The Kansas herald of freedom., 1858-10-09
Diseeii
From the National Erd.
The So-callsd Democratic Party.

IOr many years, tneIe has Uoeu vi INC part
of the so-called Democracy an extreme
devotion to organization, and an almost
total Indifference to measures and princi-
pies. Whatever is decreed and ordered
by the central power, that is adopted and
made the rule of action, without regard
to its merits or dement's, by these trained
and disciplined partisans. 1t wonld be
less mischievous if these aspirants and
stipendiaries were satisfied with merely
conforming to the edicts and requirements
of the Administration but, instead Of
this, constant and persevering effort is
made to misrepresent and misstate those
who are opposed to them. This has been
particularly the case among the so-called
Democrats of the Free States, who have
exhibited the strangest inconsistencies and
vagaries in their political conduct, since
the adjustment of the financial issues
during Polk's administration.
In the Slave States, matters have been
somewhat different, for in nearly all of
them the Nullifers, or the Southern
Rights party, have obtained the ascenden-
cy, and in every one their sectional and
centralizing policy is predominant. They
have had special object in view in con-
verting the National Gogernment into an
instrument to promote great monopoly
interest, and through its agency consoh-
dating the local municipal institutions OF
few States into central and controlling
power, above and beyond the Constitution
and the laws.
With this intent, the uniform and ira
ditional Territorial policy of the Govern
ment was subverted, the Missouri Com
promise was repealed, the bred Scott de-
cision was promulgated, persistent effort
has been made to enslave Kansas, and a
series of acts, unnecessary to enumerate
in detail, have been witnessed. In all of
them the Southern Rights party were
stimulated by that local, monopoly inter-
est, which, in their respective States, is an
absorbing and controlling element of pow
er, and which is fundamentally intolerant
and despotic. They have not disguised
their desire aud intention to nationalize
and extend this great local wrong; and,
however much we may dissent from and
condemn some of the means, and opposed
as we are totally and unequivocally to
the whole movement, as morally and po-
litically wrong, and incompatible with the
Constitution, still let US do them the JUS
tice to say, they have not equivocated and
presented false pretences, but, as general
thing, boldly avowed their object. Un-
der the delusions, interested appeals, par
ty excitement, and the absence Of free
discussion, it is but charitable to suppose
that many have wrought themselves into
the belief that their motives are correct,
and that Washington, Jefferson, and those
who framed and all who have admins
tered the Government until the middle of
the nineteenth century, were in error.
But, with the so-called Democracy of
the Free States, the case il different, for
they have not the candor nor the courage
to admit that they have adjured the poll
tical doctrines and teachings of Washing
ton and Jefferson, nor that they have
abandoned the old and true Territorial
policy of the Government, nor do they
assent that Slavery, the local creature of
the States which authorize it, is national.
Their policy is, that the Administration
requires obedience, and makes it test
question of party fidelity. Their person.
al aspirations have led them to embark
on the billows of party. without principle
to govern or guide them and, as con-
sequence, the political shores through the
whole Free States, are lined with the
wrecks of politicians and statesmen, whose
hopes.and prospects have been foundered.
They abandoned the plain chart of con-
stitutional and manly duty, for the false
lights of the sectional Southern Rights
party, and have been stranded in vain
endeayor to stem the tide of a righteous
public opinion. The lust of Office and
the discipline Of party impelled them to
q course that destroyed their own self-re-
spect, and whatever lure for the moment
beguiled them, the end has been, and
must inevitably be, forfeiture of public
confidence.
It was the great mistake Of the last and
the present Administration, that they each
place the Government in false position
on those measures of public interest that
were before the country. New issues had
arisen in our politics, and it was for ths
Executive to decide in what manner the
Government should be administered in
these new questions. In each case the
President departed from the ancient land
marks, and adopted the sectional theory
of the Nulli6ers, or Southern Rights par.
ty, which had sdroitly possessed itself o.
the organization, and threatened disrup.
ton If their schemes were not made the
policy Of the Administration. Pierce in
augurated a new Territorial policy, thai
unsettled everything in Kansas, the thea.
ter of its operations, and Governor aftel
Governor was dispatched in an unavailins
attempt to carry that policy into effect
until Pierce himself fell victim to it
Buchanan commenced with the apparent
intention of correcting some Of the enron
of his predecessor, and his instructions x
Walker, the new Governor, were plsusi.
! bls; but when Walker IN good faith st