The daily Gate City., 1856-03-24

slave Territory, for which the whole country
suffers a depletion, in the sum of ten mil
lions of dollars. Besides, we have been
made party to the proffer, by purchase of
slaveholding territ r., at a cost OF hundreds
OF millions, when soil on the North. held by
clear title, has been quietly yielded to
foreign claimant.
Other acts less characteristics, are forgotten
IN the observation of the Kansas Nebraska
bill, which has alarmed conservatives of the
North, obliterated old party land marks, and
by the breaking of solemn compromiso,
has thrown open for the blight of slavery
territory as large as all the original States,
where now Border Rufhanism is fomenting
strife, and enacting all the incipiences of
civil war.
And where do we find the President, ele-
waited TO his chair by decisive majority ?
Disowned In his native State-rebuked in
| the Capitol, by the united voice of Con-
gressional delegation, and not able by the
proffer of honors and the use of the spoils
of office TO secure III the lower House more
than half the number who were his adher-
ents in the last Congress, and of the forty
four members from the Free States who vo-
ted for the odious Douglass bill, we notice
the return Of but eight, and those by meagre
malorities.
The following sentences were portion Of
speech Of Senator in Congress, Just re-
turned from New Hampshire, 10 which there
was, and could be no successful reply
Speaking of the President, he saws ''Ile
has no right TO designate any men who are
here under the same oath to support
the Constitution, which he has taken, as enc.
mics to that Constitution, and when he comes
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wrath, for the punishment of our national
pride, has permitted him to occupy, he
comes down from that high place into the
arena of vulgar demagogue, and strips
himself Of every thing which should clothe
with dignity the office of President of the
United States | deny the issue, | hurl II
back into his face. tell him when he un-
dcrtakes to designate these men as enemies
of the Constitution, he abuses and defames
men whose shoe latehets he il unworthy to
unite. Sir, the people of Kansas have had
to protect themselves against mob law insti-
gated by the President, and sustained by his
officials there"
Bold and truthful criticism but let the
executive character in Kansas be further
elucidated by the late honored Democratic
citizen Of Pennsy lyania, GOV. Reeder, re-
moved from Office only when unacceptable
to slave propagaudists, and now chosen del
egate to Washington by the frcemcn Of the
Territory of Kansas. He enjoyed rare op-
portunities for ascertaining the truth, and
these are his words in reply to u special ox-
ecutye meeting
''Unless the Message shall incite and stim-
ulate new iuvasions Of our Territory, and
! fresh outrages upon our citizens, it VIII
produce 10 Us no regret, as it has caused no
surprise. After having seen our people
trampled on, oppressed and robbed on the
one hand By the invaders Of their soil, and
on the other by the influence, the author
I ity, and the officers of the present Admin
istrauon; after having witnessed the cold
I blooded murder of IN unarmed and noffend-
! ing citizen by an officer OF the Administra-
/ ton, who is not only unmolested by the Jaws
and unrebuked By the President who appoint
+ ed him, but who has, perhaps, strengthened
his official tenant and enhanced his chances
Of promotion By the act; il s not at all sur
4 prising that we should, by the head Of that
Administration, be inisrepresented and per
yerted. After having seen the Chief Slagis-
/ trate, during five organized invasions Of our
| Territory unmoved BY single sympathy in
favor Of an unoffending people, innocent Of
I all wong, and laboring only to carry out
faithfully for themselves the doctrine Of self
government, and TO build up and extend the
greatness of our country-after having seen
our invaders coming upon US armed (with0ut
reprooi, if not with official permission. from
the contents Of the Arsenals Of the United
States, establishing system Of martial law
over life and property, regulated only by the
uncontrolled will Of yindictve and irrespon-
slble men-.a system under which life was
taken and property destroyed /; the highway
I obstructed: travellers seized, searched, and
Detained all the pursuits of life paralyzed,
and the destruction and determination of
whole settlements threatened and evidently
intended-backed up by the sanction and au-
thorty Of the Federal Officers, who pledge,
publicly, the cooperation of the President,
and all based upon the fact that a man en-
couraged, perhaps aided by his friends, had
made his escape from an arrest on consta-
be's peace warrant. After having thus seen
our natural and legal protectors joining in
the most atroclous measures of oppression
and wrong, il is no matter of surprise TO see
misrepresentation of our position and our
objects emanating form the same source"
To be Continued.l
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