The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1854-09-23
For the Evansville Journal .

Mr.. EDITOR:
l wish, through the columns of your paper,
to place before the community few histori-
cal facts in regard to the admission Of Arkan-
Fsas into the Union, about which Judge Law
belabored his brain so very much in his La
masco speech, to falsify, by the wholesale
classification OF everybody that did not see
with the same delusion as he, as Abolition
lists, and especially the position at that time
of Mr.. John q. Adams.
The Judge said that no honest Lawyer OF
his (Law's) attainments, could put any other
construction upon the Missc ur Compromise,
than that it established slavery south of the
line S6a degrees north latitude, by inhibit-
ing it north of that line. AL who dared to
differ from this construction, were an un-
reasonable pack uf raving lnuatic abolition.
lists and liars. Pretty language en- passanE
That it had been dishonest and traitorOus to
oppose the admission of Arkansas in 1896,
under the existence Of the Missouri Compro.
mise, ard that such men only as abolition
lists, who were intent upon dissolvihg this
republic, led by Mr.. Adams at that time,
could be guilty of such damnable acts.
When hear the course of that spotless
patriot and Americas greatest scholar ma
Ievolently imPugned, by brawlng. billings
vertng to history and find it giving the lie
to tteir every word. Let your readers then
have the true position of Mr.. Adams, Oh
thatoccasion, in his own words. extract
from Mr. Benton's history. page $50, upon
The clause in the constitution of Arkansas
with established, beyond the power of the
Legislature, slavery in perpetuum; he said:
"lcannot object to the admission of Ar
kanias into the Union as slave State;
canOt propose or agree to make il a condi-
ton Of her admission, that convention OF
} her people shall expunge this article from
her constitution. She is entitled to admis-
sionas slave Safe, as Louisiana, Missis.
siPP, Alabama and Missouri, have been ad-
mittd, by virtue of that article in the treaty
for tie acquisition of Louisiana, which re-
curSto the inhabitants Of the coded terrific
riesall the rights, privileges and immunities
OF tie original citizens of the United States;
and tipuiates for their admission, conform
abyto that principle, into the Union. Loui-
siam was purchased as a country wherein
slawry was the established law OF the land.
As Congress has not the power in time OF
peae 10 abolish slavery in the original
Staes of the Union, they are equally oest-
tuttof the power in those parts of the terri.
tory coded by France to the United States By
the zane OF Louisiana, where slavery exist.
ed he time OF the acquisition.
Arkansas has the right therefore to come
into the Union with her slaves and her slave
Laws. | am content to receive
h@as one OF the slave-holding States OF this
UIDn; but an unwilling that Congress, in
: acspting her constitution, should even lie
uIter the imputation of asserting 10 an ar
tie in the constitution of State which
whholds from its legislature the power CT
Cling freedom TO the slave"
his puts Mr.. Adams abolitionsm all
rsnt. 1t does more-the whole tenor of
MS argument tends to prove the right of the
I Omission CT Arkansas through treaty obi.
: atoms in the purchase oc Louisiana, and
OF one hint is there as to any obligation
. khich the Missouri Compromise imposes
Il outh of the line 361. All, bat had Con-
: !ress the right to put restrictions upon any
roart of this purchase! Most assuredIy she
'.nad wheresoever the restriction did not in.
dteriere with any rights in property. That
was all that was stipulated. Who then held
-any right in slave property in the new terri.
tories of Kansas and Nebraska.
{ The Judge said he was opposed TO slavery;
'had been born and reared in a free State
considered it great curse to our country
and therefore, l suppose, would aid in the
tearing down of all holy restrictions and civ.
ding few accidental first commers, the grea,
t'PoPular sovereignty" Of legislating on the
subject Of slavery alone, and spread that in
-stitution, against which the Judge had such
lprejudice from his youth, over region of
country vast enoagh to make a doze States.
DSuch are the old line Democrats who claim
,,her origin from the sires of tire revelation,
Jefferson in particslar, the father of the or.
rlinance of 1897, which prohibited the blight
IF slavery from the northwestern territory,
,Ind which was originally, three years before,
90 framed as to include all our then territory,
,.r all east of the Mississippi river The
o'PoPuar sovereignty" and "non.interven.
.ion'' of Northern doughiaces was not patri
:, tism then. The spols of Office effect won.
lie eriul changes. CONSIDERABLE.
!, FATALITY must be very |
:. angerous disease in the eleventh district. |