Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1856-09-18
Piercc,s Kansas Policy.

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FranAia NILS, .Jaly %, 1856.
Pierce,s Kansas Policy.
The report of the Kansas Committee of
their interview with the President, must
dissipate the last poubt, if any remained,
that the sn5jugatioa policy is to be adhered
to, and tie Infamous enactments are TO be
enforced by the whole powers Of the Gen
eral Government. His executive Golfers
are now replenished by the Sl4,00O,000
military appropriation-the army and the
military chest are HIS, and now that Con
gress has Adjourned he has no coneeaiment
of hispurpose to use them we ASK at
tention to the careful narrative OF the inter
view bv Messrs. Hyatr, Army and Daniels.
Some people were innocent enough to
imagine that change was medltated, and
TINT there could be no set purpose to use
for the enforcement of the Kansas code, the
means wlich-the Senate and the Buchan-
an-and-tillmore-frlsion majority in the
House placed in his hands for that purpose.
They supposed the pertinaeious adherence
of the Senate Oh the ARMY Bill was upon
a point of honor OF scruple of Parliamen-
ry practice. They could not believe that
enactments made by alspurious a and intru-
sire Legislature of non-residents; 50 afro
ciors in their character as these, and SO
Epalpably in violation of the Constitution; !;
so utterly contrary to all notions of law
that no man, even in the Senate, could de-
fend them, would be sustained and carried
into effect. sr1 .i.u ...-. .-55a-.l s.- rr
In the different discussions in the Sen
ate, the strongest administration Senators
had denounced them. ,fd
Mr.. Cass declared them -disgraceful to
the age"Mr. Houston repeated with even
more emphasis and point the same opir-
ion. Mr.. Douglas, himself, in his last
speech, admitted that many Of them We're
'.repugnant to the Constitution" i ,u8
j In the debate in the Senate on the 9th
ult., Senator Weller distinctly affirmed
that some of the Kansas laws 'violate not
only the organic law, but the Constitution
of the United States''-that ''they are oP-
PREssIvE, and us ATRoCioUs and INFAMOUS
rs any laws which ever found their way
upon the statute book of any free people
IN ANY AGE OF AHE WORLD" He .was
therefore anxious; to wipe out the obnox-
ious laws from the statute books as INFA-
NOUS AND liTRoUoUs IN THEIR eHARAC-
TER" F.. .-...- .. .l,..s ,- rr.-.e tos
Mr.. Bayard, of Delaware, Democrat) said !:
He (Mr. BayardD .'regarded Mr.. Weller's
bill as Of mo more effect than. a. declaration
of rights, and as such could vote for it,"
He was free to admit that "some Of the
ldms of KaRsas were shochingto the NOR
al sense Of tie community, andAthat some
of them inveded national rights. Such
laws he was willing to abrogate, because
that was the only way in which Congress
could act - raf s@i,ii .- a- -
Senator Brown, of Mississippi, in the
same debate, speaking Of the Kansas laws,
said: s.. "si Ell. ia' p 7d '.@' '.---'
;"Some of them were thought unjust
and might be considered outrageous to the
minds of some Senators, but was that any
reason why Congress should interpose to
prevent their execution The people who
make their own laws ought to be the best
Judges of what was needed; and after Con
gress had delegated that right, it ought
not now to step in and overt brow it." .ai
Senator Butler, of South Carolina, and
Mason, of Virginio, expressed substantially
the same views with thoseaof Mr.. Brown.
Mr.. Mason did not attempt to defend the
Kansas laws, but he expressly said that he
would not vote for their repeal, until at
least the House of Representatives, SHOULD
be reduced TO submission and forced to
desist" from. the stand they had taken in
regard to the Army Bill. .5lal
The New York Egeaiag Post, while the
Army Bill was pending, well and forcibly
SAID:
''Why, we ask, this pertinacious oppo-
sition on the part of the Senate to the pro-
viso of the House? We will answer in a.
those Kansas laws enforced. Tho most of
fansive of them are understood to have
originated in Washington; they were de
signed to prevent emigration into Kansas
from the Free States, and to keep the po-.
litical control of the Territory in Southern
hands. Their authors now find that the
power of the General Government is ne
cessary to enforce them, and while they
are ashamed to make any defence of their
atrocious provisions, the obstinate resist
ance which the Senators make to any pro
posal which contemplates the possibility of
their being modified, reveals the fact that
they took upon those la,cs as citalfy neces-
sary 10 tie supremacy Of tie .Slacery IN
teresi IN koAs0S."
The Army Bill with the restrictive pro-
viso stricken out, has passed-the Congress
has adjourned without acting upon that
Draconian code of Kansas; and now the
President coolly tells the peaple of Kansas
there will be no change in the policy of
the administration towards Kansas. "No!
SIRs, NONE" i-'H'-'f, 7-I a"
! Douglas declared that these laws "SHALL
BE EXECUTED SO LONG AS THEY REMAIN
UPON THE STATUTE Book" The Presi-
dent now says the same thing. Thus the
real purpose of the Southern men in re-
sisting the Army Bill proviso is made
plain. They knew their man. ClerHerold. |