Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1856-10-08

recognised by tho legislation or 1860, 70 wit :
the Utah and New Mexico acts above copied. |
3d. The Kansas-N sbraska act leaves the |
PEOPLE of the TERRIToRY PERFECTLY EREE to |
regulate the question of slavery IN THEIR OWN
WAY.
We shall no further advert to the DECLARE
ton which pronounces the Missouri Compro- |
mise null and UOid," than to say, that the
basis Of the Compromise Of 1860, as to the
Territories, was certainly wholly inconsistent
with, or variant from, the Missouri COmpro-
mise yet they severalIy related to different
Territories. But it is due to fairness and JUS
tice, that the authors Of the Kansas Nebras-
ka act should be stripped Of that 6orToW-
ed pIunage, in which they have Strutted oUer
the land, claiming that they had established
the principle Of estate equality" in that act The
very act ITSELF on its face, gives the lie to their
impudent claim, for it pronounces the Missouri
act "nuI and UOid, J" not by reason of any new
legislation of theirs, but by reason of its being
inconsistent with that principle Of noninter-
yention by Congress with slavery, which was
recognised in the Compromise measures Of
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Willard Fillmore, and which he spprovedl The
Utah and New Mexico acts introduced the prin-
ciple Of !" State equality into the Territorial
legislation, and this was done under Fillmore
but those general disturbers of the peace,
Messrs Douglas, Cass, Dixon, and company,
were not content 10 let the country remain
quiet under this legislation, which so much re-
bounded to the honor of Mr.. Fillmore and his
| friends, but they must needs get up general
and universal excitement or'political effect, by
declaration in the Kansas-N Nebraska act
which their own premises admit, was wholly
unnecessary.
1t is undeniable-nay, it is shown by the
language of the Kansas Nebraska act-that the
credit Of establishing the principle of estate
equality" was due to tho Legislation of 1885,"
and not to the Kansas Nebraska act itself
But the Kansas. Nebraska act not only recog-
missed in the Legislation of 1850" that prin-
ciple of State equality, with which the Missouri
Compromise was inconsistent" it purposely
inaugurates that 'squatter sovereignty" abom-
ination, against which all conservative men
protest, by "leaying the people of the Terrific
ries perfectly free" to do whatever they
pleasedl Contrast this provision with the
hereinbefore cited provision of the Utah and
New Mexico acts, by which the legislation of
the Territories is subjected to the supervision
| and control of Congress- until they are pre-
pared to frame their constitutions, and decide
which provision is most likely to result in
safety to the institutions of the South
Another provision Ct the Kansas Ne braska
act win be contrasted with the legislation of
1850, and we are done with this subject.
! We have hereinbefore cited the provision in
the Utah and New Mexico acts, which con-
fines "the right of suffrage and Of holding
Office" in the Territories, to "citis6nS Of the
| United States" The justice of this restric-
ton to citizens of the United States, no sensi-
BILE and honest man will deny. But what says
the Kansas ebraska act? Section 9th Of
that act provides thus:
"That the right of suffrage and of holding office
shal be exercised by citizens of the United States
and those qoho s1aH haze declared OF oath their intea-
ton to become SUCH an shall haze taken oath TO
support the Constitution Of tie United States" n
Thus the naturalization laws, requiring five
years residence before acquiring citizenship,
were actually made null and void by that fell
spirit of demagoguism which influenced the
authors of that mobocratic, revolutionary, and
disorganizing Legislation.
1t was not enough for the authors Of that
Kansas Nebraska act TO destroy the barriers
to improvident legislation, erected in the Utah
and New Mexico bills, by subjecting their
legislation to Congressional supervision. 1t
was not enough for these political agitators
and timeservers to confer upon the "squatter
sovereigns" the right to exclude from the Ter
ritories whom they pleased and what species
Of property they pleased, by regulating their
domestic institutions IN THEIR OWN WAY" 1t
was not enough to allow those unstable classes
Of citizens of the United States" who are
usually the pioneers in settling the Territories,
to fix for all time the destiny of these embryo
States; but they must, forsooth, invite foreign
immigrants of all classes, of all characters, of.
all languages, of all customs, Of all principles
and Of no principles, the mendicant, the rob-
Der, the thief, the malefactor, the murderer, to
come hither, to take possession of our terrific
ries, and, untutored, uniformed, uninstructed,
unnaturalized, and unwsshed, to become Amer
lean freemen, American legislators, American
rulersl Was there ever more disgraceful,
more detestable, a more damnable demsgogu-
ism exhibited, in any legislation on the whole
| earth?
If the hirelings of European despots, from
every kingdom of the globe, had congregated
together for the purpose of devising the ways
and means Of undermining American institu-