The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1854-06-30
Locofoco DunIicilY.


cause. to impress the people at large favora-
bly, with the principles and provisions of the
Nebraska swindle. In SO doing, it becomes
necessary TO adopt the same circuniocruon
Of argument, employ the same style OF soph-
istry and duplcty that characterized its con-
esption, its laborious and smuggling passage,
and it's final deliverance from Congress-
The Douglas tactics have been thoroughly
instiled into the code Of procedure, of ev-
cry administration organ, and the poor de-
pendent minions of the press are required to
march up with military precision to their ad.
vocacy and support. Our neighbor of the
Enquirer evinces remarkable susceptibility
in the vocation which his superiors have die
tated to him, and having recently received a
few Bright ideas from head quarters, what.
ever instruction he imparts will Of course
bear the official Bright and Douglas seal.
The great theme of the song has been
from the first agitation of the subject--"pop.
ulsr sovereignty" "Let the people do as
they pleased" "Let the people govern
themselves" &C., &c, but when anne ndme nts
were offered in Congress directly authorizing
the people 10 do as they pleased, to form their
own government, to exrcise the principle of
"popular sovereignty" they were promptly
voted down by Douglas and his friends, and
their duplicity laid bare to the country. The
sincerity Of their love for the people, their
affection for popular sovereignty and for
self-government, turned out to be perfect
humbuggery when brought to the test. Had
the friends Of Nebraska honestly desired what
their arguments claimed, but what the bilit.
self denies, why did they not say SO, Why
the use Of circumlocution and ambiguous
vsrbosity to state plain and simple PROPOSE
toni
The evidences of their swindling designs
are everywhere apparent, from the glazing
discrepancies and contradictions which exist
IN all their stump speech arguments and the
bill itself.
The Enquirer says that "the only point
upon which the Democrats of Indiana have
split and wasted their 'frothy denunciation,
il the question whether the people of the
territories may prohibit slavery while living
under territorial government" He an
swers and settles this question in the follow
emphatic language:
We contend that this power of popular
sovereignty is conferred most unequivocally;
indeed il 10 strange how any. even the most
bigoted demagogue, can deny it.
Now. we will expose the Enquirer's dupli-
city in this matter, which it is knowingly at
tempting to practice upon the people.
The Enquirer knows full well that such
power is not unequivocally conferred by the
Nebraska bill. The friends of the bill t,pice
absolutely refused to confer such power upon
the people.
Mr.. Fuller, from the State of Maine, friend
of the administration, aud Democrat, and
most desirous evidently of acting with the
msjority, moved to insert:
Sand the Territorial Legislatures shall
have the power to establis h or exclude slave
~, as to them shall seem proper"
Now here was proposition to confer III,
power "uneq1iuocally." but the friends of tn,
bill promptly refused by vote Of 81 to rs
TO confer any such power.
Our neighbor will well recollect that Their
was similar "split" in the House of Repre-
sentatives, to that which is now causing 8
= much "frothy denunciation" among tn
Democrats Of Indiana, in relation 10 thi
very question. And for the purpose Of con
ferring the power of popular sovereignty i
unequipocal terms, Mr.. Mace. of this State
moved to insert the following plain an
straightforward amendment:
"And the Territorial Legislature sha
have power to admit or exclude slavery Q
any time by law"
The fate of this amendment is well known
twas not only voted but hooted down unde
the dctation of DIR. Richardson, to vot
down al amendments.
Now the Enquirer and other Locofoc
Douglas sheets contend. in the face of I'll
action, that the power Unpopular sovereign
~" or absolute control over slavery by tn
territorial Legislature, was "uncquivocall
conferred" Here is a deliberate and vi
quvocal refusal to confer such power, and
vote of 96 to rs against investing the terri
etorial Legislatures with power, either to adm
or exclude slavery. Could deception and du,
licity be more garingl
Some Of the Douglas sheets, and the E,
quirer, the most presumptuous Of them Al
have the hardihood to aver that the I4th Sc
ton of the Nebraska bill INVITES IMMrGRl
TON BIZ ESDowIsG EACH MAN WITH I'll
POWERS OF A CITIZEN, WITHOUT ANY PRO
BA.IoHARY PUPILAGE."
Now, of all the falsehoods told, since Il
commencement of the Nebraska agitatio