Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1855-04-05
THE STATE RIGHTS PRINCIPLE
TRIUMPHANT.

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The most cheering news reaches us from
Kansas. We copy from the Geographic cor
respondence of the National Mtelligencer Of
yesterday the following:
The Kansas Election.
| INDEPENDENCE, Mo-, April l.-Returns from
Kansas show the election of the pro,slavery
ticket. Bull Creek, Lawrence, Douglas, Doni-
| phan, Tecumseh, Shawnee Mission, Leaven-
worth, and Hockey Point, give majorities vary.
ing from 200 to 500. The election was con-
Quoted in quiet manner The editor of the
Kansas Free State was ducked in Kew river BIZ
a mob in consequence Of speech made BY
him. There is probably no antslavery men
elected to the Legislature A large procession
paraded here to celebrate the victory.
This news should cheer the friends of State
rights in the same proportion that it must de-
press the advocates of centralism or consolida-
ton.
Despite all temporary issues, the country
will always be divided by those who advocate
a strong government and those who favor the
widest liberty.
| One party desires to "nationalize" the coun-
try as they call it, and the other prefers to Vir-
| ginianize, or Georgianize, or Illinoisize, or
Missourianize it.
The rights of the States is advocated by the
Democratic party as Indispensable to the pre-
servation of our liberties and naturalization, y
and those measures generally which tend to
place power in the hands of the General Gov.
eminent is advocated, or rather was advo.
Gated, by the Wing party, now "not dead, but
sleeping" in the illicit embrace of Know-noth-
ingism.
The great battle of State-rights as opposed
to Capitalization is to be fought on the slavery
issue All the great problems which have re-
suited in establishing the true limits of State
and Federal jurisdiction have been settled over
this issue.
This has happened because slavery is the
most prominent peculiarly" in our govern
ment. 1t might have happened that any other
peculiarly" might have brought about dis
cussion, and thus thrown light on the respective
limits of these jurisdictions Entire hemogene-
business among our States is the mortal enemy
of State-rights
The people of France are imbued with the as
piration for liberty and have passed through
bloody revolutions to attain it. But homogene-
GUS France, time and again, after every effort to
overcome tyranny, has quickly subsidized into
centralism and its sequence, monarchy.
/ Republican France $50 called) had no States
and no Senate in which they were represented
as equals. The people of France being homo
geneous have no prominent "peculiarities
among her people, has never seen the necessity
of States and State-rghts, the centrifugal force
which alone resist Capitalization.
When the united colonies declared their in
dependence, the different colonies had peculiar
interests to protect, and conferred limited DOW.
ers on the General Government, reserving to
the States and people the powers not con.
ferred. But whether this view is sound or not,
! it is certain that the battle of State-rights is
to be fought on the slavery issue, and that in
Kansas victory which cannot be too highly
appreciated has been achieved
- This victory is not the less gratifying be-
cause it has been gained in Kansas, despite
the unnecessary postponement Of the election
by Governor Reeder, apparently with the in
tent Of awaiting the emigrants forwarded by
the Boston Emigration Abolition Aid Society.
The election which resulted in the return OF
General Whitfield as delegate TO Congress, de-
monstrated that the Abolition vote was wo-
fully in the minority, and, although the vote
cast in Kansas showed much greater poeula-
ton than Nebraska, the people of Kansas
have been suffered to remain without legisla-
ture, and by consequence, without law cren 10
punish murders, while the handful Of people
Of Nebraska have long since had their legisla-
ture. Why this has been, if not for the OBJ
ject we have suggested, Of waiting for the Abo-
lition aid from Massachusetts, we are at a loss
to discover.
The principles of the Kansas bill, as far as
they went, we're accepted by the South as a
substantial and bona tide admission of South.
ern rights.
The Administration placed itself before the
country on this issue, but, while keeping the
word of promise to the ear, has broken it to
the hope.
Although the Administration was obliged to
adopt the theory Of the Kansas bill, it has at.
tempted IN practice to prevent the South from
reaping any substantial advantage from that
theory; for, whilst southern man was up
pointed Governor of Nebraska, Northern one
was appointed Governor Of Kansas, (which
policy our readers will remember was remon-
strated against at the time9 who stands now in
that Territory, as shown by every account we
have seen, opposed to the declared will of the
people.
pB- A Parson, disposed to make himself use
fuland earn his salary, has been seized upon by