The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1858-09-17
Stuart Defines his own Position and Pr owes
himself Unworthy of Confidence.

MI STUART salu IN hlS acceptance speech
that he does not stand in opposition to
the Administration. Where then does he
stand If his own words are true he &C.
quiesces in the English bill, and will in
sist upon its fuilment in keeping Kansas
out of the Union because she refused to
come in as a slave State. This much the
Administration demands of all its sup
porters. The Washington Union of
Wednesday last, speaking for Mr. Blu
chanan, says:
"Unless Douglas shall distinctly declare
that he will acquiesce in and abide Jy the
English bill, and uLtl his nomtaees-such
as Stuart so declare, - he and they are as
much ENEMIES on this particular sub
ject to the great body of the Democracy Of
this nation as Lincoln or anybody else"
Now, if Mr.. Stuart still opposes the
English bill, he is an "enemy of the
Administration and "tho Democracy of
the Nation" If he acquiesces in it as
his acceptance speech would seem to i'm
ply, he is then in favor of discrimination,
in favor Of slave States, and perpctrates an
act Of boundlcss insolcncc in asking the
votes of frecmen.
But no person has better described
what the English bill is than Mr.. Stuart
himself. We quote from his speech in
the United States Senate on the 2Sth of
April last:
"The dispute, | say, was upon the ques-
ton of submission, and hence the commit
tee set to work TO make Janus-faced pro-
position-onc, which, in the South, by
southern Democrats, should be declared
to be DO submission Of Tie constitution to
tue i'a@ o,"9 u hansas at :s;mli it should be
denied there as it is denied to-day by thu
Senators from Virginia aud Missouri, con-
shutting n majority of the Senate commit
zee; and which, in the North, could be
insisted upon as subm .sSion of the con-
stitution to the people Of Kansas. and for
which you might get the northern anti
Lccompton Democrats in the House to
vote. because it is a submission and get
the Southern Lscompton Dem, Gratis to
vote for il because it is not Il submission
Sir, like that celebrated hunter who aimed
to kill the animal if it was a deer, and
miss 1t II calf, you say to the members
constituting the two bodies of Congress
to-day, If you are true game and vote to
reject this proposition, 1t will XIII you
whether You live North or South but if
you vote for it, you will be a living cali all
the days Of your life No matter in what
section Of this country you reside, if you
vote for the measure there is no danger /;
because, at the South, we insist it is not
submitted; and at the North, we insist
that 1t Is; vote against it, and we will
charge you in the South with being false
to our interests; we will charge you in the
North with voting against the only means
provided to ascertain the will Of the peo-
pie upon the constitution itself That is
the English OF it."
The question here presented to the
people of Kansas is, ciU you hare a Con-
st't"ttoa making a STARE .Stote OR NO
STATE AT ALL; because Congress says in
It's bill that if you do not accept this pro-
position, you shall have no State at all for
an indefinite period Of time"
In the conclusion of his speech, Mr..
Stuart hurled the following burning in
vective at the President and all his Le-
compton supporters. We quote from
pages lG and II of his speech as kindly