The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1856-04-18
Here we go and there we go.


sing the wouldbe leaders of the bogus De-
mocracy, as ten thousand different local inte-
rests give it ten thousand different shapes.
go Here we, 60 said the illustrious Jefferson as
he penned the ordinance of 1857, declaring
that there should be neither slavery nor in
voluntary scryitude in the North West Terri
tory, except for the punishment of crimes, &c.
There we go, said the Indiana Old Line cen
trail organ of Aug. 2, 1885, when it Soon
demned, rejected, repudiated and anathema
tized every doctrine which directed or indi-
. directly authorizes Congress to interfere with
the subject of slavery in any of the Territories,
and all Conventions and Governors that eUer pro-
claimed a different truth, deviated ,0tdely from
thetruth." n
Here we go said Col. R. NJ. Johnson, VIM.
r. King, and divers other Democrats. good and
true, in the U. S. Senate, in 1920, and in and
out of the Senate for thirty years afterwards;
when the former indicated and the latter ac
quiesced in the constitutionality of the Mis-
souri, Compromise. There we go, said the
Democrats in the Kentucky Senate in 1850,
when they P
Resolued, "That Missouri restriction, or
compromise, as it is called by some, was
null and unauthorized by the Constitution Of the
United States, &c"
Here we go, cried Ned flanagan, when he
declared in the q. S. Senate ''that Congress
does possess the power, under the Constitu-
ton, of prohibiting Slavery in any of the Ter
ritories, whilst the common property OF the
confederacy.
Here we go, said James Whitcomb in 1943,
when he declared that sit is incontrove1tbe
that slavery, here or elsewhere, cannot exist,
without the sanction of positive law" and shat
Congress can, constitutionally, in my judg-
ment, prevent the introduction of slavery into
those territories"
Here we go, said Graham N. Fitch in 1849
when he declared that LEGISLATIVE PRoHIBI-
TON was the only way to meet the tendency
of slavery to extend itself into new Terrific
ries.
Here we go, said VIM, J. Brown, in card
to the Washington Union of Dec. IL, 1649, de-
claring that he never doubted that Congress
possessed the power to legislate for the Terri
tories
Here we 60, said JOHN PETIT, in speech
in Congress, June II, 1913, declaring that
His only object in rising was to show that
the authority existed in Congress to make all
laws for the government of these Territories
whether it were for the protection or prohibit
ton of slaves there. He held that the power
of Congress over the Territories was ample
plenary and complete they might prohibit
their settlement; they might leave them to be
settled under such conditions as they pleased
THEY MIGHT CREATE OR ABOLISH SLAVERY
THERE, as in their judgment it should be best
for the interest of the Territories and of the
whole Union asa.eaas q t.s
And again, when he declared this very same
doctrine in the constitutional convention, in
the debate on Mr.. Rariden's resolutions (See
debates, page s91.) s g '.s
There we 60 said the bogus Democracy o.
1850, when they. 2s 3.
-a'' Rcsolved, That the constitution grants nc
power to Congress to inhabt establish sla-
very in the Territories belonging to the Uni.
tod States. s.}E e.5-li
Here we go, said Thos. Jefferson, when in
1901 he wrote in relation to removals from
Office, & 50 3
"Some removals know must be made, then
must DC JeU as posSt6te ana grounded on some
malvcrsation or some inherent disquallfica-
ton. sser
And again
GOOD men, to whom there is no objection
but a difference of political opinion. practised
upon so far as the right of private citizen will
justify, are not proper subjects for removal"
And again ii
- The instances will be few, and governed by
strict rule, and not party passion"
There we co. says the Pierce Administration
as it consigns to the political gullotine all of
fetal incumbents who dare manifest an indie.
pendenee ofthougH and simply entertain opin.
ions which are not prescribed by its inquisition
as in the removal of Bronson from the col.
lectorship in New York upon false and unten
able grounds, and as in the prescription from
even minor local offices all over the Union, who
ever for moment hesitated to worship thc
Southern Moloch, OF welcome the transported
felon from Europe. h41
Here we 60, cried the democracy of 1852
when they charged Henry Clay with having
sold himself in 1924 to Mr.. Adams for an of
fec worth $4,000 per annum, There we go
says Mr.. Benton when he declares that he wa;
conyersant with the whole affair and gives the
charge fiat denial '5sees,e.,.s -
and 50 we might proceed Gd-insfnitum
penetrate deeper into the rotton mass and
stir out from its putridity, nexious yapor: