked deed Of pronigate polite
ians will stir the moral sense of the coun
Try to its proloundest depths. 1t viii
awaken widespread indignation. 1t will cal
out emotions which have been stilled be
cause such deed was believed to be i'm
possible and i: will hurl into utter obscu
rity and shame those servants Of the PEG
pie who have sought this opportunity t.
assist in a betrayal, as wanton as il wa,
causeless and unnecessary. TO see these
men gibbeted and transfixed before tho
eyes Of the world may be a melancholy
satisfaction; and to this extent the black
business of the blacklist Friday that thi,
century has ever seen, may be full of com.
pensation.
But we have no rejoicing over com.
mon shame. We have no words of con.
graduation at an event which inhicts dis
grace upon our common country. The
more we deliberate upon the record of the
last fourteen months, the more do we feel
that blow has been struck at the very
ncart of our institutions, from which we
may never recover.
We saw in this Kansas business when
it assumed its new shape, last autumn, the
seeds of II fatal Generalization Previous
to that period it bore the aspect of emin-
ent fairness. 1t had been difficult prob
lem to others: to Mr.. Buchanan it was as
clear as a sunbeam. He felt so Himself
up to the moment when he supposed he
could change his course, and be sustained
by the country That was the weight
which pulled him down. The whole nation
stood appalled, at the transformation. His
very ohicc-holders hcsitatod, and there
was not Northern Senator or Respresen-
tatiyc within oar circle Of acquaintance
who did not, at first doubt or denounce
the unexpected aad extraordinary cx-
ample. The only interest that applauded
his course was that extreme pro-slavery
cabal (known to desire dissolution of the
Union which had induced him to leave
those true ard gallant spirits who had SO
long upheld his standard, and to surrender
the holy principle, without which he
would be reposing in honorable quiet at
Wheatland
From that moment to the present,
what have we witnessed? Nothing but
succession Of personal and political deg
relation.
8 Independent men, who would not bow
to the attempt to sacrifice 4 principle were
turned cut of Office, and base and charac-
tcrlcss knaycs put into their places.
" Solemn assurances to high functiona-
rics, written, spoken and printed were
ruthlcssly broken
" Representatives were compelled to
change their votes and to violate their
plighted faith, and where conscience failed
to approve, patronage came in to support
them.
" Calumnies, the most atrocious and
cruel, were hurled against all who dared
to be true to the truth The dark deed
of a gang of reckless spectators in Kansas
was made the test of Democratic faith.
Fraud and Falschood were erected into
cardinal virtues, and the protest of fifteen
thousand freeman against this deed were
laughed at, as the rawlings OF rebels, and
The threats of mob
" SO far the footprints of this unhalow-
cd Dcspotism. They are marked on the
historic page as the evidences Of reced-
ing morality and a degcnerating Dcmoc-
racy. They turned back the hands on
the dial plate of time, and remind us that
we are living in the foudal ages. Nay,
worse than that; for then, if power was
great, public men We're grave, and the
knave that sold his character died the
death Of the infamous"
" But the great crime did not stop here.
One wrong after another was tried, till at
last, as if to mock at even tho scmblance
of right, the so-called English bill propo-
sed, the incarnation of trcachcry and of