The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1858-09-30
Niblack md Hughes.

The National Democrat the ablest exposi-
sentiment of the State, published at Iudi-
annapolis, makes the following forcible COM
ments upon the disclosures made by Senator
Brown, of Mississippi, of the pledges given
by Mr.. Buchanan to the South, in regard to
his future Kansas policy. The Democrat
says that Senator Browns character pre-
clules all possible doubt bat tlat the Presi-
dent made such statement "Should the pco-
pie of Kansas, therefore, make application
for admission, either during the present or
next Congress, the struggle that must arise
is easily foreseen. The administration ana
its forces, backed by the entire Southern
vote, will be arrayed against admission. In
that struggle where will Ray, Hughes and
Niblack stand, in case they are elected .
Their anteccdents are sufficient answer to
the question. No more servile parasites Of
power, unless, indeed, we except John l..
Robinson, can be found in the whole State
of Indiana. They all unite in upholding
Lecompton, though they proclaim it " dead
issue" They all defend the policy of the
Administration iii reference to that meas
ure, even after they have seen the mon
strous outrage which would have been
perpctrated against the will of the people Of
Kansas had that abhorred constitution been
forced upon them.
They all proclaim in advance that they
intend to stand by tie Administration in
the future, as they have in times past, let
come what will. As consequence, they all
pledge themselves to sustain and uphold the
tyrannical decree of the President, that no
man shall be appointed TO office who holds
that Kansas ought to be admitted before she
has population which would entitle her to
Representative in Congress, and that every
ofliceholder shall be dccapitatcd " ho expresses
such belief. They viii all uphold the Pre-
sident in his corrupt use of power and pat
ronage of the Federal Government to stiic
honest conviction, punish honesty of purpose,
and convert the representative of the people
into the degraded, submissive tool of the Ex-
ccutlve.
Let any one contemplate, in all its bear
! ings, the evils that lie hidden beneath this
avowed policy of the President, and then
say, if he can, that it is possible for him, as
an honest man and true patriot, to vote
for Ray, Hughes and Niblack. He cannot
do so without stultifying his honest judg-
/ ment, and doing rank violence to every
moral sentiment of his nature.
These considerations must come home
with irresistible force to every man who alb
hors sLecomptonism, and spurns the dishonest
trickery and fragrant injustice of the English
compromise" Every vote they give for
such men is sign manial of their own deg
/ radiation, and solemn permit to a domineer-
/ ing Executive to kick and cuff them accord
! ing to his sovereign pleasure. With the full
/ knowledge that they are to be prescribed as
aliens and outcasts, they will yet afford the
| means to render their doom all the more
/ prompt and decisive.
In POLITICAL as we'll as in moral and
physical sense, the old adage that san ounce
of preventive is worth a pound of cure"
holds good. Every anti -Lecompton Demo-
| crat, from Douglas down to the humblest
member in the ranks, is just as sure to feel
the full force of the opposition of these men
if elected to Congress, as that the world will
stand till 1860. Evidence offhis fact might
be accumulated till to doubt would be
downright madness. 1t is a hundred fold
easier to avoid the evil by keeping them al
home in the capacity of private citizens un-
der the ban of political disgrace, than to
first saddle them upon us as members OF
Congress and then tax our strength to the
utmost to counteract the mischiefs which
official power and position will enable them
to perpetrate. Let the motto of every anti
Lecompton Democrat be GLANDS orr" in
the sixth district; and ga LONG PULL, A
STRONG PULL, AND PULL ALToGETHER fol
Carr and Hovey, in the first and third.