The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-05-20

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WHAT is TO BE THE END OF THE KANSAS CUES
TIONs
To propound this question is TO indicate that we look
upon the Kansas question aught with serious danger
10 the peace of the country and the integrity Of the Union
This danger existed before the late which have
attracted SO large share Of public attention These oc
currences have mad the effect make the danger
parent well aggravate its and render their
satisfactory solution embarrassing and difficult Our
conviction that favorable solution is aainabe only
through the exercise OF prudence and moderation In dis
cussng the which constitute the obstacles to
be avoided or overcome Until the real grounds Of the
danger are correctly understood 1t impossible to hope
for the adoption Of line OF policy which will promise its
successful avoidance correct understanding OF these
grounds be arrived ut the subject Is investigated
under the influence Of passion and prejudice. Wise and
conservative counsels must prevail there be but
little hope for tho future.
We hare remarked that the Kansas question raught
with danger before the late exciting in con-
nexion with the election in the Territory took place 1t
win he remembered that opposition to the admission OIL
any States into the Union except upon the condition
their constitutions prohibited the existence Of slavery
has constituted prominent article in the political creed Of
the fusion party, which has obtained the ascendcncy in
nearly all Of the elections which have been held in the free
States the passage Of the Kansas and Nebraska bill
This position is well known to have been assumed with
special reference to the future political condition Of the
Territory of Kansas The bill providing for its organiza
ton had repealed the prohibition against slavery imposed
upon by the act Of 1920 and had submitted the question
fits recognition prohibition to the inhabitants of the
Territory The article in the political creed before referred
to adopted in consequences OF the opposition which
excited in the free States to those provisions of the
BILL 1t determined that if the inhabitants of the
Territory Of Kansas elected to have slavery they should
not be permitted to into the Union State
This determination seemed to be ratified by the results
Of elections and respect depend
emit upon the question whether slavery should be fraudu
eny forciby voluntarily introduced into the Ter
ritory 1t resorted to for the purpose of
defeating and multiplying the provisions Of act Of Con-
gress and of denying the inhabitants Of Kansas the
right Of choosing their domestic institutions 1t was
a deliberate blow aimed at an institution recognised
as lawful by the constitution and sought to be made eff
ctive by premeditad purpose disregard plain
stuonal obligation and to override the fundamental doc
rine of popular selfgovernment The danger to which
referred existing prior to the late in
Kansas is tho necessary consequences of the purpose to
st the admission Of any other slave State into the
Union. II would not be expected by any reasonable man
that such purpose could be executed without producing
dissolution Of the Union Our hope has bean that before
Kansas passed through her transition state Territory,
and prepared for admission into the Union wiser
and more patriotic counscls would prevail in the free
States. We still cherish that hops, notwithstanding the
which well calculated name the
sections and to prevent the early ascendency Of more
conservative sentiments.
The basis of hope to the avoidance o. the pros
petve danger connected with the admission Of Kansas
State rested mainly upon the incontrovcrtbe justice Of
the principle Of the Kansas bill and the conviction that the
patriotic national sentiment would tolerate anat-
ca sectional resistance to the admission Of Kansas
her application carried with it the deliberate sanction and
Judgment of the people Of the Territory Upon such
application for admission although the institution Of sa-
very should not be prohibited by the constitution Of Ran
sas aboonsm might rage and exercise itself in Actous
and fanatica opposition but the irresistible power Of
onal sentiment would prevail and afford admission to the
new State. 1t under this conviction that we de-
nonnced with the inauguration Of the abolition
Massachusetts Aid Company. We then that such
movement would necessarily produce Of
eraction the part OF southern on the borders
of Kansas and that whatever might be the result in the
Territory the question Of s admission State would
be embarrassed with obstacles We forcsaw that III
the Em'grant Aid Company succeeded In their aeme Of
oonzing the Territory with antislavery settlers peo
pie of the South would be furnished with arguments
against the admission Of Kansas free State On the
other hand oresaw with equal cearness that the
Of counrscon By the border Mssourans should be
successful the abolitionis would BE- armed with new pre-
for carrying the purpose Of resistance to the ad
mission of Kansas avs Ststs which Irsady consf
uted permanent feature in the Jsso~ platform Our
fears have been realized in the results The abo
tons persisted in their schemes Of abolonizing Kan
she Mssoursns resortsd Of countsracou
not sanctioned by law and the elections have taken place
under such circumstances Of outside interference and
huence that is impossible to say whether the result
cords with the real wishes and sentiments Of the real
habiants Of the Territory
Wo are now enabled to clearly che real point Of dan
ger involved in the Kansas question: and the
which have increased the difficulty of finding for II salts
factory solution is manifest that IL the South makes