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CHARLES F. READ& H. H FRAZIER 'EDITORS.
fiNimioq or ii4q,s4,s.
SPEECILOP Not G. Al' ,
'GROW,
! OF P.KtissiiVer4,_
In the . 4fouse: of Representatives,.'
1850,44 - On'closing 1.10 debate on the „gill
ported from the- Cominittee TerritOries
;for thi:Otint . ission of Kansas 'into the: Union .
. ',as a qtare.
•
:Griot i said: 'The. first test vote:ori the
bil .unOr consideration will., be on the mo
tieLtolOimmit it to the, Conimittee of the
Wliule`On the State of the trilon;- after hav
ing' diSpipsed of the pending iinstruttions—
one:privOged by the gentleman 'froth- Gear-.
gia, [l4l. St,i.ipliens,] in the • nature ..of 'a • suh"-
the other, an arnetidnicnt thereuXre
storing•the AlissouriCOmpromise, offered by
the gentleman, from Indiana,.[Mr. . Dunn.]
Before,'; speaking on the imerits of • this bill, I
propose l to' say •a word as 6.16 effect of this.
mOtiori,ishould it prevail. -* l;very person
whet hai served in this. Hall is aware, that at
this stage of the Session, should this bill be
referred to the Committee , 4)f* the Whole
on the: state of the Union, it could.. never; in
all pr4bability,be reached... If,it• is proposed
to scud it there for. the ptirpOke of amend
meat,; hat object 'would not btl seeurod - ;. for
in:order to reaehdt, it would benecessary to
lay' asi4. every bill on 'the , Calenddr `preced
ing it, one by one, by a majority.of the Com
mittee: 'And the same majority whien.could
• lay asidt;ithe bills so as to- reatic this, could;
when,teaehed , under the rtilinglin-the Nebras
ka c4c,lstrike out. the enacting and
• report tie bill to the House W j tliout a single
• iiniefid4mt, or any opportunity for one. if,
then, theonly - object in referring is: to Bare
it athended, gentlemen seii that that-ob
ject woitld,nut be accoMplished by the ref
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ere ,
As to
.the instructions propos2d by the . ,
gentleman from Georgia, [Mr; tittpliens..l
have buta word to say,. arlictidinent ; ,,
which iS' l. Similar to a mirnber amendments.
that haVii: been intro,lueesl lat.,;b - in the other
wing Of the Capitol, prOfesSedls• . for:the relief
of KansA,troposes the 'appointment by this
Administration of a certatiutrober of men,
Who are to' go into Katisas,'tiike a ,i!ensus of
voters, and•provide-fiir the elO•tion. at. seine
future day, of :'deleizates to flir'in a State Con
'siitution:,, 1 have-no faith rin any measure of
re&ressifOr the peorile of:Kfutirts, which is to .
be plaec4,in the hands of thiS•Adininlistratic.,n.
to excentle. . A. hillorgatii-).ing',the Territories
of Nebraska an& Kansas was passed by Cln.
and it was - the President's hountien dn
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ty. to see it carried: out in goal %sixii t r .
the
who relied on its t ptote_ction; ). lie
siOed tinit bill. •w:ls therefore, a igtrt of it.
and it ,ivaS his dut - to See that' itsletter and
sphit-Were in 130:V i43' ViOlittC4,
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ri^ol.:s sccurr to. clrlTerrs tzinirlisif te `
n i pteet,el entirely
p
• "laving thus- fiulea— ' -
Mr.! IsleMtn.kugi (iniej•rupting.) :Will the
.gentletnan yield title the floor)1 for two min
utest? • ; • • . •
. ItlrjtGriow. For
Mr.l2llc-M.uL.LIN. explain the course of
. the Pr t esiOtin' t.
MriGnow. Not now. I:1 have time to,
finish the remarks whil propose to, make,
before'the expiration Ofliny 4,91 r, 1 will.yield
the floOr with great pleasure to the - gentle
• man trom Virginia. ; ', if he proposes to
ask iiie queStion Perthientlito the . subject,
. 1 am Speaking 0n,..1 will hear.(;,.lnd-answer it;
otherwise; l am - unwilling tO yield at this
time • •
.ThOPresident having failql to . Protect the
citizens'' Kansas in , the .rights snired to
theiraly e . organic aiolt - Whether Nye_
• shoult),:now place in his hat* any measure .
of pr4pOSed - relief or proteetlon far that peo: .
rile? l'AVhen apublie officer betrays trust,
.1 in ,r.)ne,:case,. will you intrust Vie . same. charge
his keepingagain Do•- i you expect anv
relefito the. people of • - KanSas'from Ibis A(.l
- or from the'i4lnions -whom it
has, t .that territory To expect it
wotildlai as great folly' as .td,ihOp, - :. to protect
yowl Cark - i7b.frgra a second att4,l:k of.thc welt:
• by 14 - ting two bellS on . its ; neck••: instead of
. one:; :lm opposed to any ;,:measure of re
lief; -the, execution Of Whleli is to be intrusted
to nien :Who have trampled -on every right
' most sacred to-Ant-clican freemen; and who
have given to the flannel the Houses of peace
, able citizens, and driveri theiii forth hoineless
into thelwilderness, •
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It is proposed •by this sulistituti. that five
Men. be appointed 'by:the ;Administration
which has, perMitted •all these _wrongs, to
take a ee.nslis of the' 'population of Kansas ;
and that- may employ
, - ,,,such Persons as
they please to assist in taking it. No per
• • son; is to vote at the electionTordelegates to
form a Constitution, 'tile-4.i. his name is. on
that census. list. . They Might .employ; Under
this power, StringfelloW, Jones and Donald
son,. to go out andtake the - census of the
legple malting :such `a list as would suit
their purposes, and 'secure .the success of the:
hoder ruffians in - their:cruside in 'behalf 'of
*Livery- • - . ,
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1 I gait, even if the - list Wassa :fail-. one, what
ttrity hire yon.that a fresh invasion would
not be effeetixl i . or that armed . men would no(
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. goito - e p 0115,.. seize' upon - the ballot-ls
1 - ..oyiforCe ic and drive 'away the. legal vote' • of
,:the-Territory by violence, as has been done
inlevery election heretofore held in the Ter
:, 4it;Ory Ric penalty fixed, in this substitute
foi; illegal voting Would not - prevent it, for it .1
".. t-iiit.;piniply a fine not to -.excetd a 'certain sum •I
inioney. ;Should Sla''ery propagandist
be.brotightihefora , ,Jodge aeompte, charged
; voting, wh.o. believes that,. when
IV& ty is not to eieeed five hundred dol
10s, it will exceed six cents'?"'''Who believes .
tr-t 4, - 44 the' : penalty would everbe fairly enforced
. tindersuth an aiMinistratiim of law as exists
is Kstisas:. A JUdge whO orders the des
tioil'orpiibliebuildin,,Lprinting presses.
.inidprigate dwellings Of r pectable citizens,
.aS nuisances, on the r,nerelfinding..of a grand
jtiry; is not tOhejtruSted with' the rights of
.
American freemen. -
'Bu "'.air there 'is some 'encouragement for
•the friends of Freedom in' ansaS in tlicrop
i • OSit i ionis which have been. Submitted within a
feW days. in this Hall.anCin 'the .Senate. .It
is; tlst .
the ground taken.in"..the early part of
the .session with :respect; .4;o : Kansas is ~aban:
dolled t!y• the me4 - Ayho minted:tie. appoint.:
Merit. ; Of any.,:coinmittee.,t4 - investigate, the
tssasactionts in .that Territory, alleging that
friude Or viale**llB4[..bOeti , committed . ;
ai e r ; id..eiten if' 'there "' bad, ono . had no
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to control
-we'r; , ' •
; : p riv o s iti ons: tol - .:!lie troubles in
Kansas, and professedly to prevent .the
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ctition 'ofthe wrongs and injustice perpetra
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t • CdtpOriher people, are now made - by those .
who: strenuously ;opposed • the' appointment
of that committee, - aridj'4tified or apologized
for the.wrongs;which their 'report expose ;
- and the ground taken in the opening of . the
session, that Kansas Must a population
of ninety-three 'thousand: four. hundred and
t went', before she could be atithorized.to form
-a State Constitution,. is abandoned on all,
sides. -That
. w - as really! the. only plansible
objection that could be made to her• - itnmeda
ate adMission; and thatlyielded, what objec
tion can there be,. save that her Constitution
pfahibits Slavery ? I .
The power of Congress to admit new States'
is conferred in section 'three, article . four, of
the Constitution these' words : '• • •
":dew Stated tniy be atlncitteti by the Congress in
to this Union." I
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The 'time, mode,. and rhanner, of admission;
- fo - left
r s tnereiore entire, to. t g i by such assemb its,' or, the purpose or petitioning
.. 1 distinctions, influenced common'i;:es active or
Congress. .. - ,
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iii 7ea o t b ly desiionspt promoting the e b common good, do i Congress to abrogate the Territorial Government, an7l
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_. The pi•oposition wto admit her as a to aumit them into the-Union as ' indePentlent
Kansas
y callupon and re h q.test allafid . e citizens of
'tate into the Union", terjaking a census, 1 Kansas emtory, ofw :never political views or pre- i State. The . particular fOrm which may gite to
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'without regard to The number ofinhabitants. 1 dilections, to consult together in their respective elec. ' their petition Ann t bm•iterial, , o
Why-delay her achnis4ion, then, for the tak- I tion, districts, and, in mass convention, or otherwise, I co
fine tt P ieni.elve c 's to the mere right - . uit a iL t r c aTi l i . .l
elect three . delegates for each Representative to . nduet all their proceedings ins peaceable manner,
ing ofa census, when it is proposed to admit 'And as the goer of Congress over the Ayhole sub
he whichsaid election . district is entitled in the House , i nt i s
her. whateYer her. population may be I 1 of Representatives of the Legislative Assembly, by.; Constitution,plentiiv and unlimited, they may accept'anY
' however framed, which in their judi.
appeal to every; gentleman who proposes' to ' proclamation of Governor Reeder, of 'it
c l o ii l l iv h o •
i t - - , went . meets the -sense of the people to be affected
admit the State of Kansas, after the takinw of I March, 18354 said delegates to assemble by it. If, therefore, the citizens of Arkansas think
a census, without , rep i t ird to • the • number d ' l .tion at the town of Topeka, on the 19th day of Sep-. proper - to acetimpany their petition by a Writtell
, tember, 1853, then:and there to consider and deter- ~
her inhabitants. why not admit' her at once,Constitution, framed and agreed on by their prima
-1 inane upon all.sulvjects of public int e r es t, an d partic- iry assemblies, or by convention of ilelegatresche
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and put .1111 ; 'end to all these troubles ?. • ! Warty upon that haVing reference to the speedy fbr- I si" by such .'
nblies I perceive no legal, objec-
Some gentlemen say, ,we ought to take no i'mation,of a State Constitution, with an intention of ! lion .tOtheir n 'pl e i l ver to' do so •
, nor to. ar t e i t i n e e p asit p re lt l.
action upon the subject - until the Investigat- 1 an immediate application to be admitted as a State
into the tinier of the United States of Auierica." • 1 that tiny be taken to collect the sense o
illf.T, , Committee, which: was sent into the Ter I in respect to it
rit`..ory, have made-their -re t • Now, that ln accordance with this recommendation. I'
Does the Constitution meet the sense of the
, por ..
. delegates were, elected in the 'different el..)e- ,
report; so-far.as• the question of the: 'admis
sion of Kansas into the Union, is concerned, [tient districts, Who met at: Topeka, on the i s ie l, ') : l) „ l : 3 , i , o , b v e Z ie t h c e l % d • n i 6- I g ‘ " .. i l i t ? iest. l - 1 . 0 11 1 6 n e , , i , s n :tel , le ,,, e . hi c o h f
19th of September, A. D. 1555, -to take into ! the
it seems to ine is ‘vholly immaterial, except Ipeople Were divided, and, the Vote' for del
as furnishing an additional reason for her ad- i consideration the expediency: of calling
misSion, in order to relieve the people from 1 convention to form a St'tte, Constitution . — I •, • ;
a ! egates to the Convention. settled that Y a
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greitt 'wrongs. - But. if it is considered neees- . The address issued by this cenvention was ;
• majority of legal voters... . . •
&Irv. tin.t 'Cortimission has - returned. and any i to' the legal voters of Kansas,' and closed in
, All the promedinws preliminary to the for
. ...mation of a Censtitah,u in Kansas base been
melober - who. is mot satistiol•as fit the coital- these wOrds . : • I conducted in - a ;A.:ace:4lle manner. The-Lea
tion of"things in Kan.ths, can satisfy 'himself I . " And Whereas the debasing character of the Sin- i 61:num that convened on ,he '4th- of March
by an
. appeal to the - Members of the Corm= 1
very which now involves us impels to action, and.; .t,assed a resolution that .no -act of theirs
• - . - leaves us, as the only legal and peaceful alternative, I ' - - .
mission. • : - • i the immediate establishment of a State Government; I was to have the force of law,..and no -Officer
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• 'rho question now I 'before us is, whether '
, and whereas the organic art fails in puiining-out the i elected under that Constitution was author
the people of•Kanssas are to be relieved from. ' course to be adopted in an emergency like ours: ; iztzi to act, until confirmed by some subse
their oppreisiona . and,wrong4 by its irrimedi- i Therefore, you are requested to meet at your several ; fluent action of the Legislature, and thus they .,
ate-admission as - a Stitte, into this Unien? So } i t i i r io ec 4 i e n c e o ts od u T sa u i e d ,a T s e:r o it f org e l . i o e b re er itiaf o ter t ni t en b lioned,
t o h n i
law alt • the • action .of Congress.' Governor
far as that question' is concerned,: it- makes I ninth day of said "month, and the e n . :};nd there ` 'east.l.Robin.,K)n, in his - Message to the Legislature;
-no difference whether the Kansas s legiSlation • your:ballots for m e mberiof a convention, - to m e et at I speaking as.the agent of the State thus or
was. valid or invalid. ' Ev e n if va lid, and e l e .. Topeka on the fourth Tuesday in October next, to ward si, shows its ! peaceable :ehariteter and
ted without fraud -or violence, the, pretended., form -a• Constitution, adopt a Bill -of Rights for the !
, su , _ordination to the action - of Congress, in
laws they enacted; and vellich were triminsit-1 pe a oph: of Kansas, arid take all needffil measures for
ted to this House bY, : the. President the i ° L,,Ti I - ' ,, zl i n ,l o a' 'sh --t s a , t ) e t- r - a r t e s u r L ll-t i l r eP2r4t' s er?l i()
he
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i tth tugfoilow extract
United States. are a disgrace eto arc" civilized I * •
"It is understood that the deputy marshal has psi
' • Sa
1 . i " as
a tate.
. vat instritetions to at the
i - The 1 After this add ress. which -fixed the time members of the Legis
peop.e. sae only question is,., whether •:.•:" 1 I and placesk;f election,
.provided - thr t h e t, p , 1 lat . ure: and the State officers, for treason as soon as
will relieve these people Itssia that despotism ! pointment ofjudges, and the qualification of '
.•this address is received by you. In such an event,
and wrong, by aihnittyna thc‘ra now as. a State I vote•rs, elce...tions were held in . every district 1 olc o ou u z, o rf e. r r e e s s is d t y an t e o e d wi ef l e l n b d e . o ti ff le e i r r ed oo to o tl a i n e d o . ffi ti e l e e r ir .
into the .1. - •'ni"ots--1 There is no •other Way- in • "
in the Territory. -and • delegates elected to! couutry's honor with their lives,. can never object to
which :%.,•oli ean.efThe.tually relies them „and i pe a the dof October,-1855, to i a legal inYetigation into.their action, nor to suffer,
meet at To k '...i3
,t constant invasion ortheir rights bv ! „ • s . ~ • any punishment their' conduct 'maw • merit. We
• .1 4 -= I lorrn ri .Late. Constitutlon l'h.' - -
- --Oro% . • ,.• . '' -, , ; !, • , ~___. ' 3 . rt""±:.L .'"-a , e1..C..1,1 b.l u rtl • h c onstituency we represent;
. a sresidents. . • . , ' : tune :ma place, iortneu EL x., , 0-nigt,3tutinra, and i di d ..... - . I N . ° 13 ;. 6
11 "! - • But it is said, that if the laws ermeted .by ! submitted it to a vote of the pis)ple tier rat: , •"the stake, slicitranlT l c.e l eil t o l kt= l ,&Ari r • at
this Legislature are wrong, they elm be re- I
I fleatioe en the 15th of December followines !of Collins and. Dow, of Barber and•Elfown,i be insuffi,
pdaicd—that the ballot-hex. is in the' proper Ment to, quench the thirst of the' President and his
The 15th of :January:. 1.P.56. 'a GOVernor,Leg. i
place t• - , ehange unjust' laws: . As a...general; accomplices in the hollow . mockery of - sqhatter s,ClT
islature, and:State iiflicers'7" Were eleeted ; and
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proposition, ,that Is trite.. But thi-S legisla- ereigrity they are practicing upon the people of•kan
the Le,giSlature .net on the 4th of March, 1 sas. - then more victims must be furniohetl. Let whet
Lion was forced the people of:Rana:ls, I fss6 and after :receiving the Governor's will crone, not'a finger should be raised Against the
through fraud aid. violence, I,y an Invasion Federal authority until there shall be no hope of re
' message, apPointing con - iiiilttees, and 1
- !lief but in revolutiou."
of non-residents.' Of the six thousand three.. radjourned tothe4
.Gaited States Senators, t i : . .
hundred and thirty-one Votes polled at .that l o f Jul-s , - I , .
- - I . Tile people of Kansas, relying on theireon
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election, but fOurteen. hundred and" ten were-. - AllAilese proccedinws Were neeessarV,before I stitutiotial rightssend the decisions of
'legal voteS; as ascertained by the investiga-
. 1 1 their application' to Congress for adthissions I the Government, and following the precedent
films of thecommittee sent- by this house to ' C 'of 1 for the power given to Congress by tae on- , Tennessee, Arkansas '
Michigan,. Florida,
Kansas. : After enacting laws which eveml stitution is to admit States, not Territories. 1 and lowa, all of which•fo rmed State Consti-
Southern Senators, rising above the prejudi si Th e new State must therefore have all the i tutiors without any act of Congress authoriz-.
ces .of their Section, have declared-on the floor "awentsindispensable to its action as a State," , jig the same, present thernselves, through the'
of the,Senate to be criel, oppressive, and pal-1•
before its application ; and such- was. the de- ; memorial of their . Legislature, and ask ad
pably unjust to one section of the Union, and: vision of the Attorney General, transmitted !,.- mission into the- Uniern. Why; should not
an insult to- lionoratde men, they provided. by General Jackson to the Goyernor of Ar 7! their prayer be granted , ?
against their 'repeal by disfranchising at thekanstis,:SeV:ember 21, .1335. - Referring to 1 • Since the objection • to, the immediate ad
polls--by unauthorized test oaths—all -who I the thir6,seetion of the fourth. article of the-I:mission of Kansas,•,on account of insufficient
are opposed to them. They Provided for -1 Constution, he says : " - • -( • i population, is abandoned, there can be no
their execution in the spirit, in which they,* "This . provision implies . that the new State shall 1 other unless - a section one, except the allege
were enaeted, by taking from the people any I have been constituted by the settlement of a Consii, I Lion of informality' in- her proceeding, in . not
a previous'act of - Congress authoriz-,
voice: in the els:ctiun of their officerS. ' i lotion o f i 4 ffie of Government.and -by the appoint- ti having
of
.1 meat oftheseo ac. o . fficial agents which are'in.dispeesahie inw them. I, have shown "that such an - act is .
There is not an °Meer in :the %.,t c iritoryState, and especially tens action as ,-•
not necesSary on any principle of cOnStitu-
Kansas to-day, eivili Military; or j icial,sas - e f t a Member of* the' Unfom . prior to its admission into
the.thirteen intMlbers of the Council of the ! !hi Unitio: - In accordance with this implication, ev - - 1 tional right: Five States have been admit,
spurious L:.ssislatuip, (who hold over anoth- I cry State received into t he u n i on s i nce t h e adofition I ted without any such act.' And, so fir as the
er year,) in the selection of which the people 1 of theneeral . Cnstitudoti has been organized prior I form; of law wereconcerried, Michigan came
. I to su admission." '
have had any Voice.:- The executive and ju- , ... . s , -, into the Union against . them, entirely'
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dicial. officers were sent b', the Federal Gov- I . :Instead - of the proceedings of the Free' supplanted the Territorial Legislature - before
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ernmenk, and the Legislature appointed ; o r State movement, in Kansas being against law, : the action of. Congress, ;•• '''
provided - for the .aPpointment, by their • own •it is clearly in accordanceArkh law and'cen- , Michigan applied for adniisAon with'a•Cons
appointees,- of the - "election boards, - sheriffs, llstitutional right. The li7St.ate men in stitution formed by, her people without-any
constables, justices 'of the Peace, and all oth- f this movement havedone nothing but what previous, act of COngress. Under it she had
er officers in ; the. Territory. And then, to 1 they . had a right' t 4 do.. The people of sny elected' a Governor, Legislature, United States
'guard aerainst the. change of any of their "ern- 1
Territory have a, right, under the. ConStitu- Senators,' andmember el" Congress. -' Her ap
el and unjust ass - 5,. 1 ,7 they require, as a -
qua ll-i tion, to call a convention 'at any ,time, with plieation was Met' -with the same , -objection
fication to vote and to hold office in said Ter- or without an act ofCongresa-cir of the Ter- as is now urged a f iaikist Kansass—that her pro- .
ritory, in addition to other obnoxious qeali- 1 ritorial Legislature, and to form.aStateGov- deeding:4, were not lonly - Without law, but
fications an .:Oath •: to support the Fugstive 1
, ernment,' and' pply to Congress :for - adinis- against law and good order; and that „class
Slave - Law ••-and ItheY- postponed the next I sion into the Union. The right , of a - people"- of objectors' were 'oppose) to receiving her
maktirig of the Legislature till the Ist ofJan- I " - to 7132 ;of .Govern - - memorial; on. the ,sarne'grotinds urged by . .a
nary, 1857. "But, as the Council . hold over met is clasSed in the - class ofSenatt ars against the memorial of Kan
another Year," o , tinge can be made in these De( as sad, for it would be recognizing the State of
laWs - by the plc, themselves; even if they to tI 11 ' 11 4 - '' •.' Michigan -when there was no such State ;and
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were. not disfranchised at . --the . pollS; till after ,'I accomplishing it to. recognize-her ;as such Would be ;auction. _
the Ist, of - JanuarA 1858 ;so that, from the in c belongs to the i lug treason. Congress, however, admitted
tame of Passing the Territorial law by Con forr _ _ 1' hyAlie State her, on conditionthat her- people should e
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gress f which provided for annual sessions , of•I Government; but in the Territories, Congress sent:to a change-of hotindary. - The • legal ly
the Legislature, it will be:almost *four • years lis the Only power that prescribe the forrns; constituted authorities
. called a convention,
before a change can be effected in the Legis. fur a Territorial Gov . erti n lent. emanating from fixed the time and place Of holding- he. elec.
Islataire,"sd as to repeal' these laws. • Congress clan he eh:ingest, modified, or abr.°. tion fur delegate:4,, and prescribed the qualifi
The gentlemen_ from GeOrgialMr.i.. Ste alio , ' gated, only by - its, eaie'ent. That, consent, C.ations of voters'. This convention so cot•
ens] the other dityrefer - r44 to-lees • ~.. • ' a however;
cam be expressed as well after as 1 stunted, rejected! the terms of admission.—.
hissiwn . State which lie' belleied ~ • ' before the action of the people. If Congress, I But the people, by ispontaneousmtnieinent, -
. .. ! , .
stitutiunal and' oppressive; bu. then, baapritscribed no torrnovhatever action . I 'withnut any legislative act whatever, called .
decided.thafit:MvstainstitatiOrial, tbep'roPle think proper to adopt, hi order to another convention; , and accepted the condi ! :
mitted to the decieloii, as wasllie. a secure a change of GoVernment, 'proYided it Lion of admis.sionifixed,by Congress. '-. Udder
good citizen. But if . ,a, provision: aao:a - -a • be conducted in a peaceable manner, is law- these circumstances, Michigan wasndmitted
appendedlo that law, prohibiting any man fuhand constitutional—lawful, because it Ylo s into the Union.' ! i. .. .
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from voting for its repeal untll'he had sworn hates ho valid laW—constitutional; because - Kansas, witl*far- greater reasons than over
to 'support, it, Would he have
.'felt himielf article first-of the amendments i - o the Consti- existed heretofore for a departure from the
bound to abide by it ?—'.•' - :' - . lotion secures to the people everywhere, un.' usual forms of proceeding, - asksatyour hands
. .:.
Sir, - the peeple:of Kansas are in a different ;der its jurisdiction, the right,. paramount to. the same boon. Ila the case of "lot ictugan, the
position from that of any people in any State all law, peaeeably to assemble, and to petition, times were more fortunate than, those of Kano :
in this Uniort;ln respect to any laws of which . the Government for a
_redress pfgrievancei. 'as, . Andrew JackSoa Was then President - ;
. d . 'les W R Kiel;,apd 4 host of
complaint : was: .ever made: - - For :the first General 3ackson, in ; replying to the :Gov- Benton,' . ' NI .., , . ... .
timein thohistairy of the GOverrimentisan ernor of Arkansas in 1835, who solicited of other equally iltastrious leaderS of the De•
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oath required of.a voter-to- support - particu- him: instructions for his guidance , incase the mocraey, were then in the Senate -Chamber,
ler law's, ars 'a vilification to vote at elet- people of that Territory, without a lliw of the : and . espoused.. her. -cause.' •No ilireats or et . ,
tion. • Well might the Senator, from Dela- Legislature, proceeded to elect delegates to a forts were then made to suhduOitierty. ~
ware [Mr. Claytetil declare it an "injustice convention, : and to-organize: and put. in oper- - , Kinsas, - ..litiitmg Violated . tro'`htvr,,lays.'her
unexampled," A 1 4 0,gisilature, that 'denies ntion a State Government, without the' autti.:' petiiioi for a ror,s,of grieVances
,-at,' your
the :right of pricate - judgmets . t; that has strip- ‘ onty. of Congress; says, through his Attorney feeL For debt...F. l .o'lla; some , of hereitiiens are
, . exiled from theiri libmeg,' and otliers ' pine in
pod the people of all voice-in the selection of „General, iti- - tbe opinion_ just cited, that—
their own rulers, • that strikes down freedom . "It isnot In "the power of !the G e neral ; 44.siiembly chains, charged byithe.Goveintr a ient a their:
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of speech and of the press; . under the penal- 'of Arkansas:to pass any law for the purpose of elect- country with treason—ireason : in peaceably
ties of not less, than two yearsifunprisonment ing members to S. convention to_form.e, Constitution forming a State constitution under the right'
. • • • - . , andSsate Covemment,.nor to .do _
any other act, di -•- - •a 14 the paraniedit law of the land,'
at loird labor, kid thatlremples 'upon every guarantie ,
decay directly to create such new GOvOrnMent-- . ' order • • ask bi- or- . oresa admisainn into
right
.dear' t.'::)" B'lll)e:inks has ;been. unposed - Every one law; ev Y en though it. Were approved by in to ,
....in„
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Upos' the peotleof Kansas -b)i . fint# l. and via Abe Govern of the TerritOry;Twould be null and the UniontreaaOn for : doing precisely what!
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lexice--their,houses fiave e been.bnrned, and soil" . • .... - ' ' 'tile people.'of Arkansas. and Michigan did
"ti
.which
their prOperty apitioied, - tinaii the', sanction The Governor• of Arkansaa; .iri this salve . post a gagger of a century ; ago; and .
of tbis , Adroinistialitioo,"`and ',Raiiiopointees.— • communicatiOn to the President, and tlathen Pres-i
expressed •was endorsed by... Congress . ,. . ,
' timeshave &atm
There bcink * l jitiao4les : ificiiiii' - 0 - die .peo- the opinion: that, under the Constitution lad ident ot.the Republic .. But
P 1e.444-01 ".Oritoi d flo• aim:o' tatit Mel laws Of the United States, no - measures can 'ed and fain with' iticim•
. t,
anti ve, -la par : ore . two lawfully be taken try citizens Arkansas, :,
Oknittgli 4: . ''ita - ii'l '''' tit thin • , The' DettiocrOy . of the , days of. Jackson
. • •
* Years, they . ietrarted to the, only - peaceable to form * constitution and State Govern. stood upon the prtelPles of the fathers ctthe
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,'' . [F. -6 22EnCoNE LS.K.P . EBORT-;-a.e.ar4Z7 OLaYEG2VAIKIED:WErgrAUci
mode of redress under the circumstances.—
And that was to form a State Government,
and ask airmission into the Union. -'• -
They proceeded, peaeeably, as they, had .. a
right to do, under the Constitution or their
country, to form' a State 4Overnment, and
ask of Congress to admit them into the Union
as a State. Their memorial is before you,
and is to be answered by your action on this .
bill.: All the proceedings preliminary to the
formation of this-Constitution • have been as
t.-
reguiar and orderly as the 'disturbed condi
lion. of the
_Territory would allow ; and in
-stead of biting confined to any class or party,
it was of a general character, and extended
an invitation to all citizens to participate.—
The first public. - meeting Tor that purpoie was
held at Lawrence, September 16 0 1855, at
which time the following resolution was pas
sed• - •
"Resolved,Th . at we, the people of Kansas' Tenho
in mass nketing assembled, irrespective' of party
.discietion of
NONTROSEcTII. - U4SDAY; •JULY 2.4,1806.
,
inenti until Congress, shall first have'
granted
them authority so to --do:i• and that he will
therefore feel himse!f•Vound to consider and
treat all such proceAngs as unlaWful. That
is precisely
_what the Administration and its
abettors, under similar eircumstances,are now.
doing in reference to Kansas. And it is to
be regretted that di' President did 'not.send,
to.his.Governor in ,Kansas*the
.opinion sent
by General Jackson',to his Governor in 'Ar
kansas, in days - When Democr4y meant
sonhing besides propagating and •national
izing,4he inst'intions . of,immati bondage. in
instructing his Governor as* to the •rights of
the people, he: says •• , •
- " They undoubtedly 'possess ordinary privileges
7 4114,
and immuniti s of citizens of the .
United States
Arriong theie, the right of the people ! peaceably
to assemble, ant petition the Government for the
redress of gVievances. In the exerci , ze of this refit,
the inhabitants of Arkansas may peaceably meet -to.
gether in primary assenthly, or in conventions chosen
:h - h
. .
, . .
Republic in.reference to the Territori es;' and
justiOed . the right of the people peaceably, to
assemble at•all' times, 'and-petition for a re- -
dress of grievances. 1 .
Tie gentleman. from Georgia , [Mr: St e - .
phen's,] in his remarks', on Saturday, appealed
to the higher law to hstain Slavery." With
out stopping to discus's scripture authority on
that point,. for it belonr , S to . the theologian as
,- 1
one of his cantroVertedlquestions, I wish
,
'only to say ,
that if Slavery and its existence
rest - Od-the Old TeStament for their support,
then' the satnaouthority will support white
Slavery as well as blUek, and the atlialgatna
tion,of master and slave. In the Slavery of
the patriarchs there was intermarriage be
tween the master and slave—the suns, and
daughters of the one with.the suns and-daugh
,tersof the other. It is not questioned that
the 'slaves -of that day -were White. If that
was ] : the. case , then thy ' gentleman's argument
proyesjoo . much, an d there is a rule of the
' logieians,that ara b utnent is as faulty that prov
es too muds that proves too little. If the
Bible argument be gl;;I , Jd, whites can be seiz
ed and.carried into bondag e, and masters and
slavbs may atnal6mite. Hut I will pass by ,
for the'present, the delfence of Slavery, as au:
1 tharized by the prgetice - of the patriarchs ;•
fOr how far tbcirexaMple should be followed
lor can be, consistently with the ew dispen
satien • that declares' 44 that . atsoever ye
would that men should 'do to yoa, doye even
`so. to theta," wilt come' up properly on a bill
Bow l pending in reference to anotherpariarch
, al institution existing. in .one of the Territo
ries. • - , : \ -
. .
The • gentlernait seemed. to think. that the
spirit. of Jefferson would feel indignant,. that
he Should be quoted
. as authority - by riapub
heaths. 'Sir, if the Ispirits Of the departed I
hUVer over the scenes of earth, and , witch.'
with soh tude itsaff.tirs, , With . what .-thi
guiSli inu.i.t that 1
pirit cuntemplate the
wrongs in •Kansas, who exclaimed, when on
earth,.
•
"IVith what execreticin- should the statesra*n be
loaded, tiho,permitting one-laalf the citizens thus to
trample on the ,rights olthe other, transforms those
into' despots,. and these into enemies, - destroys the
morals-of the one part, and the amor patrini,of the,',
other! "• I .
... • ! . .
It the - sidritskif the sainted• . dead . hover
, over their country, ti;ataing iLs destiny with .
anything of their earthly solicitude tut- . its
welfare, what unguisl Must wring the heart,
of his=noble eivpatriot-, who, in the Senate
Charnher;•iii 1819, - d l eciared,.that—' •
•
' l 'Nothing' can. snore !gladden the heart, thin the
contemplation of a portion of territory consecrated to
1 Freetl6:u, whose soil shbuld never be moistened b y
ithe tear of the_ slave, or ;degraded by . .the step of the •
oppressor of the oppressed." -ri:- .
Can' the: spirits of suclOnen be wounded_ ..,
by the appal of the living theiatiuth9rity
to ,vindie . ate the rights of.i4freemen of their
natiVe' )stud, and'. save fr(; : iff:degradation the
i very territ9ry that ()nee s9 - 'o.laddeued thepa
triiatie heart.f - , -; - ..L -:' ;
-, ,Tyranny' and ;Pircing, , ruitt with biute? Wren
one of the Territories of the Union, and iiol:
lenee reigns in the(..,t'illitol of the Republic.
In', the one; mob, law silences with the revel-.
ver the voice of ;ustiee, pleading for the In
alienable rights of Man • in the other; the sti-•
ered,guajautees of the donstitution are violat-
ed, and reason and
. free speech are supplanted
hy the bludgeon; a i nd, in the Council Chum- .
i u
her of the nation, n en stand up to vindicate
arid . :Watley' both ! Well inlay the 'patriot
I tz.
tremble for the fut re his country, when
he: looks' upon this pictu ":',• and then upon
that ! _ •. . .
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Can the spirits- of
partake more of ear
by their clay'. ten,
these scenes withou
row ? ' .: ' :.
Mr:Speaker.' Why sho.iild. the: application
Of .Kansas for ndmiision be delayed, when it
seems to be 'conceded on all
.sides-that it is
proper to admit her without requiring the ra
tio of population. necessary Ora Represents= .
Live in a State 1 That idea seems to have
been entirely abandoned. Then. why delay
this application,. when every man must be
satisfied, in his own judgment, that it' would
restore peace to Kiinsas- to give her a Gov
ernment oilier own formation, with officers
and courtli-Cf her own selection 'I Immediate
action is necessary,l, in order4o put an end to
the strife in the Territory, which the Presi
' dent informs us, threatens the peace npt only
of Kansas, but (11, the .union. - The represent
atives of Freedilliu andl if Sl6ery, struggling
i'L . ,r,premacy, rally t.o the plains of Kansas
, With the implements of war and violence.-- r
Li the bitterness engendeied in MOS& conflicts
'49 he allayed, and :Ithe - ---dangers of bloodshed:
to be averted, by iCorigress .'authorizing the
people of the Terriitory, at some future time,
to d 6. what-they already have the right to do,
1 , Without' any' such It thority '? 'An act of Con.
igress authorizing t em to form' a State -Con
stitution confers n right that they do not al
ready possess, an
1 - is no redreSs of ,present
grievances; or reli4 against Unjust:and eippreS-:
sive: laws,. Bow an gentlemen Who:claim to
be the Special adv eates of the ; right of men
to govern themsel •es in the erritories 01);
jest ? . , , - ~
It is air hiller nt: right of l i lt people, the
*odd' over, to goVern theinsellies • and that
tight can n9t"bc itrfered with wit ' N
hout es:
Lice, unless -the co dition • and circumstances,
'under Which they'll:T:4y be pladed necessarily,
impose restraints. Such is tlieilSeitith the
t
Territories. The population, •in the first in
stance being, too s all to stupp rt - ii 'Governs
m
ent, Congress es r
ablishos on and pays all
its expenses. COirequently it must have a
hsupervisiOn over i s acts, forte * same reason
that a principal must have -coptrol over the
acts of his - agent ;. 1 otherwiseshe Might be in 7.
volv.ed in any amOnnt of expeiditure for pur
poses which he enlirely disakpeoves.". •If the.
people could go - into the retitories,ln the :
. first, place, in suttirnt numbers to , anpporta
State • Gwiernine t, Congress- should- have,
nothing. to •do with them any more than with'
a State. ' - - ,
, But . teing fora time
,too * Wand: feeble
in numbers to support a State- :GosernMent,:_
from, the : necessity' of the, case Congres•lniust,
form .a doverntrient for. theii4 and they must
enbmit, daring this infanCy or their eitiaetiCe
ind . dikring this inabiljty to. support e•Govern
rnei:ii,;,i6 such' conditions is May be imposed:
b\ Congress.. . B 4 those conditions should be,
removed.' at the e.aFliest .preeticabia.periode
I,V. r:.
hen . the, yepple . are of , surieient numbers
osupport a,Goveinine.ut of .tlieir - o*n;:end
'ask it at :
,our hinds, iihy ioitilliold It I . ' Why..
not free 'your Treatury from) the 'burden. or,
'supporting their 'veal meut,l aadalloir them ;
.that righti whieb. Wong, ta1t 1 , 44-inher' --
ent, right of the people tO.gcl!ern.themselves,
the departed, unless they
i th than'
,When surrounded'
emen.ts, look down on
anguish and bitter sor-
ZIER & SMITH, 'PLIBLISHERS----VO
FR
their own ballot•boxes, - their own
their own -property'? , The
. objee
to the . admission' of Kansas,. under
; cumstanceb,. by most of the oppo
,cr admission is, that law . and order
•aintained in his . -Tertitory ; and.
a pant:urged. by the gentleman
;rgia, Stephens.] 'Sir; law and
e not been viOlOted in that literrito
;y the officials of your_Government.
the testimony of Governor Shannon
.s . to the peaceable character 'of the
Lawrence, who, by his own - letter
' esident, of . November .28, 1855,.
t, the irfiluence ot. t1 1
iQ Executive of,
Territory was to be wielded in
!Slavery; whose interests he regards
,'moos with law and Ordr: . - In writ.
resident, iii reference to the arming
'ee State .men, he says :.
ilitary organization is looked upon ashes,
.outhern men, or rather to,the late and or
kr the Territory, many of whom have rela
t lends, and all havi sympathizers
to'protee
lives, and
tia'n Arad
piesent
cents.
mus . - to,
that w
from Get
.order - ha
ry, -save
-We-have
himself,
citizens
to the Pi
_shows th ,
flee of . th2
'behalf ofi
as synon
Ing the
of the F
"This'
the tosal1!
der party . 1
tives and
.wouri."
-t invasion of 4v;rence was made
y legal tprocess of any kind or de.,
was ever issued against any citizen
lace. In ,the •letter of Govornor
to the President,December 11,1855',"
es an account of the invasion of
he bears testimony to the law
'milder of the people of that place.
The fi
beforC a.
scription
of that
Shannon
which gi
Lawrene
abiding
Ho says
4. it W
tory sbou,
who dip
do so, tes
the coon
should hi,
,zena of
called on,
with their
e reation ,•
• • •
• at once agreed that the laws of the Terri
d have the regular course, and that theft
ded their validity should, if they desired' to
that question in the judicial tribunals of
,ry ; that in the mean time no resistance
made to their duo execution,
and the cid
xWrence and vicinity:were, when
.properly.
to aid in the arrest of any one charged
violation, and to aid and assist in the pro
&the peace and good order of society."
It is proper Ishould say that they slanted
Oe majority of them had always hild and
the same view." • - ' •
that a Mit
inculcate"
• The:
• -
cop,e of Lawrence reiterated this
toil in the following coramnnicatinn
in a public meeting of her citizen's
deelarat
adopted,
, •
Lawat.vcn, May 14 7 1858,
We have seen a, proclamation issued
, dated May, awl also have reliable '
n this morning that large bodies of armed
ursuance of your proclamation, have assera;
a vicinity. of Lawrence. That:there may be
'derstrinding; we'beglarive•to.ask respectful.'
• a -may be reliably inforined,) what are the
against, us?,. We dOre to state, most truth
,
earnestly, 'hat no oppoSition whateve? will
t any future\ time,_be offered to ,the execu
: y legal process by yourself or any. person
you. We also pledge ourselves to assist"
• llad upon, in'the execution of any legal pro
, e declare oarseives to be order-lOving and
rag citizens, and only' %via an opportunity to
l orr fidelity to the laws , of the country, the
lion and thy Union. -
e informed , also, that those men COII ceti. g
r •
L vrrenee openly declare that their intention is -
; the town and drive off the citizens. Of
e do- not believe that you give any counte
such threats ; but in view of tho exciting
Win mind; we ask protection of the consti
rthorities4l
to the
ci. Go n v e e r r a u t m o e u n i tibthemfo
, declaring r
the
Otit
• readin
L nee of ?mice, order, and 'quiet,. in the
ity in which we live.
mONALDSON, . • •
DEAR '
by yours
informat
men,
bled in. t
no mh
ly, (that
demand •
.fully an.!
now, or
tion of
acting f
you, Ile
ce63.
testify
Colistitu
, ft ,
about
to.'des
course r ,
nanco t
state of
tuted at
selves
trittintet
COMITIri
J. 13.
'sited States .Marthalfor Kansas 2'crritore,
at a still later day, the committee of
'of Law'rence sent to Marshal. Donalli
following :
he committee of public,safety for the citizens
,ence, make this statement and declaration to
An ,
safety
son t
We,
of . La
you as
That,
and of
thoritie
sistane
Territo
ernme
larshal of Kansas Territory.
•e represent citizens of the United "States,
1: ansas, who acknowledge the constituted au--
of the Government ; that we make no re
to the. crecmion of the laws, National or
tin'; and that we ask protection - of 'the Gov
t, and claim it as law-abiding American citi-
zens
e private property already taken by your
e ask indemnification : - and what reniams to
I - our citizeus, we tliromr upon you for. protec-
I sting that under the flag of our Union, and
foldsiof the Constitution, we may obtain
For
posse,
us and
Lion, t
within
safety.
UM C. POMEROY, . WM. Y. ROBERTS,
31AN.ALLEN, S. B. Plies?",
RN A.:PERRY, • A. H. MALLoar,
W. BABCOCK, JOEL GROWN.
after all these declarations by men
ad violated no law,l and who had pro-
• L
Ji
Ye
who
✓
pose , in a written 'communication to the
Gove nor and• marshal, of 17th of.lday,- to
deliy r their 'arms, if desiied, "to. Colonel
Sum er, so soon.as he should qUaiter. in the
town a body of United States troops sufficient
for t eir protection; to be retainjd by hini as.
long as sueh• force shall -remain,'' Lawienee
was sacked, and 'its public*, buildings and,
1
. . .
prin mg-presses 'destroy.
here is there a man', arrest in li'an
sas,' )r with and civil
~ prOcek against him,
'who has shot dotn• menitheie for freedom of
speC h; or who hits destroyed - printing-presses,
i burr ed the • dwellings Of -peaceable . and de
fens
1
less citizens, and.' dent their.. wives, and
chil ren into . the' wilderness, to find `protect=
lion with the sava vs against their less mer
ciful pursuers?. . :Where is the man who has
;beet arrested by tvour. guardians of law and
ord r ,for.any. of Chese.outrage's and Wrongs?
Kin&rthe : ; sanetion ffi
of • oeer of the law,' cit-
have, beep stopped_ upoiT the h;ghways,
persons searched' and, papers seized,
n l a
out any legal process ;'their property to 1
lid coanscated; and they,:unless engaged
o work of making Kansas a slave. State;
co Polled to carry a pass;.
signe4 by some
ofricisal of the Territory, ir. order:to save
.them-:
set:es front mbbery or murder by these con-,
ser ators of law. :Thus are American free
on American soil, reduced to the condi
et a southern slave, who- must .have Kil
ter's written pass in order to: leiVe the
ation.
ith the shout of law and order you iay
hes the houses of peaceable . citizens, de
y their printing-presses, and.with' cannot%
er down. their publics builAings. Witts.
Ahout of law and order eyou disarin the
en , while o the aunstitution of his Country
fares' that the =right "to keep and bear
a shall not be infringed." - With this shout.
aw and order you seareh-and , take from
'musts :and persons of the citizen, with.
legal process, his papers and efft;cts, when
Constitution Of the country declares that
o right (if the people to be 'secure in their
..ons,. houses, papers, and effects, _against
easonable starches and - seizures, shall -not ,
violated ;",and no search Alma in, any ease
made without
. a Warrant - is.sUed, on oath,
itS
ribing the place" to' be searched, or the,
son or thing to be seixed. With the shout .
law:and order you seize law-ahitling citi
e. And by.yrtob,lalie exile chezo , from their
MO5 for declaring that, slavery is an e vil,.
d ought to he' prohibited .4 raw,_ while,tha
' natittition guarantiei freedom - Al.PPech
d or the pram .- With tbe,shout Of law awl,
er:you arrest. And pot in...chalee.Olerduy.
g citizens, oil a charge a bi l e/ treiwza, for
.tleably assembling and petitioning the
zen
bei
wit
ken
in t
I
•-
. _
Government fora reiltess
trampling upon all-raWtan
guarantees of the Constitit i
t .
ry. - - -' ' '.. ' - ,.' t • ''',...':,
. Law and order is the usolor ‘dillePinlinni
the world over, for all its . =kith*. It:way
to preserve law and order that. 'Polinid , waif
blotted from the map of n ions; an rtinsvllln=
geon arid the rack Silence the' voiceofilitrt i 7
otisui in Hungary. .To p erne hot and'or,-
der the streets of Naples are crowded' With
chained gangs, and its rries are covered'
with galley-slaves, guilty of no Offense save
that they hate: oppression and love libeityl.
'For - the same reason some of the noblest wag / z
of France are today pint in hopeless exile, / ,
and Siberia is full of hea is too large to, be''
contained
contained by their native and. : - .1 \ - I /...
The law and order th t reigns overt tho' -: '
graves of crushed hum ity is more , to be
dreaded than all else ;it ' the order of death. '
a l
.1
Order reigns in desolat on—reignii,.every- .
where, when you closet e motithisof -me ~ .
either by brute force or ucider the saietkm
law. The sca ff old sends is . victim toat:pi t
rest, and order reigns'pier his grave. - -
order of Kansas is the order_ Unit
_,..rel4pled n
Warsaw on the 7th:of Septem*y, 188 •
when, with its
,itilitts'. 4 xed withthe best lil
of itscitizens, 4inil - ihe shrieks of liberty ~ i- •
fled as her last votary, fell, Psskieeritch '• ' t
to the Czar'hia memorable dispatch, .
,"'Oider ,
reigns in WaAtisi.7. The satrap of tbit - A i ld
ministration in Kansas exhibits a liko.iovept
law and order \ with his iototype,- whose*-•
ample, with becoming roprietyi 'he - plight
well imitate, if be succe sin crushing main
Kansas the spirit of liberty, by, sending ti
like - dispatch to hissupeor, " Order reignt
in Kansas." - _ '' - - ' -
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Law and, order .
enlis i the service of airs .
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master who, for the ti — e !being, Chan* to ,
hold the sceptre of powe . They afro jest l a , :
efficient for oppression_ d wrong aiThr free
dom and right. When nlisted in - behalf of '
despotism, I pay no horn ge,it • their - shrine.
But liberty and law ix the ' twin diviciities
who the rights of Man, and watch crier •
his happiness. At their altar; all, good Men
will, lay their offering% But the lair - and iey
-1:,,,
der of despotism is to execrated ` word
over ; andthe day has passed aviay, whet:-
outrage and wrong are o-be vindicated 'by
the cry' of law' And orde ', - . 4l O, :
In view of the wrongi 'and outragns petroe•
trated upon the people f Kansas, thepatriot
may well exclaim, in the language . of. Madame
Roland. on ascendineth scaffold :"" Oh, - tib-•
erty, what crimes have een committed in
:tamer- ". ;
Mr. Speaker, were t cre-no precedent.ft
le
the admission of's: Stet -undesi like,eirenfo- •
:tancesj those surroandi g this case . Woofoi -
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themselves, be - sufficie t to establish Oti ----; .
'Truth, fustice, and huM
f., iity, .need p
, , -
dents . they make the ' ft- ia old:.-ahoses
and time-sanctioned ' ' gs filet entrench
themselves behind' fort alas. - • " •‘':::'i
Why should an Am riesn r- legielato 1 esi
' o oft in the performan aOf any act that his
3udgmeit; approvei,:fo - want of, a,pvenedent't
lhe existence of the R - public, - Mid'ita . 'hole
history, is in violation f all
,-
l cog
, There is not one of • he..universally r ' • ,
nised truths of to-day, itt what Was the rank
est heresy when first proehihned; and the fag-,
of and the rack•dripped.witli-the blood of Its
martyrs. The word's servatism treMbled
iia
when 'fifty - six bold nie Ms, ' farriters,land
mechanies, proclaimed he inalienable • rights
of man. As for myse , there iabutOne hoof'.
of precedents that can; w
anyway control my ,
-
actio ,ff • - a legislator, a d theftswritten up
ou ~• heart by the finger. o f Him who' Made
, -
" Let the dead past bi
Act, act, in thelvii
- Heart within and God
One word here, in answer to the gentlemay
from. Georgia, [Mr-Stepliens,l who ...thetight
these-troubles the result of other causes than
therepeal of the Misso - 10 Compromise. The
wrongs of Kansas date frOin. the day that the
Missouri Compromise was repealed; -, On the
heads of its repealers est the blood ; shed in
Kansas, and - the wrongs and the .outiages
which have been heaped upon it. The rpai
was for the purpose of ma king P triSas i'alave
State -It was a conspiracy the.,4art;
and it has been carried out with violence and
brute for. Witheut that repeal,„ Shtiery
cOuld ne erhave gone. there. There - . Would
have bee d no effort to force it: into-the Terri-.
tory. Without it, Kansas would bevel - beer*
saved from civil war,'tar the reppse andher
tnimy of the Republic would haVe c o ntinued .-
undisturbed.- On the heads, then, - octhe re
peaters rests the - res nsibility for allithese
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trOuhles. Strife, ana chy, and bloodaheii; are
the first fruits of that repeal, and the siseond
seal is not yet open .. ' --. , -
But thegentlemin ay.s that the eon try is .
1
at peaCe, and is pr;speroutt. and hap y.--,
True, but the agitati n_ in the country is not
based upon dollars a d cents: It is, fer Anded
upon principle=a p incipletinderlyir4 the .
foundation of , our g yernreent—a. prhichsl4-I-D.lO
- enters into the y spirit and geniusfithe
Republic. And la. k "the politician; if this
agitation is not th 4 r stilt of the repeal ;of the .
Missouri Conipromi , how it, happens that. ,
but nine of those fro 1 the North who voted
for that repeal ivere 'etur.aed tch_this }Pesti,.
while some forty w_ o voted against it occu
py seats here to-dly I BOW happens t that_
every election for S aloe_ in the. Nort ' antes
the repeal, with on exeeption, has ulted
-in the election of an opPonent to that i . JII
Does he helieve the there has been no _. .: 8
in the s popular . senti entl 'Does tai' elieve
gfuthat . the people re tin quiet and 'stud
'with the existing , eo dition of affairit i - -It ao,
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how doei,it happen that in eery Statit elec.
tioe, sae one, lug
_in the. North since that '
repcal, the Denionr tic party, which was the
instioinent 'hi whic it was aecomplislied, his
been ',, , 4efeatiA; and its banner trills in the
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.. " * " t ' 6 o2t i ke:prOiiiii! t ' fi elds of its fiir er tri- .'
uniPh 1 . ' And - ii‘li does it rejoice 't yin
'neoesslon 4 4ol4'the ,ranks: of its old , - elutes,
to save itlnitithii 'less ruin'? ly. tiimnpled -
On the helleit. 'Set? :knit inipulies'of the lin:.
toan heart; and 7 jt, : tj,s - xttiwr reeeivaltintri
bution. r disiver ete-‘'tci': quote 41 . tram .
which .I nrged2B - #l , :iiii iheirepical of'theAt i*
souri. compromise ''si - i - - the'' 'time, a Ipart of
_ which; ranks hay -alii-itdriliade piophetie4
ni4 1. ( 16 h OAT is tv irinir the Correditesse of
the: ail, itookiti l
nut,'sir, ss :- SA esw l 'We 040011 an t. Mee* of . thia
AdinintOtr4.o ll, I 4 81 . -tho,oolbet lit this bill; ilw'
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