Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1859-07-28
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We insist that il is; not only duty
~hich Republicans owe TO their parry, bu'
higher even than this. to their county,
Five yen more of such m:sruIe as the ma.
gioa has erossed under for the past seven
7 would cover i With such dishonor, and &c
saFslsk ~ ssesses15ele aabst ta,s sstfe OF usn
American citizen" would lose the prond dis
tinction il once possessed; and SO far as the
rights Of Freedom are concerned, the united
power Of all three bFsEches Of the Govern.
ment, Executive. Legislative and Judicial.
arrayed ss two Of them have been for years
for their overthrow, would, probably, BY
1855, have accomplished their subiugation.
II 10 evident enough to watchfuI observers
Of the political currents that the Democracy
re. resolved. il possible. to be united in
186o-that the imminent danger of defeat
will alarm the jarring factions in their ranks
into an assumed harmony in their endesvors
TO prevent the scepter OF power passing
from them-thst the most moderate South
.ern man. whom the Oligarchy believe or
'haow that they can use. will probably be
iPresestsdAs their candidste-that the in
tended plans Of the leaders viii be kept in
She background. and pretended modera-
tion fsignedTbut that If victory is again
twoa By thesA hypocritiesl eso fsssions. ss IL
swas By ESfs Popular Sovereignty and Fair
Play-to. Kansas ssseve.ations in 1856, they
viii see -ts il that. before another Presi
DENTAL elestion. the new Businesses of
Slavery shall be % fortified 40 to be i'm
Pregnsble. We are only reading the Future
from the Book Of the Past. In 1852 they
carried Pierce into the Presidential chair
on their professions that Slavery agitation
should never be renewed in Congress. "on
my psetext Whatever" and the chief
festure Of his Administration. faithie.s to
al ito pledges, was the repeal of the Mis-
sour Compromise. and the reign Of terror.
Of prosecutions and prosecutions in Kansas
striving to conquer the prejudices of it.
SETTLERS against IN institution they hated
When the people were ready to pronounce
iudf ment on Gen Pierce in 1856, the .a-
gscious leaders of the party. having finish
ed ther use Of him, threw him overheard
and nom mated Mr. Buchanan 10 his stead.
who vas commended to the people as con-
servssive ssstemsa. pledged to justice to
Ksnsas, justice to al sections of the Union,
~ho vas out of the country when the Mis-.
souri Compromise was repealed. and would
snquestionsbly a,oid the errors of his pre-
Seesesor. The people cenfidsd In them
sgainEe!sSttd EilA-and Lecempton, Dred
Seo,tism, the reoPening Of the slsvs-trsds
The stringent execution of odious laws al
the North. while. Southern men, taken in
The very act Of piraey, 90 free, vest ma
tionsl debt Of two hundred millions proposed
for the strengthening Of the Slave Power
--tbess sss the striking features Of his Ad'
ministrstion. Could .sny man on eiths,
election dsy-ls59 or ls56-hsvs predict.
- the nonstFous outrages which Democra
TIC sscsess On those dsys wssto give birth
70, So also IN 1880. although their tear o.
defeat will psobsbly compel the Demo.
cratic leaders to smooth ever and concea
their designs, their srccess will inevisab }
result in longer and more alarming. stride,
in their Pro Slavery descent. Thousand.
will not believe. ss in past yesrs they re-
fySed 10 believe, till the OIigsrchy sgair
remove the vsii snd strike. But when the,
see the Lennon case between New Yorl
shd yheini, still pending undecided in tn.
United States Supreme Court, which ha.