Kenosha tribune & telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1856-1859, 1858-02-18
THURSDAY. FEBRUARY Is, 1858.
R The reception President b,


met, throughout the Free States, from
friends as well as foes, we should sup
pose would convince him that he sshas
hard row to hoe" if he expects to car
ry its doctrines out practically. North
ern Democracy, even at the low point
at which it has arrived, cannot yet fol-
low its chosen leader into the sink of
iniquity to which he is attempting to
lead it. Not northern paper that we
have yet seen, whose editor is not feed
directly by Government pap, sustains
the President in the position he takes,
in that Message; and even few who
have had their hands quite deep in the
public crib, refuse to be bought by the
bribe.
Democratic editors who are left free
and Independent in the expression of
their opinions, come out boldly in con-
domination of the message. We copy
an article on our first page from the
GAINESVILLE Standard, to which we refer
orr readers, especially those who are
laboring under the impression that OPP.
position to the Administration in its
Kansas policy, is confined to the Repub-
lican. gat
Every man who can read, knows that
DIR. Buchanan has misrepresented and
mis-stated the facts most shamefully. in
every instance, where he pretends to
justify his course by transactions of the
Free State men in Kansas. What he has
not misrepresented, he has ignored en-
tirely. He says nothing of the disfran-
chisement Of one half of the counties
of the Territory, in the election of del
egates to the Lecompton Convention,
through the neglect or refusal of the
pro-slavery officers to take the census
and register the voters. He says moth
ing of the election authorized by the
Legislature, at which 10000 majority
was given against the Constitution.
He says nothing of the monstrous
frauds, which have been perpetrated at
every election, by the friends of the Lee
compton Constitution. He utterly ig-
nores every circumstance that tends in
the least to justify the Free State men,
thus making them appear as the worst
kind Of rebels without cause or provo
cation.
We copy the following from the She
boygan Journal, strong Democratic
paper, as another instance of how the
message is received by the honest por-
ton of the Democracy:
THE LEcoMPToN MEssAGE.-Oura aged
President has been favored with copy
of the Lecompton Constitution, and has
seen tit to transmit to Congress that out
rageous thing, together with special
message endorsing it all over. In do
ing this he has answered the extreme
demands of the slavery propagandists to
the letter. The doctrines advocated in
this document we do not hesitate to say
we are opposed to in toto. They are
doctrines which are disgraceful for any
man making pretensions to statesman
ship to put forth, and which will find no
responsive sympathy in the North, ex-
cept from Government office holders
and office seekers, who, by their truck
ling, changing, nay venal course, show
themselves but very slaves-ft only to
do their masters bidding, and spaniel
like roll over every time their master
twirls his hand and snaps his finger.
The President first declares in sub
stance that the controversy in Kansas
1 is not between two practical parties
merely, but between loyal citizens and
rebels, against the authority of the Gov
ernment-the English of which is that
the loyal citizens are those who are in
tent only on making Kansas slave
State, and the rebels are those who are
opposed to slavery, and who constitute
majority of the bona tide inhabitants
of Kansas. Is this the position a great
statesman-as the President out to he
should occupy?
The President also pitches into the
Topeka Constitution like Thousand
OF brick" and pronounces the move
ment ''revolutionary''-the reason of
which is, we suppose, because that in.
strument was formed by the Free State
men, whom the President denounces a.
rebels.
He repeats his talk about the Free
State men not voting at certain elections
The fair presumption is, that the men of
Kansas understand their own business
and know when to vote and when to not
about as well as Mr.. Buchanan or Con
gress. If they chose not to vote that
was purely their own business. They.
undoubtedly, had good reasons for do,
ing as they did.
lie also reiterates the assertion he
made in his annual message. tn at tho
supreme Court has ''solemnly adiudo-
ed' that slavery exists in Kansas nnder
the constitution, and adds that Kanas
Is therefore as much a slave State oS
Georgia or South Carolina. Is this NOT !
a most outrageous doctrine to advance
IN the face of an intelligent people2-I
W lth democratic contemporary we saw
emphatlcally, 1--WE can't stand that doc.
trlne, no how" We don't believe tb.t
as the question now stands, that slavery
mas anything TO do with the admission
OF kansas-it is only the question wbetb-
er the people shall have the right to
frame their own laws. That is the ones.
ton, and we are sorry to see Mr. Bu.
ehanan taking ground against that great
boon of liberty.
An Old and steadfast Democrat. and
formerly many years resident of Penn
sylvanla, and an ardent admirer of Mr.