Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-07-05

nTwe are again under renewed obliga-
tons TO our correspondent for his vigorous
and lucid communication.
"'o '''O'O For the Sentinel.
Southern Aggessions.
"The recent outrages in Kansas have fur |
nished topics and editorials for the whole
Freesoil press throughout the country
Enough indignant pens have been driven and
indignant voices raised to send Atkinson
and his crew down deep into Hades Mob
law is uniustifable no matter from what
source il comes-whether Atkinson or Par
ker leads, whether AIchey Burns or Kansas
is the subject in dispute.
The great hound Horace has given mouth
and Tray, Blanche, Southern, and all the
rest of the puppies of Free Solism have
Joined in the yelp Horace bowls Southern
aggressions," and all the rest whine South
ern aggressions," till finally, many, very
many think of the South as great Bulldog,
growing and snarling to get all the meat in
the platter, and the North, quiet, inoffensive
little spaniel, which says nothing; but, with
its tail turned down moves off, leaving the
whole dish to its big neighbor.
The North, composed of sixteen States,
excluding Delaware, is represented by thirty
two Senators, and one hundred and forty
four Representatives; the South composed
of fifteen States, including Delaware, is rep
resented by thirty Senators, and eighty-nine
representatives. According to these statistics,
it does not appear as if the South possesses
the ability to commit many aggressions upon
the North.
In the Kansas matter, that is, about the re-
cent election, we have nothing to say in justi-
fcation. If the accounts in the Free Soil pa
pers are true, no lanspagels sufficiently
strong to condemn men who would drive
away bona-fide voters from the polls and
fraudulently vote themselves. We have al
ways condemned that system in the Know
Nothings and if the Missourians have done
the same they deserve severe punishment.
But let us see what are these Southern
aggressions, about which HORACE and his
kindred souls have been talking Is it the
institution of slavery? Southern men are not
to blame for that. Free, glorious, liberty
loving England the freest country under the
Sun, has to answer for that. The ancestors
of the men who picture the horrors of black
slavery, (but say nothing of white slavery
and the cruelty of the masters, in Exeter
, Hall, who have within the bounds of their
, free Kingdom the Cornwall mines-the an-
/ cestors of the rulers of Ireland, and of the
men who now sit in both Houses of the British
, Parliament, are to blame for the blot upon oul
, escutcheon. 1t is true they applaud loudly
4, when PARKER, a GARRISON, or PHILLIPS
abuse our Union--they fete Mrs. STOWE and
feast her husband-but they have to answer
for the peculiar institution"
Is it the Fugitive Slave Law? The fea
, lures of that law are contained in the Consti
. tuition of the United States, and the Congress
. of the United States passed the law-it can
not surely be that.
al
Southern President quashed that-and al
though two wrongs never make Alright, yet
: behooves people who live in glass houses t.
abstain from throwing stones-Wisconsin ant
Massachusetts, will rather more than counter
). balance South Carolina.
Perhaps it is the repeal of the Missouri
Compromise. The right of Congress t
j make that Compromise has been doubted
but surely if they had right to make il
: they had an undoubted right to repeal il
: and Congress of the United States, not o
2 Southern States repealed the Compromise
s Northern men voted for the measure as wei
v as Southern men, therefore it cannot be call
: cd Southern aggression. These same north
t ern men who did an act of justice to tn
4 whole country, have been called Dough-face'
Q Men whose political horizon was not sngl
precinct-Country or State, but the Who'll
j glorious Union from Maine to Texas, VIII
e regarded the citizens of the United States
: whether North and South of Mason and Dix
e ingly; if that is being a dough-face ne woul
e glory in the name. This Nebraska Kansa
Q act is tie great aggression we imagine. Thi
e confederacy of States which gained its indie
= pendence when no North or South wa
;, known, becomes the possessor of certain tel
4 ritory-this land is not the property of
s single State or section of States, but of th
: confederacy-the whole Union-the Mort
says to the South, all North of certain lin
e must be ou- exclusive property. You are
: have nothing to do with it but all South
j; the line you may hold Jointly with us-an
e that was the Missouri Compromise. TIL
/. South for the sake of peace yielded and sub
o mitted, but il process of time, the Congress
II of the United States, seeing the gross injustic
: Of such proceeding, did away with the lin
n and threw open the common territory to al
S sections of the country, and this is Souther
n aggression. Now we do not wish TO be un
: derstood as herein defending slavery, or an
d other peculiar institution of the country, W
If have our own views and opinions In thes
d matters, but we keep them to ourSelves-bu
'e we do assert that the Nebraska Kansas bil
!, so far from being an act of aggression on tn
: South, was simple act of justice by tn
Congress of the United States to the South.
y The Freesoilers talk a great deal about tn
n "recent outrages " and broken compromise
o &C., but they forget that when man start
! north in pursuit Of his property, he does s.
under decided disadvantages they tall
q about culprits escaping the strong arm OF tn
: law, but they forget the old man from Mary
- land, who was ruthlessly murdered in Ian
caster, Pennsylvania, by a mob, while in pun
e suit of his slaves, and that not single on
| was brought To iustice: they forget the youn