Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-07-16
VOL. 2-NO. 8.
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: In TIE SENATE or THE uSIrED SrAIxs, July |
1885,
Mr.. Goiiamer, from the Committee ON Terrific
RES 70 whom Was referred tho bill Is
sl52l to authorize the people Of ,he rs,,;,ov., y
"of Kansastoform Contituion ana stste G,,,
ernment preparatory to their admission in,,
st the Union when they have the requisite pon
"nlation;" and the amendment propose
thereto by Mr.. Seward, and the amendmen
intended to be proposed by Mr.. Toombs to III,
said BILL and to whom were referred the bill
Is. S42) "to restore order and peace in Kan
sas;" the bill Is 343) Complementary to M
:. act to organize the Territories of Nebraska
"and Kansas" and the hill Is ,ssl), .tsupple
"nientary to An Act to organize the Terrific
!" ries of Nebraska aifd Kansas aud to provide
/ g for the faithful execution Of the said act in
e. the Territory OF Kansas, according to tho
1 true intent and meaning thereof submitted
the fcllowing, which was ordered to be prin.
ted, and 10000 additional copies be printed
sawith Report No. i9S: ttsg. t'ss 4e@ 4s'
II is now proposed to pass the bill to enable
the present inhabitants of Kansas to choose del.
| egates to form State Constitution. II Is well
understood that the only topic Of difficulty there,
is the subject of domestic Slavery. As there il
| not the number, OF inhabitants there to entitle
them to representative, according to the pres-
ent appointment, 1t isentirely matter Of Con.
gressional discretion whether State shall be
formed at this time. Ei ts3s - ia4tE
If the state of circumstances there he such AZ
to furnish well-founded expectation that fair,
Just andimpartial expression of the opinions and
wishes Of the actual bona fde inhabitants of ths
Territory cannot now be obtained, then this ex
pertinent should not be attempted at this Juno.
ture oftheir affairs A succint statement of re-
cent events in relation to that Territory its pre-
sent unhappy and unsettled condition and the
causes which have produced it will fully show
that no farelection ofdelegates, no just expires.
SION OF opinion, no true decision, can at present,
be there obtained ftas
In 1854, when the bill establishing the Terrific.
rial Goyernments Of Kansas and Nebraska was
passed, it was enacted that they should when
admitted as States, be admitted "with or with.
out Slavery, as their Constitutions should pro-
= 'vlde.P This, however, was not satisfactory 10
the slaveholding States, and, therefore, that pro-
vision OF the Missouri compromise which forbid
Slavery forever north of 80 deg so min. north
latitude that bill of repose for which the Slave.
holding States had received and secured forever
their consideration, and which had been sane.
toned by thirty years of acquescence, was re-
pealed, and the novel experiment was professed.
ly instituted ofsubmittng the subject to the peo-
pie who should come into the Territory. This
".
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 be perfectly free to form and re.
gulate their domestic institutions in their own
way"
Relying on this last national assurance, many
people from Free States, as well as from Slave
States, settled in Kansas; and how has that as.
surance been kept! Neither the Executive nor
Congress redeemed that plighted faith or execu-
TED that law. state, from information which
regard as entirely reliable, and as facts which
believe capable OF the most unquestionable
proof, which can at any time be presented, that
of the 6,33l votes cast in March, 1855, for the
election of the Legislative Assembly of Kansas,
1927 of them were cast by armed bands Of the
inhabitants of Missouri, who invaded Kansas for
that purpose on that occasion that only l,4IO
legal votes were cast, and q majority of those
we're for the Free State candidates, though most
OF the Free-State voters were driven from the
polls. This invasion extended to all the Coun.
Gil Districts, and to al! the Representative Dis
tricts but one, and elected and controlled large
majority of both Houses. The people of the
Territory have not been left free, but have been
invaded and subjugated, and they are, and their
institutions have been controlled by the people
of Missouri, through and by the tyrannic laws en-.
acted by that Assembly, and more tyranically
enforced by the officers by them appointed
These laws, SO made by usurpation, the Execu-
tive of this Government has aided to enfoFe, and
in Congress no relief has been granted. The
Complaints and representations of this us,irpa-
ton and peryersion of the organic act have been
here as complaints Of mere irregu-
larity, and been treated by the Senate with ap-
parent indifference and neglect as no measures
even OF inquiry into their truth has been insttu-
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The people of Kansas, thus oppressed and sub
lugated, have complained and shrugged in vain.
They have done as they understood the people
of other Territories had done before them that
is formed State Constitution, inviting all to
participate therein, and presented the same to
Congress for admission. All such attempts have
but brought down on them the reproach of be.
in. traitors and subverters OF authority ''as
Abandoned to their oppressors, the Free
State people of Kansas have been pursued by
them in the same spirit which made the invasion.
The acts of said Assembly have by their officers
been made the color for all forms of political per-
secution and oppression. Indictments for con-
structive treasons and pretended nusances de-
prye them of liberty and destroy their proper
ty. Under the form of Sherif7s posses, armed
bands of people from without the Territory
prowl over it and take and destroy property and
people These people have thus, for several
months past, been harrassel and scattered, and
any attempt at scf-defense has been repressed
by the army Of the United States or been de-
clared constructive treason" and treated ac-
The settlers have thus in large mum.
bers been driven from their settlements and from
the Territory. This is but brief and feeble
statement Of the facts. A full picture of the
public atrocities and private violence which have
been committed with impunity upon the Free
State people of Kansas would excite and arouse
the deepest sentiment Of indignation. ..
1t would seem to be demanded by a sense of
common justice, and by what this nation owes
we'll to the cause of truth az to its own charac-
ter and self-respect, thatinquiry should be made,
and usurpation be subdued, and the public faith
be redeemed, by redressing all the wrongs pro
duced by such means. This is not proposed,
nor is the law of repose to be restored, or the
Constitution already formed to be allowed
But instead OF this, it is now proposed to con-
summate the whole by leaving nsurpation in pos
session of its power, and provide no security for
those they imprison oppress, and dispense, but
provide that those there, and those only,
shall determine the definite condition of that
Territory by now forming State Constitution.
This is but to encourage violence by rewarding
it with success. That any result of such an ex-
pertinent will produce definite rational peace and
satisfaction, is to suppose the people of this coun
try, blind to the power of ordinary discernment,
or lost to every sentiment Of justice and human
ity. j. COLLAMER.
oURCIrr.-The rapid growth of western cities,
is not only subject of astonishment to the peo-.
pie OF the rising sun country" but often causes
something akin to wonder in the denizens Of
the "fast" cities themselves. Although the ad-
yances of Mount Pleasant have been such as to
surprise even the most sanguine, yet there is
nothing unhealthy in her growth. The business
and population Of this city rapidly and steadily
increases, and fixed upon a substantial basis;
there is a brilliant future before her, which the
lapse of time will deveIope. ais ,1r
census of the city has just been taken, from
which we gather the following statistics:
Number of Dwellings in the city Asn