I ;~ . , i II mionsenew• 1 • . , CJIARLES READ itSd'H. H. FRAZIEI, EDITORS. 11 • - • ill - ,;-:? . 6 . - efs' eon #. • 1 1 . Canvaign Bong.• • • Br R. W. LOME. • Ant—" Old Dan Tucker. •'' Rouse yet,! freemen, from your.,alumbers: Seize yonr arms and count your pumpers ; the time for deeds of'bravery„; • Freedoni grapples now with Slavery. &herni-- 1 -Down with Douglas, Pierce, and Shannon, Down with Slavery and Buchanan! Freedom's traitors—sing thiir dirges, Long and loud as ocean's simges. • In the hills of Congress pleading, Y . • Oa the fields of" Kansas bleedirig, Brothers true as steel implore us— '• ' Join the fight and join the chorus!" C r itoras+Down with Douglas, Pierce ttc..l • Mark (IT. flag of Slavery's minion's—i . • . ‘lBludgeons versus Free Opinions!"i • . " [ Rule or 'ruin !" "Compacts-trokeur Choke!Free words, before_. they're Spoken! " Ohorui+Down with Douglas, Piered,'&e. L - Are we poi - Fds now to falter? . • Rave wC ',nought for freedom's altar?: • - *ill our 'filirces, by. division, 1 Reap defeat and bold derision? i• sever! "never! all are ready! • - Every eblimin marchinv , b steady : • . ' True as were our sires before us,• Marching'skady to the opotus 1 - cltorzia-r-Down with Dofiglas, Pierce, &c. i,- ~ ~ol~mgr~sca~so~j~. For the Rep s uillea2z.; ' • NOiTHERN "SOUTH ANI.OIICASS.'r The Scranton Herald annourices its deter . iiiinatiOa to support the,Filimore.and R)11 tick to the best of . _its ability till' the • ,;- At. ]ay of 'tt. : lecti6n. ~. I .. - . 111avc no right or inclination 16 #all 'it. to :4ecountfor (loin , * so, But the reasons it as. ps i if.rt,i.''for z.uch a- cO,arse I i)yoptise brit lit - . tsi - f. ~ k:xunli:ii.. .. • . . ; • . . . . Referring to the Philadelphia American ConvAtion that nominated Fillinore and Don ! • a'dion,• and formed the platfk l rm can which they .Were 'placed, . the 'editOr :states that so filras we could see, this dOmination was .-, . , fairl,)lattd honorably ' , moot', was_ worthy of elitirtiortfalence,and , distinctly represented tire jlririciples Ivhilli we -hold deir." The truth IS: that lersiire that' Conv6ltion • met the A nierieon party• had . already'-' 4 split,' on the „lavei.vri - piesfion; and the pro-Slavery, plank, or 1 , ,‘,'-e1f...11 ;sect:LAl, tiiiithisil bon inewcporated into thil " national '''piatforrn,lrad been repu diated 11)v every State courier ti the Nortli, tsxC.ept.lthat of New York. • Tile branch of the party lthot ,. thus repUdiated••the hr • -Slavery platfOrin, represented almost; a> he States ilia the Americans had•ever`k.,arricel, and in • -,.! cludedla very large Majority of the partyl.— • . : . Rut still when the Convention met to' noini. nate Fillmore,. the South, Managed, by the usual means by vihich douglif4es are control -1 .• r; 1.&,,1, te , <Tet a new section substithted in place of the !repudiated • twelfth 'Seetiori,' rrieoultig preeisely .the same thing 1.. Iris new section. has 4150 been repudiated by the party in most - eil thelFrec States. When, therefore,. the ed itor ili4;lares that this is.the illatform of his I ann ounce s4 . belonging to ' 41e himself 't the Southern, or pro-SlaVery,!:iAinerican - par ty, ai party that by their : vote'sin : Congress shOW- Ihemselvei as deVotedbo the interests • of the lave Power as theShantDemocracy, li With; r hOm, in •fact, they -,uri4e on every test • votet Where Slavery is concerned, even, going i l so• far ''as to vote for a South b,trcili,tia nullify, y ing b'emocrat for Speaker, In preference to . . , Bank& a Free ..." Soil - Arnericani' Iris party also vote uniformly in the House, against every ef feet* proposition ofreliefforithe people Kan sas fOrin the shameful iyrand'.that has been impbsednpon them by :the Border. Ruffians anditbe Sham. Demeratic. party.. And 'yet ..thisleditor was once a Whig, , ,'and - agreed with theireatleaders of his party;',Clay and Web .,. ger; 4nd with the•alinost alMost unanimous vol4e!of.the Party at the North that Slavery ought never to be .extended into free territo ry. ; At a time like this, when the Missouri Borirch 11 uffians—whose • ‘'hrirrahs are divid ed, al, u: equally between BdChaninand.Fill inore,, although it is said that is rap. • idIV, liaining strength Yam Orig thetn--whea these'. Wretches aided ' . by . .iVoluntelers • from . . South! Carolina, Alaberna . , and-other Southern StateS . ; are continually,ifivadingKansas,tnur-, derink innocent citizens and "committing eve ry other crime in the calendar, a man. who has till ,:Irately professed Free . .iSoil ..Trinciples, ..- - gives:in his adhesion ,to cidd idates,- one -of whOrd glories :iii the idea thathe is the own, er of a bundred'hudad bein*s, while the oth- • er dares not utter mre ivordiin•condemnation of he outrages of the !Border Ruffians, but is 'quite 'ready 'to proclaim idia, public speech that if Fremont 'is 'tlecte4 l 'the South will disSCive. the Union himself justifying the act ._--add he condemns the Repuhlicans as agi -*Abis and fanatics who support sectional eau :. didates on -a sectional - plait - Min', simply . be caniie. our platform embodies the, principle of , . - 'the Wiltpot proviso, whichl; has been endors ed; by the .Democratic, • and: as well as the Whig party in almost every free State in the i ; • - ._l-TO9i]... • ' ': ' '. . ' ll '• '• . ' • * ~ In the catim paper theeditor states that trmmontiv 4 snoininated the old enemies or:the Whigs," -and that " do not choose by , Isupporting: Fri4iont, t &How the lead of the Sewards and the Grcelcys, the Garrisons and the Gerrit 4ntiths in their warfatv upon porttoiC.ofour Country." ( It would puitzle most men to tut , tend - low Seward and Gieeley can • awed " old enemies of theWitigs; 1. - he me l ou' Is the pro-Slavery for,•tvhom be acernti to have conceived so estkletraffectinth: Sr is it any more . sYsr v 141) ean4 by I king :of ;following tiis'lsad'OfOiiirlion and Ginit*taith. der, 11 ; 8 thitb 4 s . We nominee Presidency ofthp Abolition party, 100 eondeMn'the Re !w. . . . •• - . ~ . . • ,„ .. ... _ . . .., . • . • . _ .. ... . . . . . . • . . _ ....... _ . .. . . : , . • . . • . . . . . . ~ . . ;., . . . , . .. -., • . . . . . . . . 1. • ... 1 . . .. . . . . : . .. • . .. ..• . . . . !•,.,, . . . , . . .. . , • . . . , . . . . .. .. . . . . . . .. i . . . . ~ . . . . . . • . . i;,, .. • . 1., • . . . . publican platform,; as too conservative; and Garrison, like Wendell Bbillipe, is'out in fa vor of Buchanan, because he thinks the reck less career of the Sham-Democracy, if eontin. ued, will destroy the Union,' a result which he desires, but to which the Republican plat form is distinctly opposed. -' ay -The editor pitweed%to.qUote from the Bu. chinan papers 'rOnarks . said- tol•bave been made - by individuals . Who support the Repub lican - nominees, some of which . are unobjec tionable, and. some of • . which *.ere probably never ;mad e, or ifso the party is no more respon-. •sible for 'Them, nor half asl much, as is his party fOr the resolution adopted by an Amer-. icanState Convention in Georgia, that if Kan sas should apply foradmissiOa into the 'Un ion with 1 pro-Slavery constitution, and be refused, .such refuSal would justify- Georgia. in se'eding froni - t"tho Union-.— H i thus plainly in dicating, what the :.votes of the'party in Con: . gresi also show, that the SOuth Americans , (Mr. i.athrop's party)are in league with the Sham Democracy,l in their wicked and des perate endeavors by. violen ce and bloodshed to force, the most accursed institution' of hu man vassalage that the world ever saw, into territory once cOnseerated to freedom • forev• er by solemn compact, and now,. by the. re-, .pOal of the Missouri Cothpromise, under the speCial l •gnarclianship of what claims to be the freest . and best. government on earth. Let . the editor clear hislown-party of the stain of disunion which it 4as acquired by Fillmore's. . Albany Speech as,;well as -by • the Alabania. and. Georgia:, State Ourventions, before he .charges upon the Republican party sentiments which thqir plat forrn;-in so many. words; dis- avow Again the editor .says he ''prefers to, bear evils that are sizjeriFble and nay be directed, 1 under God,' to a gopd end, rather than to tear I dOwn'tbe . fabric of our country to secure the, • • success of an abStract principle of right." — 7 ' I suppose lie refers ?to the question of Free, • doM or Slavery in Icansas4 "An abstract ',principle of right Take this 'exceedingly conservative" tditor•from his,safe retreat lir. Northern kierdisilvania,tbul set him down in the Terriiory of Ktinsas, !and ler him there utter the doctrines -be hss published fur years, aud for no Other offence (lei Would 'soon find himsdf tarred and feathered: or imprisoned, or shot, or hung,: as - other guiltless flee . -State men have been,— and Probably Would then begin to underStand,tbat there is sofrie thing practical abou . t this qbestion. Buethe editor objects to Frentok that he has had little experience as t i t Legislator 7 He has,had about as much as IWashington had,. ..when be waS elected ; find he, made a very. goon President. I cgree z. with: Senator &tamer, that it is no objection to a candidate that to is not a hackneyid politician; and I be lieve it was once prOfesscdi as a part o l f The policy of the party ,to which Mr. Lathrop be to take up new men, fresh from the ranks of the people, as the people- haVe done in nominating Fremont. - When the editor states that Fremont M the Senate voted uniformly i with the Demo cratic party, against his present•politieal as sociates, be states what is untrue, for the re cord showi that he voted very independent ly, his votiViteing sometimes recorded nth those of_Sew4id.llale, and Sumner, and some times. , . • against them; and even if the allega tion were true, will he tell us where then was found his own candidate for the= Vice Presidency ? was a bitter Sonthern Dem ocrat, and, as editor of thel Washington Un ion, pouring hot shot - into the leillutore Ad= mipiStration, which he clutiged with Galphin ism 'and all sorts of corruption. I am sorry to,see that the editor of the Herald, by hanging to. theskirts of that po spostate, 10nry M. 'Fuller, has been thus, dritiffed down'into th i e mire of Noithern doughfaceisin. It l iras bad enough for Fuller to offer ljrnsclf upt to the hideous Ebony Idol of the SS pith, without asking his surviving friends to mount his funeral pyre, and. sacri fice theinseives to the mattes of the'departed. FREE AMEItICA. BUSQUEIMIISIA COUNTY POLITICS. • b'• NO. 4. r_ E. B. Cnasr. Eq.: Dear Sir .z._When Mr. Pierce took upoq hinisell the administration of the government, in March, 1E43, he assur ed the country that sectional agitation was at an end, and that' the -different Compromises that from, time tp time had been entered into between the different sections of the country, should he preseved invi o late. A large ma jority of all patties were disposed to acqui esce in the posiiion thus taken by the Presi dent; the country wanted peace and quiet ' , and the Exectitive of the national govern:: meat assured them-that, they shouldhave But the sequel: showed that the power that placed Mr. Pierce in the' chair of State, wad still potent Sn , his administration, and that Sla - very agitation was to , be put at rest only' when it would' be: detrimental to the eaten. , sion of Slavery to continue it, and was to be frowned upon and , suppressed only when de manded 'by the Slaveltolders and thOse in their interests. The repeal of the Missouri Comprdmise Was brought forward as an ad. . 'ministration Measures, the first session of Con gress -after the': President had assured the 'country that no further agitation was to be permitted. No petitions from the people,' either North , or. Soil*, , demanded or, asked for the repeal; it was Compromise,wider which the, people- bad reposed for thirty years : And it had beenlrked upon aaf a P 4l 4s l * 149th sections foolisecrendi r t' , yhetv; the measure „watt_ introduced into COligrelii • k. • For li i Repuyscan. "YREEDOKI amp WION'T agiaoKalr aLia'WEG'2V aMID Z6NOAC the people of the Free States justly felt that it was alreat and grevious wrong, a violation of thi plighted faith of the nation, and an act that should justly arouse the indignation of every, friend of free institutions. At that time there was no important election pend ing. The people looked at it, not as parti sans but as men and freemen. In Feburary and March, 1854, you were in Harrisburg, and probably were . not as conversant with the populq feeling in the county as one who resided here at the time and , to show whit that ' feeling was, J refer to the call for the meeting held at the Court House, on Mon 4ay, the Bth of March, 1854, which was as follOWS: I . . "The P eople's Me ting. TO PROTEST AGAINST- SLAVERY IN NEBRASKA." • " The citizens of Susquelni nit Countv, who "are opposed to the violation 1. the Missouri Compromise and the . exteuSio 1 of Slave Ter ritory,are invited to meet at t e Court. House, in Montrose, on Wednesday: he Bth day of I March next, at one o'clock in . the afternoon, to utter their stern Prot st against the threatened breae.hvf faith,hy t e repeal of the Missouri Compromise, and t eir determined l i hostility to any, eneroachme t of the Slave Power on the rights of .Free Labor in the Territories secured by that compact. The Hon. David Wilmot has consented to be present and .address the Meeting. Judge Avery, of Oviego, and Hon. lenry M. Fill ler, of WilkeSbarre, have ben invited and are also expected tO address he meeting. - February 10 ; 1854: Geori ! e. Fuller .r. . L. F. Wm."i. hatch ~ - W. IL I J.. T. L i,K angdon :i Homed - B. Say re. Isaac I C. ,N.• Stoddard .. A. Chn G. Z. Ditnock',.. D. R. M. a Wilson .. . Joh - I V. J. Mulford . Amos D. D.. Warner W. . - W. A. A. ,W. Dimock .W. J. Joel Coggswell . F. J. I SainuelJessup -- •,- B. C. Charles F. Read , . J. Ethi E. S. Park , R. Da Samitel F. Carmalt Georgt - William Jessup''- J. Ly 9 C: D: Lathrop .. It B. 1 Geo. ,R. HawleY Dank Simeon B. Chase G: B. 1 Chas. L. Brown -- C. Steil Henry F. Torre!' .. A. W T.jM. A. Newcomb ' Geo .1 M. C. Tyler _.. Geor -Harvey Tyler - Sarnu • Alfred Sayre 5 Merri J - . F: Dunmore - A. Fri R. F. Jameson- Abel , Phin . F. H. Fordharn Chauncey Wright . Dani.e • Alfred Baldvan --:- D. C. Wm. L. Post .--:- . Wm. 1 A. S. Brewster.. • C. F. I 1. J. Stebbins - 'S. D. C. W. Mott ' ' Samt , J. W. Granger . Astt.l William D. Cope-- Geor e Backus - A..N„Bullard s' , .. F. B. Chandler P. Hinds.. - . B. S. Bentley - - N. L:.Austin , -H. I 'Frazier -- John Harrington - •A. throp ,- I:aac Post , - ,;- • Fran lin Fraser D. 'D. BroWn ~,' Jamey Mead • 1 Caleb Carmalt - - Alvin, Day. -,• D. C. Dayton. .A. N l Teichanri - • John' Morrisey , : D. . Glidden --.. • - WilliamXitzgerald; Simeon Ferris - . Michael Nolan, . 'Willitun Itobbe: Timothy Griffin - :-,l3avio Robbe Jas. Nolan David Sherer - ... John Murray '; -S. G.i Haight D. S. Hoag '• ' Edwln Bliss -- H. A. Hibbard • . M.; W:iißliss• N. Thatcher ' - Jas. H. Bliss James Jones , • Edward Cramsie Corneliui Myers J. Hosford Henry Searle - •J. Garnsey Samuel Horton , D, D. Gurney .- B. ,!hidden -' " Jobn H. Pierce Of the aboVe list, more than one half had previously been recognize, as Democrats, sand never dreamed at the line that append-, 11 sing their names to a call for a meeting tode - I nounce the attempt to'reßeal the Missouri . , Con2promiseitiould make them anything else. As I hate been credibly-informed, -not. half a dozen persons , in the County to whom' the call was offered, refused to sign it, although it was Well understood at the time that the .Nebraska bill was at.Wasbington considered. a Democratid measure, an. the general goy. ernment , was coaxing and tt reaming, as far as in its, power, all the , me j of the party, into 'its support. Your name floes net appear to the 'Calk for the reason, I resume, that you were then rit-Flarrisbur:- Had you been e l es here, no doubt the irnpill of your nature would have impelled youorward among the ; most zealous and veti've p rticipators in 'the meeting. Hon. D. Wilmot was having Conkented to addr Not- a J'.whisper was heard 1 he was violating his dutie he consented to meet wit to 'utter with • them " 1 against the threatened their determined hostilit ment of the Slave Powe Free Labor in the Terri ; t i The tueylbg wis presided over by Hon. George Fuller, and addressed by the Hon. D. Wilmot, R.. B. Little Esq. and others; and Mr. Little, as I anal credibly informed (not being present myself,) _made one of his old-kshioned speeches, in which the en croachments of the Slave Power, the duty of all-.free citizens to comb; in favor of free dom iu the ; Territories, d the treasonable movements of the present corrupt and wick ed administration, were enfireed with great' truthfulness and power. At the tiate,l of that Convention, a resolution approving of re peal of the Missouri; promise could not have obtained theasseut atone out of ten of the Demodrets addsty. s . • Tbe action *Mat' ' : diced the ON . pia t i t tie aniSits SS flii is rilwiiiiiidi'pre cisert upon the 6oue bir'*Ciiii4 by the iluag - , MONTROSE, THURSDAY, AUGUST 7,1856: - 1 PR+i.T.ER PUBL*I-lES---VOL- NO . BO itch , Jessup . - Smith Post • iberlin athrop ancock Grossman Turrell - • athrop r.yre . • ridge , Keeler ns ittle &arid ti ewie out loot] cock e L. Stone le Henry . I Warner." it MOtt ;ink [is Smith Patrick- Smith Meeker 11. Boyd -- Loomis. COrnell . :1 Bard 'essenden t amed in the call as !is - the meeting.l - - min any, one : tht as Judge When his fellow citizens eir stern protest " reach of faith, • and [ to any encroach on the rights of I - . ries. Republicans. The course of Mr. Grow was approved ;' 4 `and with what pride and satisfac; tion did the people of this Congressional -dis trict contrast The course of their Representa tive with that of the • doughfaced member from the Twelfth district; IL B. Wright.— Had• any one at that time told any of the leadiniDemocmts who signed that call and participated an the proceedings of the meet ing, that in less than two years, they would be followingthe trail of H. B. Wright and the - Pl*' rce idministration,' and denouncing Mr. Grow for pursuing the very • course that theywere then so highly approving, and urg ing him forwardin,—tjley would in the lan- gouge of Holy Writ, .mare exclaimed, ‘.‘./s, thy servant a dog, that.he shotild do this great wickedness 1" Who at that time would have thought that such Democrats as Gco - ige Fut- icr, William K—Hatch, A. N:-Ballard, M. Tyler, A: Lathrop, and probably others, who signed the call, would -in so short a space of time, turn their backs upon those'with whom they were then acting to check,the encroach ments of the . Slave Power, give the lie di. rest for all their professions for freedom in the Territories, and be found in active concert with Pierce, Douglas, Stringfellow & Co., forcing Slavery -into free territory, in viola tion of law and justice ? It is said, "poverty makes strange bedfellows," and truly poli- ties cause men to turn strange and. uyfac- countable sumMeraetlz. While the Kansas-Nebraska bill was in Committee _of the Whole, with what intense interest did - the people of • the whole North look to their Representatives in Congress, and with what a. whirlwind .of popular indig natiotr did the people, at the next election, rebuke .Yorthern traitors. When you .returned from, the Legislature,- you placed your paper upon the true . Free Soil platform, and denounced the eneroach ments of the Slave Power, in as . strong lan- • guage and with as much apparent honesty as any paper in. the district ; and whenever your fidelity to freedom was caned in question, you repelled the charge withkindignation, ap pealed successfully. to the columns of your paper as the evidence of your course, and an earnest of what it would be in future. The -whole course of Mr. Grow in the:memorable session of 1854, was fully endorsed and high .ly approved by ydu. Mr. Grow then stated, in his speech on the.bill, that its passage would destroyjha Democratic party at:the North. - In the Gubernatorial campaign of 1854, you claimed that the repeal of the MiSsouri Compromise was not a Democrat 4 measure;. that.it had hien voted for by Whigs as well as Democrats ; that the issue-should be made on Congress and President, an& not on Gov ernor: that: 'was your position during. the whole of 1854; you claimed that Free Soil men could consistently vote for Governor Bigler, sa l the office was not a political one, and it woUld be folly to make the issue where it did net in reality exist. That argument bad great, weight with many Democrats, es pecially 02 this part of thu _county. They loathed the present administration and its policy, bye they'looked upon Gov. Bigler as a man who had been true to the interests of the State, and as his high office was not' po litical,. in a national sense; they gave him their votes. You taught the Democrats in 1854 and 1855, to make this isuue clearly and fearlessly, wherever it really existed, and to strike down every, =timber of Congress who was engaged in the conspiracy to rob freedom of -her ; long and clearly admitted rights in Kansas. You taught the Democrats to "support the county- and State nomina tion; but bolt the National ;" and when, in 1855, the State ticket was nominated on a dough - face platform, you bolted yourself, and refused to hoist it at the head of yourpaper. Hundreds of the Democrats of, the County ; with myself, are now following your teachings of 1854 and 1855. We see that you were cor rect in your oft-repeated assertions that the Know-Nothings, as a national party, were, or would become pro-slavery. We followed your advice In not making the issue on Gov ernor and other officers where their official action could not reach the question. We be lieved with you that the Democratic party was' not the protsliverY party; and, acting un der your advice, we bolt the national party, believing it entirely under- the control of the Slave power, and design casting 'our votes for President where they will tell on the, side of Freedom. Yours truly, . - A DEMOCRAT. NOTE.—Since writing the above, I have heard that you have sold out your interest in the Democrat, left the editoriil chair, and consekuently are no longer the mouth-piece of the-yarty. I shall therefore in future use your name, no further than it is cOnneeted with the proceedings and action, of the party, as that of any other person. . r k A Discs-row REaroxst—The New York Times having inquired . what the Richmond Whig would have to say concerning Mr. Fill more's,disunion speech at Albany—the Whig replies : "As the Times is desirous. to hear from . us on this subject, we will gratify its harmless curiosity. We have, therefore, to say.. that we should consider the Union, under the do minibn of a Black Republican President, a grievance too weighty to be borne—or rath er that we. cannot conceive of a .Union after such a result out the election of Fremont bas been accomplished. In oqr judgment triuuiph of Fps - Boil in the Presidene i y and tho ,sundeft of 'the bonds. - Which mute us IWould ,be simultaneous, end we shoulct be sor 7 . to think Otherwise, Ur., IrAlmore, hen nghtl said—' the South will tot submit: , Is the Times satisfied • ineligqeoqs. ADDEESS, - =ADOPTED BY THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLICANS AS SEMBLED AT SYRACUSE JULY 24. 1856. Fe]low Democrats The time has come for Democrats to declare their independence of those packed conventions which have lately assumed to dicfate the measures and the candidates of the Democracy. 'That party of glorious memory, which once spoke and acted for Freedem r has fallen into the bands of office, holders,, and political adventurers, serving as the tools of a slavelfolding oli garchy. For more than ten years the meas.: ures of the General Government have been directed mainly to the increase pf Slave States. One measure has followed upon an-• other,. each bolder than the last, until we have violence ruling in the Federal Capitol, and civil, war raging in the Territories. For the 'consummation of each measure, the venal h&ve been purchased,. the timid frightened by threats of disunion, the peace loving soothed. by promises of future quiet ness, and the reluctant and resisting silenced or overborne by the clamor and force of par- I ty. Each success has hal to a new . aggres sion, until at last the weak man -now at the head of the Government, stimulated by .a Senator from Illinois, in a rivalry for a Pre.s dential nomination, and believing the best means of reaching it was to seeure the entire Southern vote, and the best means of obtain ine that, a new sacrifice to Slavery, attempt ed to force through Congress the repeal of a Compromise eflected by our fathers more than a third of a-century past. These rival demagogues succeeded' in effecting; the re peal, though they lost their reward. By this act of-crime; unparalleled den in our day of politiCal crimes, one of the fairest regions of the country,and,indeed,ofthe w o rld, has been cosverted into a field of battle, 'where citizens of a common country are fight ing, with each other for the introduction or exclusion of huthan servitude.... Such Anoth er spectacle the world' does not . present.— And the end of it is dependent upon the event of the Presidential e l ec ti on . To excuse themselves, the authors] of the measure put forth the plea, . that the; people of the. Territories had the right to 'govern themselves. If this were true ' it would- not have justified the Kansas-Nebraska act, for that was a mere abandonment of Congres slcinal interposition in favor of Presidential interposition, leaving the law-making power , to the people, but reserving the executive and judicial to the President or his nominees.— It was an abdication by Congress of its legis lative functions in favor of the executive. But the plea was as untrue in fact as it was unworthy in motive. They who put it ;forth hive already abandoned it. The SUB- , ate has passed a' bitlproposing to annul some of the most obnoxious ads of these law-mak ers, and the authors of the mischief, slezink ing from the consequences- of their own acts, and tergetting that other's will 'remember their forgiversation, attempt to- escape some of the condemnation by undoing a part of the evil. If the people of the Territories has e the right to govern themselves, they will make their governors and judges as well a's. their legislators. - If they have net the right, -Con gress has it ; and if Congress has it, it must be exercised according to the jndgment and conscience of the -country. The true ques tion, therefore, is, What legislation on the subject of Slavery in the Territories do the judgment'and conscience of the- country re quire 1 ] ' The iilsent question is, indeed narrower than that, for it relatei merely to the Terri tories of' Kansas and Nebraska. These, the legislation of Congress, perfected in 1820 by_ the votes of the North and South—chiefly South—solemnly and forever set apart as. Free Soil. , That dedication of the soil to Liberty thesdee b eneracy of the present day has annulled. And the legislation which is now required is that which is necessary, whatever it may be, to make Kansas. free. This is demanded alike by every consid4e ation, past; present and future. If Kansas, which the past made free,is now to be changed to slave, there must be an end of compro niises and of conciliatory legislation ; the faith which prompts one legislature of one generation to respect the engagements of an other must disappear;. and hpw long a gov ernment can .be carried on without faith andeonfidence, .without something more than written constitutions, worked by mere iriL jorities regardless of everything but their own strength and will; they who have read history can answer.. • If the present struggle is .to,end as the Illi nois Senator hall boasted, in the subjugation of those who opposed his mischievous bill, then, indeed, is the spirit of evil let loose, intimidation and violence are in the ascend ant, the real opinion of the country is a thing to'be despised, conscience may be laiThed at, and It is of no importance to the Pres ident or Congress what the people of the ,North may think; if the . South can be se cured, aitth the northern office - holders and purchasable members of Cong,ress, any measure may be safely carried and rnaintain ed. How such a state of things commends itself to the spirit or self-respect of northern - electors, we ask -them to answer. But what shall' we say of the futhre? Kan sas lost to freedom, ,and as a home for the op pressed of all nations; free labor driften across her borders, and that noble domain of the New World, broader and fairer, ,than many a realm of the Old, made, not prosper ous and rich like Wisconsin and lowa, but half barbarous, like Western Missouri. That, however, is not the worst leonse quence. The same spirit which contrived the Kansas conspiracy, already hints that the prohibition of the slave trade is an unjust dis crimination against the South. And why not? -If Slavery be no evil, or if a Federal legislator may not legislate on the-idea that it is an evil, why should he make it piracy to bring a slave into the country? Why not let each man buy according to his - own con science,,,what he findi to be property, ,or, 'which is the same thing, what he flnda every where to be . salable ? The same principle which justifies the Kansas act must justify the slave trade, and condemn, as an infringe-. moat upon the equ4. rights of the South, the exclusion or the fora ign irfdri(x Thst; et" being.ta49, and It is till , mat if - the 'PreS9nt inuteeedstuen - S4verY Yirt*l..4:estabtah - ` nd our Slistast' fn.r.l accnrdWg... tn high re4Oralt'igi the-PWSP the al doctriqe of some of our courts, Congress authorises to be-imported may',:• be sold, any taw - or any State - to the. contrary notwithatanding... • • • No, fellow Democrats, our only safety is to stogy where . we - are-to make Kansas a Free, State--to punish.• the authors of the present,' l agitation, and in that way, for thatis the only way in which it canto * done, put an . end to the Slavery agitation. • • I • -" 'How is this tes,be aceorriplished t Byre jecting !the . Cincinnati C4nvention - and its nomineesfor they are inseparable. That Convention met:'while the country, or, at: least, all but the Sounthern part Of it, stood grieved, and shocked by the violent: and law-- lessnese in Washington and in Kansas., But not a word lef disapprobation did the Convention. utter. They resoKed Upon. certain truisms which nobody has - ever disputed ; passed - a resolution against a Bank of the United States as if anybody had dreamed of such a thing for years.—a subject just as pertinent to, our present circumstances es the Virginia. or en tucky resolutions ; and then gravely resolved that. every new State must fora) its -own in stitinien, by imputationdeny in_g both to Congress and to. the Territorial Legislature_ the right to exclude Slavery. It must also be born: in mind, that the author of the Kan saa act, and the nominees .of the Cincinnati Convention have, to this day, : declined to; ay , that - the people of the Territories have the right to exclude Slavery. - Who' does not know that no free State has ever yet been admitted into the Union•into which,l as a territory', Slavery was admitted? Who does not know that Slavery•will, go whefeVer.a Slaveholder goes; if he is permit ted to hake it with him ; that SlaVery exists in Kentucky, im a higher latitude. than some counties of Ohio and Indiana, - and in Misou ri,.seVeral hundred . miles farther .north than the southern of . the free State - of Illi nois ; !that it is an institution ' . easily planted in -the in f•ancy;of settlement and most 'difF. 7 cult to be eradicated-in their ,tnatnrity - 1 • But why not let the people of the country decide-the question for themselves . ? Say these new professors of ' Squatter Sovereignty,' .or at least said so : befor they: intredeeed . fire and :sword into Kansas; to .they the. svat ters in violation of "the right: of . the people to bear:arrnsr —to. breakup their meetings in violation of their . " right peaceably. to assem blelandpetition for a redress of grievancea"_ r -- disperse their, assemblies. gathered to i() ma ;.0 their own laws—to burn. their houses, bui tlwith many toils and sacrifices in • the _Midst of the prairies- . e-0 hunt ,their wives' and ehildren into the wilderness, their only refuge friom the fury of these guardians of squatters' - rights.: . Why not, let them de-, ' vide the question for thernselVeal If tli:ly 'who deride were only deciding for themselves .there might be some plausibility iretheques tien;•l But they decide.. for themselves and for all future inhabitants of the Territory.-- They who come into a Territory after Slave ,ry iei introduced; have not a freochoice l in'the matter. At the very least, wait until there I is a sufficient population to -Make a State be- I •1 • c; i_fore:y .-0 ult Slavery come in, •Was it ever fleard that when a Ship's-company is making up ler a voyage, the first passengers who put their Meet on board make rules for . the nine ty who follow—rules that shall be unaltera- • ble Until the ship shall have been a hundred day 'at-sea ? . And was it any better to en 4 act a law that a feW squatters who entered Kansas before October,lBss, should :'make , laws which' could not b alterd.for two years even though the population: should, -• in the next year, increase an hundred fold 1 . . ' . , .' i • - -4- Then,,,it is asked, what interest it:is • to us whether the people of Kansas - have 'Slavery or not? Is it of no interest, to the people Of this generation;that - Virginia is it 'Slave State? •If she .had been free, what Would now have been her population, Ater wealth, her resources ? Her t ivers with'v lf to supe,her ships all over the globe, her lands cultivated like a garden. : If it had fallen to the- lot of any Statesman of a past generation to decide whether that Commonwealth should :be free or, slave, and he :had,for any motives,allowed it to 'become slave; how 'would his memory be have ( len cursed by every :true_Virginian of our: ay? Who thatlooks pow at Missouri : does not see the bitter fruitS of that weakness. or facility of temper. which led a few North ern:.i en Te to unite with the South lti yielding -- i - it up, to Slavery? ' And hereafter, when we who : are now in life ' are passing into the grave, -will it not he -a stain upon our name's ,and a Shadow upon our consciences, if having the Power to prevent it, we should permit • Kansas - to be slave—another marauding Mis souri instead of a peaceable Towa—or.oven a Virginia; instßad of a New-York or Pennsyl vailia,l . . - Mk-. Buthanan, the candidate of the Cinein- nati Convention, stankpledged to make the resolutions of that Convention his rule Of faith and Practice. :If wepre.to take his own,dee laration, he is to be rather an automaton than a free agent. The convention which nomina ted llim--4hat motley. .and noisy crowd which' nob Ody would have allowed to decide a mat: ter of business of the Smallest importance for, him Self—has done the thinking• of,the Presi dent{ for the next' four yeara,if Mrißuchanan, should happen to be that President. SUch a' candidate, under such circumstances, we cam' not Support. , - i . .- - • Shall we, then, throw-away - our Votes 'I -- That; we cannot i do ; for :tiro -reasons i one; 1 that we shall thus indirectly' contribute to' ' Mr.ll3uchanan's election ; the other that there is alchoice. Mr. Fremont, who has been cnominated by .the.RepUblicans, is en accept; able candidate. His. professions anteee, dents are all democratic, and strongly in hiS' fevOr. 'He is known to be a- - man of. great capacity, energy, probity andhonor. In his hands, the Presidential otfiee• will .he v igor otisly and. justly administered. We haVe,_ therefore, nominated him for :the Presidency,: and this asftchite Air.' Dayton, for: the . Vice 1 • PreSidency ; and we , ask youi,Democrats . of NeW-Yorki.to ratify thiS nomination:- • - We maim uonttaelc uporithieSout ~. ye. 11, 1 .reMember that the Southern people. are s, •hrethren, and weMean them so to :condi . 1 ... But, they shall not iaterfere,'Avith - our rig •,,:j nor?: Introduce their- -institutions .into, . our • States, nor, fasten the' upon the, Territories before those:Territories are mature enough.! to•beStat* and, - as.stich, to determinetheir oieti institytions.. ' AVe know well how Many nOble• men and Women lido are. in . all.tho South, and we believe' that 'many .of them :wit liii l i in reepeetto :the'extension. of. A . BTairery,'tinthe Southern' .politician-'sand' . the 1' i Northern :; tanktOr.., who-- hava•done Abe. •mitiehief, 04 whoOfwe wiihto , reetreiP. - .; - We. mean no attack! arid We make none I upon State' rights:. W , do not,beljeva the right of the_people of 9119. State to In ;: fere,with Slavery in another,'* We .no believe in the right of NetV' York to , slave in Georgia thin the' right-of Giorgia make' a slave in New york. • Tit laws New York•and of Georgia must equally: termine the - personal relations of 13 their respective limits. But ,of the Territories are under ihejniiscrtetioilr... subject to the legislation Of the Union.; cl fident that there can be no'peace in any-,T , ritory bordering on a Oa - ye-State:bid by act of Congress declaring the personal r tions of its inhabitants, [witheut eli war is inevitable ; and believing, moreovi that as is the Territory Aso will the State we are firmly and unalterably opposed to introduction - of Slavery into any. Terri • of the United States.. ` Such is the disorderea.state . 6l'atrairs, der the control . Of the di l nqrid. Goyernitit as to demand of every ettizeri the intitt,, - .*: lant scrutiny and the graVe.Stideliberation Each elector throughout, thectnited - Sta has an important office to perforin at the ing election ; and any neglect :to;, exei that invaluaßle right, Or any indifference to the manner . in which it shall be `ixerel at a criSislike this, is guilty" not only of, ordinary omission of ii,knoWn..dtity but crros negligence , approaching criminality,, 17 How laasit..happet4 that; the :Shard - -.- ' I islature of Kansas, eleepd. by -the co .- tub; , influence of fraud and tome, has-dared--to an act bearing even . the name :of law I. Ti dared such .a body - so abuse .the._ eiviliza io. c.ji of thii age as to expel*Ome of - its, merti ers for no:cause whatever,l i and pasi a Ode: o en-, actments which Wouldldisurace - a coup -* ot . saVagesl. , .Why has the prOperty of the. peaceable Citizens of that Territory,been . es troyed, their liberty' irio , cied,' and ilie.ir 114: . . wantonly sacrificed? H Why., the .. _ -of - marauders - from the adjoining :State .p.e.. ad- • inu . this Territory 1 * ,Why the. inter ' doll , t, • ' of and abuse to settlers on their w;v:tiii lie . .-- and the.tone of arrogant detian&4anf.F fa use - , ot Atehi§on i •Stringfellow and thefr assoc otes to the Free State men of Kanaak? ,' All .this .. has . been dope under the -pledge,. eipr .or implied, of the National Administration that every measure tending to the eStablisf.' ' ent of Slavery there, and the exelusion 'of . dom, should haVe theibearty, coeiteiath. that administration.. IlkfaupOtherVl., -tins administration . have.: .teen. 'broken, .. th`atpledge. has eciz: hiiit to-the fetter.:' Why has 'Judge Kune: held . that,,..Sl -- . - so far exists in the Free States as to P artie s of pleasure and ,others toinvad Free States rwith their retinue of Slav there to.hold them ini.the yoke of sery Surely, it must: be to, tutor 'the :Free ' into _acquiescence, or snbserviency to-t' stitutiou of Slavery-. 1 " Why has, the trade sprung up to sad' alarming sire and been carried on., by traders: residi the city of New-York, during the past Why, have Mr;.Buchanatt and his as , at the Ostend Conference unblitshingly 'ed the right-in our Gevernthent totake by force, if it :could not be.gained b chase? Why has the Cincinnati Conv,: followed:up the Ostend: manifesto wit more startling announcement of the d this Government to exercise a prOtee over the - 'whole coantry - . bordering o Gulf of Mexico ? Why hare Douglas, and BuChanan, in succession, beeomOtto to the new doctrine that the General G ment.has no power to control the: T ries ? Why have the arms cif 'the flatten turned to oppress our oin citizens 1 the subject of Slavery - agitated by the dent, contrary to the express .pledg the 'treasure of the nation poured out fusion upon the supporters of that instit These are questions wbielt, electors w fail to inquire into and answer at the • box. - i .• . The abuscve and indecent . epithets m 1 of by the Chief supporters ot. Mr. Bu `against the friends of Fremont ; their. agement of Freedom and ericotiro,e Slavery ; their abandonment of every cratic principle, and their devotion th odious of all ol' i marchies,"Mustshake t fidence of the electoral in that pimp, an the party itself as desperate in its f 1 as it is corrupt its Means for attaini cess. , If the spirit of hostility to our-free tions, manifested by; thesupporters Buchanan, had - been as violent duril days of Washington, Jefferson - and 31 as it noiv is, those patriots Ipuld 'ha driven from their native St4e for the of liberty, and, compelled to .seek where sentiments unison with th, were held sacred. The attempts of the BuChanan p • s gene , rally to misrepresent the true "Coed tion of affairs in • kansas; their desire ,to ma e light ot the depredations 'committed by tie Na tional Administration patty against ife, lib erty and property ; the open - of:plan, is or.si lent, acquiescence of the same party special appeals to brute farce, exhibited at t e.Capi tol, of the tuition during the preseit session of Congress; .their 'efforts to induce ing,ress to pass the bill concocted by Senators Combs and pouglas; containing an, iogeniim but ef feed ve guarantee of Slavery Kell though peesevered in with that Otani:irons-a: uronee and dictatorial air Strongly charhet; : ristie.of gross wrong— must and shall be th ! roughly cativassol and e.xposo. .The' peiTie will nut WI to stamp such I duplicity ith tented condemnation: B. _ - The series of measures terminittin repeal of the Missouri Compromise, ed 4isastrous to the political tirospee originators and pronipters of the sch subversive of public tranquillity, chanan is a fresh recruit to this servi has surrendered his principles io the oft others.' His an(ectdeqs` a re st pinst him. He is not a re, e of the true democracy of the n With his tendency to foreign aggr• domestic :strife 'and discord, he is `c fitted, by nature and position, to the policy of President Pierce in all The one has introduced civil strif, our people as the Most notice:title f his adrninistration--t' he other, if , seems likely to adopt the same domestic policy, and tilso, to etttl . ta:, eign viers for the purpose of:nextilit+, convention is prepare 4 e - t° Bt these projet4 . witi-unt,elireol4: ble condeMnation,, E . " President Pier& Prourise'd the D of the nation an economical adtninis : MI 1 'ed do ov. ree- In of es of but ear iates I. . atm= Cubs. par; :num i t ! the ty et orate ; = the term, verts. vern. I been by is l• real ande 1. pro tion 111 not `de tisd , hanan ent of (demo most ,e con mato `dunes 1 g sue- rtaitu• f Mr. g the adlson a been r Tore tection own ►,:in the t7corthe mo, and r. Ito- I kiiition .ngli a tesentat on. amlt 1 , . ipentk r . rtout i,4,00 - es. • armin g Lupe ul' La;. =iii pol jk.,iq`Tur=. t. = Tt bulb .9( Tno4iitcy ration of
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