The weekly American banner. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1855-18??, 1856-10-17
Judge Sharkey ON the Kansas
Rili.

The speech OF Judge Sharkey in this city on !.
Saturday night was one Of the events of the |
present campaign that has left a well-defned
and indelable mark. 1t was the contact of a
grcnt mind with momen.ous subjects. The jurist
and the statesman were displayed in that effort,
and no man unniuenced by the outside pres
sure of pre-conceived opinions. could hear his
mastery exposition Of statutes. policy and prin.
ciples, aud not be borne along by the force and
truth of his argument. His dissection of the
Kansas bill must have been terrible to the
nerves Of the Democracy present. If any man
can construe statute correctly, that man is
Judge Sharkey. Well. he did constrne that
bill, and deduced from it the monster Squatter
Sovereignty. We are told that the bill repeals
the restriction of slavery placed upon all that
portion Of the Louisiana territory lying North
Of $3.50. When that restriction was adopted,
| the whole OF the Louisiana territory was slave
territory by the law Of Louisiana. so that the
Missouri restriction repealed so much Of that
law as covered the territory lying above that line
Of 5000. II the Kansas bill had done nothing
more than remove that prohibition, the result
would have been a revival Of the Louisa law.
But it was not the purpose of Douglas and bis
supporters to restore that Territory 10 its for
mer condition. The bill contains proyiso that
the removal of the restriction shall not operate
to revive any previous law applicable to that
Territory. II the restriction was wrong, why
not place the Territory back in Ito original con-
dtion! That would be fair to the South. That
wonld be noE-inteuention. which processes to
be the object of the bill. The non-intervention
cannot be complete without restoring the former
law. The Kansas law 10 just as much inter-
vention, just as much restriction. as the Mis-
f souri, act, for the wrong is done to the Lou.
isiana law, and has not been righted. So that
fho ,bata truth IF natf 10 ho nd Ia VI
, of Louisiana was repealed by the Missouri
E restriction, and tina, repeal is kept and con
firmed by the Kansas act. Why! That the
people may 60 into the territory, and made Z
, law for themselves The people OF Lousian,
made the law applicable to their territory, bu
the Congress OF the United States intervenes
; and removes that law, that anothss people may
; make different law. The law of the slave
holder Of Louisiana must be repealed to give th
, abolitionists. aud aliens, and free negroee al
:. opportunity to set up their institution, in it
ste ad. 1t is the boast of the Southern advocate
r. of that bill that it opens the territory to TIL
/ stakeholder. That is true, but when he get
i there he finds no law to protect his property
he must make it after he gets Therapeutics
he can out yo'e the abolitionists of the North
!. who are constantly recruited from beyond tn
q seas to assist in car ying out tho principles o
the Uiils HI WdI udu H0b PtosauCu
!. the restoration of the old law, the slaeeholde
i disposed to go there could have safely sheltere
/ himself beneath it, and bid defiance to abolition
h We DO not pretend to give Judge Sharkey Ian
guags, but such were the reflections suggeste
r to us by his great argument.
ri Every other subject that engaged the learne
v Judges attention, was Invested of its ints.cac.
ii and stood forth clear and distinct. He hs
- little pretension to what the world call orator,
h but talks like man who knows the truth. fee
n the truth, and makes the truth the business {
a his life. No man will question that his jud:
: ment is convinced Of the correctness Of all /
y teaches, that that judgment is one Of the mo
IN enlightened on this continent or in the worl
c and that his opinions ought to have great weig
r. in determining the political action of his fellow
". citizens. --.Hemphs Eagic s>ssssss
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enl 4y- The New York Herald devotes lea
on ing article to the expansion Of the idea that
no ferson ann Madison were the founders Of see
nd tonai parties, in this country. II contend
il. with characteristic effrontery, that the old
S. pubiican narfv organized nv those ilIustrio