Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-06-24
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siioiI Ioui cnhrbctor
FRANKLY STATED.
We like our neighbors of the Sentinel for
their frankness, if forpothing else In their issue
of yesterday, they have long article on the
subject Of appointments in Nebraska and
Kansas, the burden Of which is, that it is the
duty Of the President to appoint q pro-slavery
Governor OF Kansas, no as to favor the introduce
ton Of Slavery into that Territory which, they
assert, was particularly designed in tho Bill,
They say:
| Rumors are ahoat, in this city of rumors,
relative to the appointment of Governor for
the Territory of Kansas. 1t is said that the
President has rendered, or is about to tender,
that Office to an individual from non-slave-
holding State, whose opinions upon the Terri
torial bill are either unsound or unknown. To
such a rumor we give no credence. We can
not, we do not, believe that the President can
for moment think Of frustrating, by has pat
ronage the design of bill which he couste-
aGnced iii all dts stages, and TO a0bich he g1Ue
his ready sanction as las0.
Recent developments have shown that the
Kansas Territory Is in the highest degree adapt
ed to slaue labor, and that the equal laacs Of Ia
Dor, if unchecked by qoiiftA and organized oppo-
sitio,l, must ancvitabiy introduce The institution
of Slavery there Thus the abstract principles
set forth in the Territorial bill arc invested
with practical results of the highest import
ancc results however, that may be easily de-
feated By an unjust ana unfair organization Of
the Territorial Government.
elf however, these rumors be true, what
benefit is the South to derive from the provis
A.. ,h,lsA 81,
tain by its PASSAGE The result would be n
of Congress nullified and abrogated by the
voice Of the President. We would greatly have
preferred his exercise OF the qualified veto pre-
scribed by the Constitution, than the absolute
but indirect veto, resulting from an unequal
disposition OF his patronage
"No material interests involved eha Moth.
ing but the divine right Of popular sovereign
ty,n Mr.. Douglas? No design in the world,
but to establish the principle Of non-intervcn-
tion,n Mr.. Douglas? To appoint Governor
for Kansas in favor Of free labor and Freedom,
or believer in the Principle universally ad-
mitted by the jurists Of England and Europe,
by those Of the free States, and Of many of the
slave States, that Slavery is local, and can exist
only by local laws or one Of unknown opinions,
would Illustrate the design of the Bill" which
the President forced through Congress, and
which is claimed Us the triumph of a great
Democratic, Prinoiple--in plain terms, defeat
the introduction of the institution of Slavery
there ~
Will the New Hampshire Legislature please
take notice.
After discoursing on the subject at length,
the Sentinel closes by doubling rumor so in
furious to the President:
sIn word, we repeat, that we do not be-
licve in any such absurd rumor. Gen. Pierce
will not 80 far sacrifice the position he has &C
CURED in oil sections as to render OF no effect
the measure to which he has given the sane
ton Of his exalted position, and which, proper
" executed, will be the highest honor of his
Administration. Even if 80 inclined which
we do not believe, the c0unsels OF the wisest
men in the nation, Of those who have been
his best friends and his firm supporters, would
interfere to prevent policy which would rob
the measure Of its great merit, and commit q
manifest wrong upon one half OF our Confed-
eracy.o
Let the Sentinel set its heart at rest. The
nominations are before the Senate. So far as
we can learn, they are sound in the faith of
Slavery If Illinois has furnished Governor
for Kansas, we believe the Sentinel will be sat
isfed if he should be of one heart and mind
with Senator Douglas As Non Intervention
by Congress, means Intervention by the Prosi-
dent, the Sentinel may be assured that such
intervention shall promote the "design of the
Bill.n