Indiana American. [volume] (Brookville, Ind.) 1833-1861, 1857-09-18
FROM the IhdIhhhpoHs CourieF
THEY SPEAK EVIL OF DIGNITrEs."

charges them of unchristian conduct, in
making a charge against him, without
knowing it to be true. The President
admits, il true, "his name should be con-
signed to nfamy. We are little afraid to
sift closely here. We some two years
since saw Senator Douglas, so exercised
with the truth Of history, in its action upon
his own individuality, that he would stop in
u speech TO contend with every one who
pleased to ask him a question. "Your
fathers stoned the prophets and ye build
their sepulchrcsn President Pierce in the
first election in Kansas did not see that the
Kansas Nebraska Bill "was faithfully exc
cuted,' as the Constitution bound him to
do lie knew, as well as he did that Brig
ham Young had more wives than one, that
the RuiFans who went over from Missouri,
with arms, whisky, &c, aud took possession
of the polls, put in new Judges, voted, and
next day returned to their homes in Mis-
souri,, were not inhabitants entitled to vote
under tho provisions of the bill. If they
were, then the Bill itself was q fraud prac-
ticed upon the people Of the United States,
and to sanction it, as the President did,
should "consign his name to iniamy,
Some are Of opinion that the Kansas-Bill
contemplated just such an Interpretation us
was put upon it by the Observation-Disclosures
and the pro-Slavery Kansas Judges. Our
bogus Senator, Bright, told the assembled
Democracy, somo three years since in the
Hall Of the House, that "the bill was not
attributable to Senator Douglas, but was
the result Of Democratic caucus Then
If the Bill was fraud, all who concoc'ed il
were guilty of fraud with all who carried it
into execution knowing the facts. But
q Reeder gave the certificates" and this
legalizod the whole rascality. And who
was Reeder? An instrument Of their own
appointing-not honest and independent
enough to do right, and not wicked enough
fully to carry out the pro-Slavery demands,
without wavering; 50 he divided between
honesty and rasoality, freedom and slavery,
and he gave the greater share to slavery
thus giving the appearance Of legality to
one of the greatest wrongs that ever was
perpetrated on Earth. And the end Of this
act has not yet been SEEN Did not Presi-
dent Pierce know all this? We charged
this unfaithfulness upon him during his
administration The Democracy (pro-Sla
very,) chnckle over tins Recder defect, as
legalizing all the villainies perpetrated or to
be perpetrated in Kansas Slavery cares
for nothing but show of law
Has not the Supreme Court of the United
/ States decided that acts against Justice are
not law" and if the President employs the
army to bring the freemen Of Kansas tc
submit to the acts of that bogus Territorial
Government, he will find, unless that high
Court has become wholly corrupted, tina
he will not be sustained, And if, under 4
mere pretext of law, they do sustain him
there is "higher Law" in the bosom Of pa,
triots which will condemn them both, anC
onsign them all to the shades Of everlasting
infamy. The President intends to see tina
he laws of the sham Legislature are faith
fully executed. He will see that the Soutl
do not charge him with violation Of oath.
To carry them out is to declare unde
} oath" that the vioidtion Of lac is law
that justice and true Democratic principle
are not law--that tyranny and oppression
are right-that the Government of the Uni
ted States knows no difference between
} right and wrong, truth and falsehood tina
J dishonesty and fraud are lawful, IL the.
appear upon the face of the papers. Tn
President says "he found the Government
of Kansas as firmly established as that o
any other Territory" This may not be
violation Of oath, but that il is true, tn
great majority Of the people cannot believe
If IL is established, why send the arm.
there to prevent the peoplc-tho sovereignt
from establishing u better Government p
+ Oh he is not going to be caught violating
his oath in not seeing that the laws ar
faithfully executed" A government tina
makes no distinction between justice an'
injustice, freedom and slavery, in principle
and yet uniformly, in practice, discrimI
mates In favor Of the latter, Is unworth
the name Of government, and should n
once be tumblod down by the honest peopl
of any nation. And IL the President strik
u blow in Kansas against the honest pcopl
Of that Territory, to hyor slavery, ihroug
the establishments in power of n band G
ruIhans from Missouri, that blow will likel
be the beginning of u revolution which wi
J hurl him with NIL his sucking minions froI
power, aud bring 10 naught the great Go
OF the South, which he so devoutly wor
ships
= In his course the President "has tho n
, probation of his own conscience and h
hopes Of God. Since the manifesto ,
the three ministers-"that might make
= right" that when you offer man BIZ
price for his property, and herefuses TO sol
You may then knock him down and take !
IL you conceive Il necessary TO save 20
from bankruptcy, "Sclf preservation is tn
first law Of nature, aud we cannot dispul
; that his conscience approves but the vai
hope that God approves must perish, unlc'
D he means the God of the South.
The President is thankful that the prcacl
u ors will pray the Almighty God that his Al
ministration mHy be an example OF justic
/. We wonder at this strange freak Of court
!. ~, Cor such II must be These learned mo
!, must know that they could not make N
prayer, inasmuch as whatsoever is not
faith il of sin" And f 40 many 'righteou
men should make the prayer, Il might |