The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1854-03-01

The Presidency "a Demagogues.
We invite the attention of our readers to
the following extract from an article in the
New York Tribune, and we ask for it the at
tenton of every one who may peruse it
This extract gives the reason, and the only
reason why Douglass has been at the bottom
OF the present agitation, and why President
Pierce is backing him: 1- FCaE II
| We do not hesitate to proclaim our con-
viction that if Mr.. Douglas Gid not consider
himself prominent Candidate for the Pres
idency, and if he did not aim to shape his
| political course with 4 view 10 propitiate the
Slavery interest in the next nominating con-
ventlon and in the next canvass, that We
should not have before Congress, at this ses-
sion, any other Nebraska bill, than the well
matured measure introduced and urged by
him at the last session. But for these reasons
we should never have heard one word OF the
Infamous proposition TO repeal the Missc uri
Compromise. And we invoke the criticism
and challenge the intelligence of Congress
to refute the declaration. ScandalOus as it
may seem, startling as it may appear at the
first view. We are perfectly assured that no
candid man will deny the soundness of this
judgment. Mr.. Douglas had no need to re-
model his last years Nebraska bill. No new
circumstances connected with this territory
have since arisen. That bill was complete
and satisfactory in all its details. 1t passed
the last House by an overwhelming majority.
1t failed IN the Senate only because no direct
vote was ever taken upon it there. In the
very last speech Douglas made upon it, on
the last day of the last session, he himself de-
clared that If he could only bring that body to
a vote upon it. he was sure of its passage, for
he knew that majority were in its favor.
The bill failed only by being postponed.
And what is true Of Mr.. Douglas, we are
constrained to say, is true of the President
himself. He and his administration have
been tossed upon adverse seas and buffeted by
opposing influences, finding their source in
urgent pro Slavery sentiment. The Presi-
dent and his Administration have been de-
nounced as Free-Soilish in their sentiments
and tendencies. Mr.. Pierce has wrthed
under the imputaton, for the reason that it
had no foundation in fact, and that it periled
the success Of his pr,.idential career aud de.
strOyed his anticipation of a reelection. He
has seized upon the Nebraska question for an
occasion 10 sh wv himself the hardest Of
Hards. He has not hesilated to give to Mr..
Douglass bill his countehance and warm
support, in order to firmly fix bis totterins
position with the South, and place himself
in the regular line of unsupported p:O.slavery
candidates for the succession. That he, as
well as Dir. Douglas, has had none but poll
tical objects to gain by his Endorsement Of
this atrocity, is manifest from the fact that it
was not question originating with, or par
tcuariy belonging 10 this Administration.
The Nebraska bill had long been perfected,
and had long been before Congress. The
, Administration and Mr.. Pierce had therefore
no occasion whatever to NEEDLE in the mat.
ter. Their advice, and interference, and
position thereon, are purely gratuitous. Mr..
Pierce has simply thrown himself into the
, ring for personal and selfish aims, which
We refrain from characterizing as they de-
serve.
After having thus exposed to public view
the real motives Of the authors and abettors
of this Nebraska bill, we submit the question
to the considerable and honest men of all par
ties, whether such gigantic fraud and mis-.
chief, originating i'm such shameless purpos.
es, has any claim to public support. No dam
ger to the Union, none 10 the public tran
. guilty, can be pleaded os reason for this
, measure. None has been pretended. The
/, SooC' PiuVCut ever wv It's III.
PRODUCTION into Congress. Even Mr.. Cas-,
deprecates the necessity of being called to
vote upon it. Southern conservative men
avow their hostility to such reputation of
good faith as the bill contemplates and such
needless agitations as it involves.
II is for Congress to determine whether
: the eonspirators in this perfidy shall be al.
lowed to triumph over the lofty consdera-
lions of public honor, the rights of the Tree
States, and the stern demands of justice and
humanity. Let it decide! The people are
behind the Legislators and if vllainy and
cowardice shall tenn orarly triumph, there is
wordin the vocabulary that shal yet undo
their work and carry CONSERVATION to the
heart Of every Northern traitor-lhat word
is repeal. There is power in Congress to
create an overwhelming Northern party
whose name and title shall be the repaaLers.
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