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Congress. Next drive out ithe Shakers—the Quakers—the Catholics—the MiHerites I— Where is it to end ? ;The Best. Joke Yet.—What will poor, dear old Aunty-jfcbriisia resort to next? She now thinks the new Graduation Land Bill was passed by Congress to keep poor men from going to Nebraska, so that the rich nabobs of the South will have it all their own way in Nebraska ! She thinks “the little Giant” will make a slave State of Indiana within fifteen years. That Douglas must be worse than the persecutors of “John Rogers, who was burnt at the stake in Smithfield, attended by his wife and nine small children, with two at the breast.;!”Don’t Lie !—We understand that Mr. Cox says in his speeches that Mr. Dunham got delegates to go to Columbus, to vote for him in Convention, by paying their expenses or promising so to do. Whoever may be the author of this is a contemptible liar. It is an imputation which Mr. Cox should to have more carefully considered, and which he ought to know the people of Monroe county will not believe. Who were the delegates from this eounty ? James Hughes, Elias Abel, John I. Patktbb, Capt. Jxo. M. Sluss, Sam’l. H. Buskirk and A. B. Carlton. Can such men as these be bought ? If any man insinuates that I was bought up in this manner, or had any understanding with Mr. Dunham that my expenses were to be paid, he is either a fool or a liar, and probably both.Senator Pettit.On last Saturday, Hon. John Pettit delivered a speech on the Nebraska question, at the Court Llonse in Bloomington. He spoke about two hours and a half, to a large audience, completely justifying his views in favor of the great Republican principle of self-government as contained in the Kansas and Nebraska Act.It was a powerful argument—without tinsel or ornament—and was predicated upon the broad principles of Jeffersonian republicanism.Mr. Dux.v, who also had an appointment on the same day, next addressed the audience. He spoke about au hour and a half. He occupied about one-third of his time in sophistical argumentation—one-third in declamation, in the real ranting, abolition style, and the balance in anecdotes. Mr. Dunn is a good orator; but the people were not satisfied. Old Clay land Webster Whigs couldn’t swallow his rabid Abolitionism.Polygamy.“1 thank thee, Jew, for teaching me that word.”The erudite editor of the Bedford Standard, thus discourseth on the subject of polygamy : “Mr. Dunham’s organs talk a great deal about “Popular Sovereignty,” and that Congress has no right to interfere with the domestic institutions of a Territory. Now, suppose Utah should apply for admission with polgamy, or the right to have a dozen wives, authorized in her constitution, would Mr. Dunham vote to admit her ? Popular sovereignty demands that she be taken in, no matter what her constitution says.”Mr. Dunham has said nothing on this awfully (•) portentous question of polygamy—s mere bubble which the Madison Courier has been trying to blow up for some time past. We arc not authorized to answer for Mr. Dunham, but we will make our own answer in the Yankee 6tyle of asking a few questions of the editor of the Standard:If Utah asks for admission into the Union, with a constitution silent on the subject of the ; marriage relation, as the Constitution of the | State of Indiana is, would you vote to exclude her from the Union ? Would you make it a condition precedent to her admission, that she put a clause in her constitution forbidding polygamy ? If so, would you carry out the principle and exclude her unless she abolish Mormonism and establish the Christian creed instead ? If you establish the Christian creed by law—which sect shall have the precedence ? Shall it be Trinitarian or Unitarian—Roman Catholic or Protestant—Methodist or Univera-list ? Could not the State of Indiana pass a law authorizing a plurality of wives, any thing in the Constitution of this State, or the United States, to the contrary notwithstanding ?But polygamy’s wrong! Admitted. But suppose you exclude Utah from the Union. What then ? Utah still remains a vast and valuable country, within the heart of the Union, an imperium in imperio, and will grow to be a great and formidable nation, dangerous to the pence of the country. Which would be (the better plan, to admit her with her Mormon religion, and try td Christianize her people by a natural assimulation with the institutions of her sister States, or to raise a wall of fire around Her borders that shall forever make her inhabitants a distinct and hostile people, exasperated by feelings ot superstitious bigotry ?We leave these questions for brother Pearson’s'consideration- The question of polygamy is not involved in the issues of the present day. \yhep it arises, it will be tiipe enough to meet it. You say Congress should legislate for the Territories. Why don’t you propose that1 the Mormons be driven out of the Territories by We don’t know what is the reason, butwe find in every number of the Bloomington News-Letter an attack of some- sort on the New Albany and Salem Railroad Company. We cannot see what is to be gained by this ceaseless tirade against a company which it is the interest of all the people of Indiana to foster. If the stockholders in this company at Bloomington, have any influence over the aforesaid paper, they would consult their own interest by endeavoring to stop these continued attacks, unless they proceed from a just and stated foundation. We do not doubt that the trains are sometimes delayed, but not oftener than on other roads of the same length. The officers of this company are energetic and faithful, and perform all their duties to the best of their ability ; and we think little merit the attacks of the News-Letter.—New Albany Herald.The editor of the Herald is mistaken when he says that “he finds in every number of the News-Letter an attack of some sort on the New Albany and Salem R. R. Company.” We have made no “ceaseless tirade” against this company. We have done no more than tt make a “mere mention” ef accidents, c.. as they occur, sometimes with very brief comments and sometimes without comment. The Herala does not find these accounts in every numbei of our paper; for they are* of too frequent oc currence to be news to our readers. If wlt; should undertake to give an account of even accident and failure to make time, lt;fec.t on this road, it would occupy a large portion of ou: paper every week ; and we should be under tb necessity of employing a special reporter.As items of news, we suppose we have ; right to notice these matters. Indeed, our attentiou has been several times directed loth mismanagement on this road, by stockholder themselves. We have jno feelings of vindic tiveness against the officers. of the road Though we confess our temper is not alto gt ther as patient as Job’s, when we are com pelled to wait for the cars from 6 to 24 hour every time we wish to travel on the trains, wit! a very uncertain prospect of ever getting horn alive.We publish an independent paper, and speai ‘our mind” on all such subjects as we ehoos to write about. The New Albany papers ma misrepresent find suppress facts in regard t this road, as a quid pro quo for dead head 'tickets. But that miserable system is receivin the condemnation of the whole independei press of the country ; and the railroad coovei lion which met on the 21st ;ult., at Colnmbu passed strong resolutions against the who! system.QC/^We find the following just comp] ment to the President qf our State Uniye sity, in the Vermont Christian Messenge of September 6th, written by an eastei traveler, who happened to be present c the intetesting occasion alluded to“It was my good fortune last Sabbath attend a; Camp-meeting in Pntnam Co,-In no Methodist mass-meeting in Yermoi or Connecticut, have t witnessed the. en dences of pure and undefiled religion, such simplicity and measure. Our-friend however, spoke of it as a common Cam meeting. If this.be a common mectin may I noon: -behaofd an -.pncommoiL one.-There were nearly three .thousand peop present. The prominent discourse of tl day was that of Dr. Daily, President oPI
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Bloomington News Letter
Bloomington, Indiana, US
Sat, Oct 07, 1854
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