The daily union., 1856-04-16
From the Albany bdas aud Argus.
THE KANSAS ISSUE-WHAT Is TT

Greeley of the Tribune has arrived the conclusion
that there is nothing to be made by lying just at pres
ent he will try the experiment of telling the truth He
says in letter from Washington dated the 9th Instant
@There are no elections 10 place for months
will be when this letter Is published. There can
be Imaginable for placing this subject In
any light but that of the naked truth When say then,
that pass Douglass enabling act is TO surrender Kan
probably II not certainly to the slavery propaganda
but repeat what urged by our freeStae friends from
that region without one known exception"
The Tribune thus stakes the fate of the republican aga-
ton on the success of the efforts of its friends defeat
Senator Douglass bill providing for the admission of Kan
sas into the Union II states the probable of pro-
ceedings as follows
But the Senate will pass Douglass bill ignoring the
freStste movement and in effect frownng upon II as
beious and then will the trial Of the purpose and
frmuess Of the House The Committee on Territories will,
of course guhsuea bill substantially like Governor Sew
ards recognising the present freeState government and
admitting Kansas into the Union the constitution
thereby presented aud then comes the struggle"
1t may be well to reflect what these two propositions
thus placed in anagonism by the Tribune The bill
introduced by Senator Douglas from majority OF the
Committee Territories is substantially the
ommeuded by the President In his special Kansas
sage provides for the admission of Kansas into the
Union as its population shall entle ii to men,
Der Of Congress and Il contains enacments under which
the people Of The Territory with the sanction of law and
under official supervision, may elect delegates to
ton TO form constitution and when the shall have
been framed may adopt reject IT, In word 1t makes
ample provision to enable the actual residents Of the Ter
rtory under legal authority to adopt such constitution
they please, and then to into the Union an
equality with the existing States Thus ii secures to the
people Of Kansas the right Of seEgovcnmen in its broad
est and perfect ssnse and realizes what the demo-
cratic party means by the term popular sovereignty
the will Of the people exercised according to the forms
law.
Such Is the measure which the democratic party in Con-
gess and throughout the country prepared support
Is possible for any candid to object TO 7 Wherein
is it unsound unjust any portion Of the people Of Kan
sas or to any part Of the Union2
The antagonist proposition upon which the republicans
stake their political fortunes is one of revolutionary
character party in the Territory-not the whole peo-
pehed public meetings without any prctencc Of legal
authority and without any legal or official supervision
and seIected delegates to convention to form consu-
tuition We cannot better describe this movement than in
the language of Chief Justice Taney in his opinion in the
Dorr case, in Rhode Isand where constitution was
formed by precisely similar movement The Chief JUS
tice says
lhh conFehuon was not aulhorlled oy any law OF te
existing government II elected at voluntary meet
ings and by those citizens only who favored this plan
reform those who opposed to IT, opposed TO the
manner in which Il was proposed TO be accomplished TAX
ing no part in the proceedings The persons chosen
above mentioned together and formed copsttu-
ton"
And now these republican agitaors, who shocked al
the doctrine popular soyeragny insist upon the ad
mission Of Kansas with constitution thus formed by
party instead Of the people Democrats 90 for her orgau
zaton and admission State in the regular mode 10 40
cordanoe with law and order and under provisions which
win give all her citizens voice In the formation Of her