Washington sentinel., 1856-03-27
JUDGE DOUGLAS AND MIR. ooLLAmER.

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required by him in his subsequent speech TO
overthrow the adverse positions assumed IN
the report of the minority Of the same com
mittee.
The minority report was made by Mr.. Cola
mer, and is thought to be his production en-
tirey, or nearly so.
The Douglas report not only sets forth facts,
but also the evidence by which the facts were
arrived at.
The Colamer report makes statements un-
supported by evidence and irreconcilable with
the evidence set forth by the majority.
The evidence set forth in the majority report
is so conclusive against the statements made
in Collamer's report, that it was thought best
or most prudent to suppress IN the latter the
evidence set forth in the former.
Had the evidence produced by the majority
been introduced into the Collamer report In
iuxta- position with the statements therein
contained, broad grin must have spread itself
over the faces of that gentleman's best friends
ia the Senate.
The evidence set forth in the majority report
being the testimony of Mr.. Collamers own po-
ltical friends, it could not, without great awk
wardness, be impeached by him. 1t was sup
pressed.
That this was done is charged and proven
in Judge Douglass speech
The facts set forth in the majority report are
proven by the message and other official papers
and acts Of Governor Reeder, and by the de-
bates Of the Topeka convention, and such like
testimony of the enemy-the friends Of MIR.
Collamer.
Mr.. Collamer, in his report treated the
movement Of the Freesoil party in Kansas as
if it we're peaceable assemblage of the people
to petition the government for redress of griev-
ances.
This position, as Judge Douglas showed in
his speech, could not stand with the evidence
which the majority had set forth, and the mi
nority suppressed.
We extract from the majority report por.
ton only of the evidence which the minority
of the committee thought it wise to suppress.
"Resolutons adopted at the Territorial Dele
gate Convention which assembled at the Big
Springs on the 9Th of September:
s.Resolred, That this convention, in view of
its recent reputation of the acts of the So
called Kansas legislative assembly, respond
most heartily to the call made by the peoples
convention of the l4th ultimo, for delegate
convention of the people of Kansas, to be held
at Topeka on the 10Th instant, to consider the
propriety Of the formation of State consttu-
ton, and such matters as may legitimately
come before it.
''Resolred, That we owe no allegiance or
obedience to the tyrannical enactments of this
spurious legislature; that their laws have no
validity or binding force upon the people of
Kansas and that erery freeman among US rs
at fuH liberty, consistently with his obligations
as q citizen and man, to defy and resist them
if he choose so to do.
'ReSolred, That we will endure and submit
to these laws no longer than the best interests
Of the Territory require, as the least of two
evils, aud will resist them TO A BLOODY
ISSUE as soon as we ascertain that peaceable
remedies shall fail and forcible resistance shall
furnish any reasonable prospect of success; and
that IN the meantime we recommend to our
friends throughout the Territory the orgrnizd-
tion and discipline Of rolu,lteer companies, and
the procurement and preparation Of arms"
After setting forth fiery speech of Governor
Reeder, in which he says :" we must conquer or
mingle the bodies Of the oppressors with those
of the oppressed" the majority report displays
the secret oaths, ceremonies, and ritual of the
Kansas Legion" and the violent revolution
airy speeches at the Topeka convention, to
none Of which the minority report makes re
ference.
Without the suppression of this evidence,
(from the mouths Of their own friends,) surely
the minority of the committee could not have
ventured to intimate that the Aboltionists Of
Kansas in doing as they have done, we're only
exercising the constitutional "right Of the
people peaceably to assemble and to petition
the Government for a redress Of grievances"
Words must lose their force, or change their
meaning, before this position Of the minority
can be sustained.
Having considered one by one all the points
Of difference between the majority and minority
reports, Judge Douglas, in conclusion, took up
the one point an 0hich both reports agreed. He
called the special attention of the Senate to
this one point, which had reference 70 The cansc
Of the disturbances in Kansas.
As TO what was the cause from which origi.
mated all the i'll feeling, the violence and blood.
shed in Kansas, both reports agreed
The majority report has the following:
Combinations in one section OF the Union
to stimulate an unnatural and false system OF
emigration, with the view of controlling the
elections, and forcing the domestic institutions
Of the Territory 10 assimilate to those Of the
non-slaveholding States, were followed, as might
have been foreseen, by the use Of similar
means, in the slaveholding States, to produce
directly the opposite result. To these causes,
and to these alone, in the opinion Of your com.
mttee, may be traced the origin and progress
Of all the controversies and disturbances with
which Kansas is now convulsed.
"If these unfortunate troubles have resulted
as natural consequences from unauthorized and
improper schemes OF foreign interference with
the internal affairs and domestic concerns of