The Kanzas news., 1858-10-09
apovnward Marchr'

Who has nos read the legend OF the :" an
dering Jew" which relates how one who
had scoffed at the Savior on the day of the
Cruci6xion, was doomed to wander about
the earth and forbidden to taste of death till
the Second Coming? Age after age, CEN
tury after century chased each other into
the abyss of Time, and still the ACCUSED
oxE sped onward, bearing every plague
and pestilence in his course, longing eager
ly for death As bride groom for the mar
riage feast. yet doomed forever to hear the
dread command-s'NARcH % ''MARcH ]" re-
sounding in his esrs. Before him are health
and happiness. behind him death and despair.
Such, in brief, Is the legend--such the doom
of the aecursed Jewi
4 similar destiny seems to attend the ae-
cursed Demoeraey-sccursed for its treason
to Human Liberty. Their first camp was
pitched-their first fortifeations were erec-
ted on the "Delectable Mountains" of the
observation-disclosures Vernon and Monti-
cello, with the "Land of Beulah" full in
view. With songs and anthems of Liberty,
they made vocal all the air, and their ban
ners emblazoned all over in golden letters
with sentiments like these:
"Z'kere is 5m one proper and efeetua1
means By uhich it Il. e. Emancipation can
be accomplished, and that IS By political ac-
ton" "My suffrage shall never be want
ing Washington. eaaat
"By degrees it certainly might, and as
suredly ought to be effected, and that too
by Legislative authority" = Washington's
Letter to Lafayette. (See Life of Lafayette,
page 1914.
"Can the Liberties of nation be thought
secure when we have removed their only
firm basis-a conviction in the minds of
the people that their liberties are the gift of
God? That they are not to be violated
but with his wrath 7? I tremble for my
country when reflect that God is just and
that mis- justice cannot sleep forever.
TIE way is. hope. preparing, under the
auspices of Heaven, for a total emancipa-
ton. n."-J1srson's Works, UOE. 8, PIP. 403-
4O4.
Such was the original position of the De-
mocracy. Such the sentiments of the seers
and prophets of the faith. While occupy
ing this position they swept the internal
Slave Trade from the ocean, denouncingI
against it the punishment awarded to pira-
cy, and at the same time the immortal JEFF |
fersonian Ordinance of 1887 consecrated
the whole Northwest to Universal Freedom
But in process of time that zeal for liber-
ty in the abstract which the Revolution had
nourished began to decline, while from the
invention of the cotton gin and other caus-
es. the price of slaves began. to augment
The shareholders learned to act together
made themselves power in the land, and
were soon able to dictate creeeds and plat
forms to the politicians. Soon came the
imperious order to '.the Democracy,
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With heartfelt reluctance-with sullen
murmurings and muttered threats of revolt,
their flags were furled. their intrenched camp
abandoned, and instead of the fresh breezes
of Liberty, henceforth they accepted the
poisonous and miasmatic breath of Slavery
and its Dismal Swamp.
They abandoned the Louisiana Purchase
to Slavery, they purchased Florida express
ly for Slavery, and expended the nations
treasure by tens of millions in chasing the
painting fugitive through its swamps and
everglades.
Yet, notwithstanding all these things. they
still professed hearty zeal for Liberty. and
a thorough detestation of Slavery in the alb
stract. Meanwhile, the Black Power had
been consolidating its strength. and was
preparing for the seizure alias the re-annex-
alton of Texas. avowedly for the simple
purpose of Strengthening and perpetua-
ting the institution of Human Slavery II
The eonseiences of the Democracy at the
North everywhere revolted at the mon
strous prnject-not at the mere annexation
of it, be it remembered at the grounds |
upon which that annexation was based.
Everybody must recollect the grounds t.
Ken by John G. Calhoun. then Secretary of
State. in his official correspondence on the
subject, and the establishment and indigna-
ton which its publication created in this
country and throughout the civilized world.
Northern Democracy was in open rebellion
Martin Van Buren at its head. 1.-The whole
plot is ss black as ink and as bitter as he'll %
said one of their leading journals ..An-
mex as to Texas! !" said another, I'VE would
to God there could be gulf fixed between
US as deep and broad as that betwixt Dives
and Lazarus" But the Democratic Con-
yention assembled at Baltimore in 1884.
and soaiu came forth the fatal order, 'sRIGHfl