The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1859-07-21
Vol. XIII.
KENTUCKY POLITICS.

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Era that the Opposition in Kentucky b, II
placed themselves on the extreme South. L
Slavery ground, by urging the passage os
law by Congress for the protection of SI,v..
in the Territories. From the Louisville Eo...
we learn that Judge Robinson. perban, |
only survivor of those who voted for the NJ |
souri, restriction, and who two or three vs.
ago wrote series of articles for the Ngt;,.. |
bneuigencer III support of that measure h..
his extreme old age been befooled By the d.,
agogues Of the day aud induced to reca,, :,
principles of his lifetime They have md,
him to write a letter in which he adyoca,s.
slave code for the Territories! He saws
Repeal squatter Sovereignty, and ,u,,,,
/ protection by fundamental provision in a.:
future law organizing a Territory. Tn. III
be peaceful, certain, and assuring. II VOL
/ be preventive OF agitation, disquietude and :.
prevention by unfriendly legislation or ponIs-
lslatlon. And surely in all cases, but r,ecra:
| " IN this OF StdcO maHta prevention Is bc,,'-
than cure. And it is always safer To enio;,
wrong, than, by waiting until it is done scek a,
inadequate remedy for irreparabe damage
Kentucky has high reputation for gallant
and manliness; but a more unmanly. iusirc.-,
or Inconsistent set of demagogues capno,
found IN the whole Union than Is pragsn,,5.
the Opposition of that State Until the mr..
year, the Kentucky Wings or American. ~.
whatever name the Opposition have assumed
have been remarkable for their conserr.,..
opposition to the ultra Pro-Slayerv measpra.,f
Southern politicians. They we're educa,o5 :
the behet that the Missouri comnror,;so -
wise and benefcent measure and n;,L IL
Gay they apPrOv"d 1t not only as compro
mise OF conflicting interea,s between the Nj
and South, but as an appropriate melno4 =,
preventing the extension of Slavery. Mr. Clsv
said in one Of his last speeches that no human
power could induce him TO vote for the intro
ductiOn Of Slavery into territory which j, ire.
from it. What, then, would he think of HI,
apostaie and unprincipled followers who Az
now advocating the establishment of slsr.
code for the Territories Have they no sens.
Of shame
We trust that no friend Of Freedom in Ken
lucky viii be found voting with these bareiac.i
demagogues.
Mr.. WNTHRoP's SoLIcIrUDE-If Mr.. Win.
throp were not reputed one of the most accom-
plished scholars in America, We might char;
tably draw from the following paragraph in hi,
letter TO Hiram Ketchum an inference differ
ent from what the language would naturally
imply He says:
If have any serious fear. at this instant
that the revival of the foreign slave trade viii
find any considerable number Of advocates al
the South, 1t arises from the apprehension that
the question will be seized upon for party Dur
poses at the North, and made the subject Of
angry, reproachful, indiscriminate denunca.
ton"
The obvious meaning Of this language is.
that Mr.. Winthrop will not be disturbed bv the
prevalence in the South OF ideas favorable 10
the revival Of the foreign slave trade. except
from the apprehension that the fact will be
seized upou for party purposes ar the North,
and made the subject Of angry, reproachfuI.
lndiscnmiuate denunciation. The accomplish
ed Boston scholar has no bowels of compass
sion for the kidnapped black man sold into
slavery or murdered on the middle
passage; but his delicate .ensibilities aud hi,
national patriotism will be shocked by the
angry denunciations which the AboHtionis,
will hurl at the oodthirsty rrafiickers in human
flesh If this Is no, what Mr. Winthrop in.
tended to say, he ~as unlacky in the choice OF
words.
WHAT Nh. DoUGLAs's SOUTHERN FRESD,
SAY OF HN.-We have frequently quoted from
the Southern newspapers, TO show that Mr.
Douglas Is generally regarded in that quarter
as Black Republican in disguise. We nov
present the apologies and defences set up for
him by his Southern friends. The Mobile Reg
lister, edited by Mr.. Forsyth, our late Minister
to Mexico says:
We reply, again, that squatter sovereignty
IS catch-word, aud that neither Judge Doug
las nor the editor Of the Register advocate it,
The Petersburgh VA Press says:
1.-The AateHigencer asks us if it did Us inius.
tice in saying that we had fully endorsed
Douglas and his squatter sovereignty. We
have frankly To respond that the LnteiiiQenrrr
has done injustice to Us, and to Judge Douglas
also
Mr.. Douglas is anxious to be thought friend
y to popular or squatter sovereignty by the
people of the North, but his Southern friends
make a just discrimination when they deny that
ne is committed by his recent speeches to that
doctrine. He expressly admits the authority Of
he Supreme Court in the premises, and of its
bred Scott decision, and thereby puts an ex-
lnguisher upon popular sovereignty.
"
The Washington correspondent of the Phila-