The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1854-07-15

Inc state Sentinel, of Saturday. concludes
the publication of a letter on the Nebraska
Swindie, written by DR.. Nofsinger, of Psrke
county, to VIM. Robson, Esq, of that city.
Inc readers OF that paper will now have
an opportunity of seeing fair statement of
the reasons why the Missouri Compromise
ought not to have been repealed, which has
not heretofore been the case.
The Doctors position in the Democratic
party is such that he cannot be affected by
the usual stale city of A boliIionism, spplied
by the Sentinel to all who are opposed to the
repeal of the law restricting slavery in the
Territories oil Kansas and Nebraska. He
has long been prominent Democrat. having
been elected by the Democratic party to the
Legislature, to the Constitutional Conven-
ton, and to the Trusteeship of the Wabash
and Erie Canal.
The miserable, fraudulent and demagoguical
pretence about popular sovereignty secured
by the repeal of the Missouri Compromise is
thus unanswerably replied to in this letter.
Read it:
1t is urged that it is necessary to abrogate
the Missouri Compromise line, ain order to
carry out the great principle of seif-govern-
ment;" and that those who are not in favor
OF this allegation, are not in favor of this
great principle of self-government. This
assertion has been the most successful of 9th.
ers in deceiving and PROSECUTING the people.
do not desire TO conceal the fact that many
honest Democrats have been deceived by this
wretched humbug, which | will presently
show it to be. Hence you will find every
"Nebraskaite" whom you meet, urging this
assertion as his frs. and last argument, to
convince you that the Missouri Compromise
should be repealed. He will say TO you, "are
you not in favor of the principle of self-gov.
ernment!" "don't you believe the people are
capable Of self-governmentt" "cannot the
same men govern themselves as well in a
territory as in State!" Now | answer
obfrmatiUely to each one Of the propositions
| believe in the doctrine of self.government,
just as much or more, than those Nebraska
ites," who propose this document in defense
of the Kansas and Nebraska bill. Yet DENY
emphatcally, and can prove positively, that
this Kansas and Nebraska bill does not con.
tain or carry out the principle of sef-govern-
ment; and moreover, that it was not the de-
sign of Congress that this bill should carry
out or establish this doctrine. But on the
contrary, that this doctrine is preached TO
dclude the people into the support OF frau
dulent, outrageous and dangerous act,-an
act, which | fear may ultimate in the des-
truction of our glorious Union. But why do
| say that the bill does not carry out the doc
trine OF self-government! First, because in
stead OF allowing the people of Kansas and
Nebraska to form their own governments
Congress institutes governments for them;
and secondly, in the institution Of these ter.
rltornl governments, Congress retains in the
hands of the General Government two-ihirds
or more of the power of these territorial
governments; that is she retains in the
hands Of the General Government, not
only the judicial and executive depart
ments, but also gives the Governor the
power 10 vote the acts Of the territorial legis-
| lature; and besides all this, the bill extends
all the laos Of the United States, which are
applicable over the people Of these territories!
Yet the people will have no voice or partici-
patton whatever, in enacting these laus or
repeating, il they don't suit them! What
perfect burlesque upon self.government.
The people are not allowed to elect their
Judges, their State officers, or their Cover.
nor, nor allowed to pass single law unless
approved by the Governor, who is appointed
away off at Washington city by the President
OF the United States, for whom they are not
allowed even to vOte!! Now in the name
OF candor and truth, what was this little
stump speech about self-government stuck
into this Kansas and Nebraska bill for, un.
less it was to gull and deceive! And did Con.
gress think she could thus successfully delude
the American people with the beautiful name
of self-government, and with this name, hide
from detection her outrageous violation of
the plighted faith of the nation! This sacred
and beautiful doctrine of selt-government,
placed so pompously in this Kansas and Me-
braska bill, and which is violated by eyery
principle Of the bill, is placed in this bill as
mere Grecian horse, to cheat and delude
the people and which fear will prove as
destructive to the Americans, as the ancient
Grecian horse did to the Trojans! II Con.
gress was in earnest about establishing the
doctrine of self-government, why did she not
do it! Why did she not pass a Joint resolu.
ton, authorizing and recommending the peo.
pie of these territories to form such govern.
ments as she pleased, and to elect their own
officers. This would have proved the sim
certify Of Congress. No! Congress never in
tended 10 establish any such doctrine. She
never intended to let the people of Kansas
and Nebraska territories, do as they please on
any other subject than that of slavery.
This bill does allow them to establish
slavery if they wish it, and that too in direct
violation OF Compromise, which once saved
this Union. Compromise which is ven.
cradle for its age and sacred for the great
good it has done. Yet this Kansas and Me-
oraska bill allows this glorious old Comprom-
ise, to which every true lover Of the Union
should cling with the tenacity of life, to be
tramplet in the dust, in order to establish
SELF government, or in other and truer words
TO establish SLAVERY! But, perhaps Congress
thinks, (and we have a right to infer from
the bill that she does think SOY that the es-