White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1860-10-11

mccracy in Ohio. and in the North gen.
orally, has changed somewhat within q
few years past. The article which fol.
lows. we clip from Free Soil paper pub
lished at Toledo. Ohio. in the year 1s49
which paper takes it from the Lowe,
Sandusky Democrat, and publishes it.
with commendatory preface. If tbt
sandusky paper is still in existence. We
would like to know how it stands, po'
litically, now. Itshould be borne in mind
that the sentiments were published about
those days when the Ohio Democracy re-
solved, in State Convention assembled
that they would oppose Slavery until i
should be FINALLY eradicated;;" and wher
they carried the sentiment into practice
by electing Salmon P. Chase to tn
United States Senate. thus bringing hin
into notoriety. and placing him in . po
sition where be has never ceased to strive
for the carrying out Of that Democratic
Resolution. But to the extract -
ONO DExocRAcY.-Whatever fault
are justly chargeable to the Ohio Democ'
rscy. want Of energy. and boldness in
advocating the opinions they have svow'
ed, is not among them. The following
from the Lower Sandusky Democrat
published in the strongest Democratic
county in this Senatorial Diatrict, shows
with what energy and ability. they are
supporting the cause Of Freedom:
The PRospEcr.-Never were the pros.
poets of the Democratic party brighter
than at the present time. Union and
harmony are again among Us. and the
party is everywhere throughout the North,
planting itself impregnably upon posi-
tion as firm and enduring as the everlss.
ting hills. Connecticut is democrstic.-
We look with confidence to seeing old
Massachusetts,, the former cradle Of Lib
erty, ranging herself along side. where
with Connecticut repose the unvanquish.
able democratic hosts of Maine and New
Hampshire. New York is still cursed
with Croswell, and his unprincipled ban.
king. pro.slavery hordes-but they are
nearly sborn of their power for evil
By uniting with their Taylorite, pro-sls.
very brethren they have defeated rs in
New York City recently, which is prob.
ably the last victory they can ever attain
over the radical democracy of the EN-.
pire State. The west, the young, the
fresh, the glorious west presents one un-
broken democratic 'phalanx, and is glow.
ing with irrepressible ardor for the con.
test 1852 of when she may have an oppor.
tunity to meet the minions Of slavery,
and scatter them as the chaff, before the
bsnneriof freedom borne sloft by the stall
wart arm Of Benton or some other rep
resentative of "Free Soil and Free La.
bor."
"Free Soil and Free Labor r. Is it
not glorious War cry? One which
1ushes the brow, fires the heart, nerves
the arm of every patriot and philanthro-
pist? Who shall dare stand before it ?
We have long felt and often said. that
the free soil anti-slavery platform. was
the one upon which the Democratic par
ty would and must stand. a necessity
of its nature. no less than the conserva-
tive spirit always leads the wings invari-
ably to cling to old abuses and resist
progress and innovation upon estab-
lished usages and things, has forced the
democratic party upon the right ground
with a rapidity almost astounding. For
this we rejoice. There is no earthly pow
er which can now resist the onward, up.
ward course of the Northern democracy.
And when the organization of our party
shall be thoroughly perfected, it will be
as beautiful in proportions as Thomas
Je6erson's theory of equality, and as in.
vincible as Andrew jackson.