The daily union., 1856-01-29
From the Detroit Free Press.
THE CHARGE OF INCONSISTENCY AGAINST SEN
ATORS CASS AND STUART.

"
AToRS CASS AND STUART
Irunweared persistence in Misrepresentation will mis-
lead the readers Of the Detroit Advertiser in reference
the record of Senators Css and Stuart respecting the
sas-Nebraska act there be doubt that they will
be thoroughly med The Advertiser still seeks to
impress the conviction that Messrs Cass and Stuart
tanned the passage Of that in the Senate with set
of arguments and opinions and in their speeches before
their constituents during the last State election
urged business and ghuness of the principle of the
with another aud different set Of arguments and
opinions. But the Advertiser utterly fails 10 prove its
sumption II quotes from speech Of Gen. Cass delivered
the City Hall the ith of September last before the
democratic State convention and from editorial article
Of the Free Press weeks later in reply to structures Of
the Richmond Enquirer upon the speech with the
view Of showing in what light Gen. Cass held the Kansas
Nebraska measuren the presence of his constituents but
nowhere produces attempts to produce any utterance
Of Cen Cass in the Senate inconsistent with his declarations
at the City Hall the occasion Of the democratic State
convention, inconsistent with the utterauces of the
Free Press in the article alluded to- representing the
views of General Cnss And defy the Advertiser to
produce any utteranCe of Gen. Csss In the Senate ncon
siseut with his speech the City Hail. with the repre-
scutations OF the Free Press in the article rc which it
quotes. We defy the Advertiser to DO this 1t cannot do
1t. Gen. Cass beliesesand he bas never anywhere,
any OCCASION stated intimated any other belie-hat
slavery IL the of local law and that cannot
ist In any Territory Of the United States until legally
tabished by the authority Of the Ter
ritory He believes the legislative authority OF the Terri
tory has sole jurisdiction the subject Of slavery and
that other legislative authority has any jurisdiction
whatever H. This according TO his conception Is the
prime doctrine Of the Kansas Nebraska This Is the
doctrine Of popular sovereignty regarding slavery. II Is
the doctrine Of Gen Cass enuucated in his Nchoson
ter regarding the rights Of The people OF the Territories
To this doctrine he has steadily adhered in the Senate and
out Of H. since ls4s.
II Is simply absurd to charge Gen Cass with inconss-
tency upon this question No speech has he made in the
Senate upon Il that has been widely calculated among
the people Of Michigan That delivered pending the pas
sage Of the KansasNebraska act probably read by
very large majority Of the citizens Of the State That he
should have home and made speeches embracing
tments differing from and hostile TO those OF hs spocchn
the Senate Is ridiculous and preposerous be serious
ly believed by the creduous reader Of the Adyor
tiser.
Senator Stuart made speech in the Senate in support
Of the passage Of the act II is impos-
BILE therefore that the charge Of inconsistency against him
be true subsequently TO the passage OF The act
through the Senate and while IL was pending in the
House, he referred TO IL in the following We gave
this extract Of Mr. Susrs remarks In the Free Press Of
Sunday but reproduce nasmucb as the Advertiser
sc ms purposely to have ignored itil
"The senators from North Carolina and South Carolina
have sought 10 show what Will be the effect Of this bill
lthe Kansas-Nebraska bill wish TO say word or two
only upon that subject and shall have done
The reason why willing 10 meet the issue again
unnecessary thought il was and make another agree
uent, far my vote went this believe that the
laws OF population such that there will be ten occu
pants Of these Territories from the northern States TO one
rom the slavehoding With slaves Why do believe II 2
Why hundred OF the northern States young men
without any real estate without any property In the world
except five hundred thousand dollars which they
have 10 money, make up their minds at light that
they will go 70 Kansas and Nebraska, and start the
next morning after breakfast and GO there impede
mcnt, and they viii go; but man who Is slave-owner
in southern State has got pretty large business
hand In the first place shape his property get
ready &C and when he has done all that he knows
well anybody tell him that he is subectng the
Of that property the legislation Of the people who
are there and IL IL hazardous business II Is hazardous
property 10 anywhere
Therefore II is without assigning other reasons
that come to the conclusion that the laws OF population
as they have done from time immemoral will continue
act upon these Territories and the population there will be
~ east ten t9 one from the nonsavchoding States and
that kapsas and Nebraska ny the irresistible law Of popu
iahon, based on the nature OF and bis business
whenever they come into this Union viii In
slayehoding States That my belief that is my be-
lief now 8+ t'N "
These views Mr. Stuart expressed in the Senate on the
goth March, 1854 The charge against him is that In his