, 1855-06-15
Judge Hays. THE Wing Con
VeDtiOn. &c.

duced Judge Hays withdrawal from the
whig convention, and intimates that the
reasons given by us are not correct. In
our issue of May 10Th, we said" the free
soil opposition induced Judge Hays to with
draw from the contest" &c, concerning
which the Courier in vain effort to make
distinction without difference, acknowl-
edges the correctness of our conclusion as
follows:
at might he also stated with propriety,
that Judge HAYS had some fears he might
be placed on n platform that would be in
consistent with his former political course ;
these several reasons were the cause OF the
Judges withdrawal
Judge Hays had his name withdrawn ns
a candidate, after the resolutions Of the con
vention were introduced. Aud why ?
The Courier says, because the platform was
inconsistent 'cih his former Political eourse," "
The platform is therefore acknowledged to
be seciioaal-not aatiOna one, which is
but an admission that whiggery, as held by
the party in this territory, is sectional, and
as such, we would ask what right the par
ty has to lay claim to the support of Judge
Hays, and those who think with him.
1 There is no use of an attempt to disguise
the fact, that the whig party has so effect
uaIly bargained and sold itself out to free
soilcrs, abolitionists, and know nothings,
and so well is this matter understood in the
states, that old line national wings are now
found voting with the democratic party,
which repudiates all Sms, and stands on the
broad national principles Of the constitu-
ton.
We have always been of the opinion,
that every citizen Of this or any other ter
ritory, was equal in rights, and in the re-
CARDS of his fellow citizens, provided his
conduct merited regard; but the Courier
argues, II it argues anything at all, that a
southern man should be ostracised. Such
may be the narrow views Of the editors Of
that paper, hut we have just reason to be-
lieye that such invidious distinctions are un-
known to the body Of congress, except in
isolations, few and far between" and no
such odious determinations should be made
here. In the language Of the prospectus
of the Courier, we should know no north or
south, for VIC have no slavery issue in this
territory. Even the Nebraska X ansas
bill is accepted by us only on the great
principle Of the sOrersignty Of the people in
territories, as well as in states. over ques-
tions in which the people are directly in
terested, touching their rights and inter-
ests. Ours is the broad and catholic doc
trinc of popular Sovereignty and antipropa-
gdndism.
Let us, in this connection, examine a
case in point. Let the editors of the Cour-
ior, If they are disposed to view the terri
bic consequences resulting from propaganda
ism, turn their attention towards Kansas.
where, at the last accounts, anarchy and
confusion had usurped the place Of law and
order The fell spirit of sectionalism, to
which the editors Of the Courier arc so Ia
boriously appealing, led the people Of Mas
sachusetts to raise, it is said, frs millions Of
dollars, to eolonize Kansas, in order to Sc
cure it free state. This spirit of propa-
gandism reused the people of Missouri to
resistance. They determined to out-vote
the hreiings Of fanaticism, and have done
SO, perhaps by doing as great wrong as
the people Of Massachusetts, did, who sent
people there to forestall fair and honest
emigration.
Wrong done by Massachusetts produced
the wrong action Of Missouri, and now we
find the legislature of the former state,
pledging itself by arms and material aid,
to defend its birding voters-thus inviting
a civil war in the new territory Of Kansas.
Is it not enough that we shall see; dep
; ricOtingly, from distance, this terrible
conflict, brought on by fanaticism and the
denial Of equal rights to the inhabitants ol
a terrltoryH Shall we introduce in this far
of region, the ordinations and recrimina-
tions of sectlonalism +! Will the people Ol
this territory suffer themselves to enter on
a crusade against any of its inhabitants
merely because they happen to be born in
a particular part of the Union We ap
peal to the thoughtful and intelligent a.
mOngst us, that they ponder well upon
these things. We do not appeal to the
; abcliiionists, for we have recently been in
formed that many of them approve of the
platform upon which Judge Strong has
been placed; but to the old line national