The Texas Republican. [volume] (Marshall, Tex.) 1849-1869, 1857-07-11

and meiiied excavation than Judge Evans
And as Judge Rssgsn piled fact upon Tact,
aud exhibited the tersisetsaaons. the tIck'
cry, and the demsgogai.m, OF his ad'ef'
.sry. in most eIegsnt dicIion aud une1'
eep,iouable language. Lsmael sat silent
and sulen, one hand covering IA. eyes, h'
svollen face deno,iug the agony OF the
passions which ragged within. Never have
we witnessed. in a political campaign,
eounienance more woe,begone, or upon
which was more deeply written that the
lish, Of hope had fled.
Judge Reagan concluded with . 'np>
posed love speech. OF Judge Evans, when
was made up OF quotations from the lat
,e,'s poudetou, speech on the " Stability OF
American lnsGluiiou.," which created
perfect Juror
Judge Reaeau's defence Of the kansAs
Nebraska bill. va. one OF tho most clear
aud logical Arguments - which 80 have
ever listened. ,iler having Gem0Hs'ralcd
the Justice Of this great measure, he next
proceeded to show who voted for Il, EN-
braeing nearly every man from the Souln,
aud all the conservative men OF the North
IN Congress. Every Soathero Legislature
dad approved it, Oar own Legislature
had endorsed i, by AZ almos, unanimous
vote. Every prominent man IA The south,
,nd every Constitutional man "a the North
had sanctioned It. Who had opposed It :
First. Hale, Giddinga. sumner aud all tho
sbolitionist, ia Congress. Every abol'
ton editor bad denounced it, Abbey hes'
~ and Ms Beacher Stowe, aud the "oN
men OF tha, class bad pronounced against
1t. Al tho Abolition Governors and mem
beers Of tho Legislatures OF the NofIh had
eoudrmnsd II. The three thousand AboIl
ton clergyman whom Houston had de-
Tended had cried out against a. Aud at
the FOO, of this column Of Abolition ianat-
les. wore to bee found Houston, Evan, aud
Bell. u Tennessee. II was lor recruits
to this column, tina, tho Flag and Grape
Shot were labofing so Justify. Would they
succeed in Harrison county
Judge Reagan having coneaded' ]adIe
Evans replied in speech OF shout a"
hour Tie did not notice the remarks oil
his competitor, farther than to discuss the
Kansas Nebraska question and to contend
that /, contained squatter sovereignty aud
alien suffrage, aud tina, consequently IT
could not be maintained propositions
were evidently untenable to every one who
understood the question, or who had listened
patiently to the speech OF Judge Reagan (;
bu, although fallaey, they were iugenl'
ously stated.
The Kansas Nebraska bill does ne, al
low aliens to vote, because a man who abs
lures allegiance to the country from whence
he came aud takes an oath to supper, the
constitution Of the United States, declaring
a, the same time hs intention to perfect his
naturalization, is not an alien. In the celN
ebruted hosa case, the tederH; sG"e;n
ment assumed the ground that man IN
that condition was not an allen, and was
a. much entitled to the protection OF our
Government, as though he were citizen.
In addition TO this, he is allowed to vote
only al the Brst election. aud ut subsequent
elections, the people OF the territory can
forbid him from voting # they think proper.
Every territorial Bill from the otigin oi
the Government to the presen, time, is SINH
lar IN this respect to the Kansas bill.
Nor does the kausas Bill Ms we have so
frequently shown, and Ms Judge Resgen
demonstrated, embrace squattef sovereignty.
The history of that measure was simply
this. The democratic party North and
South agreed that Congress had no lnfls-
diction over the subject of slavery either
IN the States or Territories, aud that it
ought to be removed AS dangerous clos
nenl from the halls Of our national legls'
lature. they agreed that the people OF
the territories ought to decide the question
for themselves, but at what time this de-
cision should be made they could not
agree. The Southern Democrats con'
tended that when the people assembled t
frame their State constitution, they we
clothed with the attributes OF sovereign
aud not until then could they detern'e
the question Many Of the Northern dn>
eorais held, on the contrary, that the co.
pie of tho territories, acting ihroughhe'f
territorial legislatures, could estab'h or
prohibit slavery.
Now. what were they to do 7 nave
Incorporated the Northern view, WIN was
squstter sovereignty, in the bill, wdd nave
driven oil Southern men, aud we pro-
duced an ,rreeoucilable schis between
tho two sections OF the part Ana to
have incorporated IN It the eN,r'e southern
view, would have driven so many