New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-02-08
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Gently be resisted IT, after having ben virtually
invited into the Territory, they should now b
suddenly thrust out Are zee guilty of "Sarery
"sgitation," then, who resist this new doctrine II
slavehoIdinp as against Sgustter Sovereignty IN TIE
Territories Tell US, men who condemn Slavery
"asitatiOn" if you hold US, who maintain the
right Of thousand actual residents in Nebraska
to exclude Slavery therefrom, the agtators in ths
case rather than they who affirm the right OF any
one STAKEHOLDER in Georgia or Alabama to defy and
override themi
III. Now as to Kansas: All men do know-unless
there be few determined not to knOw-tkas tho
People of that Territory desire to exclude Slavery
and he represented here as Free Territory until i'd
mitted as Free State. They know that Gov.
Reeder stands in the Hall of Representatives to-
day the actual representative of a large majority
of that People. They know that Whtfield's voss
were mainly cast by the Border Rufisns, who are
no more at home in Kansas than in the Kingdom
of Heaven. All the pleas for Whitfield are based %
rerularity-egality-p ecedent-technlcality--
one on the assumption that hewa really senthere By
the People of Kansas There will be struggle
and an exciting one, before this contest is SCI.
fled. Are we. then, the "sgitators' who insist
that the will of the People, being conclusvely A.
certained, shall be fully obeyed or are not they
rather. who, in Sayery's behalf have foisted into
Congress the representative Of Atchison and
StripgfeTlow's invading hordes and mean to retain
him at all hazards Should this struggle excite
AGITATION. who will be culpable as agtators'
i might multiply these illustrations of the ssme
general truth, but forbear. call npon those who
q ndemn Slavery agitation TO be just and visit with
their dispeasure those who wsntOny, for Slavery's
sake refuse to let justice be done in simple mat
ter of right and wrong. If Mr.. Whitfield truly
represents the People of Kansas, let him have the
seat by all means. If he does not but Gov. Rceder
is their chosen delegate, let not justice be barred
by such paltry bubbles as are set forth in Pierces
Kansas Message. To the law and the testimony
One word more. hear much in condemna,
ton of sectional parties and issues. We have
just had an exciting and protracted contest for
Speaker, wherein our side Gas represented by Mr..
Banks) insisted only that the South should do, as
respects Kansas and Nebraska, what she solemnly
coyenanted to do by the Missouri Compromise Of
1920. and received valuable consideration therefor
This is properly no sectional issue but an issue Of
good faith against reputation. Yet from first TO
last Mr.. Banks received no vote from any Slave
State, and on the decisive trial every vote from the
southwark of the Potomac went for Gov. Aiken.
Only two votes from Slave States were thrown
away. The most nOrtb-easterly district in the
Union gave its vote to Aiken, but no Southern dis
trict, not even but nominally slayeholding Dela.
ware gave vote for Banks. The South is divided
into two intensely hostile parties, which have just
been desperately struggling at the polls, and have
for weeks renewed the fight in the Houses but on
the final vote they were all together, as they had
so often protested they could not be. Who then.
are truly sectional" Who are the real "agita-
torsl" appeal from interested clamor to sober
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