New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-07-26

"a, there with boy Of sSout 30 sissas Il Ut
STAT for Kansas
M. Whitfeld-I did not
Mr.. Gherman--Dd you not 60 With ceupaav
If armed mem over into Kansas!
Mr.. whit6eld--I accompanied no hisssrisaG
Ar. Sbermsn--Were tbey citizens OF kAasss.
Mr.. WhitHeld-Tbey were.
Mr.. Sherman How msny1
Mr.. Wbitgeld--About 10. :
n, Shsymsp--WiIl the gentleman deny taat
.o.rn.n;ns If armed citizens Of Aissoun did gstAR
from Clav. jackson, ADD other counties In Nv
souri and 20 over into Kansas ct the tune 70 whieA
refer. s.,s ru,
not ACCOMPANY citizens Of Missouri into kansss.
M. 6hsrmsn--I desire only 10 ASCERTAIN q
facts from the gentleman from kansss; and WI
~ him this question: He says that those VII
.ccomnanied him on the occasion 70 which ! have
,ilude3 vere cirizcns Of Kansas. Now, WIN ~
ssntlemsn deny upon bis honor that armed bodiss
Of men ala 70 over from Missouri into Ksnsse'
Mr.. Whit6eld-I cay that l accompanied -
NJ sherman The gentleman says those whom
Ia .ccompapied were citizens Of Kansas Territory.
That does not meet the point, Sir; ssy then
we're armed bodies Of men who went over iron
M;ssonri into Kansas; that while they wore march.
inc into Westport from the east, Gov Shannon, In
obedience to the summons OF the COMMITTEES. came
into Westport from the Territory. and to he pres
ence they fled of In regular arrsy and weat into
Committee 70 Kansas City and there saw con.
nsny of "Clay County Boys" cross the Missouri
kiver on their way into the Territory. These iscs:
are notorious. And cay further, that no candid
man MO win take the trouble to look into the sec'
tmonv of the 500 witnesses contained In this BOOK
iKaDsas Report), Q majority Of whom are ITO
slavery men, can arrive at any other ooocIe"on ~
than that In every transaction ~ sac hc.n"y ~
Kansss. from its organization TO this mo@eot c'u'
rem, Of Miseour have participated, and have over
ruled the citizens of the Territory. ms isc' nee
heen nroyen by FREQ state wifnessee and ~ FRO
Slavery witnesses, and % clearly that the oniywy
r. meet Il II either by evasion or general denial;
and the very laws which these armed couPso'es
went over 70 enforce were passed BY Aesis'ssurc
elected by citizens Of Missouri.
chnsstts slso interfere. Why, Sir, the citizens Of
Msssscbusstts are stopped on the greet national
hiohvsya on their way to Kansas. Emigran@
frem tie Northern States have been stopped ~
hodi.s of armed men ut Lexington and ct other
no;nts on the Missouri River. and sent back. Are
these highways national or are they seSuonIi
Have the people Of the Northern states the nsns
to 90 there or not If co. why 10 1t that peaccisl
sm;crsnts aefkine homes in kaDsas are waylaid,
searched and robbed even, in tho streets OF towns,
vbile armed bordersrs are cheercd with applaud
inc shouts on their way from Missouri into the Ter
ritory to "enforce the laws"
NJ McMullen of Virginia defended the Terri
torial laws and charged that they were tho md.
r, ct productions Of the movements ma 10 IN Nofta
ern States, especially in Massachusetts,, 70 cend
freemen to that Territory tn mold 10 insutusIons
after the fashion of New.England; to prevent
SLAVERY from going in there, to make 1t Free
State. and thus defeat the object Of the Kansas.
Nebrsska bill. He was replied to 10 the following
brilliant and lacouic speech, which u 700 go"d 70
be lost, and send you every word OF u ee'se"~:
The Apglo-Saxon language was never better used
in the Same number of WORKS.
Mr.. CHAIRMAN: I am not surprised to zee the mem
he,s On the other eide of the House inclined TO shoulder
aud make their own the outrageous laws enacted by
the LIZ gslsture, 70 called, Of ksnses am willing 70
see them do It. IN accordance WITH their incunaHon,
for these laws theirs, and are but the necess se
oue of the original plct In the repeal OF the Aissoun
Compromite, to make Kansas a Sldre STATE. Those
Who did that act should to be consistent sus thee
laws a. they but the production and reeut Of the
act Of 1884 But is said In this discussion thns IL the
amendment Of my colleague mr. Bsrhour) be adopted,
that there will be no law IN kansas put Md isW.
This Is not connect. The laws OF the United c,.tes,
lot locally applicable in full force there a. IN al
'p peat T,n mob las" but TO put moo lac 1oSn Iii to
prevent the President Of the Uoitsd States from con
tnuipe bis crusade agsnst the Free State mea by en-
forcing with the army OF the United Ssssss, "a sUo%
IL
ing-lsws forced upon them by Musoxri MOB. Sr,
Ia there man in t6is hail that would submit 10 usar-
patton Of bic dearest rights, aud tamely yield bis all 70
tie utuper1 Poor 10 spirit ind. ed, AID unworthy the
Rtvolutiobsry blood flowing in his VEINS TRANSMIT Ted 70
him by abcetton who wee prompt to resist sggree-
SION, would DO the American freeman VINO would DOR.
But Is gravely submed here that Freemen OF Mao:
Sos mutt do 90. The President says they must, aod
asks money at our hands to accomplish his object.
Sir he cannot hare dollar BY ny cote Jor any saet
purpose The gentleman from Virginia NJ. McMul:
charge that these laws With oil tho k4nsss troubles,
are wholly chsrgeabe to the Association formed In
the Free States to promote thu interests OF Freedom
BY settling the Territory with Free State men. Does
the gentleman from VTginis deny the right OF men
from the Free States to go aud sStte In ksesss IN ~
mailing il a Free Ststsi Has Re 20 soon foryot,sa
that our fathers decla cd that should be free fro
TIE cure Of Ssvery-not until 1884, bat "fbrsusv."
know the Pr. sden in his Annual Message and 10 his
special Message puts 10 bis plea Of paistioa on the
same ground but Il Is plea Of pslliston Of the Goa
duct Of the Administration toward the Free-Ssats
men. There men are American citizens, aud they
teiA hare the protection to rkicA they arc entitled,
not x0 at e termination of the prescnf Admisisr0.l
tox. We too in the North, viii have our rights and
notwithstanding the blockade Of the Missouri River
and the bgL-banded attempt to keep men from the !
North from settipg in that Territory, they Will eoi
STATE men have right 70 20 there andsettle where
they please and in such numben a. they please. and
h0s get c)ne to pass that they must con-ut tao
gen from Virginia Mr.. McMuIlenl 0rhis political
patty the President in the exercise Of that tight
NJ McMullen-I deny the right.
passsge Of the Ksness and Nebsasks act but whether
DENIED or lot they will exercse 1t bhe msa. But g.
sac at the ouset the object Of that bill c0ncluivey
shown by the opposition OF is friends to nvestigas