Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1856-09-04
VOLUME XVI.

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E The Black Republican journals max
use of one uniform argument to justify the
revolutionists in Congress, in defeating the
Army Appropriation bill. They say that
they were determined the President should
not employ the army in enforcing the odious
.black laws" of Kansas-laws which the
Senate consented to abrogate, and which
Gen. CAss pronounced disgrace to the age
in which We live. 1t is fact well known
to these traitorous fanatics, that the enact
ments of which they complain have not been
enforced or sought to be enforced, by the
President, or by the local authorities Of Kan
sas. They remained dead letter upon the
statute book, from the moment of their pass
age, and so far as any practical result is con-
cerned, they are of no more consequence than
as though they had never been passed. Ev-
cry legitimate mode OF getting rid of these
obnoxious laws, proposed by the Senate, has
been contemptuously spurned by the Black
Republicans of the House. They must have
an entire overthrow of the Territorial gov
ernment organized for Kansas and Nebraska,
by Congress, or they would have nothing
Instead of taking the proper course to test
the validity Of the Kansas code, they seek
by an arbitrary and factious mode oflegislation
to treat them as nullity, and forbid the Presi
dent to use the means which the Constitu-
ton places in his hands, in certain exigen-
cies, of enforcing them. 1t is not the
"black laws alone that are thus TO be practi-
cally suspended, but the entire code by which
the people of Kansas are governed, and by
which the legally constituted government
is kept in operation.
The laws for the faithful execution of
which the aid of federal authority is denied
all volume of six hundred pages or more,
and relate to al the police regulations of the
Territory, civil and criminal. The PROPOSE
ton ofthe House would be, in effect, to nullify
all these laws and to turn the people of Kansas
over to mob rule and anarchy. The Black
Republicans would leave them at the mercy
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cry favorable moment to rush into the Terri
tory 10 settle the question of freedom or
slavery" at the poin. of the bayonet.
The scenes of the last four months have
demonstrated the absolute necessity of keep
ing an armed force in Kansas, acting under
the authority of the Federal Government, to
preserve order and to protect the lives and
property of the citizens against such bands
Of marauders as have been marched into
the Territory under Colonel BUFoRD and
JIM LANE.
By the impartial vigor with which Gen.
SMITH and COL SUMNER have acted, they
had succeeded in quieting all disturbances,
and giving the people every assurance of
peace and safety for the future. Such
state of things could not be tolerated by the
Abolition wire-workers at Washington and
elsewhere. FREMoNT's chances for the Presi-
dsncy were absolutely hopeless, unless out
rage, murder and rapine in Kansas could be
paraded before the eyes and dinned into the
ears of the people. Hence the concerted
movement between the Black Republican
leaders in Congress and the Free State agi-
tators in Kansas, by which the defeat of the
Army Appropriation Bill, by the former, was
to be followed up by the armed invasion of
the Territory, by the latter. The Revolution
in Congress was to inaugurate treason and
civil war in Kansas. The parties to this bold
and high-handed scheme have boldly entosed
upon its execution. The result is with the
future.