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DANIEL WEBSTER on THE KANSAS QUESTION.

DANIEL WEBSTER on THE KANSAS QUESTION.
The abouonists of New England pretend to believe
that the legislature OF Kansas is bogus" legislature
that Gov shannon the rehtfu governor and that
the feeSae people in that Territory have right to set
up government aunul the laws and resist the regu
ryeonstuted authorities Of the United States in the
Territory.
This is the present attitude Of abolition Massachusetts
Let turn TO Daniel Webstes description Of constitu
oual Massachusetts in $780, and his exposition of the
constitutional question precisely 1t stands in the
Kansas matter In his reply 10 Mr. Hayne of South Caro-
lima on notification and the conduct Of Massachusetts,
under the embargo laws Mr., Webster said;
Her principles hound her to two things first to sub
NIT 10 every constitutional law end secondly the con-
uonal validity Of the law DO doubted, 10 refer that
question the decision of the proper tribunals The first
principle is vain and Intellectual without the secend
majority Of US in New England believed the embargo law
unconstitutional but the great question was and always
will be in such cases 9iD is 10 decide th2 Who to
Judge between the people and the government And, sir
II quite plain that the constitution OF the United States
confer on the government ITSELF 10 be exercised by its APP
propriate department and ander its own responsibility TO
the people, this power Of deciding ultimately and conclu-
sivey Upon the just extent of its own authority IL TINS
had not been done should not have advanced single
step beyond the old confederation. The established bu-
mails pronounced the law constitutiona and New Eng
land submitted
a. We thought tin clear case but nevertheless we did
take the law into hands because we did not
wish bring about revolution nor break up the Uuion
for between submission TO the decision OF the constituted
ground there is ambiguous condition, half allegiance
and half rebellion. .#
al ask the gentleman therefore, to apply his principles
to that case ask him to declare whether the New Eng
land States would have been justified In interfering 10 break
up the embargo system under the conscientious opinions
which they held upon it. Had they right to annu that
law2
uSir deny the whole doctrine. 1t has not foot of
ground in the constitution to stand No public
Of reputation advanced it in Massachusetts ia the
times could maintain himself upon it there ut
any time ..H r~@."
And yet this constitutional heresy which Mr.. Webster
utterly exploded In 1880 is rampant in Massachu-
setts touching the Kansas question: which is idenucally
the constitutional question 4 .....
Massachusetts through her abolition organization, is
doing exactly the opposite of her constitutional duty in the
fugtivesave law and the Kansas question Her legisa-
tue has Duhed the FIRST and her black republicans are
aiding treason in Kansas There two governors and
two legislatures in Kansas But be the legal gov
The free-so say Robinson and his legisa-
ture. The Union rsn say Shannon and the legislature
chosen under the organic law and certified by Reeder
when governor as duly elected.
Which shall decide-law Shsrps's rides The con-
stituton and the law have settled It. The act Of 1895
makes it the duty Of the President Of insurrec-
ton against the government of State whenever the
laws of the United Slater shall be opposed their
ton in any State obstruced by combinations too powerful
to be suppressed by the ordinary Judicial proceed
ugs, to call forth the militia of any State or all the
States to suppress such combinations.
The act Of lsoT extends this to Territories and provides
that Sin all of Instruction obstruction the
lava either of the United States OF any iadsouai State
or Territory where it ia lawful for the President of the
United States to call forth the militia for the purpose of
suppessng such resurrection for causing the laws
he duly executed it shall be lawful for him to employ for
the purposes such part Of the land naval forces Of
the United States as shall be judged necessary"
That is the constitution and the law The President
has applied it TO Kansas. hnus Child Eli Thayer the
Aid Emgrant Corporations, with six millions OF capital
and TIE like men, raising and here in Massa
chuses to send to Kansas assist mob governor and
legislature in resisting the laws Of the United States and
the Territory Will old conservative Massachusetts, stand
this VIII she take the side Of anarchy against all
situations all courts all government and all aw2