The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1858-09-02


these two antagonisms in the same party, the
Southern Rights or the so-called Democracy
ultimately prevailed, need not be mentioned
Degradation is abject, and always succumbs.
Having repealed the Missouri Compromise, il
became necessary that the Central Governmen,
should 60 still farther, and sbandon the estab
lished Territorial policy Of tie Government. Il
was demanded in the name Of Southern Rights
and the Administration recognized it as valid
Ofconrss, vhsn the AdministsaG;on yislded, and
made il party test, The so-called Democracy
They had no principles, NO con
vietions, that could be allowed to conflict with
the standard erected BY the Federal authorities
and the Southern Rights party had decided
what should be that standard. But to setter
and mitigate their abasement, the so-called
Democracy proiessed reverential regard fol
Territorial sovereignty. The people of the
Territories were sovereign, and must decide 70,
themselves. Bat, in electing the members Of
the Territorial Legislature in Kansas, the PEG.
pie Of the Territory we're deprived of the right
of choosing their own Representatives by in.
vasion from abroad. Ifthses had been sincerity
and manliness, OF consistency and honesty, in
the Administrators Or among the so-called
Democracy Of the free States, they would have
opposed and put down this outrage. This,
howsver, voah have given offence to the South.
ern Rights party, which the Administration
would notdo. 1t therefore sustained, by armed
force, the usurpation, and the so-called Democ
racy sustained that central despotism. Terri
torial sovereignty vas smistsn and lay PROSTATE
under invasion and usurpasion, Kansas had a
Legislature elected BY persons not residents
within her limits, to make laws fer the govern
ment of the people within her limits. This
was the fruit of the new Territorial policy, and
was sustained BY the Administration and the
90 called Democratic party. ""
When Governor Walker asd Stanton, under
the instruction of Mr.. Buchanan, in the spring
and summer of 1857, assured the people Of
Kansas they should have free and fair vote
at the election, and that no Coastitution should
be recognised which they did not sanction
at the polls, the so-called Democracy were loud
in their expressions of approval. Bot the
Southern Rights" party took instant meas
ures to make known their dissatisfaction. De
nunciations we're poured cut through thei'
presses and in their conventions against the
policy of Walker and Buchanan and the lat
ter, in trepidation, hastened to revoke and re
verse his orders. Bot Walker ard Stanton
exposed and corrected the enor
nous frauds at Kickspoo, Oxford, and Other
points, whereby the Southern Rights party were
defeated and the Administration, it's faithful
did not conceal its dissatisfaction
Walker was compelled to resign, and 80 soor
Is Stanton convened the Legislature, in ordel
that legal measures could be taken to vote OF
the Constitution, he was summarily dismif sed
In all of these vacillating and demorali
zing proceedings, these counter-measures ant
changes of front, these tergiversations and incon
the partisans of the Administrations
the 80 called Democracy of the free States-ac
commodated themselves to all changes, anc
adapted themselves to the opposing and con
aicting measures of the Administration. Wher
Walker assured the people they should have fai
election, and the Constitution should be submit
ted to them, the 80 called Democracy approved
When, however, Walker and Stanton were dis
missed for so doing, the so called Democrat,
justified their dismissal. The Southern Right
party were not guilty of this disgusting syco
phancy, for they opposed the course of Walker
his assurances of fair vote, and submission
of the Consultation, from the beginning. Kan
: sss was to be sueugatssda machinery
party would exercise, aided by patronage, il
contributing to that subjugation, among am
bilious and INSCRIPTIONS partisans, who would
demean themselves to any servility.
The Administration party, calling itself Dem
ocratic, is burlesque on Democracy, and 4
reproach on all Democratic principles. Indeed
the Administration has no fixed and wellde
fined principles. 1t is a mere partisan Admin
istration, relying on the discipline of skeleton
organization, and the power and patronage o
the Government, for its support. An able ant
honest Executive would rely on the rectitud'
of his intentions and the justice of his polio,
and acts, for the approval of his countrymen
Mr.. Buchanan has evidently no faith in hi
own measures, but resorts, like all feeble minds
toexpedients-andth these, of course, are constant
ly failing him. His great measure, to whicl
he bent his whole energies during the late lonl
session, the marked feature of his Administers
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party, the Lecompton Constitution, has prove
an utter abortion. He selected and specific
his own policy, and it has ended in total fai
ure. The Administration has broken itse
down, and it is not in the power of any man t
state what are to be its measures or principle
on any question of public policy. 1t is evider
he is not strict constructionist, that he is il
different to State rights and individual right
that he is not an economist in public affair
thai he has no talent for retrenchment, no abb
ity to increase the revenues, and that he
wanting in administrative capacity. His Cal
met, like himself, is ultra partisan, and extrem
ly deficient in the higher qualities of statesman
ship.
The French G government has accorded to IL
Atlantic Telegraph Company the exclusi,
right to erect land cables across the Islands
| Miquelon, lying between Newfoundland az
Nova Scotia. The company propose to run
cable from Placentia bay to st. Pierre, al
thence to Sydney, which will bring the Frsne
islands into telegraphic Communication Wi
France, and save keeping in repair some 70,
or FIVE hundred miles of land line in Newfoun
land and Cape Breton, through almost uni
habited regions of country.
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