The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-05-21

eondsmning great principle Of human action. The sena
tors test Of right teach and preach thing Is shown
Sd Ss law Il soSs Of aSp the o
pei Of doing ~ you would DO done by orbds every Amer
iean from such propagandsi interference with the internal
affairs Of another State Territory will tend TO raise
agitation endangef the public peace and tranquility
Leave 10 Others the liberty you claim for yoursehe lib
ery to conduct their own affairs in their own wayand
there will be need of the of the pTnc
pies Of proPagandism TO justify unjusi6able acts.
In the pleasant town where the senator resides dis
honorable home provided by retrbutiye justice for unor
tupate outcasis whose crimes If not expated, justly
punished there. doubt not but that many man has
gone there and will yet be followed by many Another
victims OF false and dangerous theories who have been
taught that there aristocras in the landpriveged
classes that property Is robbery and that what God made
for all the few have no right 10 appropriate to themselves
and that be who may justly take his share where
ever he finds H. Of which Another has unusy deprived
him The senator from New York has yet reached the
full measure OF this faith though bis denuncaous against
one kind OF property necessarily lead to the whole doc
trine. little spark kndleth great FIRE. IL is dagger
Gus to tamper with human passions Better is II in
struet than to stimulate them And the senator by devo-
ting his acknowledged talents to this work. and withdraw
ing rom his present field OF excitement will acquire
permanent fame than ever followed political agitation
When the senator proceeds 10 establish he the
truth OF bis conclusions, he gives us inkng OF the
philosophy Of evdence asking what kind he bring
forward to support the impeachment and finally falls
back upon what he dignfes presumptye proofs and
presnmptuous indeed 1t is TO endeavor forfy such
grave charges by dlel might say, following bis example
npertnen -suggesons at once so feeble in themselves
and 70 remote in their application There less than
thirty OF these barren suggestions spread oa in formidable
array and they constitute about curious exhibition
Of Judicial distortion" the whole history of evidence
affords shall stop neither to recapulate dssec
them limiting myself 10 garnering few from the alum
harvest field but sample enough to establish the
character OF the whole crop.
He begins by observing that such presumpye evidence
derived from the nature and character of the Presidents
defsnce again ntmatng that the President had actually
come forward to defend himself from the senator's accusa
ions. And then follow the thirty Intermediates
other words the thirty proofs Here they are, rather
specimens of them:
"Wby did the President plead at all the 3lst of Decem
Der last when the State Of Kansas yet unorganzed
23d Of March 2"
Divested Of mysticism this means have before said
why did the President presume to communicate to Con-
gress the state OF affairs Kansas have much
spec for the Senate do than let the ask
| this queston---and such u question. Again;
"Why IL he SO prematurely did be not plead
general and direct denial ?"
Say guilty not guilty in his message This rather
smells of the shop. 1t is too technical
why did he inesPose the false and mpertineat issue
abolish slavery in another Slater
To borrow expression from the senator this certainly
"clinches conviction"
"Why did be arragn unnecessarily and unjusy not
one, bot all of the original statess"
concerned studied partial and preudca history of the
past enlargements of the national domain?'
! Translated-"Why did be render au account to Con-
gress OF the state of matters in Kansas2"
Why did he "denounce Massachusetts, Another "mis-
representation This denuncation the expression of
regret to the of of the northern States and
their citizens.
On what evidence does he say that there were mutual
complaints &c, in Kansas as though it were not fact
universally known? Why does he argue that Governor
Reeder alone had to receive and consider the
of elections &C. when he knows that the governor being
his agent" &c. less profound statesman would say
! that officer the of the
"Why was Governor Reeder replaced by Mr.. Shannon,
who Immediately proclaimed" the legislature legal &c
1.-THE President virtually confesses" his guilt by present.
ing system of maxims and principles invented to justify
him.
There yet other exhibitions attending this rare pro-
and resulting from the peculiar views Of the senator
from the sexuple capacity Of accuse prosecutor witness
defendant jury, and judge in which he presents himself
that are not unworthy Of passing notice.
Because the President enorces the laws Of the United
States in Kansas by that act "he adopts the usurpaton
and makes il bis own"
Kansas has thus been rryou,ionzed by being prevent
ed from making revoluuon and is Frustrated at the
foot of the President"
Because the President says in his annual message to
Cong that If there should be Instructions to the federal
law organized resistance to the territorial law in
assuming the character of nsurrecton would be his
duty TO suppress IT. therefore "be the people
Kansas with threat that he will overcome and suppress
them This is no menace it only warning to the law
breaker, whoever he may be.
"The Presidents mind oppressed-was full of some
thing large and burdensone be concealed and yet
too critical 10 be todand therefore, be told Ii to Con-
gress md TO the country
One Of the most reprehensble passages in the whole
speech OF the senator that where he draws parallel be-
tween Christianity and abolition anticipating for the
ter the miraculous progress which proves the divinity
the former Abolition be says, lis slow but irrepres
sbIe uprising Of principles of natural justice and human
S, &r -" may, ho remind Shareholders that there
IL time when oppression aud persecution be eff
cctual against such movements &c. christianity, blind
y magned during three centuries by prors governors
senator's councils and emperor lowered above its enemies
in fourth and even the which Its Founder had
expired, and which, therefore, the emblem Of m shame
became the sign under which II forth
after couquerng and 10 conquer ABOLITION IS YET
FIRST CENTURY To which add may it be It's last-the
last OF external interference in the domestic of
! other communities
lie who may read that the purpose of all this rrev-
erence Is TO elevate this fsnaca and political rebrand
an equality with the Gospel Of Jesus Christ
The President aments that the election Of delegate
Congress could not have been held early enough enable
the House OF Representatives TO Judge Of the election and
thereby decide the question of qualification Of there
fore the President regretted that there merely
formal election Of the Legislature ain fraud Of the organic
law a9d Of the people OF Kansas and of the course Of
ural justice and humanity And this great injury would
have been the result OF the judgment Of the House OF Rep
rcsentatiyes Of the United States
Because the President legal power possessed
by him TO examine into the validity OF the election in Kan
therefore IL Is Ambitious imbecilty" What condi-
ton Of the human mind IL described by this phrase leave
4 TO the adept In ambitious rhetoric to explain
The President openly lent bis Official influence and pa
tronage 10 the shareholders Of Missouri the proof Of
which s that he knew their purposes the says
and did not interfere TO prevent them In other words
20 assume powers the law has not conferred upon him
The President s forcbIy introducing and establishing
slavery In KaDsaa
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