The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1856-06-25
a Satisfactory Denial.
/ Satisfactory Den1aI
Last week, we published the following dis

patch:
WASHINGTON, Tune 20.
Notwithstanding the current reports that
the administration has changed its policy in
regard to Kansas, it has been satisfactorily as
certaincd that such is not the case. The prin-
ciples of the Presidents special message and
proclamation will be enforced and the Federal
and local laws of that territory be maintain
ed.
1t was reported that Pierce intended to
change his policy SO far as to give the Free
State men of Kansas some small chance for as
serting their own rights, or at least throw
around them some little protection to save
! their persons and property from the abuse of
citizens of Missouri. But it appears it has
been satisfactorily ascertaincd," that such re-
ports are without foundation. Humanity had
been cheered up lor moment by wrong APP
probation of the character Of the man at the
head of our Government. True Republican
ism had placed its hopes, even for day,
where its spirit found nothing in response
The reports were erroneous.
1t appears that the President will continue
to enforce the local laws of the territory We
have already published enough of these claws
to show their full infamy-to prove that
laws can be established for the Government
of American citizens and carried out by the
President, which no despotism in Europe
would dare attempt to establish to curse and
crush even tools Of despotism. Yet if these
claws" had been established with the prestige
of legality-had been made by persons legally
authorized to make them, no true American
citizen could give them his allegiance They
recognize not single principle for which his
forelathers fought, which his country now
boasts as peculiarly her own, and which lie
has been raised to consider the privilege of
only Americans to truly realize the blessings
OF, and which he is to defend as the hottest
legacy Of those who established the Republic
Free speech, free press, free thought and free
action, are all crushed. And yet he is called
traitor if he refuses to kneel to these infa-
nous laws, and kiss the hands of the scoun-
drels who forced them upon him. But when
we recolect these laws We're made by citizens
cf Missouri in great part, for the government
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which they had no legal claim, and could net
legally fill, and therefore all the acts of which
body must be illegal, by the most rascally
frauds and outrages-how infamous is the
policy of the President in sustaining these
laws, and hunting down like dogs those in the
territory who oppose them And the report
that the President had at last changed his
policy, is satisfactorily ascertained' not to be
the case 1t a0W be a satisfaction to the
rufiians of Missouri, now engaged by fire,
sword and rapine, in prosecuting those Amer
lean citizens who cannot SO readily forget the
spirit of the institutions under which they
were raised, as to succumb to these laws even
though life, liberty and all most dear to them,
be risked by the resistance. But how do
American citizens not Missouri ruflians regard
the contradiction of this report ? Is it salts
factory to them? We shall see.