The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1854-09-14

In answer to the extracts we made from
he replies of the different Democratic can
idates for the U. s.. Senate, to a letter adj
'ressed them. in which replies they assumed
! directly opposite position on the slavery
question to that which their party in this
State now occupies, the Enquirer says
.those gentlemen were at that time bidding
for free.soil votes. ! the United States Sem
ate." These leading men ofthe Democratic
party in Indiana were not expressing their
honest convictions, or. opinions which their
party favored, but merely bidding for the
free-soil vote!
E. A. Hannegan, the man whom the En-
quirer lately eulogized as above all mortal
men, then stopped to lie, and to deceive
every man in the State who could read his
letter, merely because he was
"BIDDiNG FOR FREE-soI VOTES"
Rob't Dale Owen, now enjoying lucra-
tive foreign appointment through the favor
of President Pierce, was also, according to
the ENQUIRER, another liar and deceiver, as
to his opinions, but simply excusable because
he was
"BIpDING FOR FREE-sOIL VOTES"
E.. NJ. Chamberlain. high in the Democrat.
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his own opinions, and to expose himself TO
the contempt of all honest men, merely in
BIDDING FOR FREEsoIL VOTES"
Senator by Democratic Legislature, after
he had in a similar manner thus disgraced
himself, because he was successful in
"BlDDING FOR FREE-sOIL VOTES"
And finally, did not the Democratic party
in Indiana at that time, prove that by elect.
ing Jas. Whitcomb, with this expression OF
his opinion before them, that they entertain
ed the same opinions with himself, or else
that they were
"BIDDING FOR FREE.sOlL VOTES"
Now let the sold liners" say whether or
not they were bidding at that time for Free.
soil votes. Whatever their motive, they
elected a man who had but Just declared
at is incontrovertible that slavery, there
or else where, cannot exist without the sane
ton of positive law. | am opposed to the
passage of any such law. | believe that
Congress can codstitutionally pass such Or
ganic laws for the government oil the territory,
as will, in their operation, prevent the ter.
ritorial legislature from passing any such
law. 1t follows that Congress can, in my
Judgment, constitutionally prevent the intro
ductIon OF slavery into these territories!"
The Enquirer says "the people ofterritories
have the inalienable right to make their own
laws on all subjects" If the people hare
Congress cannot have the same power. The
Democratic party Of Indiana in 1914, through
their representatives in the Legislature
backed Mr.. Whtcomb, and thus declared
that they occupied a position on the slavery
question directly antagonistical to that oc
uupied by the same party in 1854. They
also declared, in their State Convention O.
ls49. just as their Baltimore Convention o.
the same date declared, that the compromise
Of 1850 was final, and it was the duty of Con.
gress to exclude slavery from all territory
then free. But why argue this question:
The Enquirer, knowing that the opinion,
expressed in 1889 by its party's promnen,
men in this State, on this slavery extension
question, eliminated the whole party, has
sought to dodge this conclusion, by accusing
these men, in their letters, of
"BIDDING FOR FREE SOIL VOTES"