The gazette and Democrat. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1860-1860, 1860-10-18
LANCASTER, OHIO, THURSDAY, OCT, 1s, 1860.

Slavery in the Territories covered by the
Missouri Compromise unsettled while tht
war was waged. and It left Kansas, espe
cially, delivered overto anarchy and vio-
lence. This necessarily cut of from the
party many thousands who had IN pur.
pose or in act united in the original OBJ,
Iject aud who still continued to desire and
promote that object. 1t drew a strictly
see tional party line, which no one could
pass, and necessarily involved the selection
Of o party leader who would be nothing
more or less or other than the representa-,
tive embodimentofthe sectional party ,and
1t as necessarily excluded any man Of ma
tional opinion or reputation. Parties o.
many discordant opinions were 10 be uni.
ted in the canvass; il was. therefore. es
septisl that their leader should have nc
record. Hence, in 1855, Mr.. Fremont, 9
gentleman quite unknown in the politica
; or public history Of our country. was se
lected as their candidate for President, and
the party was defeated, while the originaV
principle triumphed. For as fay as public
opinion had potency. Kansas was virtual
ly Free State on the day Mr.. Buchanan
took his seat as President. ..s
This is the original issue on which The
Republican organization was put to the
country. was tried and sustained, while the
party which had abandoned it was defeat
ed. And if Mr.. Buchanan had regarded
the clear indications Of public will, snd
, had facilitated the admission Of Kansa:
under constitution oi her own adoption,
the Republican party must have placsditD
self on national ground and sustained
Itself on general principles Of national pol
icy, or ceased at onoe to be power il
the land. But he and his advisers seemed
TO be struck with Judicial blindness
Against oil right, and truth, and justice
and against the obvious sense of large
majority of the nation, they attempted t
force fol lged and false Constitution OIL
Kansas, which was to make it Slave
State in contempt Of the opinions OF nine
tenths ofits inhabitants. They perse
vered in the wrong even after they
were fairly whipped ont Of 1t. And wher
thus beaten beyond all possibility of recu
peration. they kept the question open by
refusing to admit Kansas as Free State
under Constitution of her own adoption
Those who organized themselves under
the name of the Republican party. to ex.
clude Slavery from Kansas and Nebraska,
virtually accomplished their object--ii
had become morally impossible for Sla.
very to be forced into Kansas; but Mr.
Buchanan kept the question open, and
thus kept the Republican party united,
vigorous and active by intriguing to pre-
vent tie free consumation Of their victory
That party had not fulfilled its destiny
and must live till that was accomplished
But, as l have said, men of differing snd
discordant opinions in other matters, uni
ted inthis: Abolitionists, higher law anC
irrepressible conflict meu--all shades ant
degIess-up to and including the solit
phalanx of Wing principles and opinion
And it happened in this case, as in mos
others, extreme men were the busy, &C
tive men always on the alert, little regard
ing the one purpose which united the grea
mass Of the people, except iE so far as !
could be used as an instrument for theil
Interior objects. They called and tool
control Of conventions, and through then
Of many Of the States. And the people
acted with them, for they were ostensi
J bly, pursuing the great object all had il
view; while the folly Of the Administra
ton excused them in public opinion whel
: they departed from or tresspassod beyont
: that object. BY this means the people 0
some Of the States North and West wer
placed in false -misrepresente,
as to their opinions and feelings by tn
public acts Of their constituted authori
ties. In Ohio extreme men ruled an
} seemed to be the majority, but they neve
we're so. As in an etfervesoing fluid, a
seems foam TO those who look only on il
surface, so did this element seem to be a.
} of the party opposed to the repeal Of III
: Missouri compromise, while in truth it
, strength lay in the calm, conservative Viii
3 mass, which remained inactive below
As examples in our own state, Of exuem
J party action. witness the attack last yea
f upon the independence of the Judiciary j
t the person of Judge SWan--the refust
t OF the Legislature last winter, when tn
subject was before them. to pass law
prohibit the forming or fitting out marau
ding expeditions into our sister States, AN
the refusal of our Executive to surrende
Q fugitives from justice--pursuant to th
4 requirements ofthe Constitution all whic
indicated that this party was engaged i
l. conflict which must be, in fact and dee
!, irreprsssi6le SO long as it and the Unio
o both endured; and that the organic la
y of the republic had been superseded by
i higher or touer law--namely, the indivit
: ual will, dominant iu the minds of exc
IS ted men. Such was the condition
J. things which caused me to stand alo'
J. from the party, the objects of whose origin
i organization l approved, and to advant
d which objects / labored afterwards out
: the party earnestly, and, l have reason
% believe, effectively. .sl
% But looked for reaction, aud it h
y come. Conservative men, law.loving an
a law abiding men, could not suffer the 9,
l. cesses of the time togo abroad under the
4 apparent sanction and remain insctiV
a The reaction presented itself in tw'
d. fold aspect. Out Of the party, by Il
ID Union organization IN the North---iu u
ID party. by the rejection Of extreme par
o leaders and the nomination Of a sour
=. conservative man for President at the la
is Chicago Convention. yf a,ts& q
le Tue resolutions Of the Chicago Co
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