Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1856-06-13

Surely, sir, If ever there was occnsion Tor
the exercise Of this right, the time had come
in Kausa. The people there had been sub
iuga,ed by horde Of foreign invaders, and
brought under a tyrannical code Of revolving
harbaritv, while property and LIFE among
them were lctt exposed to audacious assaults
which Haunted at MONDAY, and To reptile
abuses which crawled IN the darkness OF
night. SelCd,jensc is the first lac n nature
and unless this law is temporarily slenced-
No all other law has been silcnccd there
YOU cannot condemn the proceedings 10 Ran
sas Here, sir is an uuqucsiionable auUlot-
nv-in itself an Overwhelming ldp-whlch
belongs to all countries and times when Us
the same in Kansas as at Athens and Rome
which is now. aud will be hereafter, ms u
was in other dlys-in presence OF which
Acts Of Congress and Constitutions are
rs powerless as the voice OF man against the
thunder which rolls through the sky-which
whispers itself coeval with life whose very
breath is llie itself; and now, IN the 'asl re-
Fort, do place all these proceedings unuef
this supreme safeguard, which yoa VIII as
sail IN vain. Any opposition must be iounc-
ed on fundamental pcrversion oi iacts' or
aperversion ofiundamental principles, which
no speeches can uphold, though SURPRISING
in numbers the nine hundred thousand piles
driven into the mud in order 10 sustain the
Dutch Stadt house at Amsterdam!
Thus, on every ground OF precedent,
whether as regards population or forms oil
proceeding; also, on the vital principle oil
American institutions and lastly, on the
absolute law of seli-defense, do | now in
woke the power Of Congress to admit Kansas
at once and without hesitation into the I'm
l. ,Ir.tffaI lac In
Congress into the Union !" such are the
words Of the Constitution. II you hesitate
for want Of precedent, then do ! appeal 10 The
great principle of American Institutions. IT,
forgetting the origin of the Republic, You
turn away from this principle, them IN the
name Of human nature trampled down and
oppressed but aroused TO Just self-deiense
do plead for the exercise of this power
Do not hearken, pray you, TO the PROPOSE
tons Of Tyranny and Folly; do not be- cn-
shared by that other proposition Of the sem
ator from Illinois, Mr.. Douglas in which is
the horrld root Of Injustice and Civil War
But apply gladly, and at once, the True
Remedy, wherein are Justice and Peace.
Mr.. President, an immense space has been
trayersed, and now stand at the goal The
argument In It's various parts is here closed.
The Crime against Kansas has been display
ed IN It's origin and extent, beginning with
the overthrow Of the Prohibition OF Slavery;
next cropping out in conspiracy on the bor-
ders Of Missouri, then hardening into con
tinuhy Of outrage, through organized inva-
sions and miscellaneous assaults, ~ which
all security was destroyed, and ending at
last IN the perfect sublugatlon of gen"r-
Gus people to an Unprecedented Usurpalion.
Turning aghast from the Crime, which, like
murder. seemed to confess itself "wiih most
miraculous organ" we have looked with
mingled shame and indignation upon The
four Apologies, whether Of Tyranny lmbe-
CITY Absurdiy, or Iniamy, in which It has
been wrapped, marking especially the false
testimony, congenal with the original Crime,
against the Emigrant Aid Company Then
were noted, IN succession, the four Rene
dies, whether Of Tyranny Injustice
aud Civil War or Justice and Peace. which
last bids Kansas, IN conformity with past
presidents and under the exlgencles of the
hour, IN order to redeem her from Usurpa-
ton. 10 take a place as a sQvereign State Of
the Union and this is the THO Remedy
II in this argument have not uuworihy
indicated Truth, then have spoken uccor-
ding to my desires # imperieclly, then on
ly according to my powers. But there are
other things, not belonging to the argument,
which still press for ultcrauce.
Sir, the people Of Kansas, bone Of your
booze and flesh Of your flesh, with the edu-
cation of freemen and the rights OF Amer-
can citizens, now stand at your door. VIII
you send them away, or bid them enter p
Will you push them back to renew their
struggles with deadly foe, or will you pre-
serve them IN security or peace? Will you
cast thom again into the den Of Tyranny, or
will YOU help their despalrng efforts to es-
cape' These questions + put with no com
mon solcitude; for feel that on their Just
determination depend all the most precious
interests of the Republic aud perceive too
clearly the prejndces in the way. aud the
accommodating bitterness against this distant
people, now claiming their simple brthright
while am bowed with notification, as
recognize the President Of the United States
who should have been n staff to the weak
and shield to the innocent, at the head Of
this strange oppression.
At every stage, the simlituded between the
wrongs Of Kansas, and those other wrongs
against which our fathers rose, becomes more
apparent. Read the Declaration Of indie
pendence and there is hardly an accusation
which Is there directed against the British
with increased force against the American
President. The parallel has a fearful par
ticularity. Our fathers complained that the
King had "sent hithcr swarms of officers,
TO harsss our people, and cat out their sub
stance that he "had combined, with Others
to subject MS TO a jurisdiction foreign to our
Constitution giping his assent 10 their acts Of
pretended legislation !" that she had abdlcat>
ed government here, by declaring us out of
his protection, and icdging ioar against rs y
thot "he had excited domestic insurrecuou
among us, and endeduored 10 bring on The in
habiidnis O. -four frontier the mercliess sardges:'
that "our repeated petitions have been an
swered only By repeated injury And this
arragnment was nptly followed by the dam
ming words, that "a Prince, whose character
is thus marked by every act which may de-
fine a tyrani, is unfit to be the ruler of a
free people" And surely, q President who
has done all these things, cannot be less nm
fit than Prince. At every stage, the re
sponslbility is brought directly to him. hi.
ofiense has been both omission and comms-
SIGN. lie has done that which be ought not
TO have done, and he has left undouo that
which heought to have done. BY his aciiv,
lty the Prohibition Of Slavery was overturned
by his failure TO act, The honest emigrans u
Kansas have been cfl prey to wrong Of Oh
kinds. .Nbium Ragliium eii,ti. n,si per te
nuHum fqgitium SINE te. And now be stands
forth the most conspicuous enemy of that un.
happy Territory.
As the tyranny of the British King is all
renewed in the President, so on this faor
have the old ndgnites beeurenewed, which
ombit,ered and fomented the troubles of on
Fathers. The early petition Of the Amer,
can Congress to Parliament, long belure an,
suggestion Of independence, was opposed
Ike the petitions Of Kansas because tha
body "was assembled without any requisitloi
on the part of the Supreme Powern Anoth
er petition from New York, presented b,
Edmund Burke, was fatty rejected, as claim
ing rights derogatory TO Parliament. An,
still another petition from Massachusetts Bay