The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1858-09-06
eH~ We have escaped the consummation


RE- We have escaped the consummation
of great national crime-one that If the
evil designs ofits concoctors had succeeded,
would have brought on political CONFUSION;
the ultimate consequences would newt
ably have been rupture of the Union, with
all its due concomitants. If Niblack's vote
had been the only one needed to have car
ried the original Lecompton. Senate Bill
through the House, there would have been
an attempt made to enforce an abhored con-
stitution upon State, against the resolute
resistance ofnine-tenths of its population.
No one, since the declaration of public
opinion in Kansas, can have any doubts
what would have been the consequences of
an effort on the part of the federal authori-
ties to have sustained the Leeomptor party
in Kansas. They would have been resisted
by nine-tenths of the freemen of that terrific
ry; and if unable tosustain their rights, hosts
would have rushed to their support from
every free State in the Union; and the con-
fict would have rent asunder the dark veil
of the future, and ushered in that abhorrent
vision of disunion, eloquently deprecated by
be shining son the broken and dishonored
fragments of once glorious Union; on
States discovered, discordant, and belliger-
ent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or
drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood"
Niblack's vote was given for this mon
strous violation of right; he aided, as far as
he had the power, in the consummation of
this attempted national crime. By all the
principles of moral accountability, he is as
guilty as if it had been perpetrated. He
still justihes the principles and motives by
which he was actuated, and still confesSes
himself the ready and subservient abettor
of Executive usurpations that he avowed
himself TO be in that remarkably compre-
heusive speech, giving the reasons for his
Lecompton vote. The President was, he
then said, the embodiment of Democracy, il
was the Presidents, and therefore Demo-
cratic measure; he belonged to Democracy,
soul and body; and the President and De-
mocracy being one and identical, VIM. E
Niblack belonged, of course, to the Presi-
dent, and, bound, as his man, to do his bid.
ding; therefore he obeyed and voted lie.
compton.
Pope Plus Nino has no more logical de.
fender of his infallibility, than James Blu.
chanan has of his among such Congressional
retainers as Niblack. The church is infalli
bic says the Priest; the Pope, its head, j:
therefore infallible. Democracy is infalliblt
according to Niblack-Buchanan, its EN-
bodiment, is, ergo, infallible.
But abandoning these royal maxims tina
the President can do no wrong, and admit
ting that the wrong was contemplated, as il
did not succeed, Niblack says-no harm wa;
done, and no crime was committed; tn,
people should therefore forget it and absolv'
him for what he has done. He is an agen
soliciting renewal of his trust, on the pie;
that he has been faithful in the past, becaus
his most ingenious and persevering effort
to steal were completely defeated by tn
strong locks put upon the treasures by hi
employers.
lie don't pretend to be more honest in hi
intentions, but as he has not by his hes
efforts succeeded in the crime, it is not like
ly he will have a better chance to attemp
it, therefore there is no danger it is no
worth while to talk about it " i. is a dea
issue, which ought to be forgotten. y
Whether the people will entrust their affair
to baffled rogue, or choose an honest agent
We shall know after the second Tuesday il
October