The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1856-09-26
The Peculiar NOn-Interference" Of DemOc-

being total acknowledgements, and cOngratulates
the Evansville Journal on maintaining Demo-
cratic doctrine, because we said that the two
natural tides of emigration, from the North
and from the South, will send their free labor
to the North and their slave labor to the South,
as they can be employed to the best advan-
tage, and if things are left to themselves there
need be no collision between these different in
situations of labor. The doctrine Of '.non-in-
reference" as advocated and sustained by
the Democratic party, is very peculiar What
other parties mean by non-intererence, and
what Democratic demagOgues and editors
mean by the same expression, is as different
as night and day. Democracy means by nom
interference, that Congress shall not in any
manner interfere with the spread of Slavery,
but may interfere just as much as it pleases to
hem in freedom. 1t means that when the
whole country is at peace on the question Of
Slavery, and all sections have acquiesced in
existing laws of compromise for the sake of
that peace, Democratic demagogues, with the
approval Of the Democratic party, may inter
tere for demagogue purposes, and strike down
these compromise measures, and substitute
dangerous agitation and civil war for the peace
which the country so much coveted. We are
now enjoying the blessed consequences of
Democratic "non-interlerence." In Kansas,
their doctrine of non-interference means, that
the march of Slavery over or into that Terri
tory declared by. the Missouri Compromise
forever free territory, shall not be interfercd
with-tlat the acts Of Border Ruf1ians tosfas-
ten Slavery on that Territory shall not be in
terered with-that the acts Of the Pierce Adj
ministration and its doughface admirers to
make Kansas Slave State, shall not be inter
fered with by Congress-that, in fact, nothing
in Kansas, nor any influence reaching towards
Kansas, shall be interfered with, except those
things, and influences calculated to establish
in Kansas free labor and freedom. 49, -
The history of Kansas during the last Year
evidences the truth of our remark. The SYM
pathies of the Democratic party have from the
first, been with the Border Ruffians. That
party has supported these ruffians in all their
acts tocrush the Free State men. Itjustifed
them in capturing the polls, and driving from
them actual settlers of the Territory because
they held free-state opinions-it justified these
rufians, citizens of the State of Missouri, in
making laws for the people Of Kansas, and then
united with the ruffians in stigmatizing as
traitors all men who refused obedience to as
rascally and tyrannical a code Of laws as were
ever enacted under European despotism, and
these laws made too by citizens Of Mis-
souri, "Non-interference'' in all this. rascal
ity and Observation-Disclosures" in the
lynchings and murders and house -bdgnings
and robberies, with which the Free State men
were persecuted-"non interference" in the
execution of laws which sent men to the PEN
itentiary if they dared to express an opinion
against the spread ofSlavery in Kansas mon
interference in the tarring and feathering Of
even ministers of the Gospel who dared be gull
ty of the treason of limiting that these scoun-
drelly laws were not proper and goOd-these
form the Democratic Kansas doctrine of nom
interference. We beg leave to inform the En-
quirer that if the journal had fifty editors,
and all the vicious tendencies of their fifty
souls were boiled down into one sentiment,
that sentiment would glitter with the purity
of fine gold by the side ofth Democratic doc
trine of Hnon-interference'' as illustrated in
Kansas We do beseech the persons writing
for the Enquirer in the place of the man who
has been kicked out of his position for the
campaign to save the party, not to accuse us
of advocating anything similar to the Demo-
cratic doctrine of non-interference.
What we meant by speaking an honest word
in favor of non-nterference in the affairs Of
Kansas, was very different from the construc-
ton given it by the Enquirer. We said Exam
sas restored to peace and security will be res
tored to freedom" Kansas can only be res
tored to peace and security, by non-interfe-
renee on the part of the citizens of Missouri
This interference has caused all the difficulties
in Kansas, yet the man is fool, who, when
the Missouri Compromise was repealed did
not kno,o there would be such an interfe-
renee on the part of the ruffians of Missouri,
and which interference mast end in blood
In the face of this knowledge, the Democratic
party destroyed that Compromise, then de-
clared that Slavery had the right to enter the
Territory, and Congress had no right to inter-
fere with it. The Missourians, or the lower