Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1856-08-22

sasi sustained by the President. And
again it is inquired what is the re-
dress. The Senate has passed n bill
for pacihcation. Its essential feat
ures are that certain Of the most OBJ
noxious laws of Kansas shall cease,
but those in power there shall remain,
and the people now there, in the
condition now existing, and after all
the preparations before described,
shall, by vote, forever, decide the
condition Of the Territory as to
Slavery by now making State Con-
stItuiion. IL must be obvious that
this is but to give TO violence, out
rage and atrocity the reward Of all
its effort, by the consummallon Of lis
wishes--DomestIc Slavery forever.
The House Of Representatives has
passed a bill to admit Kansas under
the State Constitution adopted by a
large majority Of its people. This
the Senate rejected, again insisting
on submitting the matter to the peo-
Plo nov thorv, 60 at Un u Constltu-
ton IN the present condition of the
Territory by those they may permi,
to remain until next November -
The House has now passed a bill.
the leading and essential provisions
Of which are, that the Missouri Com
promise line shall be restored, and
the actual inhabitants in the Terrific
ry shall proceed to elect a Legislat-
IRE for the Territory. These are
its leading provisions, and all
the other details aud particulars,
which it includes, are but colal-
eral, and if they are unsatisfactory
they are only proper matters Of
amendment, but constitute no ground
for rejecting the bill. This applies
TO a large part ofthe Committees re-
port; II finds fault with provisions
which are merely collateral details,
and yet no amendment is proposed.
If the now proposed boundaries in
clute any part Of the Cherokee lands
or Of New Mexico, which ought not
to be included, let it be amended. -
II the criminal laws of Kansas, which
really never have been used but 10
promote the cause Of Slavery and
persecute pretended political often
ders, should not all be declared in
operative, then adopt the proper
amendments. If apparent inconsis-
fences or incongrulties are found in
the bill, it should be amended, not
rejected on that account. IL the bill
contains no sufficient security agains;
illegal voting, lei it be inserted If
there be serious objections to the pro-
visions in the bill in relation to per-
miuing the slaves now in the Terri
tory and their children to be held
there or removed unuil January,
/ 1858, let the same be stricken ont or
amended. Its no reasonable oblec-
ton to restoring the Missouri Com
promise which was agreed 10, be-
cause 1t was not and is noi e4cvuued
| to the Pacific, which never was agreed
TO. The essential principle Of this
bill is the restoration Of the Missouri
Compromise line deprived Of this it
loses all vitality, II is eviscerated and
becomes utterly valueless aud deiri-
mental. II proposes that the people
now there shall proceed TO tie cleo
lion OF a Legislature. This would
appear to regard them as suitable to
be intrusled with the power of cleo
ton and if so, why not permit them
to form a State Constitution The
people there may safely be lett to the
election of Territorial Legislature
when Congress shall have re-estab-
lshed the law forever forbidding Sla-
very in the Territory, but at the same
time they are so conditioned as TO be
entirely untitled to the fair and i'm
partial decision of the question of
Slavery at this time. The plausible
experiment Of settling the subject Of
Slavery in Territory by submitting
| it to the people who shall hereafter
90 in 10 settle there. is incapable Of
peaceful or satisfactory result, how
ever it might be as 10 one already
settled. The settlement under such
proposition will be made with a
view to this object especially as po-
lltical importance depends on ii, these
settlements will be advanced bv ex-
IRENE means, aud collision will ensue.
The agitation on this subject on the
plains and praries beyond the Mssis-
sippi, on the borders of civilized life,
will be no more peaceful or concilia-
tory than in the rest of the country
or in the halls Of Congress. The
application Of the popular sovereignty
TO this subject, to be exercised by the
people, in a Territory, while it is
lsettIing,uud ~ bile Territory, is n de-
lusion. This is what the Missouri
Compromise line was prolessedly
repealed to try, and the experiment
is either an intended duplicity, or isa
failure, and should be frankly and
magnanimously abandoned, notwilh-
standing National Political Conven-
ton may have indorsed it, II is,
however, highly probable tha, the
representatives of the Sloyeholding
States, constituting majority Of the
party in power, considering their peo-
pie regard themselves as having
secured an advantage in the Kansas
bill, will no, abandon the experiment,
especially as the slaveholding power
has already possession in Kansas, with
a President TO sustain it. II is true
that power may, for time, prevail !;
the experiment may proceed the