The Kanzas news., 1858-12-18
anownward March b,


on ward, besFsBg every plague snd pezz1ence u
his course, longing eagerly for death IS . bride
groom for the marriage feast, yet dopEned forever
TO hear the dread command-"Marehl March,
resounding in his cars. Before him are health and
happiness, behind him death and despair. Such,
in brief, is the legend-such the doom of the as-
similar destiny seems TO attend the ACCUSED
DElfocRzeY--eeeUsedsfor for its treason to Human
Liberty Imports Neios.
as to how Tar the parallel may be carried out be-
tween the Democratic party and the Wandering
Jew; but IL Is very sEideet that Democracy has
been going ahead fog 2 loag .ine-neyes Nsaried
taxAsrH.s 'dnAscH,'' and her march has been On
ward and upward Westped Border Star. 81
If the Star were edited now IS formerly,
| by the Distinguished Clay pate, ''the hero
of Black Jack" !" We should see nothing in
the above quotation from its columns to be
surprised at, but from Col. Nc Catty,a gal
Iant Kentuckian-a disciple, as he boasts
himself, of Henry Clay-we confess We
looked for better thinks. As to the march, y
tsmareh,'' The News and the Star are
agreed upon Il; that is, they are agreed that
the Democracy are .+tsome" when under
marching orders-but some people have
thought that of late years they marched
SoaAk,rardly with great deal more alacri-
ty than in the opposite direction. = fsa
They marched on Texas, for instance,
with vengeance, and took the whole of it
and a good deal more-say ten. times as
much more for a rough guess--but alas !
when headed Northw.rdly they seemed like
So different breed of dogs" entirely. They
marched up to '.54 40 or fight on the Ore
gon question. but then they put their tails
quietly between their legs and marched
back again to "49 and feed" with all the do
cility imaginable, leaving the best half of
Oregon, as it proves. to the British lion!
a':The Democracy have done an i'm
menss amount of marching, (and nearly
as much counter marching for that matter. }
Has it been upward towards Humanity and
Freedom, or downward towards Despotism
and Slayes y?-on ward towards 'tthe good
time coming of which the poets sing. or
backward towards those dark ages, when
the strong trampled on the weak. and labor
groveled in the dust at the feet of power?
The Star says upward and onward-we say
downward and backwards. We showed in
our original article, from which the Star
makes its extract, that the original doctrine
of the Democracy, as taught by Jefferson,
was hostile to slavery and in favor of its
prohibition throughout the National domain,
and that after preaching liberation, com
promise and .'non-interrention' and ,popu-
lar sovereignty for the last half century, it
had, at length, through its accredited Or
gans, announced the doctrine that it was
the duty of Congress to intervene in the af-
fairs Of the Territories by positive legisla-
ton in favor of slavery-or in other words,
by passing general slave code for the Ter
ritories. We were speaking of this as
founding change of position on the part of
the Democracy, when we spoke of its
.etdownward march!,' ss7576 = ssiss s.i.
Does the Star call it sspscord and onwasa9
IF SO it doubtless accepts the new theology
which teaches that Human slavery is or
,dained Of God. sanctioned by Christ and
and the corner stone of our
Republican edifce,'' and perhaps joins in
the prayer of Governor McDuffe, of South
Carolina, in his message to the Legislature
Iofstbat State in which he exclaimed, bias
phemously, as it always seemed to us:-
.iGod forbid that I or my postefity should
ever dwell in a country not having the in-
stiution of domestic slavery IL such
are the Star So sentiments and desires, the
march of Democracy may well seem to
have been ''upward and onward. :" - zils
The Territorial Legislature should abol-
ish the Office of Land District Recorder for
those counties of the Territory which are
organized, and have Recorders of their own.
1t is just and proper that all the business
of the counties should be thrown into the
hands of their own officers. And more
Especially should this be the case in the
ERegistration of Deeds: The Legislature
provided that the District Recorder should
furnish 10 the Recorders of each county,
aaonshly abstractssof the deeds recorded by
iilim;; but omitted to provide for the pay
meht Of the County Recorder for transfer
ring them 10 his books; and in many eoun-
| ties theg we're not ssEsnseesreds end the Coun-
! ty Record faFaishes- -no:FeliabIe clue tosthe
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