New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-04-10


Revolution. Kansas has instituted a revolution,
simply because ordinary remedies never be applied
IN great political emergencies. There is profound
philosophy that belongs to revolutions. According to
that philosophy, the President ia assumed by the peO
pie of Kansas to entertain resentment which can
never be appeaoed and his power, consequently must
be wholly taken away. Happily, however, for
Kansas, aud for us, her revolution is one that wa,
anticipated and sanctioned and provided for in the
Constitution Of the United States, aud u.s. therefore,
peaceful and (paradoxcal as the expression may seem
constitutional one. Never before have l seen oc
cssion great for admriug the wisdom and force
Of those who raised that noble edifce Of Civil Gov
eminent The people Of Kansas, deprived Of their
sovereignty by domestic tyranny have nevertheless,
lawfully rescued II PROFESSIONALLY and, exercising it,
have constituted Themselves State and applied TO
Congress 10 admit them such into the Federal Union.
Congress has power 10 admit the new State thus
ganized. The favorable exercise Of that power will
terminate and crown the revolution. Once State,
the people OF Kansas can preserve internal order and
defend themselves against invasion. Thus, the
stitutional remedy eectua it is peaceful and
simple This Is the remedy for the evils existing in
the Territory Of Kansas which propose Happily there
no need TO prove TO be either lawful one or proper
one or the only possible one The President Of the u s.
and the Committee Territories unanimously concede
all this broad ground, because be recommends it,
and they adopt it. Wherein, then, do differ from
them Simply thus: propose to apply the remedy
pow by admitting the new State with its present pop
nlaton and present Constitution. Ny opponents Insist
On poetponng the until the Territory shall be
conceded by the usurpng authorities to contain 49, 700
1DhaDltdnts and until those authorities shall direct and
authorize the people to organize new State, under
new Constitution. In other words, l propose
70 allow tho people of Kansas to apply the
constitutional remedy at once. The Presi.
the entire application Of it TO the hands of the Missouri
borderers. He confesses the inadequacy Of that
course by asking appropn atoms of money TO
able him TO maintain and preserve order within
the Territory until the indefinite period when the
constitutional remedy shall be applied. There is no
sufficient reasOn for the delay which the President
advises. Ho admits the rightfulness nd necessity
Of the remedy. II Is nghtful and necessary
now as it ever will be. 1t is demanded by the
condition and circumstances of the people of Kan.
now. You cannot justly postpone any more
than you Justly deny that right. To postpone
would be a DENIAL. The President will need no
grant Of money armed men, to enforcs obedi-
enoe to law, when you shah have redressed the
wrongs of which the people complain. Even I'M
der Governments less free than our own, there
s no need of power where justice holds the
helm. When justice is impartisly administered, the
obedience OF the subject or citizen will be voluntary,
cheerful, and practically unlimited. Freedom Justly
due cannot be conceded too soon. True Freedom ex.
ists the utmost bounds Of civil liberty obtained,
only where complaints are freely heard deeply consd
cred and speedily redressed. So only you restore
TO Kansas the perfect freedom which you pledged and
she has lost. The Constitution does not prescribe
$780, any other number Of people, necessary TO
constitute State. Besides, under the present ratio of
increase Kansas, whose population Is 40 900. will
number 100000 in few months. The point made
concerning numbers is therefore practically unimpOrt-
ant and ftivolous- The President objects that the
past proceedings, by which the new State of Kan
sas was organized, were irregular in three re-
spects: First, That they instituted conducted
and completed, without previous permission by Con-
gress by tho local authorize. within the Territory.
Secondly, That they instituted, conducted, and
completed by party and not by the whole people Of
Kansas; and Thirdly That the State holds atti
tude of defiance and INSTRUMENTATION toward the Terrific
rial authorities and the Federal Union reply, First,
That il the proceedings in question irre and
partisanlke and factious the exigences Of the
would at least excuss the faults and Congress has
unlimited discretion to waive them. Secondly: The
proceedings not thus irregular, partisanke and
factious because act of Congress forbade tbem-nO
oct of the Territorial Legislature forbade them directly
OF by mplication-nor had the Territorial Legislature
power either to authorize or TO prohibit them. The
proceedings WERE ineeed instituted by party who
favored them. Bot they were prosecuted aud con-
eummated in the customary forms of popular elections,
which open TO all the inhabitants of the Territory
qualified to vote by the organic law, and by Others
and they have ia case come into conflict, nor does
the State act or assume to engage IN conflict
with either the Territorial authorities the Govern
nent of the Union Third There can be irregulsrty
where there is law prescribing what shall be regu
lar Congress had passed no law establishing regula
lions for the organization or admission OF new
States. Precedents in such cases, being with
out foundation in law, are without author
ity. This ia country whose Government Is
regulated, not by preeedents, but oy Con'
they are found in the Of Texas and California,
each of which organized and admitted, subject to
the same alleged irregularities. The majority OF the
Committee Territories, IN behalf OF the President,
interpose one further objection by tracing this new
State organization to the influence OF secret armed,
political society Secrecy and combination, with extra.
judicial oaths and armed power We're the sngnery OF
the Missouri bOrderers in eectng the subugation OF
the people of Kansas that machinery always em-
ployed in the commission Of political crimes. How
Jar 1t was lawful morally night for the people OF
Kansas employ the agencies for the defense OF
their lives and liberties, may be question for casuts,
but certainly is not for me. can freely confess,
however my deep regret that secret societies for any
purpose whatsoever have obtaized a place among
political organi, atoms within the Republic; aud II Is
my hope that the experience which we have now so
distinctly had that they can be but too easily adapted
10 unlawful, seditious, and dangerous enterprises,
while they bring down suspicion and censure on high
and noble causes when identified with them, may be
Sufficient to induce general dscontnuance OF them
VIII the Senate hesitate for al hour between the alter
natives before them The passions OF the American
Peope find healthfu exercise 10 peaceful coonz ations
and the construction Of railroads and the baildng up
and multiplying Of republican institutions. The Terri
tory of Kansas hes the path through which rail-
roads must be built and along which such institutions
must be founded without delay in order to preserve the
integrity of our Empire Shall We suppress enterprises
10 benevolent and heathful and iname our country
with that fever of intestine which exhausts aud
consumes not the wealth and strength than the
virtue and freedom of a nationl Shall We confess
that the proclamation of popular sovereignty within
the Territory Of Kansas was not merely failure, out
was a prctense and q fraud! Or Will Senators now
contend that the people of Kansas destitute as they
are Of Legislature of their own, OF Executive author
ne~ of their own of Judicial authorities OF their own OF
a militia of their own of of their own, subject
70 disposal by themselves, practically deprived a. they
are rights Of voting serving jurors and of writ
ing, printing, and speaking their own opinions are
nevertheless in the enjoyment and exercise OF PoPS.at
sovereignty Shall confess before the world, after
no brief trial. that this great political system OF ours
is inadequate either to enable the majority TO contro