The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1856-10-01
NUMBER 81.

speak aOytnins, 10 90 ampie luktice. Wiht
the bill is almost unexceptionabls.'
Mr.. Hale spoks this on the spur Of the
moment He had not been Subjected topaz
~ drill, which afterwards compelled HIM 20
oppose The bill which in his better judgment,
he pronounced as almost unexceptonsble. =
The Black Republicans at once saw that IL
this bill was passed the troubles in Kansas
would be terminated, and the only By
which they hoped 10 carry ths Presidential
election would be removed. They were
bound TO oppose it, although their opposition
10 1t placed them before the country as d set
of hypocritical agitalos, who were crying
aloud for peace in Kansas, and Iamentna
| over the Wrongs initiated npnn fha panrts Of
that territory, and ye, rejected the only plan
proposed for terminating the difficulties, and
rendering to the inhabitants Of the territory
full measure of right and justice.
Objections were raised Immediately to the
bill, firstly, 'ha, the laws of the territory rs.
strain free discussion on the subject of sla.
very, and impose ,es, oaths for suffrage and
Office, and consequently the pro slavery par.
iy in Kansas would have the advantage. The
friends of the bill met them by The assurance
that all such laws should be abolished by the
provisions OF the very bill. The last seciioa
of the bill abolishes such laws. See 18th
section of the bill which we publish. 3s
In the second place il was objected that
many of the Free State men had been driv-
en- out of the Territory, leaving majority
of pro-slavery men to vote at the election,
and therefore, the bill would make Kansas
Slave State. This objection, with a spirit
of accommodation which characterized the
Democrats through the entire discussion,
was promptly met by an amendment to the
lth section, giving all who had left the tor
ritory on account of the disturbances an op.
portunity OF retiring, and of having their
names registered on the lists of legal voters
at any time before the LIST of October, thus
giving them nearly three months, from the
4th of July 10 the lst of October, in which
they might return. See Ith section of the
bill published.
Now mark the hypocrisy of this objection.
Up till within day previous to the offering
of this bill the Black Republicans in Con-
gress urged the immediate admission of
Kansas. They said that nine tenths OF the
inhabitants were opposed to slavery, and it
was outrageously unjust to prevent their
coming in as a free State But no sooner
than was this bill offered, which would have
given them an opportunity of coming in as
a free State, and which would have settled
the civil war, the Black Republicans object
ed TO it upon the ground that many free
State men had been driven out. If there
was any trath in this, the bill gave them am.
pie time to return, but the Black Republi-
cans had previously insisted that nine tenths
OF the inhabitants were Free State men, and
that without any Interference from Missou-
ri they would be able to establish a free
Constitution. The bill prevented interfer-
ence from Missouri, and from every where
else, by permitting none to vote exceptthose
whose names would be found upon lists ta-
ken of bona fide voters residing in the Ter
ritory three months previous to the election,
or those who had been driven out from the
Territory and had returned and registered
their names one month previous to the elcc-
lion.
The third objection 10 the bill was that
the penalties for abusing and obstructing the
right of suffrage were too light. The penal-
ties were Immediately increased TO meet
this objection.
The last objection was, that the President,
with the consent of the Senate, had the right
TO appoint the commissioners, and they had
!, no confidence in this appointing power. To
meet this difficulty, General Csss rose in his
place and gave them pledge, on the part
of the President and The Senate, that the
Commissioners should be selected from both
political parties, and all be men of the high
est integrity and ability
Thus was every objection to this bill an
swered by concedlng everything that could
serve as ground of opposition to it. Ev-
cry defect, real or imagined, was readily
amended, and so sincerely were the project.
ors of the bill disposed to surmount every
opposition, and satisfy every objection, that
had the opposition assisted them in their
project for settling the troubles in Kansas,
and providing measure for its speedy ad-
mission as State, all the difficulties would
now be settled, and Kansas, by the first of
January, 1857, would have been admitted
as Free State, for they themselves asserted
before the offering of the bill, that nine
tenths of the real inhabitants were Free
State men, and the bill prohibited voting by
any but by real inhabitants.
But after these hypocritical objections had
been met by the most liberal offers, the
Black Republicans rejected the bill entirely,
and motion was made by Senator Wilson.
of Massachusetts, that the entire bill be
stricken out, and single section inserted
abolishing all the laws now in force in Kan
sas, both the good laws necessary for the
government of the Territory, as well as the
bad ones, which every one will admit were
passed by the Legislature, leaving the peo-
pie in anarchy and confusion. This was
what they wanted. Civel war blood and
anarchy were to be the means of their sue
cess in The Presidential election, and to
|, bring about this end all laws ware IN he