Indiana American. [volume] (Brookville, Ind.) 1833-1861, 1856-05-02

people over their own "insIitutions'
IN the territories, passed in admitted
defiance OF The viii cf the people oil
| The Union, consistently followed BY
the cont'mptuous rejection Of me-
mortal praying that the people who
hors established their "institutions''
may be admitted into the Union. -
That Douglas should follow his great
act Of infamy with another just in the
proper proportion OF size. time and
ciicumslancc, 10 show the fist in is
full measure, was most ft. Having
fathered the greatest lie ever enacted
BY corrupt politicians. he could not
better preserve his character with his
party than by fathering the mcanest
lie.--that the Kansas petition was q
forgery" He knew. ms does every
man Of ordinary sense in the Union,
that the people OF Kansas DID prepare
q memorial to Congress and sent II in
charge Of Col. Lane. That the one
Lane presented Is the one the people
made. Douglas has no more doubt
than he has that heis living. There
is not man in the whole slavery set
in the Senate, who did not feel that he
was "pettifogging." as Wade called It,
when he objected TO that memorial
that its signatures were oil in one hand.
They knew that the memorial was
genuine, the undoubted expression of
the people Of Kansas. but because Il
prayed Kansas to be Free STATE. 1t
was rejected. The whole secret OF
this most unjustifable conduct lies in
that one fact. II tie mob-legislature
had sent memorial praying admiss-
ion as a slave State. iis authenticity
would never have been questioned
|Itwould have received tho customary
treatment Of memorials. and not been
kicked contemptuously out Of sight.
But the petition Of FREE people is a
fair subject for dcrision and abuse with
these tools Of slavery. They allow IL
no respect. they cover il with charges
they know TO be substantially false, and
throw il away. That the men who
enacted the Nebraska fraud should re-
jet petition rs ''iorgery." proves
nothing against the petition. Such
men are capable Of worse things, II
worse things are possible. The secret
OF this rejection Is not hard TO find.--
The Senate Is resolved that Kansas
shall be slave State. Mr.. Pierce
means to make it so If the power Of
the National Government can effect il.
Every influence. but the one emana-
ting from the Free North. is bent to
that end. The petition asks admission
rs a Free State. 1t has to be reiec ted
IN consequence. aud as the Northern
dough-faces don't like to face the
plain issue, free or slave State.' they
have started this "forgery" charge as
a dodge" BY proclaiming the me-
mortal a forgery" they think they
can escape the necessity Of entertain
ing il. and at the same lime blind the
people AS to the real design. We hope
the speech Of Mr.. Warner of Georgia.
and the resolutions Of the Georgia
Legislature. will be kept in mind.
with the fact that the whole South
concurs in them. for they will explain
much that will otherwise look unac-
countablein the conduct Of the Sem
ate. IL is becoming more palpable
every day, and this Kansas memorial
affair clears up the thickest of the
doubt that obscured it, that the Slave
Democracy. with Pierce and Douglas
ut their head, are determined that
Kansas shall be a Slave State. and
that no favor shall be shown 10 any
act or design Of those who want 1t to
be free. Let the people of Indiana
remember this.-Indiana Journal.