Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1858-04-21
The Danger of the Kensys Aeita,ion


| Few men who are now aiding and abettinp
b e Black -Repualican-Do Douglas movemenf
against the Democratic party and the Pres.
dent, have the least idea of the ultimate re-
suit OF their reasonable designs, if they co. d
| be made to succeed. The leaders of the move
ment act with malice aforethought; the fol
lowers are mere dupes, who, without thought
or reflection, are led to the brink of precipice
Our readers will remember that imncdi
ateiy alter the passage of the Compromise
measures OF 1890, a strong disunion move
ment was going on In the South, COMPRISING
! the States of Georgia, South Carolina, Ala
| pama and Mississippi affecting more or less
every slave-holding State in the Union. To
quiet the alarm and apprehension of the
South. and to preserve the Federal relations
OF those States, powerful Union party was
organized, at the very head of which was
HOWELL COBB, of Georgia. the present able
ana a. eihclent Secretary of Treasury.
Ihis Union party found ooadjutors and
I sympathlsers all over the Northern States =
ohion meetings were called, and men of all
parties ana political pursuasions forgot their
.noes anu comolned to maintain the law
and the Constitution The South was n,c;.
lied, but to protect themselves against fn,nre
aggression they passed Resolutions that
should another case arise in which State Is
refused admission into the Union. because
lis Constitution does not abolish slavery #
Will be the duty Of the Governors to call q
Convention for the purpose of forming a sep
arate organization. The Union men Of the
South themselves were obliged to support and
urge these resolutions, in order to lestore
tranquility and confidence in the Federal
government. Uuder these resolutions. the
governors OF Ala 3ama and Georgia are now
compelled, should the Kansas Senate Bill be
rejected IN the House, to issue their calls for
a convention, and there is no doubt but that
similar steps would be taken ia South Caro-
i1nS, Mississippi, Louisiana, and other South
ern States. Indeed. the Governors of these
States have already written to the Senators
and meinbers of Congress TO apprise them by
telegraph Of the vote in the House, in order
that they may lose no time in ascertaininr
the sense of the people.
That Kansas, of all other cases, should be
that which is particularly calculated TO rouse
the indignation of the South. is self evident
1t Kansas be admitted with the Lecompton
Constitution, the South will have a mere
empty triumph over piece or parchment.-
There are but handful of slaves in Kansas
now new, AMI there will be none year hence
he Legislature Is IN the hands of the Free
State men. Free State men will be sent to
congress, and the Fee State Legislature has
III The express words of the Senate bill, the
right 10 call new Convention, and alter the
-titution, th'ntedtatety after the admiss ion
OF Kansas as a State Even without alter /
II ing the Constitution, the Legislature may fax
the owners of slaves so as to oblige them IN /
dispose os their expensive luxury. All the |
advantages, all the power, all the practical !
consequences of the admission of Kansas are
In favor OF the Free State men of the North.
the South saves nothing but abstract iustic,
4 decent outward gespcct on the part of the
Nofth Tor the rights guaranteed to the South
Dy the Constitution. Should Kansas he ra.
Ieeted the South will have reason to saw :
w hat can we expect from our northern
brethren, should another State present itself
for admission, if in this instance the North
refuse us even the Improbable recognition of
an abstract right? Ii Kansas be rejected the
South may still have some hope and reliance
on our national President, but her faith in
Northern men, and especially in Northern
Democrats, will be destroyed for ever, and no
party will eAer be able to again con-
tend against fanatIcism and sectional strife =
Inc Union may not 60 to pieces at once. but
the foundation will be shaken, and the fabric
Itself will not long survive. Indeed it is
AOopeiui "hSsheE JAMES BUCHANAN will not !
'e the last President of the United States.
Nor are these inevitable consequences of
he rejection of the bill unknown to its onno-s
lents Judge DOUGLAS, and other LEADING
Black Republicans, foretold them at the COM
nencement of this session. Their friends ard
themselves prophesed that the President. be-
ore the end of tic present session of Con
,ress, would be obliged to issue lis 1rocla-
nation against the rcbellicus States of the
south. They now determined to brip,,
hat sad catastrophe about, and they hone to
xhibit their mock patriotism by seeming to
nd In the suppression of a revolution which
heir own factious course has kindled and
provoked. These are the plans of the Black
republican leaders; they aim at nothing else
han civil war and the subjugation Of one
ection of the country to the other. Such =
ubJugatlon, even if it were possible. would
estroy the confederacy and the Union. and
lace US in the eyes of the world on noral-
ell with Mexico and the South American Re-
ublics 'o''i ne
The men who still cali themselves D,n,o-
TotS' but aid IN this reasonable movement
re eVen more despicable than the Black Re-
uohcan leaders. They add the crime Of
ypocrisy to those of their new friends and
heIr allies. As well might woman be fapnd
'oking out of the window of a house of IN
lme' crying Il am virtuous :. as a Democrat
the Black Republican ranks protest 10 tho
itegrlty of his political principles Penn.