M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1856-07-24

be confined to rghtiul subjects Of legislation
Here. then, was measure fpeace aud law,
the prompt admission Of Kansas as State
irrespective Of her decision on the Slavery
question. Its vital object being to termin.
ate Of once all motive on the part Of outsiders
70 force Temporary population into the Ter
rltog' with the view to control its policy on
the Slavery question.
What lOllowel7 Did the Republican SEN
ators support this measured Did they accept
this proposition to bring Kansas IN as a
State! BY no means; to my Omazement, il
met their violent resistance, The first de.
monstration came from the Senator from
Massachusetts,, Mr.. Wilson, who proposed
to strike out of the entire bill and insert
section, simply repeating all the laws Of Kan
sas; substituting anarchy for the admission
OF The Territory as State. The Senator
from N. Y Mr.. Seward, the leader and the
intellect Of that party, still insisted on the
Topeka Constitution. In the face Of all his
anathemas against the lawless authorities in
Kansas, he voted 10 sanction a measur re
wanting in the slightest coloring of authority
and which had been brought forth in defiance
Of the law and its officers; and what is sur
pgislng, in addition, his course seems to be
sanctioned by the entire Republican press,
headed by that common fountain of fana:i.
cism, ialsehood anJ vagaries, the New York
Tribune. The. Senator from New Hampshire
Mr.Hale,proposed to strike out the fourth Of
July, 1886, as the time that the law should
take effect, and insert July, 1857, so that the
strife in Kansas might last year ionger;that
bleeding Kansas, for whose people SO many
crocodile tears had been shed, might bleed
on. They first objected that the local laws
forbid and punished free discussion, and thus
the slavery men he'd the advantage; then the
bill was amended, as had been agreed upon
| by the committee, so as to annul all such
laws The next objection was, that the Free
States men had been driven from the Territory
and the friends Of slavery would have things
all their own way; then the bill was so amen
ded as to give all former citizens the oppOr-
tunity to return and participate in the cleo
tion. The next plea was that the intention
and effect was to bring Kansas in as a Sla We
state. The answer was no, it provides that
the unrestrained will of the bona fde cilizens
shall settle that question, and that objection
did rot properly come from the Republican
side, because they had uniformly claimed
that a very large majority Of the real set
tiers, are against slavery, and that all they
sought was fair expression of popular
will. But reason was powerless. They
resisted to the end ahd finally the bill
passed at the end ofa session Of twenty one
hours, by vote of 80 TO l2. n
Within few hours after, the House pas.
sed bill admitting Kansas under the Topeka
Constitution, and thus the issue is fairly
made up. The Democrats are for bringing in
Kansas by the straight way and under the
auspices Of the law The Republicans insist
upon her admission by the crooked way, a
way tarnished by violence and revolution. =
The Democrats contend for constitution to
be made by the whole people, througha pure
ballot box; the Republicans for one made by
party without The agency Of law or Of the
ballot box. Judge ye between us. rs