Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1856-07-03

Sir, the people oil Kansas, zone Oh your
bone and assh Of your hesh, with the educa-
ii n of freemen and the rights Of American
citizens, now stand at your door. Will YOU
send them away, or bid them enter! VIII
YOU push them lack to renew their struggles
with a.deadiy foe, or will you preserve them
in ssehrity and peacel Will you cast them
again into the d,n Of Tyranny, or will you
help their despairing efforts to escaped
These questions put with no common So
hcitude; for feel that on their juft deter
mination depend all the most precious in
terests of the Republic; and perceive 100
Clearly the prejudices ih ;he way, and the
accommodating bitterness against this distant
people, now claiming their simple orthrlght,
while sm bowed with notification, as |
recognise the President ofihe United States,
who .houid have been q staff 10 the weak
and q shield 10 the innocent, st The head OF
this strange oppression.
~ every stage, the similitude between
sAs wrongs Of Kansas, and those other
wrong. against which our fathers rose, BE-
comes more apparent. Rad the Declara-
tioH of independence, and there Is hardly an
accusation which is there directed against
the British Monarch, which may not now be
directed with increased force against the
American President. The parallel has b
fearful particularly. Our fathers complain
ed tha, the King had "sent hither swarms
Of officers, to harass our people, and eat out
their substance;;" that he "had combined
with others TO subject Us to jurisdiction
foreign to our Constitution, giring has assem-
to fleir acts Of pretended legislation" that
"he had abdicated government here, by de-
cluing us out OF his protection, and s0agins
var against u.s." that 'he had excited do
mesiic :nsurrectinn among us, and endedrored
to BRING on tie iahabitants Of ou1 frontier th'
nescilea saraees;;" that 'out repeated petl-
tions have been answered only BY repeated
injury And this arrsignment was apply
followed by the canning words, that "a
Prince, whose character 10 thus marked BY
every act which may define tyrant, is unfit
TO be the ruler Of free people" And sure
iy. a President who has done all these thing
cannot be less unfit than Prince. Atevery
stage, the responsibility 10 brought directly
TO him. His offence has been both Of com
missiosi and omission. He has done that
which he ought not to have done, and he has
left undone that which he ought to have
done. By his activity the Prohibition o.
Slavery. was overturned. By his failure to
act, the honest emigrants in Kansas haze
been left prey to wrong of all kinds, Nui.
lum faaitium eEti.it, nisi per ts; nulturn f1-
eitium sine fe. And now he stands forth the
most conspicuous enemy Of that unhappy
Territory.
And the tyranny Of the British King is al
renewed in the President, 50 on this Hoo
have the old indignities been renewed, which
embitter d and iomented the troubles OF ou
Fathers. The early petition of the Ameri
can Congress to Parliament, long before any
suggestion of independence, was opposed
like the petitions Of Ksnsas-becsuse tina
body awas assembled without any requisitioI
on the part of the Supreme Power" An
other petition from Aew York, presented b.
Edmund Burke, was fatty rejected, as claim
ing rights derogatory to Parliament. An
still another petition from Massachusett
Bay was dismissed as "vexatious and scand
alous,n while the patriot philosopher VIII
bore It was exposed to peculiar contumely
Throughout the debates, our fathers wer
made the butt OF sorry jests and superciiou
assumptions. And now these scenes, viii
these precise objections, have been renewe
Ia the American Senate.
With regret, come again upon the Sen
ator from South Carolina, Mr.. Butler, wht
omnipresent in this debate, overaowed wit
rage at the simple suggestion that Kansa
had applied for admission as State; ant
with incohcrent phrases, discharged III
lonse expec'oration of his speech, now uPo
her representatives, and then upon her pee
pie. There was no extravagance of the an
cient Parliamentary debate which he did no
repeat; nor wns there any possible deviatio
from the truth which he did not make, wit
DO much of passion, am glad to add, as
save him from the suspicion Of intentiona
alteration. But the Senator touches moth
ing which he does not disfgure-with error
sometimes Of principle, sometimes OF fact
He shows an capacity of accuracy, whethe
in stating the Constitution or in stating IN
law, whether in the details Of satisfies o
the diversions of scholarship. He canno
epe his mouth. but out there flies bunder
Surely he ought to be familiar with the lif
of Franklin; and yet he referred TO thi
household character, while acting as agen
Of our fathers in England. as above suspicion
and this was done that he might give poin
tot false contrast with the agent of kansa
NOT knowing that, however they may di
fer in genius and fame, in this exPerienc
they are alike: that Franklin, when intrus'
ed with the petition of Massachusetts Bay
was assaulted by a foul-mouthed speske
where he could rot be heard in defence, an
denounced as "thief," even as the agent c
Kansas has been assaulted on this floor, an
denounced as "forger." And let not tn
sanity of the Senator be inspired by the pal
alleI with the British statesmen Of that day
for il is only in hostility 20 Freedom thu
suy parallel can be recognised.
But It 10 sgainst the people OF kansa
chat the sens bilities of the Senator are pa
ticu,arly aroused. Coming, as he announce
Hsrocn gtate"-ayc, sir, from South Care
l;ps-he turns with lordly disgust from In
ne#ly-formed community, which hewil nj
recognise even as "body politic." Pra.
eir. by what title does he indulge in III
eeo,isn, Mas he read the history of 18th
State which he represents! He cann'
surely have forgotten SIS shameful imbecilit
from Slavery, confessed throughout the Re,
olutiou, followed by its more shameful al
sumpt:ons for Slavery since. He csnnc
have forgotten its wretched persistence
the slave trade as the very apple Of its eye
and shs condition of its participation IN III
Union. He cannot have forgotten its Cor
stitution, which is republican Only in nam'
confirming power in the hands Of the few
and founding the qualifications of its iegi:
ls,ors Oh "a settled freehold estate or te
negroes" And yet the Senator to who'
that Estate" has in part committed tn