The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-06-03

pafts. were bent the ubtlest energies, and never
nom Tuba Cain to this hour. was any fabric Forged
with more desperate skill aud complotoueB.
Marx, sr, three different Legislative enactments
which constitute part Of this work. First, accord
Ing TO one act. all who deny, by spoken written
Ierr1tory,' are denounced as feons to be punished
by imprisonment at hard labor for term not less
than TWO years; 1t may be for life. And to show
the extravaganza of thus injustice, it has been well
put by the Senator from Vermont (Mr Collamer),
that should the Senator from Michigan (Mr. Cass)
VINO believes that slavery cannot exist IN Territory
unless introduced by express Legislative acts-ven-
ture there with his moderate opinions. his doom
must he that of ielon To this extent are the
great liberties OF speech and OF the press subverted.
Secondly, by another act entitled IAN Act con-
corning Attorneys at Law 40 person can prac-
use as an attorney unless he shall obtain a
Incense nom The Territorial courts, which OF
course Iyrannicai discretion will he free TO deny;
ahd si'er obtaining such license, he is constrained
totake ar cath, not OILY Ito support" the cousttu-
tioh oy inc United States, but also Ito support and
tol1ai act ana the Fugitive Slave BILL thus erecting
test Tor the function of the bar calculated to ex
ci,de yluzens who honestly regard that latter egis-
ih'Ne eh"fmty as unit to be obeyed. And, thirdly,
~ aho fer act entitled An act concerning jurors"
al persons "conscientiously opposed TO holding
slaves, or mot admitting the right to hold slaves
Ia me territory" are excluded from the jury on
every question, civil or criminal arising out OF as
moning OF the jury is left without on word of re-
strant. to "the marshal, sheriff or other officer"
who are thus free to pack it :ording to their tyran
ncal discretion.
For the ready enforcement of all statutes against
human freedom the President had already furnished
powerful quota Of officers, in the Governor Chief
Justice Judges, Secretary, Attorney, and Marshal.
The Legislature completed this part of the work by
constituting in each county Board of Commission
ers, composed OF two persons, associated with the
Probate Judge, whose duty it is to appoint county
treasurer coroner justices of the peace constables
and all other officers provided for by law" and then
LOCATING and ditdsing their usurped power, and
tyrannically imposing upon the Territory crowd Of
officers IN whose appointment the people have had
no voice, directly or Indirectly.
And still the final memorable work remained A
Legislature, renovated in both branches, could not
assemble until 1853, so that during this long inter-
mediate period, this whole system must continue in
the likeness OF law, unless overturned by the federal
government or in default of such interposition by
generous uprising OF an oppressed people But it
was necessary to guard against the possibility of
Charge, even tardily, at future election; aud this
was done by two different acts; under the first Of
which all who will not take the cath to support the
Fugitive Slave bill are excluded from the elective
franchise; and under the second OF which all others
are entitled to vote who shall tender tax of one
dollar to the Sheriff on the day of election; thus,
by provision of Territorial law, DISTINGUISHING ali
opposed to slavery and at the same time opening the
door to the votes of the INVADERS by an unconstitu-
tional shibboeth excluding from the polls che mass
of actual settlers, and by making the franchise de-
the mas of borderers from Missouri Thus, by ty-
rannica iorethOught the usurpation not only f0rti-
fed all that it did, but assumed sefperpetuating
energy.
Thus was the crime contaminated, Slavery now
stands erect clanking its chains on the Territory Of
Kansas, surrounded by a code of death and tramp
ling upon all cherished liberties whether of speech,
the press the bar the trial by jury. or the electoral
franchise. And, sir, all this has been done, not
merely to introduce q wrong which in itself is a
denial of all rights, and in dread of which mother
has lately taken the lite OF her offspring; not mere
y as has been sometimes said to protect slavery in
Missouri, since it is futile for this State to complain
Of freedom on the side of Kansas when freedom ex.
lists without complaint on the side of Iowa, and,
ALSO on the side Of Illinois; but it has been done for
the sake Of political power, in order to bring two
new slaveholding Senators upon this floor, and
thus to fortify in the national government the
desperate chances of waning oligarchy. AS
the ship, .voyaging on pleasant summer seas,
is assailed by pirate crew, and robbed for
the sake Of its doubloons and dollars, so is
this beautiful Territory now assailed in its peace and
prosperity, and robbed in order to wrest its political
power to the side of slavery. Even now the black
flag Of the land pirates from Missouri waves at the
masthead in their laws you hear the pirate YELL and
see the fash Of the pirates knife; while incredible
to relate the President gathering the slave power
at his back, testites pirate sympathy.
Sir, all this was done in the name OF popular soye
reignty And this is the close of the tragedy Popu
lar sovereignty, which when truly understood, is a
fountain of just power has ended in popular slavery
not merely in the subsection of tho unhappy African
race but OF this proud Caucasian blood which you
boast. The profession with which you began, Of
"All by the people" has been lost in the eiched
reality Of Nothing for the people" Popular sove-
reignty IN whose decetful name plighted faith was
broken, and an ancient landmark Of freedom was
overturned now lifts itself before u.s. like SIM in the
terrible picture of Milton
Tat seemed woman to the waist aud fair,
But enned foul, IN many . scaiy told,
Vuluminous and vAst-A LerpenI armed
With mortal sting; about her middle round
A cry Of hell hounos never ceasng barked
With wide Cerberean mouths full i0ud, and ruug
Ah,deous peel; yet when they list, would creep,
Ii aught dis turbed their oise, in 0 her womb,
And lenne there yet there stu barked and hoxlsd,
The image is complete at all points; and, with
this exposure, take my leave o. the crime against
Kansas.
II. Emerging from all the blackness Of this crime
in which we seem to have been lost, rs in savage
wood, and turning our backs upon it, as upon desc
lation and death, from which, while others have
suffered we have escaped, come now to the apollo
giles which the crime has found. Sir, well may you
start at the suggestion that such series of wrongs
70 clearly proved by various testimony, so openly
confessed by the wrong doers, and 80 widely recog
missed throughout the country, should find apologies
But the partisan spirit, now, as in other days. hest
tates at nothing. The great crimes Of his DRY have
Bartholomew, which you now instinctively con-
denim, was, at the time applauded in high quarters,
and even commemOrated by Papal medal, which
may still be procured at Rome as the crime against
Kansas, which is hardly less conspicuous in dreadful
emiLence, has been shielded on this floor by exte
nuatng words, and even by Presidential message
which, like the Papal medal can never be forgotten
in considering the madness and perveysity of men.
Sir, the crime cannot be denied. The President
himself has admitted illegal and reprehensible'
conduct. To such conclusions he was compelled by
irresistible evidence; but what he mildly describes
openly arraign. Senators may affect to put it asd,
by sheer, or to reason it away by figures or to ex
plain it by theory, such as despe ate invention ha
produced on this floor that the assassins and Thugs
OF Missouri were in reality citizens of Kansas; bu
all the efforts 80 far as made, are only tokens o
the weakness of the cause, while to the 0rigina
crime they add another offence of false testimony
against innocent and suffering men. But the apollo
gies for the crime worse than the efforts at denial
In cruelty and heartlessness they identify their
thors with the great transgression.
They are four in number, and four-fold in charac
ter. The first is the apology tyrannica; the second
the apology imbecle; the third the apology absurd
and the fourth the apology infamous. This il all