Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1856-09-04
PASSAGE OF THE ARMY BILL.

The Army bill without the restriction, pass,
ed both houses, and Congress adjourned on
Saturday The vote nthe House on reced-
fling stood lOl yeas, to 9S nays. In theefforts
Ilmadeto compromise withthe Senate the House
had previously receded fromall contained with
in the restriction except the following prov-
That part of the military force of the United States
for the support which appr0priaons made by this
act shall lie employed in aid of the enforcement of any
act heretofore passed by the bodies claiming to he the
territorial Legislature of Kansas.
To this they adhered until Saturday, when
the Buchaners uniting with the South Amerl-
cans succeeded in outvoting the Republicans,
and the President is now at liberty to employ
the troops to drive from the Territory every
Free State settler who refuses to recognize the
validity of the Territorial laws passed by the
bogus legislature.
Against the proposition to prevent the bar
barous code of Kansas laws being enforced by
the power of the General Government, the b.
CLEANERS showed an undivided front Every
BUCHANAN man from Pennsylvania, with every
one in the House, voted against the proyiso
VIII it longer be pretended that the party
does not uphold and sanction the border ruff
fans, their excuses and enactments ? The
Republican party has sought to protect the
Free settlers in Kansas from the power of the
government welded by the infamous Pierce,
controlled and instigated by the Slave Power
The BUcHANAN party will not permit this
they declare that the laws of the Kansas leg
iSlature shall be enforced and that President
Pierce shall have full power to oppress and ty-
rannizc over all who desire to preserve Kansas
from the pollution of Slavery.
If the Buchanan party are pow determined
that PIERcEs measures shall be sustained and
his hand strengthened against the cause of
Freedom, what change for the better would be
the election of BUCHANAN prove. Now is the
time for the buchanan leaders to show their
sympathy with the cause of Freedom in Kan
saS, if they have any. Are they favoring that
cause in the least? Are not the leaders in
Congress aiding and abetting in the most da-
bolical schemes Of the Slavery-propagandsts
Are they expected to change? Upon what
assurance can we hope for such result Ger
tainly not by any position TAKEN or by pledges
given.
Even HICKMAN, who in the outset sympa-
thized with the Free State men at Kansas and
deprecated the excesses of the border ruffianS,
hoc
ton in the party, and has succumbed to the
demands of the Buchanan leaders. In solid
phalanX that party opposes every measure cal
culated to retard the spread of Slavery
JAMES BUCHANAN, if he was anything but the
t!mid, time-Serying politician he is, could not
stand before the influences that now press up
on Northern adjuncts to the Slave power
They WELD power they have never before
controlled. United at the South in determ:-
nation to force Slavery upon every foot of the
continent, they allow no man to halt who once
enlists in their cause, or looks for their sup
port. BUCHANAN has already signifed his viii
lingness to aid them in their schemes. By no
act or word has he expressed the least dssatis-
faction with the startling aggressions of the
South, committed within the last few years.
What right has the North to expect that af-
ter his election the policy of the party will be
changed, the anger of the South defed, and
the principles of Freedom be regarded with
fagor2 lie who indulges any such hope, is a
III subject for an Insane ASYLUM