The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1858-09-22
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his policy in the administration of national
measures. We believe that the course of
the President has saved the Democratic
party, and that in years to come, the Ad-
: ministration of James Buchanan will be
recorded in the history of our country as
parallel with that of Thomas jefferson and
Andrew jackson. We consider Douglas
part and parcel of the Democratic party, and
working as much for its good as John b.
Forney and the Washington Union are con-
ducing to its detriment."
Mr.. Forney is denouncing the policy and
course of the Administration as treacher-
Gus and false and anti-Democratic, while
/ Buchanan is Carrying on most unrelenting
war upon Douglas who is "a part and par
Gel Of Democracy" A more choking batch
of palpable inconsistencies were never
gulped down by poor subservient min
ion.
That our readers may see in what way
Mr.. Forney is laboring for the good of the
Democratic party, we take the following ex-
tract from his paper, which We think applies
with peculiar force TO the position of Judge
,Niblack and his organ, the Enquirer. Itsays
that Niblack having once cheated his con-
stituents, will cheat them again, or some
body else and the "organs of the Admins
tration have the audaeious folly to prate
upon the English bill as finality."
We have never known party to be more
signally routed and demoralized than the
traitors to Democratic pledges and princi-
plies who espoused the cause of LecomptOn
squire and simple There was something
so outrageous and tyrannical in the attempt
to force government upon the people of an
inchoate American State against their will,
that il has been Indignantly condemned by
the patriotic sentiment of the whole country,
and has become us obsolete an idea as feu-
dalism. The vote of the people of Kansas
convinced the whole nation of the Justice OF
the representations Of the antagonists of Le-
compton, and presented those who had adj
vocatcd that instrument in n most unenvia-
, bic light
: But the organs of the Administration still
have the audacious folly to pirate ofthe Eng
lish bill as "finality, and to boast that il
: they could not heap insult and wrong upon
the people of Kansas for the high crime OF
preferring free to slave institutions, by drag
, ging them into the Union against their will
. they can at least have the satisfaction OF
keeping them out of the Union for time
on the plea Of insufficient population.
IL is very significant fact, however, that
while this 6nality doctrine is enunciated in
"A few conventions of Federal Office holders
and in papers sustained by the patronage OF
the Government and is proclaimed by such
high authorities to be the only true Demo.
cratic doctrine, nobody else, north OF Maser
and Dixon's line, is in favor of it. There is
: no party among the people in favor of re-
quiring for the Administration Ofa free Stat,
a greater population than has been deemed
requisite for the admission of a slave State
J We do not even know a Northern Lecomp
ton Congressman who dares avow to his
constituency that he is in favor of this dis.
tinctOn. On the contrary, these men are dis
tinctly proclaiming that they are willing tC
admit Kansas with any constitution she ma,
y legally frame, without reference TO population
: The advocates of the English bill, who votcC
: for, and secured its passage, publicly an
/; nouncc, wherever they address the people
: their determination to disregard its proviS
!, ions. For all practical purposes there ar,
!; none so poor rs to do reverence 20 the Eng
lish bill in the North-not even its own au
thors. IL may be, indeed, that these Con
!, gresSional candidates are insincere in the
. professions. This we think probable
Having been false to their constituents once
they may be false again.
1t is certain that they would cheat some
: body-either the South, which relics upor
!, their adherence to the restrictive principl,
which they endorsed by voting for the Eng
!, lish bill, or the North, to which they nov
u proclaim their determination TO admit Kan
Is sas without reference to population. But
5. for the present, we speak of a victory gained
r, because nowhere in the North can there b.
- found any considerable body of men willing
re to avow themselves in favor of the origina
Lecompton movement, or the principle EN-
20 bodied in the English bill. Everywhere
& indignant thousands condemn both theS
:" measures.
1t is true that the official guillotine is a
:. work doing its best to secure that "uniform
ity of opinion" which the Union consid
y ers particularly desirable, and head afte
n head is chopped off to attain this object
o. But the old woman who attempted to mo
'h up the ocean with her broom, nIrtie ubou
- as sensible an adaptation OF means to tn
$ end desired, as the officials who seem to im
y agine that the prescription of the indeper
/. dent spirits in their service can change tn
~ honest political convictions of the America
people.
" The Lcconiptonites argue that, inasmuc
= as the votes polled at the late Kansas elec
= y ton are nearly equal to the votes of the O
binary Congressional districts of the coun
r. try, her population must be nearly equal
is. that required by the English bill. The
er forgot that Kanzas is settled, to great e,
tent, by young or adventurous men, man
nd of whom are unmarried, or have left the
: families in their old homes until they cou
s. provide new ones for them. The proportio
~ of women and children to the number
Id. voters is much smaller in Kanzas than
any old settled community. So that a col
" siderable time must yet elapse before kal
es' zas will possess population of $4,000, al
- if her admission is delayed beyond 1S6
: the ratio will be about 100 1000.
But these very same Congressman WI
~ have voted for the restriction in the En-
ust lish bill will be called upon, at the next Sc
I'M sion, to vote upon the admission of Orego
= and although she has less population tn
-, Kansas, we presume she will be admitted.