Year: 1859

The Gwin organ of this city, in remark'ng
on an article in the Democrat, wherein we
stated that the moral sentiment of the North
was opposed to Slavery, and that she was en-
titled to credit for conquering her prejudices
so often. in order to secure the constitutional
rights of the South, observes:


at is outand-out Republican document !;
and if ANYBODY doubts it, he has only to read it for
himself"


Well, all we have to say is, that if any
body, after reading that article, could con-
clude that it was a Republican document, he
would be very stupid body indeed; and il
is not of much Importance what stupid peo-
pie think. The Express knows well, tina
there is not particle of Republcanism in
or anywhere about, the article We give i
credit for as much sense as this, at least


We said in that article that the people o
the North generally, Democrats as well a
members of any other party, were strongl,
opposed to Slavery on moral as well as polit
ical grounds that they did not recognize
abstractly, any mans right to hold fellow
man in bondage, or to traffic in human flesi
and blood that their prejudlces on this score


were deep and unconquerable, and, conse-
quently, that they were entitled to hign
praise for the free manner in which they had
agreed, from time to time, to such Legislative
reco ognition of the institution of Slavery as
was demanded by the South-a recognition
which has frequently been made, when it
was the deliberate opinion of the North that
the South laid claims to certain alleged rights
as her" constitutional rights" when they
were nothing more than assumptions of her
own, for her mere individual and peculiar
benefit We showed further that the North
had agreed to several measures in succession
as " finalites," yielding her prejudices in each
instance, on this question of Slavery, until
finally, she consented to what was supposed
to be the last " finality" of all, to wit: the
Kansas Nebraska Bill. BY this measure, she
was told the subject of Slavery should be
forever removed from the Halls of Congress
and lodged with the people; that great
principle was involved in it, the principle of
self governmental principle which was of
too sacred a nature to be overridden by either
the Missouri Compromise or any other COM
promise in the Federal Legislature, and that
if the North would consent to this, she shod
never be asked for any other concessions, Ell
ther of conscience or of prejudice, on this
question. Now she is told that the Kansas
Nebraska Bill is no fnality" at all, and
that, if slave property fails to be sufficiently
protected under that enactment, Congress
must interpose and legislate upon the subject.
The North says, "We agreed, at your own
suggestion, to do away with compromises,
and to establish in their place, as the future
policy Of the country, great uniform prin-
ciple, which should be equally binding upon
you as upon us-we were in earnest in what
we did and supposed that you were also
and now, by the Powers above, we intend to
hold you to your bargainl The Kansas.Ne-
braska Bill is with us o final FINALIrY, and
you shall not obtain from us the fraction of
hair or the shadow of shade of further
concession in this regard"


If there be any Republicanism in the
above, make the most of it, Were it the
North demanding of the South the like in
fraction of the Kansas-N Nebraska Bill, we
should speak in the same terms of her. The
South is DrOng on this question of Interven-
tion-she was ~rong in her demand to have
Kansas admitted under the Lecompton Con-
stitution, and notwithstanding the South is
no foreign land to us, we denounce her for
it.


We speak, of course, of those leaders of
hers who have committed her to these
wrongs by their action in the Halls of Con-
gress, in the Cabinet and elsewhere.