The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1860-05-09

can party met AT 1IttSDuIgu, III ieuIuai
1856. The call was signed by prominen
men of all parties. Francis P. Blair, right
hand man Of Gen. Jackson, was one. What
then, did Mr. Gushing mean by calling
this a sectional, traitorous party The
Pittsburgh Convention clearly and distinct
ly announced their position in the address
then put forward. Mr.. Doolittle reads ex
tracts from the platform written By Mr.
Henry j. Raymond. He proceeded to say
that when for eight long weeks, in the
House Of Representatives in Washington
sectional and traitorous praty declared
that if a Republican Speaker were cleo
ted they would dissolve the Union, the Ma
tional Committee Of the Republican party
met in New-York, and declared that the
Republican party would defend the South
[Applause Mr. Gushing member o.
the Cabinet of Mr. Pierce, pretended tc
say that the Republican party, in the face
of such declarations was formed for the
purpose of overthrowing the Union. He
would not say that Mr.. Gushing knew bet
ter; but he would say that he ought tc
know better. In 1852 he stood before the
people at Wisconsin and asked them tC
vote for Mr.. Pierce He did it on the
pledge of tho Democratic party that the
Slavery question WAS settled. and should no,
be agtated any moro. In the inaugual
address of Mr.. Pierce that pledge was re-
peated. What followed? in the Fall Of
'53 David r. Atchison, acting Yice-Presi.
dent, declared that the Missouri Compro
mise must be repealed, and that the insti.
tutions of Missouri must be spread over
Kansas. At the beginning of 1854 Mr.. Dix.
on moved to amend the Kansas.N Nebraska
bill by inserting clause repeating the Mis-
souri, Compromise. Mr.. Douglas, Chair
man of the Committee. reporting the bill,
reported on the 4th Of January that it was
not expedient to break up the Compromise
of 1850; he then declared that the Com
mittee was not prepared to affirm or repeal
the Missouri Compromise. The Wash
ington Union denounced it as a Whig
trick, and continued to denounce it until
the 23d of the month. when Mr.. Douglas
reported bill dividing the Territories into
two, and declaring the Missouri Compro-
misses imperative. A sudden change. In
one night the Wing trick was metamor-
phosed into the leading policy Of tho Demo
cratic party. Within few days 5000
men marched into Kansas, elected Kan
sas Legislature, and carried Mr.. Atchison's e
threat into effect. The people of the Ter.
ritory Of Kansas petitioned again and again
to be relieved from this Legislature, but
the Democratic Senate refused. and en-.
forced the laws Of this Legislature at the
point Of the bayonet. They sent out four
or five Governors in succession to the Ter
ritory, friends to the Administration when
they went, but every one returned more or
less in sympathy with the people of the
Territory. Why were they made con-
verts! Because they found that the peo-
pie of Kansas told the truth when they
sent their petition to Congress. 1t was not
till then that the Republican party wal
born 1t was born Of the revolution set in
motion by the Sectional Democracy, who
undertook by force Of arms to conquer the
people of Kansas. The Democratic tactics
were then changed from force to fraud
Look at the letter sent by Buchanan to
Mr.. Walker. lately published This SEQ
tional party then dragooned the President
into another attempt to force upon the peo
pie of Kansas institutions they were deter
mined never to adopt. In the ensuing elec
ton, in two places where there were moi
fifty residents they polled nearly 5000
votes They copied of the Cincinnati Di
rectory, and put in the names Of James
Buchanan, Horace Greeley, and Thomas
II. Benton. Yet Caleb Cushing called tn
Republican party sectional, when the yer.
cause of its existence was the horror Of th'
people at such sectionalism as this. Ill
had said there was revolution going ol
in this country. This was based on tn
idea substantially that capital must be tn
master. and labor must be its slave. MI
Calhoun. as long ago as 1888. laid dow
this doctrine. He said: MANY in tn
South once believed that it Slavery wa
a moral and political evil. That folly an
delusion are gone. We see it now in it
true light, and regard it as the most SAT
and suitable basis for free institutions i
the world. 1t is impossible with us ths
the conflict can take place between labo
capital" Why, he would ask why coul
, no conflict take place between labor an
, capital in the Slave States For the sin
| pie reason that capital was the absolu'
master, and labor its unconditional slav,
And what was the condition Of the mol
slaveholding white man in the State wher
r Slavery existed TO auy great extent ?
; What regulated the price Of labor? I'll
4 law Of supply and demand. In countr
where slave labor existed. the capital
e might own his labor. and hire it. The
, the rich had no need of the poor. In ar
society anywhere where the rich had I
b need of the poor. the laboring men becan
n an absolute dependent upon the capilali.
+ mo conflict between capital and lab
: could arise in the Slave States" said NJ
y Hunter the other day. Mr.. Hunter
= clared that the keystone of our arch CO
!. sists of the black marble block of Amsl
= can Slavery. Other leading men had sa
J: that Slavery was the great peacemak
t between capital and labor Slavery "
T. the corner stone, they said, Of our Repu
,, lican institutions. This was the langua
). of the statesmen of to-day from the S,ay
,e holding States. With very little exceptie
d Such was not their language few yea