The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1854-10-11
The MUsCATlNE ENQUIRER

'eItaih occasioh, tnat pfTsOndfy ne hd0 no 90
eciions to the Nebraska bill -that the defeat Of
he democracy o, Iowa, was attributable to the |
passage Of this bill. We denied the charge
and enumerated many causes for our defeat
among them, the failure Of prominent demo-
Gratis to defend the bill During the course Of
our remarks, We alluded TO the opposition Of
d e. Cloud, to the bill, while candidate on
the democratic State ticket aud charged him
with having acted in bad faith TO the Conven
tim which had nominate him. The Enquirer
this charge faise and we repeated
it, by referring to the resolutions of The con-
vention; among them, one recommending the
of Nebraska To this the Enqu..
r,r repi,s as follows
+" We branded the charge az ainst MIR. Cloud
as false we brand il as false still. The argu-
ment OF the Expire IS is as follows "Ihe De-
IN cratic State Conv.n ion passed a resolution
recommending the organization OF Nehraska
Territory; Mr.. Cloud opposed the repeal OF The
Missouri Compromise therefore Mr.. Cloud
violated resolution Of the convention that
nominated him.
Fro II the above it will De seen, that the cour
agcous gen lemen who preside over the ErquI
r-r, have peculiar facility for pronouncing
things false; and yet the language att ibuted
to US within quotation marks, We never used
and the editors must have known it at the lime
their article was written. They therefore are
guilty of deliberate forgery, crime quie as
repre- hens Bile in the sight of God and men, as
that Of falsehood But is it true that we stated
what was false, in attributing to Mr.. Cloud,
bad faith to the Convention which nominated
him Let US see. The first resolution Of the
Conven ion reaffirmei the faith Of its members
in, and ad ference to the Democratic National
platform of 1859, declaring the Compromise of
1850 final settlement OF the Slavery question
and repudiating any further agitation upon the
subject The third resolution affirms entire
conf nee in the administration Of Franklin
Pierce. The second resolution repudiates all
sec,iona'ism and declares firm adherence
to the great conservative doctrine Of the dem
ocratc party upon the suoject'o slavery. The
seventh resolution rec commended the organiza
ton of the Nebraska Territory. And the eighth
|
ven,ion and its candidates, to the support of the
ticket nominated.
In the action of the administration upon the
Nebraska bill, we defy any man % point out a
departure from the platform of 1852 Certain
" no sane man will contend that introducing a
bill for the organization of the Territory, was a
violation of the platform. But these ant-Ne-
braska sharpers reply, that introducing that
bill and repeating the Missouri Compromise,
produced agitation; and as the platform of
1852 discouutenanced agitation, therefore that
platform has been violated and the democratic
party is responsible for the present excitement
upon the slavery subjec'. To show the fallacy
of this position, it is only necessary to refer to
the uniform readiness of the Abolitionists I, I
the last twenty years, to raise an excitement,
whenever the organization of territory has
been proposed and the fact that the first bill
| introduced Tor the organization Of Nebraska,
contained not one single aoord about the repeal
| of the so called Missouri compromise Why
was an ame ndment offered to the bill TO abro-
| gate the Missouri line Because the Adolf
tionists of the Senate, Sumner, Chase, Wade
and Others, had published and scattered broad
cast over the country a manifesto, denouncing
the bill as slavery measure, when It was
drafted in strict conformity to the Compromise
of 1850; insinua,ing that it's design was secret
ly to abrogate the Missouri line and assailing
its authors as corrupt politicians and ators ,o
the interests of the North. 1t must be fresh N
the recollection of all, that this manifest, pro-
duced an extraordinary excitement in the coun
try. and that it was after this excitement had
been got up, that the amendment was offered
10 abrosate the Missouri line, which never pos
sessed the requisites of compact, and never
was observed except as the laws OF climate and
soil enforced its observance. Shall we be told
then, that The administration is responsible fo
this agitation Not surely by those who have
any regard for candor or truth We submit
then, that Mr.. Cloud violated the first resolu-
ton of this convention, in denounc:ng the Ne
braska bill, and the democratic party as respon
sible for the slavery agitation.
The second resolution repudiated sectional
ism and all isms and chickering's of whatever
character, calculated to distract and divide the
de mocratlc party. Mr. Cloud allied himself t.
Abolitionism, by following in the wake of Sew
ard, Sumner, Chase, Wade, Giddings and othe
Abol,icri-ts of the country, and therefore vic
lated the second resolution.
The third resolution affirmed entire conf
dence in the administration of Franklin Pierce
Franklin Pierce signed the bill for the organiza
ton of Kansas and Nebraska Territories. :
There is nothing in the bill organizing thes'
Territories inconsistent with the history ant
faith Of the democratic party, or the platform o
principles upon which he was nominated ant
triumphantly elected. Mr. Cloud repudiatet
in public speech in Muscatne, the leading
measure Of franklin Pierce's administration
and attempted to bring dlscredit upon that dis,
tinguished officer and his admiaistratin IN ant
therefore violated most grossly the third resolu
ton.
The seventh resolution recommen led the or
ganization Of Nebraska Territory without s,ipu
lating any conditions except as to boundary -
We hold then, that it not competfn mt 10
| Mr. Cloud, with all due Difference to his lega
| requirements and acumen as Attorney Gener-
| al, to manufacture construction to suit himsel
for this resolution. If the act organizing Ne
braska conforms to the resolution, in SO far as i
relates to boundary, which is question not ye
mooted, the object of the resolution is attained
and Mr.. Cloud was legitimately bound to keel
| faith with it, or resign the position he had re-
| ceived under. and ny virtue OF it. The details
| of the bill organiz ing this Territory, aside from
the question of boundary named in the resolu-
tim, strictly speaking, had nothing TO do with
Mr. Clouds obligation to support the resolution
| The Convention had bound him to the supper
of that resolution, with but one single condition
and until that resolution was repudiated by the
| party in convention, he had no right to manu-
factnre a construction for the resolution and
objections for the democratic party # iowa I,
the details of the Nebraska bill. We therefore
.r,a;on hin, as Ina vino violated this resolution.