Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1856-06-07

Senator from Massachusetts, delivered IN the
Senate of the United States, May 10th, 1896.
Surely, sir. if ever there was occasion for the
exercise Of this right, the time had come IN Kan
sas. The people there had been suhJugateu hy
horde of foreign invaders, and brought unuer
II tyranncal code Of revolving barhar'y, whiie
property and lifc among them were lett exposed
to aulacious assaults which Haunted at noonday,
and 10 reptile abuses which crawlcd in the dark
ness OF nj lat. Self defence Is Tie first lac ~
nature; and un'ess this law is temporarily ST.
lcnccd-as all other law has been siienced there
YOU cannut condemn the proceedings IN Nam
sas Here. SIR. is an unquestionai prlncipie-M
Itself an overwhelming ia0-whca belongs to
all countries and ti.nes--in presence OF which
acts of Congress and Constitutions are powcresS,
as the voice of man against the thunder when
rolls through the sky-which whisper itself ceval
with l:fe-whosc very breath is life Itself and
now in the last resort, do | place all these pro-
coodings under the supreme safeguard, which you
will asSai in vain. Any opposition must be
founded on pcrversion of facts, or perverSion OF
fundamental principle, which no words can up
hold, though surprising in numbers the nine
hundred thousand piles driven into the mud IN or
der to sustain the Dutch StadthnuSc at Amster-
DAM Thus on every ground OF preeedent,wheth-
er us regards population or forms OF proceeding;
also on the vital principle of American inst!tu-
tions: and lastly, on the UNREASONABLE law of
to admit Kansas TT once and without hesitation
into the Union. s.New states may be. admitted
by the Congress into the Union - such the
words of the Constitution. If you hesitate for
want of precedent, then do appeal to the great
principle of American Institutions. If, forgets
ting the origin of the Republic, yol turn away
from this principle, then, in the name of human
nature, trampled down and oppressed, but
aroused to Just self defence, do plead for the
exercise Of this power. Do not hearken, | pray
vou. to the propositions of Tyranny and Folly;
do not be enSnared by that other proposition of
the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Douglas, in which
is the horrid root of La uStica and Civil War
But apply gladly, and ut once the true remedy,
wherein are Justice and Peace. Mr.. President,
an immense space has been traversed, and now
stand at the goal. The argument in lis various
parts is here closed. The crime against Kansas
has been displayed in its origin and extent, be-
ginuing with the overthrow OF the Prohibition of
slavery: next cropping but in conspiracy on the
borders OF Missouri: then hardening into con-
tinuity Of outrage through organized invaSions
and miscellaneous assaults, in which all security
DESTROYED, and ending ut last in the perfect
Suhugation Of gen roGS people To an unprece-
dented CSurpation. Turning aghaSt from the
Crime, which like murder, seemed to confess
itself, ''with most miraculous organ,' we have
looked with mingled shame and indignation upon
the four Apollo gies. whether OF Tyranny, mhccitv,
Ab>urdty or Infamv-in which it has been
wrapped, marking especially the false testimony,
con genial with the original Crime against the Emil
grant Aid Company. Then were noted IN sue
ce>sion, The four remedies, whether of Tyranny,
Folly, Injustice. and Civil War, or Justice and
Peace, which last bids Kansas, in conformity
with past prCcedents and under the exigencies
of the hour. in order to redeem her from Usur-
patton: to take place sovereign state of
the Union; and this is the true remedy. If in
this argument have not unworthilv indicated
Truth, then have spoken acco ding to nv desire:
if imperfectly, then on Y according to my pow
CrS.
But there are other things, not belonging to the
argument, VIII ca still press for utterance. Sir,
the people of Kansas, bone of your bone and
flesh of your flesh with the education of frecmen
and the rights of American citizens, now stand
AT your Coor. Will YOU send them away. or bid
them enter? VIII YOU push them bac, to renew
their struggles with deadly foe, or will you pre-
serve them in security and peace? viii you east
them again into the den of Tyranny, Or will YOU
help their despairng efforts to escape? These
questions put with common solcitude; for
feel that on their just determination depend
all the most precious interests of the Republic :;
and | perceive too clearly the prrjudiceS in the
way, ana the accommodating bitterness again It
this distant people, now claiming their birth
r ght, while | am bowed with modification as
recognize the President of the United States. who
to the innocent, ut the head of this strange OPP
preston. Ut every stage the Smiitude between
the wrongs OF Kansas, and those other wrongs
az INST which fathers becomes more
apparent. Read the Declaration of Indppend-
cnce, and there is hardly an accus ition which is
there directed against the British Monarch which
may not now be directed with increased force
against tho American President. The parallel
has II fearful Particularly. Our fathers had
complained that the King had 'sent hitler swarms
OF oiccrs 10 harass our people, and eat out their
| substance - that ''he had combined with others,
to subject Us to jurisdiction foreign to our
Constitution, giring his assent to their acts of
pretended legislation - that he had abd;cated
government acre, by declaring Us out of hts pro-
lection, and ''wdgi:ag Wdr against us; that she
had excited domestic lnsurrection among us. and
endeavored to bring the inhabitants of our
frontier the merclesS savage; :" that ''Our re-
pcatcd petitions have been answered only
by repeated inj urv.' And this arragnmrnt was
aptly followed by the damning words, that ssa
Prince, whose character is thus marked by every
act which may define Il tyrant, is unfit to be the
ruler of IL free people, And surely, President
who has done all these thih.s, cannot he less
unit than Prince. At every stage, the respon-
S.hllIty Is brought directly To HIM. His offence
mas Deen both OF commission 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 of Slavery
was overturned. BY his failure to act, the honest
emigrants in Kansas have been left Il prey to wrong
of all kinds. Nullem .hayittum ertiiii. nssi per
te, nullem .fagttum sine tie. And now he stands
forth the most conspicuous enemy of that unhappy
Territory. as the tyranny of the British kim
Is all renewed in the President, SO on his floor
have the old indignitcs been renewed, which
emblttered and fomentrd the trouble of our Fa-
thers. The early petition Of the American Con-
gress to Parliament, long before any suggestion
OF lndepend nee, was opposed-like the petitions
OF NansHs-becau~e that body ''was assembled
without any reqnsiton the part of the Su-
preme Io"er," another petition from New
YORK, presented BY Edmund Burke, was fatty re-
Jcctrd, as climing rights derogatorv to Parlia-
mcnt. And still another petition from Massa-
chusetts Bay, WAS dismissed as 'svexatous and
scandalous," while the patriot and philosopher
WHO pore 1t was exposed to peculiar cnntumely
throughout the debates, our fathers were made
the butt OF sorry tests and supcrci!ious assump-
tons.
Ana now these scenes, with these precise OBJ
Jections, have been renewed in the America Sen
ate. Win regret, como again upon the Soma.
tor from South Carolina, (Mr. Butler.) who, ON
nlpreSent IN this debate. overhowed with rage at
me simple suggestion that Kansas had applied for
ADMISSION as State: and, with incoherent
PHRASES, discharged the loose expectoration of
ms speech, ROW upon her Representative and
then upon her people. There was no eytrava-
Sance OF the ancient Parliamentary debate which
he did not repeat nor was there any possible
deviation from truth which he did not make,
with 50 much of passion, | am glad to add, us to
save HIM from suspicion of Intentional aberra-
ton. But the Senator touches nothing which he
does not dlshgurc-with error, sometimes of prin-
clple, sometimes of fact. He shows an incappaci-
ty OF accuracy. whether in stating the Constitution
lazy who in, fbo al.