The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1856-07-30

ner dismissed the question for the time being.
This was a very happy argument-for himself
But unfortunately, Kansas has recently been
subject of discussion over the whole Union
Great principles are claimed to be involved in
the difficulties there. The people Of one State
have taken possession of that territory, elect
ed some Of their own citizens to be law max
ers for that territory, who established a code
oflaws unparalleledin attrocity and despotism,
and crushing free thought free speech and
free press-and all for the purpose of estab-
fishing an institution in the territory, to which
the great majority OF the actual residents OBJ
ject. The Pierce Administration has by force,
and the use Of the U. S. militia, endeavored
to secure obedience to these infamous laws,
and the men appointed to execute them. One
party back the Pierce Administration in all
its acts. All other parties oppose that Adj
minstration-and yet the people of Indiana
have nothing to do with the affairs Of Kansas
no more than with the laws of Massachusetts,
The people Of Indiana are part owners of that
territory, and it is not only their right, but
their duty to engage in such discussion of its
affairs, as may enable their representatives in
Congress to understand their will. They have
at least the privilege of talking as they please
on the subject, and it is their business to dis
cuss Kansas matters if they SO desire More
over, all parties are doing it, at least the Old
Line and Republican parties. Gov Wright
] Vao nd Ia
no doubt Ike to do it, but it has become a
question of the canvass so far as two parties
are concerned.
Did any one who listened to Gov Wright's
long speech ascertain whether or not he was
in favor of slavery extension? He declared
himself an opponent Of slavery In 1849 he
placed himself on record as against SIovery en-
tension. Now he lodges the issue. In his
object of the Democratic party to be fi'ee{oms
In his speeches North, he has declared the OBJ
ject and results Of the Democratic party to be
freedom. Here he lodged the issue. Not
in an after part Of his speech he popped down
upon it enough to lay the whole blame OF af-
fairs there upon the Emgrant Aid Society
Bah That is worn out 1t was at the first
but border rufian humbug. There was no
society ever formed outside of Missouri to
send people to Kansas merely to cote then go
home again. His few remarks about Kansas
were weak in the extreme In this connec-
| tion ha cnol-a Of tho
/ MISSOURI COMPROMISE.
He said it had not been acquiesced in for
thirty years, but had been repeatedly violated
If ever in any manner it's letter or spirit were
violated, it was with the general consent Of
those sections which made it. Never was it
disputed as sacred and binding compact be-
tween the North and South, till the Douglas
Kansas Nebraska Bill came up. For over
thirty years both sections SO regarded it and
so preserved it. He brought up the Utah and
New Mexico territorial bills, and declared the
provisions in them respecting territory, were
the same as those drawn up by Douglas in the
Kansas Nebraska Bill, and he stated Henry
Clay had drawn up the former bills containing
such principles. Henry Clay, on the contrary,
held that slavery was prohibited by the Mexi-
can laws in those territories, and that they
were, therefore, free. In discussing the COM
promise measure, he used this language:
e neUer can end neuer mil vote, and no
earthly poa0er agW ever make me v0te, to spread
slauery over territory aOhere it does not erist."
Even Douglas declares Gov. Wright falsi-
far XVsf1aec tba lonruooa Of he ranort to
the first draft of his territorial bill for Ne
braska as single territory
Gas Congress deemed it wise and prudent
to refrain from deciding the matter in contro-
versey then (l85o) either by affirming or re-
peahng the Mexican laws; or by an act de-
claratory of the true intent of the Constitution
and the extent of the protection afforded by
it to slave property in the territories SO your
committee are not prepared now to recon-
mend departure from the course pursued on
I that memorable occasion, either by affirming
or repeating the eighth section Of the Nilsson
ri Act, or by any act declaratory of the mean
ing of the Constitution in respect to the legal
points in dispute
Subsequently, Douglas, at the bidding of the
South, introduced two Territorial Bills in
stead of one, and by indirection repealed the
Compromise, declaring it /" uoid and inopera-
the"
Thus much for Gov. Wright We are not
done with the demagogue yet. We received
him with open arms, and he shall have prop
er good parting salute Let a lash be in every
| honest editorial hand to whip the demagogue
through the State.
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