The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1856-10-01

plainsd, would also bring peace 10 troubled
Kansas, and that was the very las. cousum-
NATION they desired.
To crown their Hypocrisy, Mr.. Hale, who
had already committed himself by com.
nnsrding the honesty and fairness OF the bill,
and could not condemn il IN toto, moved ,ha,
the efieciof the bill be deferred tiIl July,
1857, thus giving the Republican Abolition
candidate fol the Presidency the advantage
of aIl the blood and murder in Kansas.
Mrssewsrd lastly proposed TO strike on,
the biliendrely, aud ADM, Kansas under the
Topeka Consliialion.
Now This Topeka Constitution was a fraud
from the beginning. TWAS got up by bu.
one portion of the people of Kansas The
pro-slave.y inhabitants had nothing 10 do
with its formation. II is disputed poin,
whether il received 400 or 100 votes thai,
were lhenin the Territory. lis friends claim
for it but l7oe. II was adopted in a spirit of
rebellion 10 the United States authority, and
watrout the participation of a large portion
of the people of the territory, aud it was cal
culaied 10 increase the troubles in Kansas in.
stead Of alIaying them, for if the free State
men are now reyolulionizing upon the ground
that the present Legislature was unawfully
elected, would not The rro-sslvery men rise
up in insurreclion against a Constitution lille
galIy frameda
Whatever bad features that Topeka Con.
stitution may contain, one of The provisions
it embraces makes it unallerabe for nine
years, aud as distinguishing mark of the
hypocrisy Of The woolly -heads, who are now
,endangering the Union for the benefi, of The
negro, one OF The clauses Of this Constitution
prohibits free negroes from coming into the
Territory. The people should remember
that in 1921, iSe Abolilonis,s of the North
objected 10 the Constitution of Missouri, be-
cause it contained provision exactly SINH
lar. To complete the rotenness of this To-
peka Constitution, when it was brought into
the U. S. Senate, and was placed into The
hands of Gen. Cass for presentation, it was
proved that it was not even the one lha, was
passed by the Topeka Convention, but that
il had been altered, erased, added 10, and
inierpolaied by some unknown hand after ii
had left Kansas.
This was the Constitution which the Re-
publican AboliIionsts offered in place OF the
pacfication bill of the Democrats in the
Senate. Let lie people compare the two
Let them contemplate The compromising,
The earnest and sincere course of the Demo.
cratic members of the Senate in contrast
with the faclious, uncompromising attitude
Of their opponents. Let i, sink deep into
their minds that one of the bileresl o2po.
nents oi the Democracy and the most until
ring agitator declared that the pacifcalion
bill was almost uDexceplonable that it was
rejected 10 prevent the difficulties in Kansas
from being seaed and That Mr. Seward
declared that The day for compromises was
al an end Let The people understand clearly
that when this pacifcalion bill was evsnlu-
ally passed by lhe Democratic Senate, and
sent down TO The woolly headed house, that
body would take no scuon upon il al all
and lastly, lei them view, with the indisna-
lon ii deserves, the most damning fact ef
all, that VIXEN the Democratic Senate proPo-
sed TO print the bill, and hand it over 10 The
people as an appeal TO lLem, so that :bey
could Judge Of its fairness and sincerity, the
Black Republicans voted against ii to man.
They did not desire The people 10 become
acquainted with their factious and knavish
course, and trembled at the verdict. that
would be rendered by the great tribunal OF
the American people, If the case was fairly
presented TO them.