St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1857-10-08
Kansas.


has pursued towards Kansas No
matter what may have been the views
of its editors upon national politics
in general or local politics in particu-
lar, this journal has never hesitated
to ienounce in positive language the
unfairncss and corruption of the Cen
eral Government in its treatment OF the
political affairs of Kansas. There
NAV be, and there doubles are, those
whose interests are so allied with par
ty success, that they feel it duty to
sustain the action of their party, right
or wrong. Not so with us. We seek
no party favor, but believe we have
wit enough to gain a livelihood in
some other way.
We also have the independence to
express our opinions upon men ana
measures whenever occasion may re-
quire. In making this remark we III
tend it to apply as much to our posi-
ton as private citizens as to that OF
public journalists. The Intc,ligencer
is an independent journal, and it would
be we'll if some people would learn the
definition of the term. We print
newspapers to sell, but neither of the
editors are in the market. They can
not be bought Or sold. They will pur-
sue that course, both in their editori-
al sphere and out of it, which shall
seem to them just and proper, uninflu-
enced by fear or favor, and will ever
strive to subserve the best interests
of the community in which they dwell.
This same announcement was made
in the first number of the Intelligcn.
GER, and Of course cannot be new.
We are happy to know that, with
only one or two exceptions, the Intel
ligencer meets with general favor, ano
the present sheet will show that W,
are striving to merit this appreciation
These remarks are Introductory tt
some statements we arc about tc
| make in reference to the letters Of
President Buchanan and certain citi
zens of New Haven, Ct.
AS every one is aware, a letter from
New Haven, signed by some forty in
dividuals, was, some time since, ad
dressed to the President, upon the all
absorbing topic of Kansas politics
To this letter the President replied
and it would seem that he was, at the
time, anxious for an occasion to write
letter in order to appcase Southern
politicians, who just then were be
coming quite clamorous on account o.
what they were pleased to term his
free state proclivities. A chief mag
istrate of the nation should know enc
North, no South )" but not SO will
President Buchanan. His reply ap
pears to have been written solely fol
the southern side Of Mason & Dixon.
Line. Among other things he assert
ed the following:
Slavery existed at that period an
still exists in Kansas, under the Con
stitution of the United States. Thi
point has been finally decided by thu
highest tribunal known to our law.
How it could have ever been seriousl
doubted is mystery"
This statement startled the Who'll
North and was a new doctrine even 9
the South. To the North, in view {
the principles on which he was elected
it was a direct insult. In our opinio
the President should not have reptile
to the New Haven letter at all, and
is not probable that the authors of
expected he would.
The consequence is that the Me-
Haven people have prepared lengthy
elaborate and able document in answc
to the President, which they are now
scattering broad cast over the land
The whole controversy must tend t.
ALLEVIATE the affections of different por
tons of the Union still more than was
the case before whereas we consider
it the duty of every good citizen to be
conciliatory and cultivate friendship
one towards another.
We need not go into detailed re
view of the New Haven gentlemen
They commence with the generous pre-
sumption that Notwithstanding the
President omitted to notice the impor
tant points of their original memorial
it was still not his intention to misrep
resent them. We take exceptions t
this part of the letter. We think thi
i. was exactly the Presidents intention
and that the more earnestly they pres
} these points the more studiously wi
, he neglect to be aware of them. The
proceed to urge the material brancl
es of the subject again, viz: That tn
fundamental principle of our Republ
can Government is that the peopl
shall make their own rulers, the pee
pie of Kansas never having had eithe
privilege and that Walker is nov
employing an army to force the peopl
Of Kansas to obey laws imposed upol
them by foreign ruffians.
The memorialists then take the pr