The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1860-03-17

landed on our shores and distributed. unre-
claimed and with impuhity. among our
| plantations. go
For this policy. SO Gar as the Govern.
ment, has sanctioned it. the Democratic
party ayows itself responsible. Eserywhere
complaint against il is denounced. and its
opponents prescribed. When Kansas was
writbing under the wounds of incipient,
servile war, because of her resistance, the
Democratic press deridingly said, s'let her
bleed" Official integrity has been cause
for rebuke and punishment, when i: resist
ed frauds designed to promote the extension
of Slavery. Throughout the whole r pub.
lie, there Is not one known dissenter from
that policy remaining in place. if within
reach of the Executive arm. Nor over the
face of the whole world is there to be found
one representative of our country who is
not an apologist for the extension Of Slavery.
Il is in America that these things have
happened. In the nineteenth century, the
era of the worlds greatest progress, and
wi lie all nations but ourselves have been
either abridging or altogether suppressiny
commerce IN men: at the very moment
when the Russian serf is emancipaued, and
the Georgian captive. the Nubian prisoner
and the AbysSinian savage. a'e lifted up to
freedom by the successor of M1hammed
The world, prepossessed in our behalf by
our early devotion to the rights of human
nature, as no nation ever before engaged it's
respect aud sympar HES. asks, in wonder
and amaz-ment. what all this demoraliza
ton means? II has an excuse better than
the world can imagine, better than we are
generally conscious of ourselves. a vinuous
excuse. We have loved not freedom so
much less, but rhe Union of our country So
much more. We have been made To brli+ve,
from time TO time. that, in a crisis, bath at
these precious institutions could not be
saved together; and therefore we have.
from time to time, surrendered safeguards
of freedom to propiriate the Loyalty OF capt
tai and stay its hands from doing violence
to the Union. The true state of the case.
however, ought moi To be mystery To our
selves. Pre>cience, indeed. is not given tn
statesmen; but we are without excuse when
we fail TO apprehend the logic of current
events. Let parties, or the Government.
chonse or d" what they may, the people of
the United States do not prefer the wealth
of the few TO the liberty of the many, cap
itai to labor, African slaves 10 white free
men, in the nati,.nal Territories and in fu
ture States. That question has never been
distinctly recognized or acted an by them
The r publican party embodies the popu-
lar protest and reaction against a policy
which has been fastened upon the nation b,
surprise, and which its reason and CON
science. conrurring with the reason and
conscience of mankind. condemn.
Tie choice of the nation Is now between
the Democratic party aud the Republican
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fore. justly and even necessarily examined.
know of only one p"Iicy which il has ad
opted or avowed. namely the saving of
The Territories of tn. Uniteti States, if pos
sible. by constitutional and lawful means,
from being homes for Slavery and P"lyga
my. VINO. that considers where this ia
iijn exists, of what races il is composed, in
what age of the world il acts lis part on the
public stage, and what are its predominant
institutions, customs abits, and sentiments
doubts that the Republican party can AMI
will, if unwavrringIy faithful TO that poll
cy. and just and loyal in all besides. carry
it into Ir,umphal success To doubt is 10
be uncertain whether civilization can i'm
prove or Christianity save mankind
may, perhaps, infer. from the necessity
of the ease. that il will, in courts and places
ituti"naI right of freemen everywhere that
it will favor the speedy improvement of the
public domain by homestead laws, and will
encourage mining. manufactu e. and inter
nal commerce. with hpedfuI connections be-
tween the lianiic and Pacific States-fnr all
these are important interests of Freedom.
For all the rest. the national emergencies.
not individual influences. must determine. as
no
the Republican party. Already bearing its
part in legi,lafinn and in trea, les IL feels ,heI
necessity of being practical in its care ofthe
natiunal health and life, while it leaves met
aphysical speculation Ia those whose duly
il is TO cultivate the ennobling science of po
lItical philosophy. II -
But in the midst of these subjects or.
rather. before fully reaching them. the Re
publican party encounters unexpectedly.
lew and potential is>ue-one prior, and
paramount to all others. one Of ma
tional life and DEATH just as If so much
had NOT been already conceded. To the inter
e>t in men. we hear menaees of Disunion. |
louder more distinct. more emphatic than
ever, with Ihe condition annexed. that theg
shall be executed the moment that n R-pub-
licap Administration. though constitutional |
ly sles.ted. shall assume the Government. Il
Lido not certainly kaaw that the people are
prepared to call such AZ. A iminis ration Ia
power. know, only, that through success
sion of f,'odssii which never greatly excite
and Gibbs which never entirely discnur
age me, the volume of Repuhl:eaniSm
rises continually higher and higher. They
are probably wise. whose apprehensions ah
them that e is already strong enough
for effect.
Hitherito the Republican party has been
content with one seif-interr"gafory--how
force anoIher-i,as it DISCRIMINATION enough
To cast them This latter question touch |
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