Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-08-09
N.-In our paper Of Thursday we pro-

61-In our paper of Thursday we pro-
pounded the following question to the Jour
nal:
aft the next Congress or any subsequent Con
gres should repeal the Nebraska bill and restore
fhe Missouri Compromise line, what, in the Jour
naPs opinion, would be the effect OF such res
toration on the territory South of that line =
Would it be left TO the bona fde inhabitants 10
determine for themselves whether they would
have slavery or notH"
This question is the same in substance
which we have put to the Journal not less
than six times 1t has replied by asking us
what we thought of the principles OF the
Declaration of independence. It's editor, no
doubt. thinks himself quite an "artful dod-
ger" by giving the controversy this turn.
Our correspondent Union silenced him
on the question which he now revives as a
very lame attempt to parry home thrust.
We charge on the Journal, and until our
question is answered, the charge will stand
good, deliberate design to perpetrate pO-
litieal fraud on the public by pretending to
favor the Missouri Compromise, when, in
fact. it has no intention to sustain that Com
promise, but would repeal it if it was really
restored.
The Journal has repeatedly declared that
it was opposed to the admission of any slave
States, or the existence of slavery in any ter
ritory; and it has also denounced the Fugi-
tive Slave Law SALMON p. CHASE is the
great expounder of its doctrines; it has no
particle of sympathy with anything bu
radical abolition, and yet for political success
for the purpose of inveigling votes, it sub
u scribes to creed which it does not believe
with the mental reservation however tina
next year the creed shall be changed; OF L
use the language of HENRY WILSON, tn
It Journal fully embraces in its heart the reso
lutions of the Freesoil Conventions, but tn
It public mind IS not get ripe for the constitutions
IS Interpretations therein contained.
d But the Journal is making a false reckon
e ms, in calculating on the ignorance and gull
1, bility of the public. 1t may gain few vote
i by pretending to advocate the restoration {
e the Missouri Compromise. But the commu
5 nifty is too intelligent; they know too we
ia ton, that the old Wings who belong to th
v new party are sold body and soul to the prir
he cples of GIDDINGs and CHASE.
s. The Journal is bound by all its anteceden
he to denounce the restoration Of the Nilsson
G. Compromise as o fraud on the Freesoil sent
ment of Indiana. If it does not, it adds Il
TX ignominy of hypocrisy to that of Abolition.
But a correspondent of the journal has mo
candor and fairness than the editions. He
is what the correspondent of yesterday say
and he expresses the true sentiments of h
party. No man can really doubt this, al
~ no man but MILTON GREGG, will pretend
IN doubt it. The naivete-with which the CO
as respondent confesses the fraud is amusing
~ shown in the lines which we italicise:
al have heard but one objection to our pli
d. form of the 18th, and that is TO these words:
I'd "Restore the Missouri Compromise" in the secoI
lis resolution (if am not mistakenly The Peep
rd here would rather meet the question upon {
ey broad ground set forth in the Ohio platform,
ey follows:
e. ave will resist the spread of slavery und
ms whatever shape color it may be attempte
cir To this end we will labor assduously TO rend
lr. imperative and void that portion ofthe Kans
S. and Nebraska bill which abolishes freedom
the territory Withdrawn from the influence
ON slavery by the Missouri Compromise of lS2
/. and we will oppose, by every lawful and cons
III tutional means, the extension of slavery in al
)l- National territory, and the further increase
slave territory, or slave States, in this Repub
can Confederacy.
se "Our platform would be better, beyond
la question, if that portion of the second resolut
'ln above alluded to, was stricken out; but let
10 stand for the present, and the people toiH strike
iSs out merit year. We were never in favor of [
Missouri Compromise, and we would, in my
timation, be foolish to restore it now. 1t wou
ne be virtually saying "Let slavery be establish
w South of that line" in such territory now
gu lists, may hereafter be acquired / think we
LAT also render "in0perafipe and Usid the slavery
on fuence in Kansas and Nebraska, as well
'o- without restoring the Missouri Compromise,
with it, and, il we can do this, we do not Wi
ia to restore thai which is a ''squntiRg'' at {
" very evil we abhor and condemn dangero
q to our free institutions But here is the poi
las as General Wilson said:
On Indiana can be carried by acting in conc
=. and harmony, and only that way"