The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1856-01-26
Locofoco Consistency.

0cu UCDOS VI Tie N. OOuIlcI duU
quirer, in making close analysis of that por-
ton of the message which relates to the ques-
ton of Slavery, being struck by its incongrui-
ties and false assumption upon the origin and
nature of the Missouri Compromise of 1920,
has been at the pains to select parallel passages
from the message of President Polk, in order
to show to what profoundly of abasement
Northern doughface will go when aiming at
Southern support by means of subservency to
slavery purposes. We ask the attention of
readers to these extracts. 1t is well to occa-
sionally hold up the opinions of Democratic
leaders, separated a few years in their politi-
cal history, just to notice the more plainly
the rapid strides of modern "Demoeracy."-
To appreciate just precisely how contamptble
doughface Pierce is, compare the following
extracts:
| President Pierce on the Missouri Compromise |
Most questionable as was the proposition in
all its constitutional relations, nevertheless it
received the sanction of Congress, with some
slight notifications of line, to save the exist
ing rights OF the intended new State. 1t was
recently acquiesced in by Southern States, as
a sacrifice to the cause of peace and of the
Union; not only of the rights stipulated by
the treaty of Louisiana, but of the principle of
equality among the States guaranteed by the
Constitution. 1t was received by the North
ern States with angry and resentful condemna-
ton and complaint because it did not concede
all which they had exactly demanded. Hav-
ing passed thro' the forms of legislation it took
its place in the statute book, standing open to
repeal, like any other act of doubtful constitu-
tionality subject to be pronounced null and void
by the courts of law, and possessing no posi-
BILE efficacy to control the rights of the States
which might thereafter be organized out of
any part of the original territory Of Louisiana.
i President Polk on Ditto
In December 1919, application was made
to Congress by the people of the Missouri ter
ritory for admission into the Union as State.
The discussion upon the subject in Congress
involved the question of Slavery, and was
i prosecuted with such violence as to produce
excitement alarming to every patriot in the
J, Union But the good genius of Cancellation,
which presided at the birth Of our institutions,
finally prevailed, and the Missouri Compro-
mise was adopted
The compromise had the effect of calming
the troubled waves, and restoring peace and
|
The Missouri question had excited intense
agitation of the public mind, and threatened
to divide the country into geographical parties
: alternating the feelings of attachment which
each portion ofour Union should bear to every
other. The compromise allayed the excite
ment, tranquilized the popular mind and re-
stored confidence and fraternal feelings. Its
5 authors were hailed as public beneactors.
Special Message dug. 18th, 1913.
: President Pierce on ths admission of TEXAS.
But long afterwards, when by the proposed
> accession of the Republic of Texas, the United
States were to take their next step in terri
5 torial greatness similar contingency occurred
and became the occasion for Systematizet at
tenptS to intervene an tie don.estic affairs of on
section of the Union an defiance Of their rights a.
States and of the stpulataons Of tie Constitution
' These attempts assumed practical direction
C in the shade of persevering enieaUors by some o
the representatives in both Houses of Congress
to deprive the Southern States of the supposed
benefit Of the provisions of til act authorizin;
4 the organization Of the State of Missouri
President Polk on Ditto
: When Texas was admitted into the Union
the same spirit Of compromise which guided
our predecessors in the admission of Missouri,
quarter of a century before, prevailed, aOits0u
eng serious oppositjon.- Message, dug. 18th '48
President Pierce on Territorial Organization.
When more recently, it became requisite t.
organize the Territories of Nebraska and Kan
s sas, it was natural and legitimate, if not thu
inevitable consequence of previous events anC
: Legislation, that the same great and sount
principle, which had been applied to Utah AM
New Mexico, should be applied to them; tina
they should stand exempt from the restriction
proposed in the act relative to the State o
Y Missouri.
= These restrictions were, in the estim atior
: of many thoughtful men, null from the begin
: ming, unauthorized by the constitution, contra
t ~ to the Treaty stipulations for the cession O
: Louisiana, and inconsistent with the equality
of the States.
They had been stripped fall moral author
ity, by persistent efforts to procure their ind
e rect repeal through contradictory enactments
:, They had been practically abrogated by thu
legislation attending the organization of Utah
> New Mexico ald Washington, if any vitality
: remained in them, it would have been take1
away, IN effect, by the new territorial acts, il
: the form originally proposed to the Senate a
Is the first session Of the last Congress- 1t wal
manly and ingenious, as well as patriotic anC
\ Just, to do this directly and plainly, and thu
/. relieve the statute book of an act which Nigh
be of possible future injury, but of no possibl
g future benefit; and the measure of its repeal
l. was the final consummation and complete rec
IS ogntion of the principle, that no portion of thu
# United States shall undertake, through as
sumption of the powers of the General Gov
/ ernment to dictate to the social institutions
e. any other portion.
81 President Polk ON DO.
+ Shall the dissimilarity Of the domestic in
ID situations in the different States prevent u