, 1859-12-16

non Of the national position, the just and con-
shntonl aims Of the Republican party.
Judge TTunbun clains for it tho simple mcrit
Of being his Interpretation and understanding
of the Republican national platform.
.mR. DOUGLAS KANSAS WORK.
It is time HOW to stop and count the cost Of
Nr. Douglas Kansas-Sebraska bill That
hasty, ill-advised and unnecessary measure
wns forced upon the country upon plea Of the
necessity Of applying to Territorial ufnirs the
great principle which it contained. That prin-
ciplc MI. Douglas has abandoned. He has
skunk back to tho organization from which he
was nomiually elected, and stands NOW, clothed
in penitcnts robes, suppliant begging tie
chiefs Of Ills party far an absolution that they
refuse to grant, Let us see what his demagoe-
eryhas cot:
When his measure was sprung upon sur-
prised and indignant people, the country was
\. peace. The slavery question was buried
under the weight Of two platforms Il: ::on which
tho great parties Of the country stood. But
his bill was tho signal for renewal Of yiolent
and dangerous sectional agitation. Both the
old parties, which had agreed to diseounte.l-
auce discussion Of this everlasting theme, were
disrupted By it's influence. The Democracy in
all the North FILL powcrless and the Wing party
was forever dissolved. What then followed
hns passed into history. Tho Kansas war
with its accompanying truits-the murder,
arson and rapc-by which the American name
was disg1uocd; the invasion Of a Territory by
ar armed mob from an adjoining State, with
the counteuance il not the ayowed support Of
the Federal authority at Washington; the
fearful trampling Of numerous people in tho
dust under the heel Of M usurping and tyrau~
ical power; the seizure by Democratic rufliaus
Of great national thoEoughlare, from which
minority Of the people Of tue nation we1e c1.
cluded, or on which they Travelled only at the
risk Of their lives; the storming and rob-
bing Of national arsenal at Lib
erty, Missouri; tho attempt made for
the first time in this nation to disfranchisc u
people By conjoined force and fraud, to which
the officials Of the Federal Government werc
prisy, and which they have approved aud de-
fendod to the last; the usurpation Of legisla-
tive honort by men not entitled to exercise
them the foscible seizure Of the machinery
BY which Stats constitution was to be framed,
Eud the creation Of IN infamous fundamental
Law for the government Of q people more than
three.fourths Of whom never consented to it
even by silence and inaction. These were the
fsst aud most palpable fruits; but disgraceful
rs they are to our system Of Government and
to the traisoruus rulers by whom they wcre
permitted, they fall far short Of the mischief
elsewhere wrought Throughout the whole
country tho ftaternal feeling which binds the
North to the South was rudely shocked; the
slavery question assumed ut once new and
more portentious aspect: agitation became
more dangerous and moro profound; tie ties
which hold the Union together wore sensibly
loosened; idoas Of separation became more!
fixed and took clearer shnpe; the hands Of
ultraists in the North md South were strength
ened. conservatism 4xa. a,,,,hed and dr;v.
an f,oro N. 6s1a. md +no,..,a. .,a +.a.
Of thousands Of men, who were wont to
defend the partnership which our fathers had
arranged, with the hope that it and its fruits
vuuld descend tn their nos,er;.v to Tho 1otas,
generation, have been taught to look upon
that Union ~ curse IN ha anaad;,r .nd h..
auv means removed.
Now TIM thinc FIR t1a ACCOMPLISHMENTS II
which Mr.. noncl.4 os,ans;b,v sat ,,,+ In. l,on
abandoned. b. his striking h,nds ,r;tb ~.
Administration. he confessea that II :. nj
worth contans;r,. for wbo, tha, bo,, ~.
ont in return fnr 1ha evils Tint ,;o hin h,o,.,.
in 1ta fra;n What national ,,sae;,c bo,..a -.
reaped out Of tho crimes to which it has,ed >
What grand political purpose. that ought to
engage the attention Of statesman. has been &C.
oomplished by tic agitation which it aroused ?
Behold the result:
Tbs Dred Scott decision which nerer would
haye been pronounced but for thu weakn.ss ,,f
Congress in breaking down tho old conn,ct
which Nj. Douz1as assa;1ed. an aoitat;on for
the revival Of the infamous slare Trade. DR..
mand On the par. Of the South. emho,denfa hv
repeated success, fo, a National Slave Code
applying not only to the Territories, but to thu
States: the Hs.per's Ferry outbreak with al,
its conseouences. numerous RESOLUTIONS IT
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