The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1855-06-22

that the Free-Soil faction In the FhildueIPnla
Convention permitted their warm feelings
upon one question, and question which had
been previously entirely excluded from the
order they represented, to endanger the Sc
curity of the American party, and by lessen
ing its strength, giving so much more pow
er to the very party which enacted the in
iquity of which they so much complain, and
to undo which they stand ready to sacrifice
everything else in the way of political opin-
ion and connection. They may regard such
a policy as the best to secure their end, and
this we doubt so much that we totally disbe-
lieve-but they did not perform their duty to
the order they voluntarily entered and were
sent to Philadelphia to represent, nor are
we inclined to believe that in thus acting
they carried out the spirit of the instructions
under which they took their place as dele
gates in this Convention. We have no
thought that they were instructed by the or
der here to break up the Convention, or to try to
do so, if they could not insert in its platform
the restoration of the Missouri Compromise.
To Secede from the Convention, was to disor-
ganize it, far as they had the power to dot
was to deny others that freedom of thought
and action they claimed for themselves-it
was mutinous rebelling against the viii of
the majority, that very thing for which these
our late Legislature. They had no business
entering that convention, if they were not
willing to submit to the decision of the ma
jority after full counciling and discussion.
Now our opinion en- this Nebraska iniquity
is we'll known. No editor in this State Ia
bored harder before the Congressional cleo
ton to expose this iniquity in all its hideons
features, and to bring down the wrath of an
outraged people upon its perpetrators, than
we did. We entertain precisely the same
opinion of this Nebraska outrage now that
we did then, and we believe that erery
Northern doughface who by his vote or &C.
ton had anything to do with the repeating of
the Missouri compromise, should be followed
to his political grave, as many a one of them
has already been, by the indignation of free
men. We believe the Democratic party
North when it perpetrated that act, submitted
itself to degradation which will never be
forgotten, and the North to a humiliation
which will never be forgiven. But this is
not the question with the American party.
The question directly with them at this con-
vention, was whether this Northern matter
should be permitted to engross all other
er a question which had nothing to do with
the objects of the formation of this party,
should supercede all those objects-and
whether the party itself should establish a
sectional or national platform. Whether
wise or not, the course ultimately adopted by
/ the Convention was the only course they
could have taken consistent with the designs
of their party, unless not one 1rord on the sub.
ject of slavery had been brought into the
platform. They resolved in substance to lei
the slavery question alone-and the only way
they could let it alone as party, was to let
the present laws on the subject of slavery
remain undisturbed. They proposed nc
change, because dangerous agitation mus
follow any such proposition. The other
side asked a direct interference with the
present laws, and if their proposition had
been adopted, the North would have been ar
ranged directly against the South-the Amer
can party would have had no existence South
of Mason and Dixon's line-and the Demo
cratic party would have ruled paramount.
We have no desire to see any party make
the restoration of the Missouri Compromise
part of its creed. To affect such restora
ton by the force of party power now, would
possibly entail thousand evils of greater
magnitude than the evil sought to be RENE
died.
We are opposed to slavery agitation in
every form, and we are therefore opposed 10
the course of the freesoiIers in this National
Convention. And yet we do not believe in
yielding the South one iota more than she
can justly and by the constitution claim.-
The North has submitted through her dough
face representatives, to such impositions as
may never be placed upon her agan-and in
this Nebraska affair she is now suffering q
degradation, but through the action Other otcn
representatives. Let the North hereafter,
and on this American platform too if il
chooses, send men to Congress who will moi
fawn at the feet of the slave power-but lie,
her not war with the South for the acts of her
own men.
In conclusion--if the American party has
any hone of carving ont the great objects of