The Kansas herald of freedom., 1856-03-08

ments, and two-thirds of the other.
! Also, he says. Leave the people who
will be affected by this question, Slave
ry, to adjust it upon their own response
bility and in their own manner, and we
shall render another tribute to the origi
nal principles of our government, and
furnish another guaranty for its perma
nancy and prosperity" But how car
this or any other question be adjusted by
the people. while ruled by foreign Exec.
utive and Judiciary?
i Mr.. Douglas says, 81 have always
held that the people have right to settle
these questions as they choose, not only
when they come into the Unionas State,
| but that they should be permitted to dc
so while Territory" IF the people
have this right, then the Federal Gov
ernment has no right to interfere with it,
and the people of Kansas have right to
demand that the present Territorial Gov
ernment of Kansas be withdrawn, and
that they be allowed to choose all their
officers.
] Mr.. HEM, of Iowa. in Congress, said,
SCI would that Congress would recognize
the doctrine of -Squatter Sovereignty in
its length and breadth; that the citizen,
wherever he may settle, if on Ameri-
can soil, shall have all the rights and
privileges of citizenship, and be consult
ed by Executivesas as wellas BY Representa-
tives. This would be right. This would
be simple Justice. 1t is doctrine that
was broadly asserted, and with frmness
maintained, by the Fathers of our Re
public"
In the organic act of the Territory,
Sec. 4, is the following: 50 1t being the
true intent and meaning of this act not to
legislate Slavery into any Territory or
State, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to
teaue the people thereof perfectly free to
form and regulate their domestic institu-
tions IN their oaOn sooy, subject only to
the Constitution of the United States"
But how can this intent be carried
out with an Executive and Judiciary. and
two-t thirds of the Legislative powerin op-
position to the will of the people, and
with an overwhelming invasion at every
election by permission of these officers
In the Presidents Annual Message to
Congress, for the current year, he says,
"In the counse:ls of Congress there was
manifested extreme antagonism of opin-
ion and action between some representa-
tives who sought, by the abusive and un-
constitutional employment of the legis-
lative powers of the government, to inter-
fere in the condition of inchoate States,
and to impose their own social theories
upon the latter; and other represents
tives, who repelled the interposition OF
the General Government in this respect,
and maintained the self-constituted rights
of the States. In truth, the thing at
tempted was, in form alone, the action of
the General Government, while in real
ity it was the endeavor, by abuse of leg
islative power, to force the ideas of inter-
nal policy, entertained by particular States,
upon allied independent States. Once
more the Constitution and the Union tri-
umphed signs.lly. The new Territories
were organized without restrictions on
the disputed point, and were thus left to
Judge in that particular for themselves. "
Fit would have been "abuse of legis-
lative power'' for Congress to force the
ideas of internal policy entertained by
particular States" upon Kansas, by what
reasoning does he justify the Executive
in the exercise of thatpow That the
officials of his appointment are to-day en-
deavoring to do this very thing against
the sentiment of a large majority of the
people, cannot admit of doubt.
Again he says, The measure of its
repeal { Missouri Compromise was the
final consumation and complete recogni-
ton of the principle, that no portion of
tbe United States shall undertake,
through assumption of the powers of the
General Government, to dictate the So
cial institutions of any other portion"
The people of Kansashaye reason to feel
that the complete recognition" of the
| principle. unless carried into practice, is
Of no avail to them, and that the recogni-
ton of this priaciple by Congress, while
the opposite is acted upon by the Execu-
tive, would be simple mockery.
Once more; If the friends of the Con-
stitution are to have another struggle, its
enemies could not present a more accept
able issue than that of State whose con-
stitution clearly embraces republican
form of government being excluded
from the Union because its domestic in
stitutions may not in all respects comport
with the ideas of what is wise and expe-
dent, entertained in some other STATE. :"
" IF new State. formed from the Terri
tory of the United States, be absolutely
excluded from admission therein, that
fact, ofitseh, constitutes the disruption OF
union between it and the other States.-
But the process of dissolution could
not stop there. Would not sectional
decision, producing such result by ma
jority of votes, either Northern or South
ern, of necessity drive ont the oppressed
and sggrieved minority, and placein pre-
sence of each other. TIVE irreconcilably
hostile considerations 90
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