The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1857-08-27
NO. $50.

FREEDOM OF THE PREss.-Many Pro Slavery
;oarnals, North and South, have censured the
East India Government for suspending the
freedom of the press in India. At present, the
India newspapers cannot print a line rejecting
roon the Government, or calculated in any way
=, encourage the insurgents.
VIII our Pro-Slavery friends inform US where
:, this slavery of the press differs from that of
the press in q majority of the slave States in
this Union On the question of Slavery? Can
sny South Carolina Journal advocate Emanci-
pation, or endeavor to excite the populace
a,ainst tie small class of shareholders ? Is
tsjs freedom of the press allowed in any of
the slave States, with two or three exceptions
And if this is true, what occasion has any
iu,,irda Journal to cast a stone at the East
India Company?
We are happy 70 learn that free suffrage {"
h.. ;r;araphsd in North Carolina The Raleigh
Naadaya says:
.Our State Constitution provides that no one
sa.l vote for Senator in the State Legislature
,ghy does not own fifty acres of land. The Con.
.ti-u:ion also provides that no amendment shall
le made to that instrument unless a bill for
fla. rarp7se shall have passed one General As.
se,oblg Lr three fifjhs vote of all the mem
bs-s. aad The next General Assembly BY a two.
thirds VOC OF all the members nor shall the
s.i amendment even then be made, unless
approved by a majority Of the people, landhold.
-. and u0I.-lardholders, at the ballot box An
amendment striking out this freehold quslifca-
-, - 81 Al
ri,at. of suffrage TO all native naturalzed citi-
Ems who may have paid taxes, was passed by
:, ;a.eel iths vote in 1854, and by a two-thirds
vote in $50, was submitted to the people to be
approved or rejected al the late election, and
i riulphed by an immense majority"
The n. J.. Times has heretofore supported
Governor Walker, Of Kansas, through thick and
THU, but, in Saturdays issue, speaks of the
Gs75saor's blunder in allowing the apportion-
aea- t5r members Of the new Legislature to
i.,l into the hands Of the bogus authorities:
"Isnoraace of bis official powers under the
l.s Is pleaded or Governor Walkers behalf, az
81 excuse far his neglect of this most i'm port.
AIT aad vial duty. 1t is one which we cannot
IF moment admit. Governor Walker has
given lie most emphatic and satisfactory as
sar.aces 20 the people of Kansas that their
right Of sovereignty should be secured to them,
that every voter should have fair chance to
d-pasii lis ballot, and that the whole people
should b. fairly represented in the Legislature.
Thogsgnds Of his political opponents trusted to
hs promises, and gave him their support. They
now iad themselves betrayed, and virtually
stripped ct their power, by an unfair and unjust
appointment. They viii naturally charge
apon Governor Walker violation of his pledge
All AZ betrayal Of his rights. Nor will they
b= content with the excuse that he was not
aware tbs; he had the power to fulfill the prom
ISIS which be had made. Ignorance of the law
IS never SLOWED as a valid excuse to any per-
son CHARGED with It's violation least Of all can
It be received as sufficient apology from q
high official, for a neglect of duty in so import
ant g mater as this"
We copy the following item from the Rich.
mend Souih:
"On Wednesday evening, a resident of
Prince William county, named Crawford, was
cJD@'tied to Jail by Justice Ksnkey, charged
vita declaring that he was an Abolitionist,
l6at be believed negro as good as he was, if
he behaved himself; and maintaining, by speak
iny. that persons have not the right of property
IL slaves uader the law"
lslberiy outraged in worse manner than
this IN Naples?