Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-10-02

from living things. He shows that for six
years he has been in q posture of alteration
before the relics of the Missouri Oompro-
mise. He enshrined it in his solitary cell,
like a crucifx, and daily devoted himself to
alteration and devout contemplation before
1t. Thrice in day has he counted over his
beads, and every bead called out lament or
pious ejaculation for the Missouri Compro-
mise. II was bis meditation by day, and his
nightmare.
We are not informed what occupied his
scclusion previous to the repeal of the Com
promise. In 1854, previous to that melan-
choly event, he was invited to attend mass
Convention of the people Of Ohio without
distinction of party, to bring public opinion
to bear against the repeal but he states that
be declined, because be feared that anti
Slavery men would take part in it. He
could not permit thing so sacred as an
anti-slavery restriction to be brought in
contact with anti-slavery men, so he refused
to appear in public, to help save the Mis-
Souri, Compromise, and made ready his gums
end spices to embalm its relics when it was
killed; and his hair shirt, ashes, scourge and
beads to worship and do penance before
them. There he remained for six long years
ionger, because he could find no party with
whom he could act to resist the aggressions
Of slavery in the Territories, which was not
liable to the suspicion of being hostile to
slavery. He could not conscientiously act
with such party. He wanted slavery re-
etricted because slavery is destructive to
flee labor, thus
"The free white man will not work with
the negro slave in the same shop, or in the
Same field because, in his opinion, ii de-
grades him TO his level Labor ceases to be
bonorable when X is especially the vocation
Of slaves. Hence emigration from free States
goes only to free territory; for the wealthy
farmer, the master-mechanic, the manufac-
turer, can not go from a freeiState to a slave
State, because free labor will not follow
them. The new slave States and Territories
ere, therefore, shut out from immigration OF
free laborers as fully as the free States and
Territories from the slave"
He wanted to shut out slavery on account
Of its nature, but he could not act with any
party unless he could be made sure that it
contained no ant-slavery menl There is
something rotten in Denmark. Alas for the
classic time when the end supervened as the
brains went outl
But what coniuror of Endor has disquieted
this buried sage, to bring him up2 Why
have his canonized bones burst their GER
ementsH Why has the political sepulcher in
which he was sacred from contamination by
the tainted air of anti-Slaveryism, proved
incontinent, and cast him up again, when the
whole air is ringing with the irrepressible
conflict 1t was the nomination of Lincoln
that did it. The Lincoln guns brought up
this damp, moist body from the depths
Listenl 81 have little doubt of the election
of Lincoln" Iffaith will remove mountains,
will not that bit of faith sufficiently account
for such political resurrection?
But he discovers all the conservative vir-
tues in Lincoln. Converse with the other
world has given him supernatural insight.
''He is an old Wing. He has had his po-
litical training in highly conservative
party, Of which he was calm, considerate
and reasoning member. And, though he
bas passed through fierce conflict in which
the aggression of slavery was the subject of
attack and defense, doubt not that the
feeling which that conflict excited has passed
away; and that from the first to the last--in
his inaugural address and in his final mes
sage-he will show himself the President of
the nation not of section or party. For
tunately, he will not be thrown upon an
extreme party for support. The conserva-
tive interest nominated, and that also will
elect him." .
What conservative halo faith in his
election throws around the man who first
proclaimed the irrepressible conflict; and
who has been up to his eyes in all the fierce
contest over slavery, which was too profane
for this political saint to contaminate him
self With
But he does not attach himself to the Re-
publican party; and inasmuch as he has been
waiting in seclusion for six years for the
resurrection of the Missouri Compromise,
which no Gabriel has yet announced, it is
not olear what political course he does pro-
pose. He announces the destiny of the Re-
publican party. 1t originated in the repeal
of the Missouri Compromise; therefore it
must be held to the restoration of that.
That effected, it must disband.
"Ihe repeal of the Missouri Compromise
broke up this just and well-consdered parti-
ton, which it is the mission of the Re-
publican party actually or virtually to re;
store: Having fulfilled
this, its mission, the Republican party can
not possibly maintain itself as a general
anti-slayery party or an irrepressible-con-
flict party"
Are not these interesting strains from
ghostly politician who has been raised from
Che tomb by the Lincoln trump of the ire
pressible conflict
But further along this political Rip Van
Finkle discovers that during his six-year
nap in Sleepy Hollow, dreaming Of the Mis-
eouri Compromise, the question of slavery
in the Territories has been virtually settled:
81 baye hence a right to conclude that the
conflict is ended, so far as it depends upon
Southern aggression. | conclude, also, that
the Republican party will, within the pres
ent OF the early part Of the coming year,
have fulfilled It's original destiny, and must
end also, or place Itself on basis of substan-
dial national policy"
The mission of the Republican party is
ended. But they are not to be dismissed
until they elect Lincoln. Then they must
disband and go home And this too, after
this ponderous ghost has announced that
be discovered in the nomination of Lincoln
. conservative reaction in the party, in "the
nomination of sound conservative man.
Xhe Republican party having fulfilled its