Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1856-03-29

Hence the efforts now making to overturn the
settled decisions of the courts, and to nation
alile the institution Of slavery under the new
uoctrlne, that the Constitution carries il wher-
ever Its jurisdiction extends unless there be To-
cal law to prevent it.
The Democracy of the country. in the days
of its glory and triumph, resisted the attempt
OF the moneyed interest of the country, inyest
ed in banking, to seize upon this Government
to use 1t for its own purposes. They also re-
sisted the attempt of the moneyed interest en-
gagged in manufacturing to use this Govern.
ment for its purposes. And yet here is unit
ed, concentrated moneyed interest-compared
to which either of those was but as drop in
the bucket to the ocean--endeavoring to use
this Government for the promotion Of its in
terests and the advancement OF its ends. Now.
sir, it is to resist any such attempt, on the
part of the moneyed interest invested in slaves
that the people whom represent resist all at
tempts to plant slavery in Kansas.
Regarding it. as did the fathers of the Re-
public, as social and political evil, that re-
tards the growth and developement of coun-
try by degrading its labor, they believe it to
be the duty of Congress to do in reference to
the Territories what Madison desired it to do
more than half century ago in reference to
the foreign slave trade. In urging its aboli-
tion he says:
The dictates of humanity principles of the pcopls
qure 1t of US.
1t TO be hoped that by expressing national dsan
probation of this trade may destroy it, and save our
selves from reproaches posterty the imbecity
ever attending on country filled with slaves"
And here, sir, desire to read an extract
from speech of mine iu the last Congress on
the Nebraska bill
But il Is said that these Territories are common n-o
pcry and that all the citizens Of the United States have
common rights In them and that, therefore, no citizen
can be excluded from emigratng to them without nus
tlce and degradation No one proposes to exclude any
person from emigratng and settling the public domain
Inc territory 1t tr1e Is the common property of the
to put under supervisory power That power Con.
gress Congress is made board of direction over this
trust fund to use in such way as in their sound dis
cretion will be advantageous to the trust and win
best accomplish the object of its creation the promotion
OF the real and permanent interests of the country Who
ever into the Territory therefore, settler must
conform to the rules and regulations established by
this supervisory board created by the common consent
and agreement of the whole country ard made of the
articles of compact No person has any separate dis
tnct individual right that he have set apart as his
share to use as he peases any more than take his
proprate to his 1t can lie used only in such
way in the judgement of Congress will conduce to the
advan age Of the whole"
IF, then, this Government should see that
the Territories are used such way as best to
promote the paramount interest of the coun-
try, to develop its physical strength and the
mental resources of its people, free labor can
accomplish it better than slave For slavery,
wherever it goes, bears sirocco in front aud
leaves desert in the rear. Under slave la
Dor, the soil, which is the means for support
ing the human race, and was given by the
Creator for that purpose, is impoverished and
made worthless. 1t is, then, abandoned and
virgin soil taken up again to be in the same
way impoverished And thus is the basis of
national greatness and glory DESTROYED, and
the energies Of people are palsied by degra-
ding its labor Mr. Jefferson, in his Notes on
Virginia, has given to the world its influence
on society
With the morals of the people their industry also Ia
de royed for in warm climate will labor for
himef who make another labor for him. This is SO
true that of the prorpetors slaves very small pro-
portion indeed are ever seen to labor.
With what execration should the statesman be loaded
the rights of the Other transforms those despots and
these into enemies destroys the morals Of the one part
and the amor PdTit6 the other"
/ trust, sir, that Jefferson, born and reared
amid the influences of slavery, will not be re-
garded as a fanatic for his views of the insti-
tuition, AS for myself, have no sentimental
tiles, othtr than those which man should ever
feel for the misereS and woes of his race, on
the subject of slavery as it exists in the States
If it be a good, those who have it are entitled
to all its blessings if an evil, they alone have
to answer for it to their own consciences. to
the public opinion of the world, and to their
God. ! would leave it, then, to the people
among whom it exists to devise in their own
time and in their own way, the mode and man.
ner of its removal. That is q problem with
the solution of which l tax not my brain. 1t
has taxed in vain the wisdom and ingenuity
of some of the wiscst and ablest statesmen of
the Republic
When, therefore, We find an institution that
once planted among people they are unable
to devise any means to get rid of, even though
they desire to do So should we not hesitate
in doing any act by which it would be fasten-
ed upon people who have il not, and who
would be much better without it Would
the people of Kansas if left to their own free
choice, to-day choose the institution of slavery
instead of the free institutions
1t is said that the object Of the bill orraniz
ing the Territory was to leave the people to
do as they please, The people of Kansas to
do as they please, when there is not an officer
of the Territory in whose election they have
had voice, and cannot have for two years to
come The people Of Kansas to do as they
please, when by force yeu trample down their
ballot-boxes and deprive them of the full ex-
ercise of the elective franchise You have i'm
posed on them Legislature which mas enact
ed laws striking down the dearest rights of
freemen and you call it law and order to sus-
tain the invasion, and enforce the enactments.
And after the people of Kansas have been dis
franchised at the balot-box, and they have
been deprived of their rights because they un-
dertakc to demand redress of their grievan-
ces at the hands OF the only body that can
Civ, 1.-THE Congress of the United States