Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1860-02-09
Important Admission.

Our Democrats readers will profit by
feoding the opinions Of the corresponding
Editor Of the Pittsburg Post. Remember
the Post lie the organ that favored the re-
nomination Of Buchanan. We have here a
plain admission Of a long contested point,
viz: TIC Southern Democracy sustain only
Southern principles, not so much because
they are principles bu, because they are
Southern"
1t is also ADMITTED that the fSeuth has
been making unreasonable demands of the
Northern Democracy, all of which, by the
by, they have STOPPED to grant. But we
arc glad to see a disposition to resist the
wrong. The Post Gays:
"The only good thing that has come out
of this political Nazareth, has been the re-
%luctant recognition by a maj rilv of the
Southern Democrat, Of the Democracy Of
the North. We owe them small thanks, II
any, for this acknowl edgment. 1t is the
e%nsies, and most natural thing In the wor d
for the Southern men 10 maintain Southern
principles. They do 1t, not so much be-
cause they are principles, but because they
are Southern; but we Of the North, who are
national and true to the Constitution, have
sustained tie rights of the South under the
Constitution, not because they were South
ern, but because they were rights; end this
we have done at the sacrifice of personal
ambitions, accepting In many notable in
stances, political martyrdom, rather than for
a moment desert those s,creJ principles up
on which our political system is based, and
to which we look, with patriotic an,icipa-
ton for all those results that shall conduce
TO tine welfare of our common country, and
for the perpetuation Of that Uh,oa which
we prize as the greatest OF political bless
ings, for ourselves and our posteri;y.
"In this significant struggle the South
have made demands upon the Nor.h which
II was not In human nature tc meet. They
have asked US not only to protect and sup
port them in the enjoyme nt OF tho rights
which are secured to them under the Con.
stitution, but TO outrage the common sense
and conscience of the North by advocating
their assumption of a title to privileges
fsgran,iy viola,ive, not only Of the Con,
-tituiion and lave, but Of the moral serst
of the whole civilized world. They asket
VS. in 1856 to sanction the odious laws en-,
acted in Kansas Tor perpetua;ing slavery ii
that Territory and for creating unconstitn
tioDal disabilities against those, who, fol
whatever reason, were opposed to the estab
lishment Of slavery in that Territory. This
too, notwithstanding the organic act for thu
establishment Of u territorial government
in Kansas and Nebraska, had declared tina
the people thereof should be left perfect,
free to form and regulate their own domes
tic institutions in their " why, subiec
only 10 the Constitution of the United State
After sanctioning the doctrine of non-in
{ tcrvcntion by Congress in the affairs OF tn,
Territories in the most emphatic manner b,
the passage of the Kansas Nebraska bill
and infer their practical sanction and &C
quiescance in tho Legislation in Kansas
which Gen. Coss justly denounced as n dds
! grace TO the civilization of the age.' the
/, now cap the climax Of absurditics by refui
ing TO vote for a man identified with tn
policy Of non-in,ervention and popular soy
> ereignly. or. as they more elegantly (D de
signale it, 'squntter sovereignty
"Whnt can We expect If such mad coun
sells are to %provaill Can it be possible tina
one-third Of our population and one-third O
our party should entertain SO rash a hope a
that they bring n majority Of our people o
I of our party down within tho narrow cir
r conference of such sectional inconsisten
dictatest II so, n woelul disappointment
awaits hem. We viii sacrifice oil bu
honor and principle, but when nsked to Civ
up either of these, our answer will be al
indignant and effectual negative"