Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1856-06-26
TEEE CRIME AGAINST ANJAS.
The Apologies for the Crime.
THE TRUE REMEDY.
SPEECH OF
HON. CHARLES SU II NER.
IN THE SENATE OF TIE UNITED STATE
18th and Both May, 1886.
IC )NTINCED.
OF Massachusetts,

In these inydsions, attended bv the en-
tire subversion of all Security in this Ter
ritory, with the plumber of the ba a'lot-bJx,
and the pollution OF the electoral franchise
show simply the process n unprecedeni ed
Crime. II that be the best Government
where an injury TO single citizen is resented
as an injury to the whole State, then must
our Government forfeit all ciiims 10 any
such eminence, while it leaves its citizens
thus exposed In the outrage upon the bal
lot-box, even without the Illicit fruits which
shall soon exhibit, there is peculiar crime
of the deepest dye, though subordinate t.
the final Crime, which should be prom pity
avenged. In countries were royalty is up
held. it is special offence 10 rob the crown
Jewels, which are the em5lems of that SOW
ereignly before which the loyal subject
bows, and tits treason to be fouGd in adultery
with the Queen, for in this way may false
heir be imposed upon the State; but in eur
Republic the ballot-box is the single price
less jewel of that sovereignty which we re-
spec:, and the electoral franchise, out ol
which are bora the rulers OF free people,
is the Queen whom we are to guald agains'
pollution. In this plain pres9ntment, whe-
ther as regards Security. or as regards Elec-
tions, there is en- ,uyh, slrely, without pro-
cee ding furth r, to justify the interventio /
o ConIr IS, most promptly AM completely
to throw over this oppressed people the i'm
prnetrable shield of the Constitution and
laws. Bu; the halt is not yet told,
As every point in widespread horizon
radiateS from a comm N centre, so every
thing said or done in this vast circle o
Crime radiates from the One Idea, that
Kansas, at all hazards, must be made a
slave State In all the manifold wicked
nesses that have occurred, and in every sue.
cessiye invasion, this Oae idea has been
ever present, as the Satanic tempter-tht
motive power-the causing cause.
To accomplish this result, three thing:
were attempted first, bv outrages of al
kinds to drive the friends oi Freedom already
there out of the Territory; secondly, to dete
others from coming; and, thirdly, to obtain
the complete control of the Governm Mt
The process of driving out, and also OF dete r
ring, has failed On the contrary: the friend
of Freedom there became more fixed in thei
resolves to stay AMI Fl ght the btttle, which
they had never sought, but from which they
disdained to retreat; while the friends O.
Freedom elsewhere were more aroused t.
the duty of timely succors, by men and mum
tions of just self-defence.
But, while defeated in the first two pro
cesses proposed, the conspirators succeede'
in the last. By the violence already por
t-ayed at the election of the 30th March
when the polls were occupied by the arme
hordes from Missouri, they imposed Legs
lature upon the Territory, and thus, unde
the iron mask of law, established Usurpa
ton not less complete than any in history
That this vas done, proceeded to prove
Here is the evidence.
/. Only in this way can this extraor
dinary expedition be adequately explained
In the words of Moliere, once employed b
John Quincy Adams in the other House
Que diabLe al'aient-iLs faire dams cette gaLere
What die they go into the Territory for
If their purposes were peaceful, as has bee
suggested, why cannons, arms, flags, mum
bers, and all this violence. As simple citi
zens, proceeding to the honest exercise G
| the electoral franchise, they might hav
, gone with nothing more than a pilgrim
staff Philosophy always seeks swfcien
cause and only in the One Idea, already pre-
sented, can cause be found in any degre
! commensurate with this Crime, and this be
S comes so only when we consider the ma
5 fanaticism of Slavery.
2. Public notoriety steps forward to cor
e firm the suggestion of reason. In ever
= place where Truth can freely travel, it ha
: been asserted and understood, that the 1t
: gislature was imposed upon Kansas by fo