The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1856-09-30


send him off with mission to China. This
Mr.. McClelland did not tell, but the country
knows the facts. But Rceder, he said,
ought not to have given certificates OF election;
he ought not to have recognized them; but
since he had done SO, and was now Repub-
lican, (such was the argument,) there was
no remedy, but his acts were conclusive.
But if the legislature was the creature Of
wrong and violence, az Mr.. McClelland adj
mits. elected in spite of the people Of the ter
ritory; how could the people of the territory
be bound by Reeder's actsl He was not
their agent nor elected by them. He was the
agent Of the President, appointed by him,
and accountable only to him Are the peo-
pie to be deprived of their rights, and made
to submit to such usurpstion, because man
appointed over them by the President has
approved the wrongl Especially, does it be-
come the administration to set up this plea
against them! Are the whole population
of territory to lose their liberty by fraud
of this kind and have slavery entailcd upon
them, in consequence Of mere technicality
which would disgrace q country pettifogger.
But Mr.. McClelland says, there are three
parties in Kansas, "Pro- Slavery men, Aboli-
tionists and Free State men," He declared
the State Constitution was formed by the
Abolitionsts. This the world knows TO have
been formed by the free State men and that
he and all his party denounce all alike, as Alb
olitionists.
Declared that he was opposed to their
! forming State government yet; they ought
to remain territory until they had more
population; and till they were able to bear
the expense of State government.
What do these sticklers for popular sover
eighty deny the right of tho people to form a
State government on such grounds? II they
choose to run the risk of aging the expense,
is he not going great ways to deny them
that privilege? This is assuming guardian
ship over them at war with popular sovereign
t.. But he says the Republican party sought
to repeal all the laws passed by the bogus
legislature, while the Administration and Mr.
NJ. only wished TO have the bad laws repeal
ed. And asked, with apparent triumph,
what the people would do if all were repeal
ed. In reply we will ask them how they
lived there before they were enacted? They
were az much without law, as they would be
now if they were repealed. How did the
people of California live for two years without
even the form of government! Could they
not, then, have lived here Till another cleo
ton?
But he says, "if the odious lava were re-
pealeA, and the good allowed to remain, peace
would be restored to Kansas. Could this
have been done! Yes (hc says) it could
have been done fairly and egtimately, by
Toombs Bill which repealed Ill the obnoxious
laws, &c. DC"
We lean then, from this, what were call
the obnoxious laws" in tho opinion of Mr..
McClelland; for as the Toombs bill only re
J peas those laws which violate the Constitu-
} ton, or the organic act, and which are equal
ly void without repeal, and repeals these
only Ivy judicial construction, and not 10y
name, and leaves all the laws which recog-
nize slavery and great body of other laws
equally obnoxious, all enacted by the same
usurpation it clearly results that Mr.. McClel-
l land does not look upon the laws which rec
ognize slavery there, though passed by the
usurpers, as, at all obnoxious to him. The
D Republicans consider the laws recognizing
. slavery and many others obnoxious. Not sc
, with MIR. McClelland, for he expressly asser-
ted that the Toombs Bill repealed "all obnox-
ious laws We are bound to take this view
Of it rather than charge Mr.. McClelland with
deliberate mis-statement. But why did
not Dir. McClelland state tho whole truth OF
e this point, and tell us this was scheme tC
: get the recognition of slavery in the territory
4 by act of Congress? For the repeal of the
Q part of the laws he speaks Of, would have
d been equivalent to a recognition by Congress
Of all they did not repeal, among which are
g some which recognize slavery.
n But, said Mr.. McClellaDd, the Abolition
n lists passed Dunn's Bill in the House, which
y retains in Office all the judges-some of th,
o charges against whom are correct-and al
g the other officers, giving them moro powe
c than before In answer to this, we say tina
It if the charges against the Judges are correct
h they ought TO be removed, and he ought t
It attend to their cases; End, the Toombs Bill
/ also retained them as much as the Dunn Bill
5. & id, and Sd, the Dunn Bill does not give tn
b Judges or other officers more power than the,
:, had before; nor half rs much, for it repeal
@ the whole Kansas criminal code.
If He also deliberately asserted that Dunn
1t Bill, which passed the House, established he
'r redtary slavery in Kansas, until January
% 1858; and with great warmth of denuncia
d ton declared that it enslaved children to b
" Dorm between tnls auu Jan. 4, 1000. Du
70 he was very careful to conceal from his hear
er ers all the main features Of Dunn's Rill. Com
l. ing, as he claimed from the fountain head
It of information, he ought to have known then
10 But it would seem he did not, else the con
y cealment amounts TO wilful preversion.
OF We hero, have seen Dunn's Bill as it pass
70 ed the House, as well as that of Toombl
ID which passed the Senate. We will here stat
! that Dunn's Bill re-enacted the Missouri Con
II promise, and forever prohibited slavery in a
er the territory north Of S63 degrees of cours
is made Kansas free repealed the entire Kansu
'e criminal code, passed by the usurpiug legisls
c. ture; put an end 70 all indictments for prefer
70 ded treason; and liberated free State prison
10 ers indicted for treason. True, it allowed tn
10 shareholders till January LIST, 1853, to remoy
ID their slaves, now in the territory, and the
childran horn nm 70 that titno And tbia