The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1856-09-02

SARATOGA SPRINGS, July Q, 1856.

Democratic friends of Fulton county, an
! other portions of our Congressional District
my name had been announced in your pape
and Others, as candidate for Congress, sub
Ject to the approval of the Democratic Con
vention. While / feel grateful to tho De-
mocracy of Fulton County, Ia more jnteli
gent and patriotic democracy no county in
the State can boast,) and other portions O.
the District for their confidence, the Dresen,
attitude of political parties in the United
States, forces upon me the conviction of the
improperly of my being a candidate for Con-
gress, as proposed. Although am satisfied
that majority Of the democracy of the
Fifth Congressional District agree with me in
sentiment on the all absorbing subject of
Slavery extension, yet am equally satisfied,
that there is minority who would expect
candidate so nominated, to approve and de-
tend all the measures of the present Admin
istratlon, and the Cincinnati Platform on the
SUBJECT OF Slavery, and also the inconsistent
and unprlnciped course of Mr. Douglas,
backed up by the U. S. Senate; and to vote
for the admission of Kansas as a Slave State
should she present Constitution recognizing
1t, even though such result was brouobt
about by fraud and violence as j, now an
pears VIII be the case. These things could
not conscientously do.
have become satisfied beyond all doubt.
that the Democratic organization is now used
by ambitious and unprincipled men, for their
own aggrandlzement, and to effect their oh |
Ject, they have (as far as in their power) |
thrown the Democratic party into the hands |
OF the Slave Power, to be used as they NAV |
direct. Believing rs l do that their
measures are calculated and intended to make
Kansas Slave State, cannot sustain them
without doing violence to my own principles
The late acts of Mr.. Douglas, sanctioned
by the U. 5. Senate have removed every re-
naming doubt and hope, upon which rest
ed my Justification in adhering to an orpapi-
zatIon claiming TO represent the Democratic
party OF the country, the only party to which
have ever for a single moment of nv life
been attached, and an organization from
when coald never be separated, while it
e,pfesented Jeffersonian Democratic princi-
What has been and what is now the aspect
u the Kansas question? Mr.. Douglas and
us followers, after claiming popular sover- ,
ignty as The great virture of the Nebraska !
Aansas act, and the justification for the re-
eal OF the Missouri Compromise, pretended
. adhere to that principle, while all the
aud and violence was being committed bv
he Border Ruiiians
ny such means, they forced upon the ac-
ial settlers an illegal Legislature, which
''Ssed laws not only unconstitutional, but of &
le most UNJUST, oppressive and cruel descrip n
on, enfold worse than all the enactments e
the British Parliament, from which tho 9,
thers of the Revolution revolted. and 60 q
Iious that even a Southern Senator declared n
lat they would justify revolution. and Con \
ass characterized them as disgraceful to the a
'eseht age. Yet the Senate, of which these b
'ntlemen are members, has been in session @,
ven or eight months, without doing any, Ii
ing TO relieve the actual settlers from those h.
uei grievances, but on the contrary sat 81 s
ht aud saw the President proclaimine that 81
ose laws should be obcyed, and TO that end o,
would use all the means at his DISMISSAL n,
bile MIR. Douglas was asserting that the o.,
rec State men "must be subdued." All n
Is was done under the plea of CARRYING out b,
pular sovereignty. Il
but now a different card is to be played
,he oeheht OF Slavery. Popular sover-
shty Is TO be abandoned. 1t appears TO
ve served the purpose of those who used il p,
thelr Justification for the repeal of the Mis-
lri Compromise.
onder tle pretence Of carrying out its ia
hciPies, the Y. > troops were allowsd to
arm ~, Tue free state men, and the Border
'illans permitted to destroy their presses.
rn Their houses, steal their property, mur
Their men, lndict and mprison their lead tic
) anu now when all the practicable aven-
INTO hansas are guarded by Missourians sio
prevent the entrance of Free State men
the Territory, and after Atchison. String
ow @ Co., have got everything prepared
have majority of Pro-Slavery men in 20
nsas' on the 4th day of July, Mr.. Toombs, tao
ultra pro-Slavcry Senator (who boasted TOR
III the hoor of the Senate, that he would bel
call the roll of his slaves at the FOOT of th'
nker Hill monument,) introduces a bill in IN
,hc Senate, Mr. Douglas adopts it, and nee
Senate passes it with Geyer's and Adams
which abandon and override tus
principle of popular sovereignty, and wo
trary to all former precedent in the gov ono ono
ment of Territories, deprive all foreigners Ab
have declared their intention to become Ken
'ens rom Young, although the organic act 10
'nlzing the Territory securers to foreigners OF
right Ra a wh'
his bill however is made to appear plausi- u
upon It's face, but when closely examined
with the circumstances. its do Y
Is apparent, though il even at this late The
nulifies portion of the enactments of mol,
Border Rufiian Legislature, the attempt the
of which has caused all the mo
chy and blood-shed in the Territory nur,
passage Of this bill would make Kansas GRO,
ave State beyond all question. This the on
slavery men well know. 1t provides The
an election TO be held in November next,
he election of members to Convention A
rm a State Constitution, no one shall ed 3
unless he "shall have been an inhabi. of q
OF the Territory on the 4th of July, ls- four
except those who shall have absented
lselves in consequence of the disturbances Y
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