The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1856-07-16

J1dyc Cslinmerss socona Mlnoris
Report o. Kansas.
IN THE SENATE or I'm UMrrKD STATES, July !
1856.
Mr.. Collsner, from the Committee on Terri
tories, - whom was recommended the hi
Is l7z) to authorize the people Of. til
| Territory Of Kansas to form . Consttu
| ton and State Government preparatory /
! their admission into the Union when the
have the requisite population; and th
amendment proposed thereto By Mr.. Sew
ard, and tho amendment inte1ded to b
proposed BY Mr.. Toonbs to the said bill
and to whom were referred tho bill Is
342) to restore order and peace in kansas
the bill 5 343) supplementary to an &C
TO organize tue Territories Of Nebrask,
and Kansas; and the bill Is. 35l) supple
,mentary TO MI act 70 organize tie Terri
tories Of Nebraska and Kansas, and t.
provide for tho faithful execution of tn,
said net in tbs Territory of Kansas, &C.
cording to tho true intent and meaning
thereof, submitted the following, which
was ordered to be printed, and 10000 ad-
ditional copies lie printed with Report No
1873:
1t 10 now proposed to pass the bill to en-
able the present inhabitants Of Kansas to
choose delegates to form State Constitu-
ton. 1t is wei, understood that the only
topic OF difficulty there, is the subject of do
mestic slavery. AS there is not the number
Of inhabitants there to entitle them to rep
resentative, according to the present Appor-
tionment, it is e.!tirely matter of Congress
sional discretion whether q State shall be
formed Ut this time.
Ii the state Of circumstances there be
such rs to furnish a well-foundei ex-
pectation that fair, just, and impartial ex-
precision OF the opinions and wishes of the
actual bona fde inhabitants Of the Territory
cannot now he obtained, then this experi-
mont should not be attempted at this Juno
ture of their affairs. A succinct statement
OF recent events in relation to that Terri
tory, its present unhappy and unsettled con-
dition, and the causes which produced it,
will fully show that no fair election of dele
gates, no just expression Of opinion, no true
decision, can, al present, be there obtained.
In 1854, when the bill establishing the
Territorial Government Of Kansas and Ne
hraska was passed, it was enacted that they
should, when admitted as States, be admit
ted " with or without slavery, as their Con-
ssitutious should PROVIDE" This, however,
was not satisfactory to the Slaveholding
States, and, therefore, that provision of the
Missouri Compromise which forbid Slavery
forever north Of 80 deg. 80 min. north lsti-
tude, that bill OF repose for which the Slave
holding States had received and secured for
ever their consideration, and which had been
sanctioned by thirty years Of uc4uiescence,
was repealed, and the novel experiment was
professedly instituted Of submitting the sub
lect - the people who should come into the
Territory. This was done to admit Slavery
into the Territory, which that compromise
forbade. This breach Of faith was effected
by making another plight of faith. that is,
by providing that the settlers Of Kansas
should DC perfectly free to form and regu-
late their domestic institutions in their own
way.
Relying on this last national assurance.
many people from Free States, rs well as
from Slave States, settled in Kansas: and
now has that assurance been kept? Neither
The Executive nor Congress has redeemed
that phgh.ed faith or executed that law.
state from information which regard as en-
'irely reliable, AMI as facts which believe
capable OF the most unquestionnble proof,
which can at any time be presented, that Of
The G,33l votes cast in March, 1855, for the
election of the Legislative Assembly of
AIhsas, 4,92l Of them were cast by armed
bands OF the inhabitants Of Missouri. who
INVADED Kansas for that purpose on that &C.
'Asion that only l,4lO legal votes were
.ast, and majority OF those were for the
rec State candidates, though most Of the
Free State voters were driven from the polls.
Ihis INVASION extended to all the Council
districts, and to all the Representative Dis
ricts but one, and elected aud controlled |
arge majority OF both Houses. The people |
u the Territory have not been left free, but
AVE been invaded and subjugated, and they
ire, and their institutions have been. c,n
rolled by the people Of Missouri, through
nd by the tyrannic laws enacted BY that As |
embly, and more tyrannically enforced by
he oihcers by them appointed. These laws.
70 made by usurpation, the Executive of
ms Government has aided to enforce, and in
congress no relief has been granted. The
complaints and representations OF this usur-
patton and perversion Of the organic &C,
AVE been represented here a. complaints of
mere irregularity, and been treated by the
senate win apparent Indifference and me-
slcct, ~ no measure even Of INQUIRY into
heir truth has been instituted
The people OF Kansas, thus oppressed aud
'ubJusAted, have complained ana struggled
"a vain. They have done rs they understood
The people OF other territories had done be.
lore them that Is, formed State Constitu.
''on, invltins all 10 participate therein, and
presented The same to Congress for admis-
SION. Ali such attempts have but brought
down on them the rcproach Of being traitors
aud sabsertcrs Of authority.
Ab'rdoned to their opprcssors, the Free
State people of Kansas have been nursued
BY them in the same spiri; which made the
INVASION. The acts of said Assembly have
~ their officers been made the color for all
forms OF political persecution and oppres-
''on Indictments for constructive treasons
aud pretended nuisances deprive them OF
iberty and destroy their property. Under
he form Of SheriH7s posses, armed bands Of