St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-10-30

gives from that record the follow
ing amendment as proposed by Mr.
Collamer, of Vermont
"And be it further enacted, That un
til the people of said Territory shal
form a constitution and State govern
mcnt and be admitted into the Uniol
under the provisions of this act there
1 shall be neither slarery nor inrotuntar,
serritudc in said Isrritoryotherwise thar
in punishment of crimes whereof the
party shall have been fully convicted
Provided always, That any person es
Gaping into the same from whom labor
or service is lawfully claimed in any
State, such fugitive may be lawfully
reclaimed and conveyed to the person
claiming his or her service or labor as
aforesaid"
Here then we see Republican sena.
tors, for the sake of peace in Kansas,
willing to extend the fugitive slave
law so obnoxious to the north, over
that Territory, which amendment was
voted down by Democratic senator's
simply because slarcry was prohibited
until the people formed a constitution
and State government, and were ad-
mitted into the Union under the pro-
visions of their own act. There's
more slavery extension for you. How
deeply do the Democracy "deplore the
state of affairs in Kansas"
Our attention is next called to the
speech of S. A. Douglas, which, by the
way, is not a bill passed by the senate
and which Mr.. Vindex thinks is incon-
trovertible and which no senator had
the audaeity" to undertake to rcfutc.
Heavens {! what a giant the little fel-
low must be, even in the senate cham
Der no one was bold enough to refutc
him. We presume, however, that Mr..
Vindex thinks they might have been
eaned for their audacity. But let us
sec what the little chap says:
Is it really true that you are anx-
ious to get rid of these obnoxious
laws? If it were true with your Or
ganized majority in the other House
sufficiently numerous and well-trained
to defeat the appropriation bills and
stop the wheels Of government, could
you not have passed bill to re-
peal the obnoxious laws? You have
not dared to pass bill to repeal them
for fear the Senate would concur and
thus dcstoy your political capital.
Mr.. Wade. The House of Represen-
tatives did pass bill, and sent it here,
repeating those very laws and the Sen
ate has never touched it.
Mr.. Douglas. What bill
Mr.. Wade. 1t is called Dunn's bill,
you commented on it before.
Mr.. Douglas. am much obliged
to the Senator for calling my atten-
ton toit. He will, l suppose, be frank
enough to withdraw part of his state
ment. l say I did touch Dunn's bill,
and not very lightly. Imade areport
upon it, and Imade speech upon it,
and I showed the character of that
bill"
But as 1, the great I don't happen
to be the Senate, Mr.. Wade's assertion
that the Senate had not touched Mr..
Dunn's bill is still unrefuted, and with
that falls to the ground the assertion
of little Dug, viz: that the House
dared not pass bill repeating the
laws of Kansas for fear the Senate
would concur.
But, Messrs. Editors, l will not tres
pass further upon your space by en-
deavoring to explain to the bluntcd
understanding Of Mr.. Vindex the in
consistences in the incontrorcytible
speech of Douglas. Bills passed by the
Senate would be another matter, but
we don't get them to rcfute. And now,
Messrs. Editors, zee believe that the
Democratic portion Of the Senate
"deeply deplore" the existing state Of
affairs in Kansas, and curse their own
folly in being instrumental in produc
ing such state of affairs, but for this
reason only, that by it, their party
has lost it's prestige defeat starcs
them in the face. They are political
ly dead. The places that know them
now will soon know them no more
the once great and powerful Democrat
ic party Of the North is well nigh an
initiated, the assertion Of Mr. Vindea
to the contrary Notwithstanding ane
of the remains of that great part,
none more deeply deplore the change
than does Stephen A. Douglas. Ba
we must not stray too far from oul
subject and to return to Mr.. Vindex
who, after favoring us with the Hon
Senator's speech, very innocently en-
quires, "who is guilty Of eloquent TN
"truths. Have / sustained myself il
tiny assertion that the Senate desires