The Kanzas news., 1859-02-12
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| No court of jurisdiction since the DAYS of
the infamous Star Chamber, has ever at
tempted so radical an exterminatiou of pop
ular liberty as the Supreme Court of the
United STATES in its Dred Scott Decision
For audacity of design, in the subjugation
of a free people TO an aristocratic and op-
pressive rule, it stands pre-eminent.
| 1t looks not only to the extension and per-
petuity of negro slavery. bat the subversion
and disgrace OF the white race, and the re-
trenchment of the dignity of white labor.
say white race, because, where slave gov
ernment predon,inates. the masses occupy
position little superior to serfs and slaves ;
while the whole political interest is Feposed
in the assumed prefogatiye of few aristo-
Gratis. Had we single instance of tue as
tendency of other interests in the slave States
than those directly beneficial to the slave
powers, we might hope that its extension
would only result in its overthrow, as was
suggested by the iliustrious jefferson but
experience confirms the fact that the domi-
nancy of slavery is the prescription of free
dom and free men,
This decision is but the beginning of a
series of aggressions, aiming at the estab-
lishment OF presumptious superiority of
the slave statesmen of the South, over the
| free statesmen of the North-an object full
| ly consummated in the nationality of sla-
very, and the remuneration of all persons
who deny legitimate right to property in
man. Such a scheme contemplates the es-
tablishment of an arrogant nobility, the sur
veillance and ignorance of the masses, the
abolition of the dignity of white labor, the
restriction of the liberty of speech and the
press, the re-opening of the slave trade and
the erection of an aristocratic form of gov
ernment.
When We consider that freemen of the
North have been aiding in the work of their
own devastation-that the Democratic party
has worked successfully for the last four
years for the accomplishment of this nefa-
rious scheme and that should it retain the
power for the next five years, it would car
ry out the policy inaugurated under its ad
ministration; we may truly inquire, is not
this the decline, and are we not upon the
eve of the fall of this great government,
panegyrized as the greatest political fabric
ever dedicated TO liberty, but torn down and
destroyed by those who claim to be its
friends? Had the policy of our greatest
national benefactors teen continued-had
the doctrine of municipal law in regard to
the extension of slavery prevailed, our coun-
try must now be enjoying the richest fruits
of prosperity and instead of being threat
ened with overthrow, proudly asserting its
claim to the highest place among human
governments. But, let us not despair Let
us consider the potency of Northern senti-
ment when conscious of laboring for the
right, and attaining, as it will in 1860, the
full power of its victorious manhood. Let
US see then, whether freemen enjoying the
voluptuous sweets of liberty will blindly
trample upon the crown that makes these
sovereigns, and stab the parent that gave
them birth. Here lies our confidence in
the American people. Though outraged
and betrayed by professed friends, and suf-
fering all the calamities of misrule, they are
still patriotic. Their remuneration will sure
ly come, and when their enemies shall be
unrobed of disguise, their disgrace will be
commensurate with their audacity and cor
ruption.
Let the policy of the government return
to precedent-let the freemen of the North
remember that the only doctrine recognized
by our government, from its organization
until Franklin Pierce's administration, was
Freedom in all free territory" Let them
rememb Der that the doctrine of the power of
Congress to legislate upon the subject of
slavery was held and endorsed by official
acts by Washington, Madison, Jefferson,
Monroe and Jackson, the most illustrious
magistrates who adorn the history of enlight-
ened nations. Honored of the past are DAN
iel Webster and Henry Clay, the former of
whom said, ''Slavery cannot exist except by
municipal law" and the latter, s' YOu can
not pat your finger upon a part Of 7ke |
Constitution Which gives the right to carry
sIGUes from the States into the Territories of
the United States.'' To compare those pa
triots with the demagogues and tricksters
of the present day, would be an unpardona
bic sacrilege. To follow after the diclations
of these modern lights, would be like pur-
suing the Ignis Fatuus, when, by lifting the |
veil, they could behold the sun at high me-
ridian.
All the illusions which darken our polit- |
ical horizon are recent inventions, which,
as if conscious of their own essential cor
ruption, dare not promuige themselves un-
I'll the Fathers had fallen asleep If, then,
there is less honesty in the leaders, there
should be more virtue in the masses. In
novations are but heralds of revolution,
which. at times, urge upon the people their |
necessity but to admit them for q moment
is to undermine the whole governmental fab |
ric. REPUBLICUS. /
The North Missouri Railroad is completed
to within miles of the point of intersection |