The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1858-10-21
THE ELla r1oHs-LEcoxproN CONDEMNED.

and true =, Itionality of feeling.
THE ELE arIOHs-LECOMPT0N CONDEMNED.
If the Humiliation of proAigate politicians
could awsl en- a feeling of compassion in the
breasts Of ,ood men, we feel assured that their
sensibilit !. would be touched BY the present
attitude 6 the National Administration. The
condemnation which the policy of the President
has recei-s d at the hands of the people of his
own Stats as absolutely overwhelming. He is
called Pc asylvania's favorite son he was Sc
lected as .ae candidate of his party in the late
Presidential election with special reference to
bis home popularity; and now, in the full tide
of his postr, with hundred millions of patron
age at hi command, he has received rebuke
from the isople of his own State, beyond all
preceden for its severity. Of twenty five Con-
gressionsf Representatives to which the State
is entities only two avowed friends Of that pol
icy have aeen returned. twenty-five men have
comment ID themselves to the favorable regard
of the e,ple by denouncing the favorite meas
ure of tbs President as the offspring of fraud
and tyra~ny.
The attempt of the Union and other organs
of the Administration to soften their fall, and
soothe ta1sir crushed and wounded pride, by
suggesting the tariff question as the cause of
their defeat, is simply ridiculous, and can de-
ceive nos.,ne, unless it be the President himself
We shall not be surprised if the delusive opiate
is esgerl swallowed by the man who could be
coaxed s,d driven by the propagandisss of Sla.
very int4 the adoption of the Lecompton Con.
stitutiop, all reeking with fraud and forgery, as
a measr.e of his Administration, which it were
treason-p oppose. But every intelligent man
in the o3untry must know that the tariff policy,
hewevel popular in certain localities, could
have he: very little to do with the result, for
the reaS that the friends of the Administra.
ton we little if any behind their opponents in
avowinf themselves for protection. The tariff
questiofj is an old one, and it would be difficult
to expf2in why its influence was so much great.
er at tie last than at preceding elections, in
which fae Pro-Slavery party we're successful.
The irea interest had been clamoring for pro.
' Ta to. wears mon vsars before Iseor n.nn
VI EohVo WCiO hCotu VI du0 tu0 II6SlOcQt,
though bose and slippery in the statement Of
his vie'9g upon the questions of free trade and
protect ON, presented an unquestionable record
in bis .,te for the Wing Tariff of 1912, whose
protectye features were so marked, that such
Wing Senators as Mangum and Graham, of
North caroline, voted against it. 1t is there
fore gu .erlativey ridiculous to pretend that the
Protect We interests of Pennsylvania have risen
in their might to condemn the President. No |
the hoBest masses have been aroused BY a sense
of outraged liberty, equity, and fair dealing, and
have branded with infamy the darling scheme
Of the Administration for enslaving Kansas.
| The result may not have been an expression
of popular sentiment against Slavery-we fear
that is is not-but it unquestionably is an hon.
est outburst of Indignation at the Infamous ex.
pedient adopted by the party in power for fore.
ing Slavery into Kansas. The people are hon.
est anG mean to do right, but they are still far
from being thoroughly indoctrinated with the
genuine spirit Of liberty. If their Representa-.
lives betray them by some glaring surrender ef
their rights to the Shareholders, as by the re-
peal Of the Missouri Compromise, or the fabri.
cation Of the Lecompton fraud, they are Quick
10 resent it, and to hurl the traitors from place:
but, in The security of their own free homes they
Are prone to forget the past, and to be blind to
The present, while the came treacherous party,
with the ever-wakefnl and Unsuitable Slave
Power at lis back, is plotting new schemes of
lggres. ion upon their liberties. They have vet
)horouf hly to understand that the corrupt COM
binatioa of politicians which clings to the name
Df Den ocracy have Tot one Democratic princi
tle left amongst them. The people have yet
Do learf that this combination have but two ele.
psnts If unity and strength left, viz: Slavery
ropsgapdism and the spoils.
/ Let Ms hope that the day is not distant when
be freq people Of the free States shall thorough
= comprehend this truth and that they will
ease = trust any man in any public position
Sho acknowledges allegiance to Cincinnati
Platforms, bred Scott decisions, or other politi.
|}el ere Ids generated % the same atmosphere of
toral lebssement.
1t is to be hoped, also, that the late elections
eay teach the Northern politicians lesson of
Ilfrespect which may be profitable to them in
10 future. 1t is becoming quite evident that
lortheen subserviency to Southern schemes of
1avery propsgandism will in few years cease
Stirei,to be paying business. So long as Vir.
3nia s.ld Southern influence over the N orthern
Ppulss mind was strong enough to control the
kFesid ,ntial elections beyond peradventure,
pugh Was at high figure; but since the mem
Fable sra of 1856 it has been declining in value,
hd the signs of the times indicate that it will be
fterly. worthless in the course of few seasons
bore. Old politicians, from the force of habit,
bay not be able to walk erect in the presence
the STAKEHOLDER, but the young men of talent
tho ale coming upon the stage will learn to
void shs folly of their predecessors. While
be So ata was half the Union, it could, by ma.
ting allegiance to Slavery sine qua non, com.
iel acluiescence in its policy on the part of its
Forthtrn allies but the preponderance in the
ronfeceracy Of freemsn and free States is now
terry DECIDED, and every year will add to it. We
low h4vs seventeen free to fifteen slave States
Oregon and Kansas, which are ready for ad
mission, will make nineteen to fifteen. In view
# Interstate of things, and with three of the fif.
ZEN siAse States delaware, Maryland, and
Iissotri1 rapidly becoming Northern in their
Institutions and habits of thought, there would
eem 10 be little inducement held out for men
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