New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-03-24
FROM WARRINGTON
Mr.. DOUGLAS ON KANSAS.

M DOUGLASS pompousiy Ho
,eo,v "a h;s colleagues structures ON Ills hansa'
D.. ,,.. made in the Senate to-day and ap-
,..,aa N give satisfaction TO his partisans VINO
sA,..gea the galleries and outer circle oil the
.A.mber. It seemed TO me that they could NOT
Aave been hard to please True, it was an adroi''
.levey effort. and it's delivery was set of BY an
Impressive, emphatic manner. Mr.. Douglas mas
enc point Of superiority as speaker over most OF
Ais coter poraries in Congress-he never hur-
ries through or slurs over hs sentences,
hat visely assumes that what he thinks 1t worm
Ais while to say, he may justiiably take time 70
ny well, and that if it be fit that he should SPEAK,
Il Is ct also that bis peers should bear aud unoef
stsud. Ass fluent and practiced lawyers plea a.
IA, ,h;s might couut AZ creditable effort; but IL
..,,a M. rsnL a. an exhibition Of statesnanship.
Fran first TO last, it made appeal to Conscience
70 Humanity, 10 the spirit OF Liberty 10 loe sen'o
# Universal Justice. Its only approach 10 tne
roosnition of principle was in its reiterated and
a.o.hasized assertion Of the right OF each CON-
mpuity to form and regulate its own domestic IN
s4itutions-in other words TO have Slavery or not,
"A Il shall see fit to choose This principle, fully
and consistently affirmed, would be good one;
hat Mr.. ID. stops half way in its assertion. 1t Is as
uueh the right of each individual as Of each COM
munity 10 cherish and profit by Slavery; and quite
n much each mans right to say whether he Will
Or win not be slave as to determine whether ne
win or will not hold others In bondage. Let Judge
ID. follow out his principle to its legitimate ana
losical result; and !, at least will not dlier
with him.
Ihave been hearing the Kansas question dis
eassed in the House, mainly, for some weeks past,
and there il has been the cue Of the Border Ruans
and their champions to "deDy every thing and ia
" sist upon proof" Even Maj. Oliver, the repre-
sentative Of the Platte country, declared that
h didn't knop that single Missourian had voted
in Kansas, though be admitted that some of them
went over TO guard the polls against Yankee
Abolition violence and fraud Mr.. Phelps, alse
Of Western Missouri, didn't happen to know OF
any foul voting in Kansas, except by the deck
hands of an Ohio steamboat, who all voted
the Abolition ticket And no longer ago than
yesterday, when Mr.. Hickman arguing that
the Border Ruffian election frauds in Kansas were
virtually confessed, Smith Of Virginia interrupted
him to deny ii, soemnly averring that so far as he
knew, no such frauds were ever committed. But
Mr.. Douglas to-day admitted in the face of all
this, that there as fraud in the Kansas Legislative
Election, and that the MssiOurians were guilty of
IL. His hypothesis was the old one: The Yankees
began to violate the spirit of the Nebraska act by
organizing Emigrant Aid Societies and sending
Anti Slavery settlers to Kansas and this provoked
the Missourans to organize companies of bordererS
to 10 over and take possession of the Kansas polls
Thus one wrong was resorted to in oAseto another,
and the blame rests on those who began the STRIFE
Now il we were to admit-which l very de-
eidedly dont--that TO seek to plant Slavery and to
seek to maintain Freedom for All, are equally
meritorous or culpabe, still could not appreciate
the logic Of this proposition. There Is not one
word in the Nebraska act, in any other subsst-
inc law, human or Divine, which forbds emigra-
ton to Kansas with the deliberate purpose of max
ING that Free State; neither is there any law or
moral precept which forbids our aiding and facll-
tatine the migration tbither Of bona ide settlers
who 20 thther for that purpose. Neither the
Free State settlers of Kansas therefore, nor those
Aid Societies which afforded some facilities to a
email proportion of their number have done any
wrong: and he who cites their conduct as prOvok-
inq and excusng the conduct of the Border Rut-
fans in organizing and drilling in Missouri with
the cherished intent of invading Kansas at the ap-
prosching election surrounding her polls, iDtimi-
dating her judges of election, taking virtual pos
session of her ballot-boxes electng her legislators
and thus fastening Slavery upon her, makes himself
the confederate aud fellow-culprit of those Ruff
cans.
Judge Collamer, in his Minority Report, had
treated this collision between the Free-State set
tiers and the invading Rufians natural aud OBJ
yous result of the Squatter Sovereignty principle
embodied in the Nebraska hill; and it is. Ii is
impossible that intelligent earnest men, who believe
In Free or in Slave Labor, should not seek to im.
press their convictions practically on the new COM
mupities which may from time to time be planted
within their reach, just as Republicans, Ameri-
cans or Democrats seek to difiuse their own views
and convictions in new States or Territories Mr..
Douglas himself has, by speeches or documents,
endeavored to fix or modify the political character
Of nearly every State in the Union-small blame
to him for that! He has doubtless spent weary
hours in Thanking documents intended 20 make
Iowa or Wisconsin Democratic State--and why
not Yet this is, in substance what he deprecates
and denounces in those who act in kindred spirit
with reference to Slavery in other States than their
own. And because Judge Colamer stated the pal
pablo fact that the Nebraska Bill, by repeating the
Missouri Restriction, did in truth invite aud incte
the collisions which have taken place in Kansas,
Mr.. Douplas held M Judge C. as in effect Justify