The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1860-07-18
VOL. 6, NO. l3.-WHOLE NO. 273.

his rule. His cajolery and deception as ,
candidate have only been excelled BY hi:
cynical demeanor to his true friends as ar
officer He had valued praises of Aattery
above the honest support Of disinterested
friendship. and prefers retirement, amid
the exeeration Of his neig ghbors, to the eulo.
gles which wait upon faithful service A
self-relying and self sustaining manhood
would induce him to look above and beyond
the artificial or painted horizon by which
the trickster seeks to limit his vision, and
not allow himself to be made partisan and
dupe. But when We find our confidence
betrayed, and deeently insulted. let us moi
blink the cause Those communities which
harmonized by common concern. take al
vantage Of our want Of unity and purpose
impress the placeman and spokesman with
the notion that they hold the keys of homo,
and Of fortune There is something here
to study and to learn
The South have necessities, and act up
on them. The North have necessities, and
sink into dreamy slumber We fail to OBJ
serve the steady steppings Of the invader
but get into frightful hustle when his
guns begin to thunder at our city walls
The South are vociferous for party, as long
as its machinery works unerringly to theil
advantage. The North are satisfied with
declarations of a governmental policy, with
our regard to its success; and exu!t owe,
platforms, whilst all their embodied princi
pies are being violated cannot sanction
the course pursued, either by the South o,
by the North. Ii is unfair it is unjust
That of the South is sectional and aegres
sive that of the North, yielding and self
destructive. Deprecating anarchy and
war. desire. above all things, an honest
maintenance of the compact between these
United States. in its integrity. Sustaining
Democracy. ] protest against its being made
a catch and cheat Born and living in
one Of the most powerful, prosperous, intelli
gent. and generous of the free States,
will not admit a right of superiority owe,
our citizens, either by nature. education. OF
grace.
In 1856, there was nothing better understood
than the doctrines and pledges of the Nationa
Democracy. They were plainly written, and re
ceived but one Interpretation. Popular sOver
| eighty oger all domestic institutions was de
clared to be as pefrect and complete i'm the resi-
dent of a Territory as in the citizen of State
and that party bound itself to its faithful main
tenance. If it was sound and undeniable before
the election, it was not the less 80 afterwards
But no; it failed in practice. Ii failed to accom-
plish what it was believed by many it would &C
cOmplish, and thefore it was rcpudiated.
failed TO give Kansas to slavery. Industrial hab
bits and cOonizing capacity, superior to eighteel
million with these auxiliaries, in their race TO
new sovereignties and thenceforward it was en-
rolled in the catalogue Of humbugs. 1t failed Il
aid the sectional purposes of the South, ant
thenceforward TO favor it became heterodOx
and all who have done so, from that day to this
have been branded with treason, and trOddeI
down beneath the iron heel of a fear.struck, rem
egade President. The end ought to have beer
seen from the beginning. On the 10Th of March
its popularity, venturcd TO use this languag
here:
.Sir the supporters of that bill lthe Kansas Nebrask
bin have proclaimed the nation that tie Territories
the United States to constitute fair heid,' an
that there Is to De free fight there, between IN
North sni the South To decide whether slavery free
dom shall rule them. II the energy, the enterprise th
active modes of life the available capital and the mum
ally with their OppOsies ia the South and secure fre'
dom to the Territories then will admit that there is
vitality and power slavery which We OF the Mort
have dreamed Of la my opinion, the Represent;
tivss of the South in the Thirty third Congress ha'
the fire, and they will gather fire into their oS
; gaIners.'
l. have only to add, that the correctness OF m
views has been proven at an earlier day than
then anticipated, and that the pang OF repentans
| now comes to late. The choice to be made b
\ lxl,o | I oil ia for fhap a savpY
one-is between the rigid observance of existn
law, which will shut out slavery from the Teri
tories by a popular vote, and Congressional inte
Q yention directly to exclude it. The next censu
. if fairly taken, will show such a preponderant
of population on the side of the North as TO CO
vince the most skeptical on this point.
But there are more appalling evidences OF Il
= sectionalsm l charge. These are found in nc
!, of glaring lawlessness and disorder, and in Il
1 determination to cripple and impoverish Mort
ern labor.
. Sir, there are eighteen States ia this Unio
and soon there will be twenty three, extendii
It from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and across
4 weight degrees Of longitude, teeming with M
l. lions of men, controlling aud directing the liter
ture, commerce, agriculture, manufactures, al
:. mechanic arts of the country; fruitful in peac
IL and able for war, who will not soon forget Z
20 early history of Kansas, and the suffering of tn
d friends and kinsmen there, through violence a
d, fraud. 1t was there the lesson was industriO'
" taught and fully learned, that the rightfu n
IL of the people over all their institutions mea
4 but the sanction and acceptance of slavery; q
that President of the United States could be
1f false as other men. 1t was there the people
~ certained, for the first time, that the power
form and regulate institutions, conferred up
'e them by their organic act, and which Mr..
ID chanan informed them had an especial refereI
DC to slavery, would confer sovereignty, or deny
n. lust as its exercise might be congenial or unc
&c genial to slavery; that the people OF Territ'
" were under a constitutional obligation TO ies
II ,a.e for it's benefit, but could under no crcu
ar stances leg:sate against it that new Terr
of ~ was virtually slave State that popular s
n. ereicnty, which before an election was admit
=: to be alike in State aud Territory, was nal
IL right and obligation to assist the South aga
IS the North in a contest between them, which
ip to end in the superiority Of the other; and
en- when majority, deceived by artifice, would
consummate the dishonesty, it should be per
ted by ruifian invasion, stuffed ballot-boxes,
NC the bayonets OF the Federal army. These ST.
he will not be likely to overlook all this. w
e thev shall DO so, their future will be made
nd and might as well be written out.
I'D eni9r'una'eiy, IL Is NJ. oe @ nm,hsrn sect;@ t
%, schemes, and of the ineffcieney alike OF Ia
treaties, and properties, TO Restrain them
he the infancy and innocency OF the Republic,
.- inhur,anity. criminality. aud impoiicy Of
for Jar ssvsrs uenalties. now. however. int
pts eence character influence, and wealth, ar