Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1858-02-03
Now and Than.

We have been watching with great
interest the course which the more liber-
d and honest Of the Democratic presses
n the Free States might take upon the
question of the admission of Kansas
with the Lecnmption Con stituiion, since
rthe policy Of Mr.. Buchanan aad his ad.
ADMINISTRATION has been fully developed.
1T did not seem possible eveu to Re.
'publicaus, that Mr.. Buchanan would dare
to couutenance so barefaced a fraud,
strictly in the teeth of promises made by
himself, and Tor him by every Demo
cratic paper and politician in the free
States; much less did the masses of the
Democratic party, believe that slavery
vas to De forced upon the people of Kan,
-sss in utter defiance of the will of tie
'weiority. But when at last sff Disguise
is thrown of. and the hypocrisy of Bu-
.ehanau stands out in its naked deformi;y
there is no longer room for doubt.
The time has been, when at the nod
of their leaders, the whole mass of the
Democracy could be driven like sheep.
III any direction, forced to sustain any
.aaeanre,. however contrary to their own
sense of Hsht, and however contrary to a
principle they themselves had advocated
q single day before. Bat that TINA has
passed. Among alt the papers which
-sdzooated the election of James Buchan-
an, none was more jealous. not one more
able than the PhiIadelphia Press; nor
WIS there among Mr.. Bachsnan's friends.
"a single man VINO labored more untirina,
ssy. or more effectively than its editor.
.Forney.
Hear him now. ana learn what a
Democratic paper says Of the Democrat.
lie President.
The fact that the Administration of
the General Government is understood to
be committed 10 q certain line of policy
in regard to Kansas, has induced numer
Gus friends of that Administration to
withhold any more public manifestations
until Congress undertakes TO force tie lie
'eo1aptoH Consultation upon an unuiHino
and .prOseshn9 people. Should this al.
tempt be made, q e course only is left
'fIr the enemies Of fraud to pursue, aud
that is, TO thunder their sentiments into
.1he ears Of their representatives.
We have never known SO patient and
so forbearing g temper as that which has
been exhibited by cur fellow citizens;
and especially in view of their invincible
hostility to the designs of an unscrupu-
Ions faction nKansas. They feel Intense
.ty on this subject; but they will not be
.itsve that it is proposed to recognize a
catalogue of crimes il Kansas, and TO
compel the masses there to accept these
crimes as SO many blessings. They will
not believe, that al, day alter day, new
ou:rsges are psrpetra.ed upon The people
of ksn.as. in the name and BY the au
shofity of the prime movers 10 this Lee
compton continuance, the OILY effect Of
these Developments. is to hasden the
hearts Of the advocates of this eontri
vance, and to make them more and more
.resolute in forcing i. through Congress;
because, to believe such things, would
be to believe what would have been re.
garded as an inpossi5aity less than a
yeir.ago.
The extent and the degree Of the pub
lie sentiment in Pennsylvania on this
question may be aseertainsd in a very
short iime. by any one who desires to
sound it. A visit to Harrisburgh you'll
be enough to show what the immediate
delegates of the Democracy think.-
Pennsylvania is almost a unit. Mont
.gomsry, Delaware, Chester. Berks
.S.huyig, Lancsster, Dsnp4a- York,