Mil lj y 1 : i i 7 hi ia V THE BLESSIKOS OF GOVERNMENT, UKE THE DEWS OP HEAVEN, SHOULD BE DISTRIBUTED AUKJE UPON THE HIGH AND THE 10W, THE EICH AND THE POOR. tYEUr SERIES. EBENSBURG, FEBRUARY 17, 1858. VOL. 5. NO 14. H n tu . P. r One l,ar a"dI rifty Cents per aDDuui payable In Advauce, ov dvUARAXD SEVENTY-FIVE CTS. If n t paid within six months, and TWO DOLLARS 0l pXJ until the termination of the year. -, si! . 'tin will be taken for a shorter ' i tii.iu six months, and uo subscriber will be ""rtv t 'l'wv' ntinue hia paper until all ar 'wris:.'s"are paid, except at the option ot the UWp'TS::i subscribing for -ix months will be j ..r.j ONt iK'LLAK. unless the money is paid J 4dertilngrIHatcis. 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I.KATIIEIi, f:hnitli:i5, 1'oiici:lain t iiina.mau- liLK, on CLASS. 1 Ml manufacturm,! no s;: nen r. ianiifactnrin.5 F.mcy Articles, Toys etc., :jen r, not onl- pnsesmg gi eater 5t::'i tlian any other known article, b..: a' ; ..r.. diiieklv. leaving n stain wheie tLe ' - . , - i M-L V". VillliM, Nkvkk Fails. I. ist tlir 'c Vi-ars up'vir Is 2 jO.OOO n.Llv celJbr.itcl I.HJUI1) GLUE ive ! i i anl tl.e great cin vei.ience which ', . i . . i it. i r. I m cverv case, ium iieeren. w:iuici i.und wh;'"'.. t'.te manufacturer has futind : .i r. t t rivet: :-K tK-wicugni ov it i;s iii.ri.a ..ro l.ir aoove biitiwis. ever c?rcd to r a 'if- T'-ii 'I1 lit srl' ii.-iirrh rouitfei iciiitJ i.b ' -,-. .,-: -M-li-'l's r.li'fo-'t'cl Liquid 'j'v.t.'i? 'ire 't .1 l.hfsii;-. ' Ta!;en nlhcr. Tin: wry rnw: a:rs a dottj.i:. "wii.'l. ,;-ed aic! Sold Whole-ale v.n-l I'etaii.bv W.M C. M UK A, S!ii'ii'iicr. N i. r.uT Chvstuut Street., l'lnla-k-lphia vy I. b t.i! in In vments fle.rel to persons dc- - ,,!' -e.liii tl.e above article. St o. 2A 1307 45 ly. M'trrpusi Jt'iiuuxv. LLltY. !Ir:!ri.rsLF. nn-lll. H 1. :t JF If t.. 'I.. .i.'.e. ....... ..li. I v u-'rv Stor:" n V"1 NO- H.T t X.'rth Second Stieit, Corner of "u:ry, I'hiladelphia. j oil Lever Watches, full Jewelled, ; caret cases. 28,00 24,00 24,00 i.iil Lenine. IS caret, - . . . ii i rer Lever, full jewelled, vcr Lepiu jewels, 12.00 ! ipBrior Quart lers, 7,00 7,00 1.50 3,00 1,00 5,00 G'-ild Spectacles, mo Silver do.. JulJ Rracelets, i ly's Gold Pencils, ilv. r Tea Spoons, set. old Feus, with rencil aud Suver bul- ; dor, 1,00 l (J. 11 Firi-'M- Kings R7i cts to !8o : Watch 'asses, pliin 12 ets., 1'atent lSj cts., Lf.net r articles i:i oroj.ortion. All go-h!s war- t.'.l to be what thev a resold for. !L7"Ouhand Lepines .still tik (i Id and SUver x-vcis vci- tii.iu the above i rices. d STAUFKEIi .V HA II LEV, t. no, 1S5" 47 lv. THE SiXUJ'l' INFIILMITILS OF lOI T II A . f 31 A T V K I T Y . '.5f 1'ulJishcJ, (s'rutis, the 'loth Thousand. A FEW WOKDS ON i ll E KA- 7tionaI treatment, lti.oin menu n e,oi Sftermatorrbea or Lical Wcakne-s, t'.irnal Emissions, Genital and Nervous 1 ). y, I'reniature Dc. ay of the System, Imp v, an I Impediments t Marriage gi-ncrally, 15. DE LANEY, M. 1). Tao ininortAnt fact that the many alarming -i'laints. originating in tite impni.'. nce au.l ';! of v.. nth, m:iv be easily removed WITH T MKDIC'INE, is", iu this small tract, clearly -:-trate 1 ; and the entirely new and highly sfnl treatment, as adopted by the Author, y fKjilainc 1, bv moans of which every one is "lei to cure HIMSELF perfectly and at the "t p.s;b!e cost, thereby avoiding all the ad vised nostrums of the day. it to any address, gratis and post free in a ciivclouo l.v r-mittiii two nostairc stamps hr. PR I AVrv 17 T.Uix'nar.l t... New York. pt. 80, 1857 ly. RICH A BiTjl" JONEST" wi nt UIHE, ZIMMERKAN & ALLEK, WHOLESALE DkLKRS IX DR GOODS, '0 143 MARKET STREET, lit RKT.VEKN" THIRD AXl) FOL ItTH, SSoi:ii:e. i lit . . - I t lGEN'-ALLEN. jfc. 4, 1857. tf Jlc ived at the store of El) W AUD UCdX Uooii,; Cxi I-, 1ft L. 1? n . . w nan urls Herring. and 10 half Brli Mackerel: 155. PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE, Oa Submitting the Lecompton Constitution To the Senate and House of Representative t of the United States : I have received from J. Calhoun. Esq-, the President of the late Constitutional Con vention of Kan., a copy, duly certified by himself, of the Constitution framed by that body, with the expression of a hope that I would submit the same to the consideration of Congress, with the view of securing the admission of Kansas into the Union as au lndependent State . In compliance with this request, X Krewith tranan.it to CongfcssT for its action, die Constitution of Kansas, with the ordinance respecting the public Lands, as well as with the letter of lien. Calhoun, da ted Lecomptou, 11th ult., by whieb they were accompanied, Having received but a single copy of the Constitution and Ordinance, I send this to the Senate. A great delusion seems to pervade the pub lic miud iu relation to the condition of par ties in Kansas. This arises from the difficul ty of inducing the American people to realize the faet that any portion of them should be in a state of rebellion against the government under which they live. When we speak of affairs in Kausas, we are apt to refer mcrly to the existence of two iolent political parties in that Territory, divided on the question of slavery, just as we speak of such parties in the States. This presents no adequate idea of the true state of the case. The dividing line tlx re is nr t between political parties, bMh acknowledging the lawful existence of the Government but between these vho are are mval to tins (joxcrumw.r ata tliose wlio have endeavored to destroy- its exi" teuce Ly force and usuiptiiDti between those who sustain aud those wl.n have done all in their po7er to overthrow the Ten itorial government estab lislied by Ci-nguss. This Government they would long .since have subverted, had it not been protected from their assaults by the troops of the United States. Such has been the condition of afTai s since my inauguration Ever since that period a large portion of the per pi o of Kansas, have been in a state of re bellion against tl.. Government, with a mili tary leader at their head of the most turbu lent and dangerous character. They have never acknowledged, but have constantly re nounced and defi r 1 the Government to which they owe allegiance against its authority The) have alt the time been endeavoring to subvert it, and a establish a revolution:!! y gov . .r.mei.t uui.. Tot.eka Constitu tion in lis stead. Even at this v y m.iu.ut thu Topeka Legis'.a' u;e is in sessin. Whoever has real the corresponueuce of i .vrnor Walker with the State 1) partm. nt, recently coniiiiunieatcd to tiie Sen ile, will b-j couvin- ced that this picture is not overdrawn lie i always protested again.vt the withdrawal of i the military forco' of the United States from I the Territory, ''.cming its piesem-e absolu : t ly neers-ary 1. r the preservatiou f tiie re gular government and the execii'i u of the 1 laws In his very first dispitcli to the Seu J retary of State, Jatcd June2ud, 1857, he I says : ' -'The most alannii'g niovcinent however i proceeds from the acu.bling of tho t-.o cal I led Topeka Legir-1 i enactment of an at lire, with the vicv i.o entire code of laws. I tie Of- course it will be endeavored to prevent such a j i it i. -.il l- i-Ksuit as woui-i iea i to an inevnauie uisas- trous collision, and in fact renew civil warm Kansas."' This was with diffn alty prevented by the efforts of Governor Walker, but soon Gen eral Harney was requirid to furnish him a regiment of dragoons to proceed to the city of Lawrence; and this for the reason that he had received authentic intelligence, verified by his own actual observation, that a danger ous rebelb;on had occurred, "involving open defiance to the laws, and the establishment of an insurgent government in that city". Iu :!,c Governor's dispatch of July 15th, iu - forms the Secret iry of State "that the move , mi nt at Lawrence was the begiuniug of a I plan, originating iu that city, to organize an . insurrection throughout the Territory, and : especially in all towns, cities and comities, where the Republican party have a majority. 1 Lawrence is the hot bed of the all the aboli , tioii movements in this Territory It is the ! town established by she abolition Societies of j the East; ami whilst there are respectable peo ple there, it is tilled by a considerable num. ber ot mercenaries wli ar paid by the Abol ition Societies to perpetuate aud diffuse agita tion throughcut Kansas, and prevent the peaceful settleuu nt of this question. Having failed in inducing their own. the so-called Topeka State Legislature, to organize this insurrection Lawrence has commenced it her te'f, and it in;t arrest, d, the rebellion will ex tend throughout the 'ierrilory." And agaiu : "In order to send this com munication immediately by mail, must close, assuring you that a spirit of rebellion perva des the great mass of the Republicans of this Territory, instigated, as I entertain no doubt they are by Eastern Societies, having in view results moft disastrous to the Government and the Union, And that the continued presence of Gen. Harney is indispensable, ; as originally stipulated by me, with a large body ot dragoons and several batteries Ou the 20th of July, 1857. General Lane, under the authority of the Topeka Conven tion, undertook, as Governor Walker says, to organize the whole so-callod rree fetate party into volunteers and take the names of ..II roVin rr.fii'sr enrollment. The nrofeSStd ! object was to the now insurge " - " Legislature. 1 he object to t: of all who refuse the enrollment is to terrify the Free State conservatives into submission. This is proved by the recent atrocities com mitted ea. sudi men by tho Topekaites. The speedy location of large bodies of regular troops with two batteries is necessary. The Lawrence insurgent await the development of this new revolutionary military - organiza tion." In Gv, Walker's dispatch of July 27th, he says : ' General Lane and his staff every where deny the authority of the Territorial laws, and counsel a total disregard of these enactments. "Without making further quo tations of similar character, from other dis patches of Governor Walker, it ; appears by reference to Acting Governor Stanton's com- muuication co Secretary Cass, under the date of the 9th of December last, that "the im portant step of calling the Legislature togeth- er was taken after Gov." alker had become i sat,sned tnat" :efeetton7roVdereU "by the Convention on the 21st inst,, could not be conducted without collisiou or bloodshed." So intense was the disloyal feeling among the enemies of the Government established by Congress, than an election which offered them an opportunity, if in the majority, of making Kansas a freu State, according to their own professed desire, could not be conducted with out collision and bloodshed The truth is, that until the present moment the enemies of the existing Government still adhere to the Topeka Revolutionary Constitution and Gov ernment. The very first paragraph of the Message of Gov. Robinson, dated the 7th of December, to the Topeka Legislature, now assembled in Lawrence, contains an open de fiance of the Constitution and laws of the United States. The Governor says: '"The Convention whien framed the Constitution at T,opeka originated with the people of Kansas Territory, They have adopted and ratified the same twice by a direct vote, and also in directly through two elections of State offi cers and Members of the State legislature, :t i,ns rvlcaso,! tliA Administration te re- ir.lr,i tua .iiriitt r,r.n,i;r rpv.Jninnr.- " proceedings as revolutionary This Topeka government, adhered to with such treasonable pertinacity, is a government iu direct opposition to the existing govern ment as p. escribed and recoguized by Con gress. It is an usupation of the same char acter as it would be for a portion of the people of any State, to undertake to establish a separate government within its limits for the purpose of redrefsing any grievances, real or imaginary, of which they might com plain, against the legitimate State govern ment. Such a principle, if carried into exe cution; would destroy all lawful authority, and produce uuiversal anaichy From this state ment of facts, the reason becomes palpable why the enemies of the government author ized by Congress, have refused to vote for Delegates to the Kansas Constitutional Con vention, and also, afterwards, on the question el slavery, submitted by it to the people. It is because tLey Lave ver refused to sanction or recognize any oth?r Custituion. than that framed at Topeka. Had the whole Lecomp ton Consiitution been submitted to the people, the adherents of this organization would doubtless have voted against it, because if successful they would have thus removed an obstacle out of the way of their own revolu tionary Constitution. They would have done this not upon consideration of the merits of the whole or part of the Lecompton Cousti tion. but simply because they have ever re sisted the authority of the government au thorized by Congress, from which it cu ina tj Such beiug the unfortunate condition of tho affairs of the Territory, what was the right, as well as duty, of lw-abiding people'? Were thev silently and paticntlv to . . r " submit to tiie usurpation, or aaoj t seme necessary meas ure to establish a Constitution under the or ganic law of Congress ? That this law rec ognized the riht of the Territory, without the enabling act of Congress, to form a Slate Constitution, is too clear for argument, For Congress " to leave the people of the Terri tory perfectly free," in framing their Consti tution, ' to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the Constitution of the United Statea.:: and then to say they shall not bs permitted to proceed and frame a Constitution in their own .T.l. ...... iKa f.npAt-o nlitlit.itn li..n.i V Way, vtluouc ine CAjjrccj auiuvi.ijf uvu. gress, appears to be almost a contradiction of terms. It would bo much more plausible that the people of a Teiritory might be kept out of the Union for an iudefinite period, aud until it n ight please Congress to permit them to exercise the right of self government. This would be to adopt, not " their own way," but the way which Congress might prescribe, It is impossible that any people could have proceeded with more regularity in the forma tion of a Constitution than the people of Kansas have done. It was necessary first, to ascertain whether it was the desire of the people to be relieved from a Trritonal de pendence, and establish a State Hoverrment For t his purpose, the Territorial Legislature in 1855 passed a law " for taking the sense of the people of this Territory, upon the ex pediency of calling a Convention to form a State Constitution," at, the general election to be held in Octe.ber, 185G. The "sense of the people" was accordingly taken, and they deciiji in favor of a Convention. It is true that at this election, the enemies of the Ter ritorial Government did not vote, becanse they were then engaged at Tcpeka, without the slightest pretext of lawful authority, in framing a Constitution of their own, for the purpose of subverting the Territorial Gov ernment, Iu pursuance of th"i3 decision of the people in favor of a Convention, the Territorial Le gislature, ou the 27th of February, 1S57. passed an act for the election of delegates on the third Monday of June, 1857, to frame a State Constitution. This law is as fair in its ent Topeka State I provisions as any. mac ever passeu a jegisia taking the names j turc for a bimilar purpose. The right of . - .1 . i . r . 1- suffrage at this election is clearly and justly defined " Every bona fide inhabitant of Kansas," on the third Monday of June, the day of thu election, who was a citizen of the United States, above the age of twecty-onc, and bad resided therein for three months previous to that date, was entitled to vote. In order to avoid ail interference from neigh boring States or Territories with the freedom and fairness of th election , a provision was made for the registry of qualified voters, and pursuant thereof, nine thousand and fifty-two voters weie registered. Governor Walker did'his wnole duty in urging all the qualified ciiiiens of Kansas to vote at this election. .En his inaugural address on the 27th of Ma( he informed them that '-under ourprac tice the preliminary act of passing a State Co-fstitution is uniformly performed through theinstruaientality of a Convention of Dele fZ'KSj choscu by the people themselves; that lo convention is now about to beclccted')y you under a call of the Territorial Legislature created, and still recognized, by the authority Of Congress, and clothed by it, in the com- preheusive language of the organic law, with full power to make such an enactment. The Territorial Legislature, then; in assembling this Convention, were fully sustained by the Act of Congress and the authority of tho Con vention is distinctly recognized iu my in structions from the President of the Uuited States." The Governor also clearly and dis tinctly warns them what would be the conse quence if they did not participate iu the elec tion. "Tho people of Kausas, then," he says, "are invited by the highest authority known to the Constitution to participate free ly and fairly in the election of delegates to frame a Constitution a. id Stato Government. The law has pcrlormed its entire and appro priate function when it extends to the people the right of suffiage, but it canuot compel the porformance of that duty. Throughout the whole Union, however, and wherever free government prevails, those who abstain from the exercise of the right of suffrage, author ize those who do vote, to act for them in that contingency. and absentees a.e as much bound by the law and the Constitution, where there is no fraud or violence, by the act of the ma jority of those who do vote, as if all had par ticipated iu the election. Otherwise, as vo ting must be voluntary, self-government wo'd be impracticable, and monarchy aud despot ism would remain as the only alternative " It may also be observed that at ibis period, auy hope, if such existed, that the Topeka Constitution would ever be recognized by Congress must have been abandoned Con gress had adjourned ou the third of March previous, having recognized the legal exis tence of the Territorial Legislature in a vari ety of forms, which 1 need not enumerate Indeed, the delegate elected to the House of Representatives under the Territorial law, had beeu admitted to his seat. and had just com pleted his.term of service the day previous to my inauguration. This was a propitious mo mei.'k foi- t.c'.t!'-M2 all the difficulties in Kansas. This was the tiuue. for aban-jLuing the revj'd tionary Topeka organization, aud for the ene mies of the existing government to conform to the laws and unite with its friends in fra ming a State Constitution, liut this they re fused to do, and the consequence of their re tusal to submit to lawful authority, aud vote at the election of delegates, may jet prove to be of the most deplorable character. Would that the respect for the laws of the laud, which so eminently distinguished the men of the past generation, could be revived ! It is a diaie 'ard and violation of the law which have for years krpt the Territory of Kansas in a state of almost open rebellion against the Govern ment ; it is the same spirit which has produ ce! actual rebellion in Utah. Our only sale ty consists in obedience aud conformity to the law. Should a general spirit against its en forcement prevail, this will prove fatal to us as a nation. We acknowledge no master but. the law. And shou'd we cut loose from its restraints, and every one uo what scerueth good in their own eyes, our case is indeed hopeless The mercies of the Territorial Government are determined still to resist the authority of Cong ess They refused to vote for delegates to the Convention not because, from circum stances which I need not detail, there was an omission to register comparatively few voters who were inhabitants of certain counties in the early spring of 1857 but because they had predetermined, at all hazards, to adhere to their revolutionary organization, and defeat the establishment of any either Constitution than that which they had framed at Topeka The election, therefore, was suffered to pass in default. Rut of this result the qualified electors, who refused to vote, can not justly complain. From this review it is manifest that the Lecompton Convention, according to every principle of Constitutional law, was legally constituted and invested with the power to frame a Constitution. The sacred principle of popular sovereignty has been invoked in favor of the enemies of law and order in Kansas, liut iu what man ner is popular sovereignty to be exercised in this country; if not through the instrumental ity of efctablibhed laws. In certai't small re publics of ancient times, people did assemble in primary meetings, passed laws, and direc ted public allairs In our country, tais is manifestly impossible. Popular sovereignty can be exercised here, only through the ballot-box, and if people will refuse to exercise it, in this manner, as they have done in Kan sas at the election of delegates, it is not for them to complain that their rights have been violated. The Kansas Convention, thus lawfully con stituted, proceeded to frame a Constitution, and having completed the work, finally7 ad journed on the 7th of November last. They did not thiuk proper to submit the whole of this Constitution to a popular vote, but did submit the question, whether Kansas should be a Free or a Slave State, to the people. This was the question which had lighted the flames of civil war in Kansas, and produced dangerous sectional parties throughcut the Confederacy. It was of a. (character so para mount in respect to the condition of Kansas, as to rivet the attention of the people of the whole country .upon it alone. No person thought of any other qtrestton. For my ora part when I instructed Gov. Walker in gen eral terms, in favor of submitting the Consti tution to the people, I had no object in view except the all-absorbing question of slavery. Tn what manner the people might regulate thcir 'own concerns, was not the suljoct which attracted my attention. In fact, the general provisions of the recent State Constitutions, after an experience of eighty years, are so similar and excellent that it would be difficult to go far wrong at the present day, in fra ming a new Constitution. I then believed, and still believe,; that un der the organic act, the Kansas Convention were bound to submit this all important ques tion of slavery to tho people. It was never, however, my opinion, that, independently of this act, they would have been bound to sub mit any portion of the Constitution to the popular vote, ia order to give it validity. Had I entertained such an opinion, this would have been in opposition to many precedents in our history, commencing in the very best age of our Republic It would havo been in opposition to the principle which pervades our institutions, and is every day carried into practice, that the people have the right to delegate to representatives chosen by them selves, their sovereign power to frame Con stitutions, enact laws, and perform any'other important acts, without requiring that these should be subjected to their subsequent ap probation. It would be a most mcowvetueut limitation of their own power, imposed by the people upcu themselves, to exclude them from exercising th:ur sovereignty in any law ful manuer they may thiuk proper. It is true, the people of Kansas might, if they had pleased, required the Convention to submit the Constitution to the popular vote, lint this they have not done. The only remedy, therefore, in this case, is that which exists in ali other similar cases. If the delegates, who framed the Kansas Constitution, have in any way violeted the will of their constituents, the people always pessess the power to change their Constitution or laws, according to their own pleasure. The question of slavery was submitted to an election of tho people of Kansas on the 21sr of December last, in obedience to the mandate of the Constitution. Here again a fair opportunity was presented to the adher ents of the Topeka Constitution, if they were the majority, to decide this exciting question "in their own way," and thus restore peace to the distracted Territory, liut they again refused the right of popular sovereignty, and again suffered the election to pass by de fault. I heartily rejoice that a wiser and better spirit prevaild among a large majority of ' fh:se people on the first MonJay in January, j and that they did that day vote under the Lecompton Constitution tor tuovernor and other State officers, member of Congress' and members of the Legislature. This election was warmly contested by parties, and a larger vote was polled than at any previous election in the Territory. We may now reasonably hope the revolutionary Topeka organization will be speedily and fiually abandoned, aud this will go far tovard the fiual settlement of the unhappy ditfereuccs in Kansas. If frauds have beeu committed at this election, by one or both parties, the Legislature and the people ol Kausas, under the Constitution, will kuow how to redress themselves, and punish these detestable, but too common crimes, without auy outside iuterfercncrt The people of Kausas have theo, "in their own way," and in strict accordance with the organic act, framed a Constitution and State government, have submitted the all-important question of slavery to the people, and have elected a Governor, a member to repre sent theni4n Congress,, members of the State Legislature, and other Mate officers. They now ask admission into the Union, under this Constitution, which is republican in its form. It is for Congress to decide whether they will admit or reject the State which has thus been created For my own part, I am decidedly in favor of its admission, and thu6 termina atiug the Kansas question. This will carry out the creat principle of non-intervention. recognized and sanctioned by the organic act which declares in express language iu favor of the nou-icteiveution of Congress with sla very in the States and Territories' leaving "the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate the domestic institutions iu their own way, subject only to the Consiitution of the Lnitsd States, la this manner, by locali zing the question of slavery and confining it it to the people who arc immediately con cerned, every patriot anxiously expected this question to be banished trom tho halls ot Congress, where it has always exerted a bale ful iufluence througout the country. It is proper that I should refer briefly to the elec tion held under an act of the Territorial Leg islature, on the first Mouday iu January last, on the Lecomptou Constitution. This election was held after the Territory had been pre pared for admission into the Union as a sov ereign State, aud when no authority existed in the Territorial Legislature, which could possibly destroy its existence or change its character. The election, which was peace fully couducted under my instructions, invol ved a s'range inejousisteuey, A largo major ity of the persous who voted against the Le compton Constitution, were, at the very same time aud place, recognizing its valid existence in the most solemn and authentic manner by voting unJer its provisions 1 have a3 yet, received uo othciai lutormutiou of the resuit of this election. As a question of expediency, after tho right has beeu maintainad, it may bo wise to le fleet upon the benefits to Kansas and to the whole country, which would, result from its immediate admissiou into the Union; as well as the disasters which may follow its rejection. Domestic peace will be the happy consequence of its admission, aud that fine Territory, hith erto bmi by dissensions, will rapidly increase ' in population, aud wealth, an 1 speedily reluze the blessings and comforts which follow agri cultural and mechanical industry. The peop le then "will be sovereign, and can renlat their own Affairs io their own way. If the majority of them desire to abolish domestic slavery within the State, there is no other possible mode by which it can be effected so speedily as by its prompt admission. The will of the majority is supreme and irresisti ble, when expressed in an orderly and law ful manner- Tbey can make and unmake Constitutions at pleasure It would be ab surd to say tbey can impose fetters upon their own power, which they cannot afterwards re move If they could do this, they might tie their own bind for a hundred as well as for ten years, These are the fundamental prin ciples of American freedom, and are recogn ized, I believe, in seme form "or other, by every State Constitution : and if Congress, in the act of admission, should think proper to recognize them, I can preceive no objection to such a cour.-e. This has been done empha tically in the Consthntion of Kansas. It de clares in the Rill of Rights, that "all politi cal power is inherent in the people,, and all free governments are founded on their author ity, and instituted for their benefit, and. therefore, they have at all times an inaliena ble and indefeasible right to alter, reform or abolish thoir form of government, in such manner as they may think proper." The great state of New York is at this moment gov erned trader a Constitution framed in direct opposition to the mode prescribed by the pre vious Constitution. If, theicfore, the peo vision changing the Kansas Constitution af ter the year 18(54, ccu'd by possibility bo construed into a prohibition to make such a change previous -to that period, this pro hibition would be wholly unavailing. The Legislature already elected, may at its very first session, submit the question to a vote of the people, whether they will or will not have a Convention to amend their Constitution, and adopt all necessary i cans for giving ef fect to the populae will. It has been solemnly adju Iged by the high est Judicial Tribunal known to our laws, that slavery exists in Kansas, by virtue of the Constitution of the United States. Kansas is therefore, at this moment, as much a slave State as Georgia or South Carolina. With out this, the t quality of the sovereign States composing the Uuion would be violated, and the use and enjoyment of territory, acquired by the common treasure of all the States, would be closed against the people and prop erty of nearly half the members of the Con federacy. Slavery can therefore never be prohibited in Kausas, except by means of a Constitutional provision, and in no other manner can this be obtained so promptly, if a majority of the people desire it. as by ad mitting it into the Uni .n, under its present Contitution. On the other hand, should Congress reject the Constitution, under the idea of affording the disaffected iu Kansas a third opportunity to prohibit slavery in a State which they might have done twice before if in Ihe majority, no man can foretell the consequences. If Con gress, for the sake of those men who refused to vote for delegates to the Convention, when they might have excluded slavery from tho Constitution, and who afterwards refused to vote ou the 21st of December; when they might, as they claim, have stricken slavery from the Constitution, should now reject a State, because slavery remains in the Consti tution, it is manifest that the agitation en this dangerous subject will be renewed in a more alarming form than it has ever assumed. Every patriot in the country had indulged the hope that the Kansas-Nebraska Act wo'd put a final end to the slavery agitation, at least in Congress, which had, for more than twenty years, convulsed the country, and en dangered the Union. This act involved great and fundamental principles; and, if fairly carried into effect, will settle the question. Should the agition be again revived ; should tho people of the sister Stats be again es tranged from each other with more than their former bitterness, this will arise from a cause so far as the interest of Kansas is concerned, more trifling and insignificant than has ever stirred the elements of a great people into commotion. To the people of Kansas the only practical difference between admission or rejection depends simply upon the fact whether they can themselves more speedily change the present Constitution, if it does not accord with the will of the majority, or frame a second Constitution to be submitted to Congrcfs hereafter. Even if this were a question of mere expediency, and not of iiht a small diUorence ol time one way or the oth er, is of not the least importance, when con trasted with the evils which must necessarily result to the whole couutry from a revival of the slavery agitation. Iu considering this question, it should never be forgotten, that in proportion to its insignificance, let the decis ion be what it may. o far as it may affect the few thousand inhabitants of Kansas, who have from the beginning, resisted the Constitution and laws For this very reason the rejection of the Constitution will be so much more the keenly felt by the p ople of the fourteen States of the Union whjre slavery is recogni zed under the Constitution of the United States. A ;ain. the ppeedy admission of Kan sas iuto the Uuiou would restore peace and quiet to the whole country. Already the af fairs of the Territory have engrossed an un due proportion of public attention, and have sadly aifoetel the friendly relafions of the peo ple of the States with each other, and aroused :h.i fca.-s of pitrijts f r the safety of the Un ion. Kansas ouce admitted iiuo the Union the excitement becomes localized, and will soon die away for waut of outside aliment Theu every difficulty would be settled at the ballot-box ; besides, aud this is no triflinir smr. . 7. 1 ...... t ; T .11.1 1 . . ... . .O n.ujmiiia.iuu, sua.uucii oueuauieu to with draw tho tioops fr.un Kansas and employ them on service much needed. Th?v hol been kept there ou tho earnest iniportunitr of- - 'll. ... a. . .. . - - j Gov. Y u.ei, ij ma'.aiam tae existence of 00 00