Kanawha Valley star. [volume] (Charleston, Va. [W. Va.]) 1856-1861, 1856-10-07

to misrepresent i, its history, in'ent
and meaning. But to account for the
utter and profound ignorance Of some
men who put themselves up 70 en-
tighten the people, excite their pas
sions, and forstall that calm deliber-
alton, absolutely essential 70 arrive II
at truth, would require = philosophi-5
cal dissertation On the human mind,
the human passions, and human
schemes and plottings, which We
must wave. Tor populi yo1 Dei,
the voice OF the people is the voice Of
God, SO said the Jews when they cru
CITED orr Savior. The voice Of the
people may be the voice Of God, but
when so it is that voice that follows
calm thought and unbiased investi-
gation--the voice that follows this is
the voice Of God IN as.
The Jew crucifed our Savior be-
cause their leaders, the Scribes and
lPharisees and Priests, SO far preju.
diced them against his doctrines,
that, "secing they could not perceive,
and hearing they could not under
stand" .Ff.Eu.r z
The transformations simplicity Of
truth is the chief .canse why 50
many do not embrace it when it first
raises its beautiful and modest form
half yelled, among men, It is the
sheen and show Of much display and
loud and vociferous professions Of SUI
perior knowledge that attracts for a
time and seduces the human mind
from its allegiance to truth, its sim
plicity and beauty. II
Whenevef the modest form Of
Truth and justice, has arisen among
men to assert her provocative of
power, ignorancehas assailed, fraud
has attempted to circnmyene, and
the weak and designing have
!schemed to abuse and destroy, and
too often with success; but the world
and human justice has progressed,
nevertheless, and error is more and
yet more feeble as time goes on. This
u eternal progress. And this was
most happily illustrated at the Mass
Meeting of the American party at
this place, BY the name of Washing
ton and Jefferson inscribed on one OF
their banners. That Jefferson, upon
whose defamation the opponents Of
the Democracy have lived for fifty
years and more, has been placed On
their banners BY the side Of Wash
ington, and when error shall have
been dispelled and truth shall again
rise to assert her prerogative, the
same party will doubtless inscribe
upon their banners some one or more
Of the present lights of the Democ
racy Of America. That very Jefer-
son said Of the Missouri Compromise
that "it fell upon his ear like a fire
belf' at night, and would raise q
barrier and assert a false principle
upon which the ship of State would
60 to wreck, unless the people should
be patriotic enough to repeal and
destroy it, and blow it out of the pc
litical seas The Kansas Nebraska
Act has done this, and the agitation
that has followed is but the agitation
of the deep water from the conclusion.
Ithas alarmed the weak and the timid,
but if the crew will remain quiet and
there is no desertion on the part of
the Southern crew, the seas will
again calm their waters and the ship
Of State ride in safety,
We will now give a brief and cor
rect history of the Kansas Act, and
any one will be satisfied of it's truth
by reference to records and acts Of Con-
gress.
The Compromise measures Of 1850,
the work of Mr.. Clay and sanction
ed by him, gave to the people Of
New Mexico aud Utah the right when
they formed Constitution to prohib-
it Of admit slavery, Is to them seem
ed meet. The whole Of New Mexico
and large part Of Utah lies North
Of the Missouri Compromise line.
Now; the people Of Western Mis-.
souri,, the Santa-Fe traders, the Cali
fornia smigrants, and some settlers
in Kansas, had for several years de-
sired the formation Of: o territorial