Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1858-01-14

cvHtc!nptuouo vi HIS Hic-c"1iho tiioc, VIII
believe. Scif-sovcrnment first and the
Union afterwar,!! will be the watclwor,l
when the hour of trial comes.
ES- The people Of this county have been
told by '.Veritas'', as well as the elitor of
the little democrat, if we remember COR
rectly, that their traitor President re-
grcited that the I.ecompton constitution
had not been entirely submitted to vote
Of the people, and that he refused to re-
commend It's being sustained, in his mes
sage.
We knew this was Il misapprchension,
to use the mildest phrase, and intended at
a convenient time to cxpoSc!its Incorrect
ness. The following extract from the
WASHINGTON Union, the Presidents organ,
places Mr. Buchanan in his correct posi-
tion-very different, it will be seen, from
the one "Ncritas'', in his second commu-
nication, said he occupied:
Judge Douglas expressed his gratiica
ton that upon "a more careful and critical
reading Of the message the difference be-
tween himself and the President is not so
great as he had supposed 'on hasty read
ing and imperfect hearing of it in the first
instance. Upon this more careful and
critical reading he Is reioiced To find that
the President has not recommended that
Congress should pass law to receive
Kansas into the Union un1er the constitu-
ton formed at Lecompton;' and yet he adj
mits that the tone of that document indi-
Gates that such law would receive the OK
ecutive approval In this we see no cSpe-
cial cause for the Joy manifested by Judge
Douglas Ii is not necessary, if indeed it
would have been proper, for the President
to do more than Indicate distinctly his ac-
quiesence in the legality of the action of the
convention. There is As little cause for
the qualification produced by the fact that
the President has not endorsed, as assn
med by Judge Douglas, the action of the
convention 1t would have been difficult
for the President to use stronger language
of endorsement of the legality of the con-
vcntion, and of its action than he has done.
We are fearful that Judge Douglass peru
sal of the message has yet been less care
full and critical than he suppo>eS; other
wise he could hardly have found in it the
expressions of regret and modification and
disappointment that the constitution had
not been submitted to the people which he
attributes to the President. Our pcrusal
of it has not enabled us to find these ex-
prcssionS. But these preliminary and in
troluctory remarks are only important to
be made that none may be misled into the
idea that the administration is Indifferent as
to Tie fate of a measure in regard to which
the President says that if this opportunity
of settling the question in Kansas should
be rejected, SHE may be involved for years
in domestic discord, and possibly in civil
war, before she can again make up the is
sue now so fortunately rendered, and again
reach the point She has already attained.
With such language as this before him, it
is difficult to understand how Judge Doug
las can assume that the administration was
SO indifferent as to the result that the Pres
lticuL Hitl Recommended iO Diil I'D Uc pass
ed, and that it is not to be regarded as AN
administration measure
Will ''Ieritas" acknowledge his misap-
prehcnsion of the President position OF
the Kansas question, and thus afford thos,
who have to depend entirely for their pc
litical information upoa what they see il
the little Democrat, an opportunity t.
know at once how bascly old Buck has be
trayed them.