White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1859-10-20
WHITE CLOUD, KANSAS THURSDAY OCTOBER 20, 1852

but by elaborate articles in the St. Louis
papers over his we'll known signature
deprecating this reckless re-opening Of
an exciting misunderstanding. as he al
ways has done, the constitutionality Of that
conpromise-and appealing to the South
to stand. in good faith, by its provisions
Again during the exciting scenes in
Kansas, which followed for several years,
he sternly opposed the prosecuting policy
of Pierce's administration. Finally when
Lecompton was presented to Congress,
and backed by the whole power of the
administration. his pen again portrayed
and denounced its iniquity in the press
of this city and the swindling and dis
graceful English bill he similarly rebuked.
In word, while sincerely desiring peace
and cessation of the slavery agitation,
and protesting that the negro question
ought net to be the governing. dominant
question of the country, he has neither
preached nor practiced submission, and
his letter, therefore, was no more intended
to reproach Republicans, as q party, than
himself as a man. He believes that by
exiting the Democratic party, and its
reckless plotters aud agitators from pow
er. and by installing in their place an ad-
ministration, looking to the development
of our present territory rather than ex-
pansion, in either Northern or South
ern direction, setting its face like flint
against fillibustering and all other wild
schemes of territorial aggrandizement,
and fostering. as far as possible, good
feeling among all sections of the Union.
the government can, in few years, be re-
stored to the policy and the path of its
founders.
As to the sovereign power of Congress
over the territories, the Judge remarked
that he had learned it from all great
men of the past, Mr.. Calhoun alone ex
cepted, and was too old to unlearn it now.
Habitually entertaining a profound res
pect for the Judiciary, he acquiesced in the
fat of the U. S. Supreme Court, dismis-
sing the case of bred Scott for want of
Jurisdiction. though his judgement did not
concur with theirs. But the long essays
which, without any case before them, the
judges then went on to deliver, in regard
to the constitutionality of the Missouri
Compromise, and the Constitution carry
ing slavery into the territories er propria
regors, he regarded as extra Judicial and
political, and entitled to no more weight
or authority than the same number of
speeches by eminent Senators in the Le-
compton debate.
But have not more time for extended
remarks on our conversation, except to
say that he thinks that the governmental
corruption and extravaganza of this adj
ministration should be rebuked-that the
nationality" of slavery is new inven-
ton, not over ten years old-and that the
slave trade now so shamelessly re-opened,
without even Presidential proclamation
against it, should be stopped by the
promptest and most energetic execution
Of the law.
1t is generally conceded by the Oppo-
sition in the North that they do not ex
pect to carry any Of the Slave States in
1860. But this is not conceded in Mis-
souri,. The Opposition party of Missouri
intend to present Judge Bates name to
the National Convention as statesman,
sans peur ct sans reprochs, on whom all
opposed to the misrule and the iniquities
of the Democracy can honorably unite
and they intend to pledge the electoral
vote of Missouri for him if nominated.
II Al L. ,Ilo off,rk
Conversing with many of the St. Louis
Americans and Wings / found none who
put his probable majority in that single
County at less than 5000. and some be-
lieved that his great personal popularity.
by no means bounded by party lines.
would swell it to 10000.
In the interior. his popularity is equally
eminent, and when you count the Repub-
lican vote, the Americans who, though he
never Joined the order. all veneraie him
for his spotless character and his personal
worth. the old line Wings and anti-Le-
compton Democrats, you have phalanx
which, with the Central Pacific Railroad
issue and River improvements, would I'M
doubtedly, with his name. carry the State
Maj. Rollins, the Opposition candidate
for Governor Of Missouri two years ago,
lost the State by only 300, and his ma
jority in st. Louis was but one or two
thousand. With from six to ten thou
sand majority in st. Louis to start with,
with Judge Bates remarkable personal
and with State pride in favor
Of the first candidate ever presented BY
Missouri for the Presidency, who could
doubt the result ? And with such can
vass as would be making in Missouri, IL
linois and Indiana would also be safe be-
yond all preadventure.