The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-09-26

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KANSAS ara a much fred and as soemniy gaafan-
d ~ satute as those ofDelaware or Texas. Inc LAWS
az Kansas Territory may be abrogated py succeeding
latres but So also may the laws ana even 'e
lions of TEXAS and Delaware kansas only ulnets Hou
b condition il her limited resources ner small pouia-
49, s,d her large amount Of marketable lands There
i no difference in principle between the cases supposed
II siifabe and legal in the one il is equally SO IA
n, other They differ only Ia point OF practcaoiiity
and e.pediency: the one would be an outrage easily
peeeiyed promptly met and speedily repeled The other
!. disguised under the forms Of emigration and meets
with no popuous and organized community TO resent IL
We are apprzed that il Is said that the Kansas legislature
were elected by fraud and constitute 40 far representation
n the opinions Of the people Of the Territory This IS
evidently the excuse Of the losing party TO stimulate
ewed efforts among their friends at home but even this
i s,ted BY the record The territorial governor of Kan
sas gentleman not suspected of or charged with par
,ay 10 slavery or its advocates has solemny certified
unde his official SEAL that the statement is false that
large majority of the legislature were duly and legally
elected Even Ia the districts where Governor Reeder set
aside the elections for iegay the subsequent returns of
The spacaI elections ordered by him produced the
ult except in single district There is then, pretext
left; and il is apparent that TO send an army Of abo-
6onsts 10 Kansas 10 destroy slavery existing there,
and RECOGNISED by her laws is to be justified
the mart of the Massachusetts, legislature than it would be
10 send like force to Missouri with the like purposes.
The object might be easily and safely accomplished
In the one case than in the other but in both il is
equally repugnan TO every principle of international COM
y and likely TO prove equally fatal TO the harmony and
peace Of the Union.
We conclude, then that this Eruption upon Kansas by
Emgant Aid Societies and Kansas Leagues, under the
patronage Of the Massachusetts, Legislature is to be regard
cd in other light then phase of abolitionsm, more
practical in its aims and therefore dangerous than
any form il has yet assumed w have shown it to be
variance with the true intent of the act of Congress- by
which the Territory opened to settlement; variance
with the spirit Of the constitution eff the United States and
with demonstrations of the Territory already recognised by
law totally destructive Of that eowshpnnd good feeling
which should exist among citizens Of coniederaed States
runous TO the security peace and prosperity neighbour
ing State unprecedented in political annals up this
date and pregnant with the most disastrous consequences
10 the harmony and stability of the Union Thus far lis
purposes have been defeated but renewed efforts are
threatened Political conventions The North and North
have declared for the repeal of the Nebraska
law and anticipating failure in this direction stimu
ang the ant-slavcy sentiment fresh exertions for ab
olitonzng Kansas after the Massachusetts fashion. We
have discharged duty in declaring the light in which
such demonstrations viewed here and firm belief Oh
the spirit by which they will be II civil war and ul-
mate disunon desired renewal of these efforts will be
admirably adapted to such purposes Missouri has taken
her position in the resolutions adopted by the Lexington
convention, and from that position she will not be likely
to recede 1t is based upon the constituiionupon justice
and equality Of rights among the States What she has
done and what she is still prepared to do is in sedence
and for sofprescryation and from these duties she will
hardly be expected shrink With her everything is
stake the security of large slave property the prosperity
of her citizens and their exemption from perpetual aga-
ton and border euds whilst the emissares of abolition
pursuing phantoman abstraction which, if realized
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would be productive of decided injury to the race foI
whose benefit they profess to labor.
If slavery is evil and it is conceded that Congress
cannot interfere with it in the States ii is most nantes
that its diffusion through territory where land is
ralueess and labor productive tends greatly to ameorate
the condition of the slaves Opposition to the extension
slavery not them founded upon phanthropic views
or upon any love for the saye 1t is mere grasp for DO
cal power beyond what the constitution of the United
States concedes and it so understood by the leaders Of
the movement And this additional power is not desired
for constitutional purposes for the advancement of the
general welfare or the national reputation For such pur-
poses the majority in the North is already sufficient and
no future events likely diminish it. The slayehod-
ing States are in minority, but far minority which
has commanded respect in the national councils II has
answered. and hope will continue to subserye the pr
poses of sclproection. Conservative men from other
quarters have up to the when the rights of the
South have been seriously threatened But is essential
TO the purposes of selpreservation that this minority
should not be materially weakened it is essential to the
preservation Of our present form of that the
slave States should retain sufficient power to make cec-
na resistance against outward aggression upon an nst
tuition peculiar to them alone Parchment guarantees
all history shows avail nothing against an overwhelming
public clamor The fate Of the fgvesave law affords
an instructive warning the subject and shows that the
most solemn constitutional obligations viii be evaded and
scorned where popular prejudice resis.s their execution
Tho South must rely herself for protection and to this
end her strength in the federal government cannot be
safely diminished. o
funded it be true, public the North have de-
clared and political assembages have endorsed that de-
termination las been reached in that quarter to refuse a
mission TO any slave States there an end to all ar
gument the subject TO reject Kansas or any other
Territory, from the Union simply and solely because sn-
very is recognised within her limits wond be regarded
here and, we presume throughou the South and South
west open Reputation of the constitution distinct
and uneqivoca step towards dissolution of the Union
We presume ii would be regarded everywhere North
aud South Taken in connection with the abrogaton OF
that provision of the constitution which enforces the rights
Of the of slaves in all the States of the Union into
which they might escape which has been effected pract
caly throughout nearly all the free States and more for
mally by solemn legislative enactments in portion Of
them the rejection of Kansas of slavery would
be dsunion in form of grossest insult the sixteen slave
States conprehended in the nation II would be
declaration that slavery incompatible with republican
government in the face of least two formal recogutons
Of its legality, in terms by the federal constitution
We trust that such eounscs have not the rcmote,
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