Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-09-13


kind will have as little confidence in such
crodkers as they have in Satan himself.
From the Washington linton. =
The Kansas Register.
We are in receipt of the first number OF 4
we'll printed and well-conducted newspaper
! under this title, printed at Leavenworth city
Kansas Territory, by Archibald W. SEWER
and edited by Mark w. Delanay. We have
been much interested in reading the articles
of the Register, and cannet sufficiently admire
the dignity and the force with which they
are written. The Register states its objects
and its principles as follows:
"To sot forth truthfully all the capacities
of our fertile Territory; noting the variability
of climate, and the geological, mineralogicai.
aud agricultural developments of the country.
the increase of rni,ssiation, commerce, and
4 wealth, that our climate, SOIL and products
may be known and understood abroad; giving
an account of the government surveys as they
progress, and such other general news and
information as we may be able 10 collect
having relation to Kansas. will claim a share
of our attention.
"The Register will be free from all sectional
prepossessions; will stand firmly by the SOW
ereignty of the people, defending their riqit
an moulding for themselves their olon latOs and
iastitutions. The Register will stand firmly
in the front ranks doing battle for the sulre-
macy of the laws Of the land, and if it falls,
it will be found at the head of the column,
leading the patriotic lovers of the American
constitution; adhering to those political land
marks laid down by Jefferson and Jackson,
and regard them worthy of imitation as much
at this day and hour as when the host of the
Hermitage was at home.
"rhe REGISTER will stand upon the basis of
the Nebraska Kansas bill. Firmly believing
these principles democratic and right, we shall
defend them under all circumstances. The
| Register will not advocate or give its support
to secret political conclaves that spring up on
the ruins of factions, whose growth is pro-
duced at the hoM and pace of amushroon.
and with duration of like vegetable brief
uess. The Register will only countenance
political conventions that sit with open doors,
and admit full and free discussion before the
world
ave have advanced too far in works of
internal improvement to stop short of CON-
pleting all needful works begun or contem-
| plated, and our voice will be for aiding every
| legitimate effort to forward that branch Of
wealth and national power We are con-
vinced that objects which tend to advance
the commerce Of the States and Territories,
sffording the general government facilities for
| transports in time of war, are within the inn
| piled power of Congress, under the constitu-
ton, and legitimately commendable for ap-
propriations from the national treasury in
their execution.
ain all questions Of territorial acquisition
we shall favor or oppose, as our convictions of
! right and necessity may seem to require, with
out reference to the wishes of our northern
or southern friends. We shall be content
with the perpetual UNION of the States, and
leave it to modern reforners to quarrel about
revision and amendment of our natioAakroH
stitution, for thc~purpose Of increasingly 4
diminishing the powers under that instEn
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Thus much for the prospectus of the Rts-
ister la the editorial columns Of the same
paper, upon the necessity of organizing the
democratic party and electing national dem
ocrat to Congress, the cditorsays
"None but such a man can be Of service to
the people of Kansas as delegate. A dele
gate thus elected will command the respect
of ALL and thereby much good can be accom-
plished for our Territory. Certainly a man
whose political platform is wholly made of
pro-sayery-a man who makes slavery in
Kansas the only issue-will find himself in a
situation in the next Congress whore he will
neither command respect nor have the slight
est chance to do any good for the people of
Kansas Territory. lie can be a pro-slavery
man provided he plants himself upon the
democratic platform, and then, if elected, he
may be able to successfully serve the pepole
of the Territory"
There is great sound sense in these sugges-
tions, and they may be protitably conirasted
with the extraordinary course which is now
being pursued by reckless and extravag ant
men in the Legislature and by portion of the
press of the Territory equally reckless and
extravagant Denunciations OF some of the
soundest patriots of the country, and of the
Executive for not yielding to the unjust de-
mands of violent men, aud the erection Of q
platform in which the encouragement of sla
very is the test imposed upon settlers from
North and South-all this can only result in
a reaction, such as those who now stimulate
these excesses will regret all their lives. The
national democratic party of the country have
not hesitated to denounce and to expose the
deliberate and wicked purpose of the aboli-
tionists of Massachusetts, in organizing CON-
panies Of fanatics to 60 forward and seize the
. Territory of Kansas in advance; nor have
the sound democratic journals of the North
failed TO charge upon these abolitionists the
grave responsibility of provoking the excite
ment which has convulsed the Territory of
Kansas from the beginning. But it is not to
be expected that one wrong can be made
right by another wrong, and that the fraud
of a portion of Massachusetts can be correct
ed by the violence of portion of Missouri.
With no desire to interfere in the local
politics of Kansas, we cannot refrain calling
attention to the assaults upon General Whit
field, the delegate in the last Congress, who,
southern man born as he is, identified in all
his interests and feelings with the South, is
nevertheless, bitterly assailed as a candidate
for reelection because he calls himself "a
national democrat" and "a friend of the ad-
ministrstion of Franklin Pierce" The Plate
Argus. Missouri paper, published at Wes-
ton, on the borders of Kansas, and the Kansas
Leaven,OOrh Herald, oppose Gen. Whitfield
almost exclusively because in his letter of
last year he announced himself a national
democrat and a friend of the present admin
istration Fortunately for the true interests
of the Territory, however, and for the perpe-
tuity of the rights of the States, so FAR as the
latter are involved in this struggle, the demo-
| cratic party is neithcfsextinct. in Kansas nor
powerless in the Uniof aud fortunately, too,
the national Administrators in all respects
the faithful representative of the democratic
party.
Masonry and Know-Nothinsism.