New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-04-16
FROM WASHINGTON.
MR. DOUGLAS on TRUTH.
Editorial coresPondspos Of The n Y. Tribsas
WASHINGTON Monday. ApriI IA 4,

WASHINGTON, Monday, April Ia, 1856.
Senator Douglas, in debate to-day, uttered two
contradictions of charges which he hsd fouad i,
THE TRIBUNE-one that be had ever uttered i,
the Senate the threat, 1--WE mean to subdue you |"
II was not in the Senate on the occasion referred
to, but was assured BY one who was preseot that
he said exactly that Since he has denied il,
will quote from The UH'Os just what he represents
himself as having said, viz:
The Senator stakes himself the nia.rty fcoraneI.t
report say that report JIsees fSeizr atefr-aee Kan
.reoce Talins The minority r.por can u,,ify under 10
PRINCIPLES every Tia, has been done resnt to KAMA,
majority report dsnie, the sht any man to violate the Law.
% eys .Se FneS,Si ne as % sS
aSvocses Interference We ready TO meet the issue,
reSvfrs avtssr
rtSSee rHsn hose vAs resi tse- and punish reb
here sceep; the issue"
Now 1.-The laws and the constituted suthori-
&" ties" which Mr.. DOuglas says he will reduce
"to subsection" all who resist are the acts Of tho
bogus Territorial Legislature of Kansas which,
the Republicans hold. were imposed on the People
of Kansas BY conspiracy, invasion and stupendous
frauds Those acts IRE hold Of no moral validity ~
obligaton-many of them laws which cannot and
will not be obeyed. Mr.. Collamer's Report shows
this, and gives cOgent reasons for it, to which the
Republicans say Amen. Mr.. Douglas is glad this
defiant spirit is exhibited here" and accepts
"the issue" What does be mean by this, what
does be say, but that he means to "subdue" the
Republicans, here and in Kansas, and compel them
to obey those outrageous laws What is the dodge
here Where is the discrepancy between "we
"mean to subdue you" and what Douglas admits
that he said
Now take his other point He says
have falsely charged that his enabling act requires
the People of Kansas to vote under the Election
Laws passed by the pretended Territorial Legis-
tlre of Kansas and he adds that had his bill be-
fore me showing that this is not true. Herein he
speaks untruly Il presume without meaning it)
himself When | made the statement had never
seen his bill am confident it had not yet been
printed. l have no privilege to examine Senate
bills that are not yet printed. But / Inferred,
with undoubting confidence, that he, the great
champion Of Popular Sovereignty in the Terri
tories, the leading defender of the honesty and
lidity of the BOrder-Ruffan Legislature, could do
no otherwise than to respect and uphold the laws
which be threatens TO reduce US to subsection to.
How is this He says that Shawnee Mission Leg
slature is true and valid Legislature for Kansas.
He knows that they have passed acts creating and
defining the qualifications of voters. Are not those
laws binding on him as well as on u.s. BY what
right, with what consistency, does he, an asserter
OF the right of Kansas to make her own laws, now
propose to override her laws by one of his own Is
that Popular Sovereignty !" Is that "non-inter-
ferencel' How could guess that he would repu-
date the vital principle of his own bill
submit that Mr.. Douglas has no reason to CON-
plain. 1 was mised by prssuming that he would
stand by his own principle in drawing his enabling
act. will try not to be 80 misled again H.G.