The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1858-01-14


the message are well worthy of public at,e
ton. Read it.
The consistency Of the Monroe Democrs
again.
! A few days before the publication Of tf
: Presidents message, the +" Monroe Demo
crat" came out, in all its eloquenc'
strength, and power, in favor of the pos
tion which Douglass, Walker, Forney an
host Of other prominent Democrats no
occupy, and called loudly upon the Penn
sylvania delegation in Congress to yot
unaniu ously against the Lecompton Con
stitution when it came up to Congress 70
ratification. But Immediately after th
message had been read by the very i'm
pressible man of the Democrat, be adop
ted it in toto, aud hence now advocate
the admission Of Kansas without hasin,
her Constitution submitted to the peopl
Of that territory. This is the present po
sition of our neighbor. We saw prope
to take enough notice of his fuctuation
to state it at length 10 the Jefersouial
of the 3lst ult., together with our opin
ion on the same. The Democrat Of th'
7th inst. attempts reply, in his peculiar
disrespectful manner of the facts in The
case, which we feel called upon to answer
Some of the assertions of the Democrat
however, are so grossly false that The
moderately informed reader will discov-
er it at a glance, we will therefore, not
notice his assertions farther than they
seem to merit our attention.
The Democrat admits implicitly it's in
consistency, but takes issue with Us on
some important points. The first of which
is in regard to what the issue is between
Douglass and BucbaDan. We stated it
to be as follows: Mr.. Buchanan states
that the Kansas Nebraska act only gave
the people the right to say whether they
would have slavery in the State or not.
and that that vas to be determined by
submitting that clause of the Constitution
to the people for their approval or rejec
ton. That is, that the constitutional
was under DO obligation, ac-
cording to the Kansas Nebraska act, to
submit any other clause of the Constitu-
ton to the people for their approval or
rejection, except that clause alone which
relates to slavery.
While Mr.. Douglass, the father OF the
Kansas Nebraska act, states that it me ans
and was intended to mean, the whole Of
he Constitution, so that the people might
indeed, regulate the whole of their do
nestle institutions in their own way-not
lavery alone. The sage Democrat as
erts that " Mr.. Buchanan says no such
hing" In evidence Of the truth of our
position, we offer the Presidents own
words, as they appear ir bis message
dr. Buchanan says 10 regard to the obli.
alton of the Convention, to submit the
'hole of the Constitution to the people
or their approval or rejection:
81 trust, however, that the exam pie set
y the last Congress, requiring the Con-
titutlon of Minnesota should be subject
0 the approval aud ratification Of the
eople of the proposed State, may be fol-
owed on future occasions. | took it for
rsnted that the Convention Of Kansas
'ould act in accordance with this exam.
lie, founded. as it is, on correct princi.
les; and hence my instructions to Gov.
1alker. in favor of submitting the Con.
tuition to the people. were expressed in
pneral and unqualified terms.
10 the Kansas Nebraska bill, however.
lis requirement, as applicable to the aehole
had not been inserted, and
'e Convention were not bound by its
rms to submit any other portion of the
'strumeat to an election, eatept that acAich !;
lates 10 the domestic institution of slaUe-
T."
Now, Mr.. Democrat, If we have quoted !.
e Presidents message correctly, which
9 have, it fully ju.tiGcs US in making ..
e staten ent that We did, in regard to :.
lchanan's view of the Kansas.Nebras-
act, and you and your right hand nan
nsequently, stand before us brace of
'mitigated falsifers.
You vainly imagine that We are iDcon. |
tent. because, instead OF denouncing 7,
r. Douglass as we formerly did, we now v
plaud him. We formerly denounced s.
:. Douglass, in common with the rest :
the Democratic party, for deserting the b
land marks of democracy, and for fa- q
ring Southern scheme, by which sla-
~ might be carried into all the Terri
les. This We believed to be wrong,
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