Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1857-11-28
An Unsupported "shrIek for Free


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The Chicago Times, although heretofore
acknowledged by all as the ablest defender
Of the Administration and apologize of the
usurpations If the slave power to be found
in the North West, is now "shrieking for
freedom "in the most approved style. When
the Telegraph commul icatcd the intelligence
that the Administration approved the action
OF the Kansas Constitutional Convention,
TIE Times denied it's authenticity and in a
lengthy editorial reviewing the platform OF
the last Democratic National Convention
and the pledges Of Mr.. Buchanan himself,
unequivocally declared that such an appro-
val could not be consistently made. The
following is the substance of its conclusions,
stated in its own language:
I'VE have omitted all comments on the
language of the President which we have
Quoted. The country elected him to the Of
flee of President, and has sustained his ADJ
ministration since then under the assurance
that the privilege Of uoting Jor or against
the CONSTITUTION trOuld 4aeucr be denied the
people of Kansas. Upon any other ground
Mr.. Buchanan mould neper hare been
nominated at Cincinnati, or, if nominated,
WOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN ELECTED IL Was
the bright hope that the people Of Kansas
could at the ballot box repair all wrongs and
express their own free will, that e,,dble1 the
Democratic party to place The Administra-
ton in porer.
eve do not believe, therefore, that in the
face of all the cardinal points Of the Demo-
cratic faith, the Administration will endorse
any action ,chich denies the people IF Kansas
as etectually as it denies II to the people q
England, the right of establishing Consti-
tuition for the State Of Kansas"
The Times, however, we fear, was toe
hasty. and will have to swallow its words
ington Union, the central organ of the par.
ty. That paper takes dametrical position
approving the action of the Kansas Con-
vention and landings its members to the
skies. The Union speaks The views Of Buch-
anan, and therefore there is no question but
that the Administration endorses the Kan
sas Constitutional Convention. We take
the following extract from its issue of the
18Th.
s'Let j: be rendered that Slavery was es-
tabled in Kansas by the Constitution, and
| the question is on the abolition of it. Shall
il be swept out of existence at a blow, with.
out regard to the sacred rights of property
! or shall it be gradually extinguished ? The
Kansas Convention has decided in favor O
the former course and has resolved to dea
with it as all the other States in the Unior
| dealt with it that is, abolish it pi aspect
| lively. What crime has been committed by
! the slaveholding emigrSnts in kansas, wi,
went there in good faith, with ths4s fazsi
lies and servants, under the profession o
the law and the Constitution, which CAV
them an undoubted right to do so? Why j
it that they should now be driven ont of TIL
State, or permitted to stay only at the ex
pense of having their property confisca
! ted?'
/ Here we have the abominable doctrine re
/ iteraed that the Constitution carries slave
~ into the Territories. The Onion has ais,
| tie audacity and hardihood to declare tina
! the Lecompton schedule submits the Con
stitution to the white inhabitants of Kansas
and gives full, fair and practical effect t,
the principle of popular sovereignty" wheI
attached to the very article containing tina
false assertion is the schedule itself, which
distinctly affirms that, the Constitution sllal
not be submitted to the popular vote tina
nothing but the clause legalizing the impor
| tation of more slaves is to he submitted
With these facts before him, can any on
longer doubt that Buchanan's Administra
ton is tool of the slave power? The sue
cessive usurpations Of that power, and tn
falsity of Mr.. Buchanan and the leaders c
his party to pledges repeatedly made touch
ing the question of slavery. justly excite til
| indignation of even Democrats in the North
Hence the outspoken language of the Chica
90 Times, echoed by the Davenport Demo
crdt and one or two other papers of tn
same party in this State.
What side does the Enquirer of this cit
take on this question? Speak out, neigh
Dor.