The Davenport daily gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1869, 1856-08-02

very Happy aAQStohe W Wo oosssSs AS~"-
elas, bill. Nh. Hale admits, asevery body
else does, that considering its authorship,
the bill il apparently Air one, but its con-
trolling feature, and the provision which ut
terly destroys all its outside show Of fair
ness, is the one which empowers the Presi-
dentao appoint the commissioners who are
to undertake the proposed paciication Of
Kansas. That Territory has been brought
to its present condition by the permission
efthe Presiden,,--by the active instrumen.
tally of his nominal subordina,es but virtual
superiors. Can any man OF common sense
believe that the very persons who have
committed the enormous iniquities CON-
planned Of are the proper ones to be in,rust-
ed with their recti6cation! Yet this is pre-
eisely what is proposed by this deceitsul
| bill, and this point ought to be particularly
remembered, as even in our own county,
great pains are taken by the pro-siavery
speakers to make capital out OF the sham
proposition of some Of the most strenuous
| and INSCRIPTIONS Shareholders in Congress.
| The Nats Democrat has published the bill
| in full but all that is necessary to answer
the bill itself, or any Of the specious falsi-
Ties OF its supporters. is simply to state the
| persons whom the bill proposes to employ
| for lis execution. If all the people who
have emigrated to Kansas had been permit
ted to stay there in the enjoyment Of their
constitutional rights, the Toombs-Dougias
| bill might have been very proper mode
| Tor initiating State government in that
Territory; hut when it is the notorious fact
| that the free State men have been driven out
of the Territory by the hired rutiians of the
slave power, that many of them have been
| Imprisoned on sham charges OF treason,
that the Territory at this day is under
the complete control of the prime movers
OF the original and existing iniquity, and
that il is intended to keep it so during the
time the commissioners would act should
the proposed bill become law, il is nothing
but the most insulting mockery to talk any
thing about the fairness of this latest de-
yelopment in the premedtated scheme OF
lawlessnesss, outrage and general rapine,
which has been fomeuted and carried on in
Kansas by the Pierce administration and its
Southern masters The exuict from Mr.
Hale's speech SAYS
"But, sir, do not want to dwell on that
subject, but 10 speak very few words in
reference 10 this bin which has been intro
duced BY the Senator from Georgia. take
this occasion to say that the bill. as
whole, does credit TO the magn animiiy,
| 10 the patriotism, and TO the sense OF justice
OF the honorable Senator who introduced it.
| 1t is a much fairer bill than l expected
| from that latitude. | say so because | am
| always willing and determined, when
have occasion to speak any thing, to do am
pie Justice. | think the bill is almost IN
| exceptionable; and If it could be put in
the hands of agents who would carry it out
| faithfully think it would be less excep-
,ionabIe Than il now appears to be; but you
| will perceive that il is committed to the
| presen, Administration to carry it cut; and
| the action Of that Administration in the al
| fairs 0 ( Kansas, whatever else may be said
| Of il, | can say, and nobody can deny il, has
not been such as 10 inspire any confidence
in me. have no confidence at all in them,
and that is one Of the objections TO the bill.
| One feature that hail with great salts
faction and great qualification in this bill is,
/ what seems to me TO be the repudiaiion OF
what speak very respectfuliy-I have
looked upon as one Of the greatest humbugs
| Of the day; and that is the doctrine OF pop
ular sovereignty. do not mean any dis
respect TO anybody who feels sensitive on
tina, subject; | speak rather Of the con-
struetion that has been put upon it by the
strange hands into which it has fallen, and
not OF The doctrine itself, as it is regarded
By one who is supposed TO be the author
OF IT, This bill, l think, cuts that up root
and branch, because it does not allow the
people in Kansas to have any discretion
there at all; it does not allow them to say
who shall vote or what shall be the evidence
of mans being entitled 10 vote; nor it
does not allow them to sit and receive the
votes, but il takes the whole thing into the
| hands OF Congress, where il appropriately
| belongs. Il takes this little child, called
''squatter sovereignty" which has been an
| apprentice in the family but u little while,
and has not seemed TO answer the purpose ;
for which il was intended, and turns it out,
throws ii away
1t will be seen by the second paragr aph
Of this extract, that as far as the proposed
bill has any influence, the humbug of"squat.
ter sovereignty" is effectually exploded
| We have no expectation that the bill will
be permitted 10 pass the House, but the
pro-slavery Buchanan majority in the Sem
ate has placed itself on the record against
the pet political bantling Of the hero Of
| Hulis sur 'ender, and it is some consolation,
in view OF the political iniquities which
have characterized the past four years, to
reaec, on the comfortable feelings which
Gen. Cass must have experienced in wit.
Messing the deliberate killing of, by hi.
oRn party, Of the cherished offspring of hi:
lsborious scheming. Cass' demagogism has
been principal cause in producing oul
presen, territorial difficulties, and we have
no desire TO deny the pleasure with which
we regard his final discontinue.
The original Douglas bill never INTENDED q
fair application Of the doctrine of popular
sovereignty. The deceitful substitute con
eocted by Toombs totally repudiates ana
discards it. Both of the bills and thei
authors, viii soon be again condemned by
. the Representatives OF the people; ant
again more effeetually, and we may hop,
finally, consigned to oblivion by the peOpl
themselves.
The N. Y. Herald says it is rumored tina
the employees in the Custom House an
Post Office, commanding about two thou
sand votes, are contemplating bolt from
buchanan TO Fremont
FRIGHTENED The New York Heral,
says
"The Democracy are pretty thoroughly
| frightened. The ferocious war they are
making upon Fremoni-the terrible houn'
! derings of Mr.. Douglas and Company with
their Kansas bills,-and, lastly, the Wash.
ington conspiracy 10 anticipation of having
the election carried up to Congress--sl
show that the usually "unterrifed Democ.
racyn are badly scared. And well may they
be; for all the old party land marks are
| done away with, the masses Of the people
have liberated themselves from the shackles