White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1859-12-01

the question Of slavery in all the Terrific
ries has beer. permanently and irrevoca.
bly, settled, in accordance with the views
and wishes Of the Northern people. The
slavery issue, in all its practical aspects
and relations. therefore, as an element of
political and sectional controversy, is ex.
tinct. 1t belongs solely and exclusively
to the dead psst-it is not of the living
present, and let the distant future take care
Of itself
The Philadelphia North American and
Gazette, we are glad to preceive. takes q
just and rational view of the slavery is
sus, and the policy which the Opposition
should persue in the coming Presidential
canvass-and that journal is one of the
ablest and most influential Opposition
organs in the Northern States. 1t has
heretofore, also, sympathized with and
supported the Republican organization as
means Of rectifying what it considered
to be the error of the repeal of the Missouri
Compromise. It's object accomplished,
it has assumed its original position, and
advises the Republican party to dismiss
its ultraism, and its impracticable crotch
cts and theories, and to adopt such line
Of policy as shall bring together in an
harmonious and effective combination,
all the elements of Opposition, North
and South, East and West. 1t says
To repudIate such (that is, Southern J
men, or to offend them with unnecessary
exactions, would be both unjust and I'M
generous. We their aid, and, what
is more. we want National Opposition. 1
A sectional Opposition is doomed. The
great material interests demand attention.
For years they have been put aside for
other and more Improbable concerns,
until the expenditures have run up nearly
to one hundred millions of dollars year,
and corruptions and extravaganza have
invaded almost every department of the
government. Upon the basis of gener-
al reform, the Opposition can elect any
proper candidate. Upon any narrower
or merely slavery platform the result of
1856 will be repeated. only more diSas
trously.
1t alls-"Let it be remembered that
in driving off several Of the Southern
States, by the prescription which is re-
commended by ultra Republicans, that
is not the only mischief to be expected.
Pennsylvania, as the New York Tribune
candidIy admits. is not a Republican
State. in party significance of that term.
Neither is New Jersey. nor Indiana, nor
Connecticut, nor other States which
might be named. The Opposition sue
ceeded in all of them by fusion of the
elements hostile to the AdministEa alton
and its party. and that is the only policy
which will put victory beyond doubt in
1860. The rule or ruin interest, which
nominated in 1856. and discarded the
advice of Pennsylvania, may be able to
pack Convention next year, and may
make candidate, but it can never make
a President.
These counsels and suggestions to the
ultra Republicans en- Inatihg. AZ they do.
from leading and influential Opposi-
ton journal in one of the largest States
in the North, cannot fail to have weight.
and effectually conduce to bringing about
that union among all shapes Of the Oppo-
sition, without which the triumph of the
Democracy is inevitable. We hope and
believe there are prudence, and wisdom,
and patriotism enough among the Oppo-
sition at the North, to discard the suici-
dial counsels of such fanatical agitators
as Seward, Weed aud Webb. and induce
them to abandon the worn out slavery
issue, and unite with the Conservative
Opposition, North and South, in an earn
est and jealous effort to redeem the Gov
eminent from the hands of the spoilsnen
and place it in the hands OF those compet-
ent and willing to administer it with
view to the preservation ofthe Constitu-
ton and the Union. and the prosperity
and happiness of the people. And in
this hope and this belief. we look for
ward to the approaching Presidential
contest without fear Of the result.-Rieh-
mORd Wkg.