Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1856-10-31

vote at the hSt election, ana snal Oe elSUe ~ any
office within the said territory but the qualifications
of voters and of holding Office ali subsequent cleo
TONS shall be such as shall be prescribed by the
Legislative assembly PROVIDED, That the right OF
suffrage and of holding Office, shall be exercised DOLLY
by citizens of the United States, and those who have
declared on oath their intention to become SUCH and
shall ave taken oath support the Constitution
of the United States and the provisions OF this act
Let us call attention 10 two features of the above
In The first place ii sets at rest the assertion SO often
put forward that the bill confes political power IN
the Territory upon any class of persons who owe no
allegiance to the United States No man by virtue OF
the bill could vote who had not sworn allegiance
who had not taken oath to support the constltu-
tion of the United States. The second tea ture to
which we wish 10 direct attention is that comforting
upon the Legislative assembly the right OF prescrlo-
ing the qualifications of voters and of holding othce
at all subsequent elections 1t is contended that
men of foreign birth are the foes of slavery in Kansas
Now it is notorious that the first Legislative AS
sembly elected in Kansas ultra pro slavery-t is
seen that with that body rested the power of pre-
scrbng the future qualifications of voters Had that
Assembly apprehended any danger from these men,
would they not have altered and abridged the right of
voting, originally conferred upon men not full
citizens but who had simply declared their inten-
ton to become such, and taken an oath to
support the Constitution of the United States ?
But they did no such thing, and We have
it personally from Col Whitfed's own lips, that the
great majority of foreign born residents in the terri
tory have gone and continue to 90 with the South in
the struggles which divide the territory. Col. Whit
field is Southern man, the delegate 10 Congress who
was ousted from his seat by the Black Republicans
and recently re- elected by the people of Kanzas.
What monstrous powers are conferred upon the
Legislature of Kanzas, TO constitute This terrible
81 Squater Sovereigny"-this foolish electioneerlng
bug-bear 10 scare political children witEal Simply
this: That the legislative power of the Territory
shall extend to all rghtful subjects of legislation con-
sistent with the Constitution Of the United States and
the provisions of this act"
We next propose to glance at that feature OF the
Kansas bill which establishes and defines the powers
of the Judiciary of the Territory, which provides
that wrts of and appeals from the final deci-
sion of the Supreme Court of the Territory shall be
allowed, and may be taken to the Supreme Court OF
the United States, in the same manner and under
the same regulations from the Circuit Courts O.
the United States, where the value of the property,
the amount in controversy to be ascertained by the
oath or affirmation of either party or other compe
tent witness, shall exceed thousand dollars, ex
cept only that in all involving title to slaves
the said writs of or appeals shall be allowed
and decided by the said Supreme Court, without re
gard to the value of the matter property, title il
controversy.
! This, in connection with the other provisions o
the BILL constitutes in effect, the well-known Clayton
| COMPROMISED compromise, or rather principle o
legislation, which received the approval of Mr.. Cal
houn himself. The Territory, when to be admitted
can form any Constitution it pleases, far the in
cluson or exclusion of slavery is concerned, an
shall be admitted into the Union with such Constiu
ton while, in the meantime, the title 10 slave pro
perty is placed under the protection of the Consttu
ton, and appeal allowed from the Supreme Cour
Of the Territory to the Supreme Court of the Unite'
States in oil questions involving the title to sue
property
We come next 10 that portion of the bill repeating
the Missouri Compromise, declaring ''That the Con
sution, and all laws of the United States which ar
not locally lnapplcable, shall have the same fore
and effect within the said territory of Kansas else
where within the United States, except the 9Th sec
ton of the act preparatory to the admission of Mis-
souri, into the Union approved March sixth, eightee
hundred and twenty, which, being inconsistent wit
the principles of non intervention by Congress wit
slavery in the States and territories, as recognise
f by the Legislation of eighteen hundred and fit,
commonly called the compromise measures, is hereb
declared imperative and void it being the true in
tent and meaning of this act not &c legslate SLAYER
into any Territory State, exclude it therefron
but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to for
and regulate their domestic institutions in their ow
way subject only to the Constitution of the Unite
?, States"
: We have now gone carefully over all the essenti;
pents of The Kanzas BILL bearing upon the questic
e of Slavery and the repeal Of The Missouri Compr
mise, also the Democratic doctrine upon the SUI
l. jeCt We have taken garbed newspaper or stun
Is speech statement for authority, but have had Il
Congressional Globe before u.s. and quoted therefo
lie faithfully. We will now proceed to consider Il
j. matter in another light with different object al
h from point of view. To contrast this bill Wi
certain other bills passed by Congress and approved
t. Mr.. Fillmore, and of them at least recommend
e by that gentleman
The first is the bill admitting California as a Stat
81 upon the most ultra principles of Squatter Sovereig
Is ty known 10 the history of the country-n fact Il
ID only simon pure una6ulterated squatterism, prope
OF ~ so named, that that history produce. There
at law establishing any sort of test for citizenship
n the right of suffrage, no enumeration of inhabitan
Id allegiance to the government the Constitute
of but promscuous horde of the most abandoned CHI
acters upon earth, gathered from all nations-Lasca