The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1854-02-10
locorocoism ON Nebraska.

day morning in another brainless, fillibuster-
ing column of nonsense, upon Nebraska and
the Wing press. If that sheet covets the
glory that Mr.. Douglass Jill will entail upon
its votaries, individually, or upon the coun-
try, we certainty shall not envy its enjoy
ment. The allegory introduced in yester-
days Enquirer, for the purpose of illustrating
the position of the Wing press upon the Ne
braska question, is but another silly inven-
ton to fill up, but not supply the place o.
better argument or more profound reasoning.
The allegory has 10 application to the Wing
press, and our neighbor must read his Natural
history better, before he locates the owl and
the Rattlesnake upon the smimic oceans of
grass as the agreeable companions of the
Prairie Dog. But, the subject admits Of no
better arguments.
1t is a fillibustering attack upon the set
tied policy of the nation, and it is either "death
or victory" with the leaders of the rebel clan,
from the United States Senator down to the
groveling camp-followers who attend the
flood gates at the filthy conduits of the Lo-
cofoco press. No arguments have yet been
adduced-no precedents cited, nor can there
be, to sustain the obvious purposes of the
present Nebraska bill.
The Wing press is accused Of turning SOM
ersets, of amalgamating with Free-soilers,
of fayoring the. doctrines of Abolitionists,
&c., &c. Now let US examine this subject
and see if the party which now ignores all
Compromises, which declares the Missouri
Compromise and the measures Of 1850 null
lily, have turned no somersets. The Bal
timore platform, which was made the test Of
political faith with Democrats, endorsed the
Compromise measures of 1850 fully and I'm
equivocally. The last Presidential Cam
upon those principles. All who had ever
proiessed the Democratic faith, but who
would not subscribe to the Baltimore Plat
form, were stigmatized as traitors, disunion-
lists, abotionists, and every other opprobi-
Gus epithet in the Locofoco vocabulary was
heaped upon them. The same faith has ex-
listed as the immutable doctrine of the party
until within the last few weeks. If the Com
promise measures are nullity now, grand
piece of 'putty architecture" an unconstitu-
tional, time serving compact. they were equal.
ly so when they formed the main Professed pill
lar OF the Baltimore Platform; when they were
the test of every mans democracy. If it is
not turning a double somerset to whiffle
about and call these measures, now, ." a null.
ity," then it is impossible to describe, ap.
propriately, the vascillations of Locofocoism
Our neighbor is not only constantly turning
summersets, backward and forward, but he
exposes his disgusting nakedness at every
evolution.
The advocates of Mr.. Douglass bill, claim
that its chief and only aim is to quiet effec,u.
ally, slavery agitation. Mr.. Douglass arrs
gates to himself the authorship Of grand
scheme which is to seal the mouth of every
man, woman and child upon the subject
Well, how does his bill propose to do il! Why
simply by inviting and permitting the extern
sion of slavery into the territory, which ha.
by the common consent of the country
through their National Councils, been decar
ed free-and Z" that slavery nor involuntary
servitude Except for crime) should neve
exist within its borders.
The compromise measures Of 1850 are uset
by these artful legislators SO far they ia
vor the Nebraska bill, but when they are re
duced ito their proper basis of justice be
tween the North and South, they become
nudity. The premonitary symptoms of tn,
mischievous operations of this bill, may b,
seen already both in Congress and through
out the free States. Agitation has alread
commenced with more fearful violence tina
ever before. All this is done by the intro
duction OF bill, which the very argument
its author, 60 to prove is utterly unimpor
tant and unnecessary at this time. TIL,
case of California bears no analogy to tn,
territory embraced in the present bill. Con
gress made no territorial government for Cal
ifornia. The first important legislation il
relation to California was when she came
with her Constitution in hand, knocking a
the doors Of Congress for admission into thu
great sisterhood Of our confederacy. Wker
Nebraska requires a territorial government
let Congress make one for her, cousisten,
with her wants and the Constitution. The
present bill contemplates the organization o
her territory with especial reference to tn,
toer alton of slavery. There are no othe
requirements for legislation upon the subjec
now. Let her government be formed will
reference to the solemn existing compacts
and the country will be content. Agitation
will cease.
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