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REMARKS OF HON. D. S. REID,

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REMARKS OF HON. D. S. REID,
OF NoRrH-cARoL1NA,
In the Senate Of the United States, June II, the
proposition to send Gen. Scott to Kansas to settle
the difficulties there. s
Mr. REID said !: Mr. President, it seem to me that
this proposition is to say the least of it. rather
extraordinary one I think the Executive of this
necessity either for curtailing the constitu-
tional power of the Executive or trammeling him
in the discharge of his duties when he has perform
ed them with fidelity to the Constitution. 1.-THE re-
solution now under consideration u.s. as the Senator
from Kentucky says, one to carry out the war pow
the Senate cannot make war. That requires both
branches of the legislative department, and the
currence of tie Executive
Suppose. then, that you are to send General Scott
to Kansas in the character of diplomatic agent:
what is to be the result? Is there anything to be
attained by it? The Senator from Kentucky and
the Senator from New York have assumed that Gen.
eral SCOTS going there will settle these difficulties.
That is the very point to which wish to direct at.
tcnton. How the difficulties to be settledp How
is he to do it? If the attainment of the end which
these gentlemen seem to have in view could be &C.
compshed by the proposition, we ALL perhaps, might
desire to sec it done but both those gentlemen,
with all their ability, have utterly failed to show
how the sending of General Scott to Kansas is to
settle the difficulties which existing in that Terri
tory. 1t is idle to talk about such thing.
These difficulties exist not only in Kansas, but be-
yond it; Massachusetts, is the headquarters If
Kansas let alone and the operation of the laws
and government there was allowed to 60 on without
interference the question could be easily settled.
You perceive, sir the action in the States and in 9TH
er quarters Has it been shown that the Government
of the United States has been insufficient to execute
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ford the aid of the General Government to the au-
thorities there? l apprehend not. Then, SO far
military authority is concerned, the presence of
General Scott seems not needed there. Whenever
there is resistance the laws of the country there
the laws of Kansas and the laws OF the United
StatesI apprehend the Executive will not be found
unwilling to send the Army of the United States,
far as his constitutional power will enable him to d.
to execute the laws.
What do you wish to do? Do you wish to send
General Scott there as kind of diplomatic agent
to settle the question: and what question is that?
1t lisa question in relation to the change ofan existing
government. government is in existence there, and
the Senator from N. York, and those who agree with
him this subject assume that is an arbitrary gov
eminent which has oeen forced upon the people and is
illegal and unconstitutional This idea is repeated
and sent forth to the country day after day. 1t is
the beginning and the end the speeches which are
made by members on one side. / differ with my
friend from Mississippi when he says that the discus
sion of these questions here does good verify be-
leve that all these difficulties have arisen from the
manner in which the constitutional party of this
country have treated these questions in the Congress
of the United States. Year after year, the Adolf
tonists of the North have been making speeches. and
publishing them in the Congressional Globe thus
giving them sort of authoritative Endorsement and
sending them over the country, disappearing the
South and her institutions. Southern men have
treated these efforts of theirs with contempt. They
have allowed them to 60 on until these men have
misled the people of the North and find ourselves
upon the very verge of dissolution of this glorious
Union.
What is the present trouble? The difficulty in
Kansas is as to which of two parties shall succeed
in obtaining possession of the government there
There is already in existence constitutional gov
ernment-not government of usurpatlon, as the
Senator from New York gratuitously says, but a
legally constituted government The President of
the United States, so far as his authority can
be enforced, undertake to say, will see that the
laws are faithfully executed. The question in Kan
sas whether slavery shall exist there be inhibited
is the great bone of contention; and If that were
out of the way all difficulty would cease. Do you
desire to send to Kansas diplomatic agent of the
Government of the United States to dictate to the
people there whether they shall have slavery or
not? If you could send an agent there to convince
the people that the government is right, you would
strike at the root of the evil; or if you could send
your diplomatic agent to Massachusetts, and other
the fame is fanned-where the money is contributed
and the rifles purchased you might strike at the
root of this evil.
believe, sir that the Executive will perform his
duty. cannot see that he needs to be trammeled
by the advice of the Senate cannot see that it is
necessary to enlarge his powers by giving him such
advice. The Executive duly appreciates, l doubt
not, the great military skill and ability of Gen. Scott;
and if the time shall arrive when his services will
be needed in this Territory, doubt not he will be
sent there.
The gentleman from Kentucky says that he de-
sires to send additional force there. If UNDER
stand him, it is the moral effect the influence to be
exerted by sending General Scott there, which he
desires. cannot see, for the life of me- that any
such result is to flow from this action of ours Both
of the Senator's who have ably addressed the SEN
ate in favor of the resolution have totally failed to
show in what way General Scott is to contribute
to the pacifcation of the disturbances in Kansas
and do not think it be shown. Believing that
it cannot be shown and that it is extra judicial for
the Senate of the United States to undertake to
express its opinion in such mode, I shall vote
against this resolution.
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