The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-08-15

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tial to an understanding of this (the slave
ry clause was presented Moreover the
resolution of which the Journal speaks in
no way invalidates the slavery clause, as
contained in the Cincinnati Code"
This piling on of one excuse after another
without regard to their agreement with
each other, reminds US of the defense offer
ed in the well-known kettle case" " In
/ the first place. says the defendants coun-
/ sci, "the kettle was cracked when my cli-
ent borrowed it. In the second place, it
was whole when he returned it. And in
| the third place, nsy client neUer borrowed the
kettle. These three propositions we expect to
establish ~
Well, Mr.. Abbott, if you really mean
what you say, and have not sufficient dis
cernment to perceive a radical difference
aye, fat Observation-Disclosures the Gin
cinnati Platform according to its Northern
Interpretation, and the Wicklife resolution,
all we have to say is, you are not fit to edit
a political newspaper. You have gotten
/ yourself in a dilemma and can choose either
! horn. l, You are not competent to perceive
! the difference between two contradictory
paragraphs; or, q You wilfully garbled and
misrepresented the Douglas platform for
| pay, and now justify your unfair and mer-
cenary action. There is no escape for you
| from implement on one of these " horns"
If you cannot perceive any difference be-
tween the two paragraphs enbodying the
slavery clause of the Cincinnati platform
with its popular Interpretation, and the
! Wickliffe doctrine, you had better quit talk
ing about politics in your paper, If you
still justify what you have said and done in
the matter under consideration, for the
sake of consistency and fairness make at
once of the Umpire thimble-rigging
| Douglas paper, and do not pretend friend
ship for Bell and Everett, or impartiality
towards other candidates.
We assert that the resolution adopted a
Baltimore in order to catch Louisiana votes,
gives the lie direct to the slavery clause in
the Cincinnati Platform, as interpreted by
Douglas and his followers in the North. For
proof of this assertion, we give the slavery
clause aforesaid. and the Wickliffe reso-
luton:
SLAVERY CLAUSE FROM THE CINCINNATI PLAT
FORM.
" ReSoI0ed, That claiming fellowship with
and desiring the cooperation of all who re-
gard the preservation of the Union, under
the Constitution, as the paramount issue,
and repudiating all sectional parties and
platforms concerning domestic slavery,
which seek to embroil the States and incite
to treason and armed resistance to law in
the Territories, and whose avowed purposes,
if consummated, must end in civil war and
disunion; the American Democracy recog-
nize and adopt the principles contained in
the organic laws establishing the Terrific
ries of Nebraska and Kansas as embodying
the only sound and safe solution of the
slavery question, upon which the great ma
tioDal idea of the people of this whole
country can repose in its determined con-
servation of the Observation-Disclosures
/ by Congress with slavery in the Territories
| or in the District of Columbia"
SUPPLEMENTARY RESOLUTION ADOPTED AT
BALTIMORE.
" Resolved That it is in accordance with
the Cincinnati Platform, that during the ex-
stence of Territorial Governments, the
measure of restriction, whatever it may be,
imposed by the Federal Constitution on the
power of the Territorial Legislature over the
subject of the domestic relations, as the same
has been or shall hereafter be decided By the
Supreme Court of the United States, should
be respected by all good citizens and en-
forced with promptness and fidelity By every
branch Of the General Government"
"The principles contained in the organic
laws establishing the territories of Nebraska
and Kansas require, as Douglas and his
partizans contend, " that the people of each
State ard Territory should be left perfectly
free to form and regulate their domestic in
stitutions in their own way, subject only to
the Constitution of the United States" In
their arguments before the Northern people,
they endeavor to produce the impression
that the people of each territory, under the
Cincinnati Platform, are entirely unrestricted
in their control over their domestic institu-
tions (including slavery, and are above and
beyond any human power. This, we say,
is the Interpretation given to the Cincinnati
Platform by Douglas and his adherentS
while electioneering in the North before the
people lot ONCE. luis Is Iue SPHtt vi MI
their harangues-it was in 1854, 1856,
1858, is now, and has been between times.
Yet notwithstanding these professions, for
the purpose of catching votes in Louisiana,
they submit to the introduction into their
platform for 1860 of a resolution which COM
pletely prevents the possibility of any exer-
else of popular sovereignty" by the peo-
pie of the territories, in case the Douglas
policy should prevail. And, further, re-
solution was offered in the Douglas National
Convention endorsing Douglass doctrine
of an inherent sovereign right in the squat
tiers of territory, and it was voted down
with scarcely the shadow of support. This
we have on good Democratic authority