Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1856-04-18

tories with parental care, TO nurse them with
kindness, and, when they had attained the
age Of manhood. TO admit them into the fam
lily without requiring from thom a rigid adj
hcrence TO forms The great questions to be
decided are, do they contain sufficient pop
ulaiion have they adopted a Republican
Constitution and are they willing to enter
the Union upon the terms which we propose p?
II so, all the preliminary proceedings have
been considered but mere forms, which we
have waived in repeated instances
HEAR MR.. BENTON OF MISSOURI.
"The people there had held convention,
by their own power TO accept fundamental
condition of their admission into the Union.
They have accepted the condition and the
objection is, that the convention was law
less md revolutionary mob and that law
ought 10 be made To suppress and punish
such assemblages in future. Mr.. b. would
hold n proposition for such law 10 be The
Quntcssence, not of European but Of Asiat-
c despotlsm and sure he was 1t would re-
ceiyc no countenauce by the vote Of this
Chamber. In saying this, he spoke upon "a
recollection of the past, as well as upon a
Wow of the present AT the last session OF
Congress all this Remuneration ofluwless and
revolutionary mobs had been avlshed upon
The conventions, both Of Arkansas aud Mich
igan, because, beng Territories, they had
held conventions, and framed constitutions,
without the authority Of Congress. Duran
swors to these dcnuncauons were the same
that we give now, namely: !. That they had
n right TO do so without our authority, and
all that we could require was, that they
should seGd US their constitutions, That we
might sec they were republican; and2. That
these Territories had several times applied
TO Congress for an act 10 regulate the holds
ing of their conventions, which were always
refused by The political party which then held
the supremacy DO this Climber; and 20 Pee
muse mem Am act 10 rpguiute the holding OF a
convention when they asked for n, and then
10 deuluucc them for holding a convention
without law, was unreasonable and contra
diclory. and subjected ourselves 20 the re-
prolch both Of injustice and Inconsistency.
These were our answers then; and we adj
ded, that those who denounced the Arkansas
and Michigan conventions as lawlcss and
revolutionary mobs, would find themselves
unsupported by the vote Of the Senatew
THE RESULT IN THE SENATE.
The result Of this controversy says Nc.
WaIdrunl was the passage Of tie bill re-.
cognzug the second convention rs binding
Michigan by lis assent and with only ten
Senators voting in the negative; while such
statesmen and old jackson Democruts) os
Benton, Buchanan, SlIas Wright, ralImadge,
Niles, and William X. King voted IN the
affirmative.
Next Mr.. Waldlon turns TO the proceed
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Mons invites us 10 near man VINO Is no"
one of lhe most plant OF dough-luccs and
the bricrc.t opnoncnts of Kanz,s I'M tbo
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c,yer9,pont IN the linions THE imn-e.s ,s
borne upon It's face the consent OF the PEG.
pie. We, the people of the state, do orr
Galn ana establish lnls constitution , ~ Us
,b,,,s or,bo noonle by eyo.cs or,ba |nsior.
ty. ltls this consent which ptyes the consiitu.
tion lbs authority II Is not preliminary law.
Ii is not the form of proceeding. Il Is the
fact Of this consent The violation of form.
or Of previous law, does not nyahdnte it, It
is The supreme power. which is superior TO
previous law or mere form, and by It's essen
tlal character sweeps both ont of the way,
and the former constitution along with them
The forms and conditions. and embarrass-
menls and cunngIements, as long as they
prevent the people from acting, are cifectual
but when they break through these-wheu
the people, by majority. clearly and delib-
emtev. in an authentic form, ley them aside
mud declare it to be their viii that change
be made, and with that solemn purpose de-
cree that 1t Is made, the supreme power Is
exerled, and the thing done.n
KESULI IN THE HOUSE-VOTE OF
FRANKLIN PIERCE
~ V'"0'uu7 III '"e 'o''o"'ns extract non
Mr. Waidr1us speech, CONNIE nding it espc'
cially to the old line Democrats Of Wash,
inc,,, Co,otv Wu ,b,,, r,,,o Gle, o., A.,
~ 800.
N''''1'"'1 VI Io''' o'0'"7o IIahAlln
Pierce has done soy
The bill was ordered to third reading by
the strong vote OF l45 10 le and a refer.
ence to the yeas and nays viii show The name
OF Fmnkln Pierce recorded in The oGrma-
tire.
Yes, sir, the President who now regards
The peaceabe elections and conventions iu
Kansas as illegal" and Of revolutionary
character then voted TO recognize d con-
yention that was held couicssedy without
authority that only claimed to represent a
part of the settlers, aud that assumed to
speak where the legal convention had AREA
dy declared rs determination. He voted TO
make the decisions of that convention bind
Ing on the people OF Michigan, ~ reference
TO the most important Interests that conveu-
ton could ever pass upon and having done
so cannot realize tie force of his recon
tnendations in tho case of Kansas. when
they differ so widely from bis own practice
in the case of Michigan.
have thus briefly and hurredly referred
to the Circumstances that characterized the adj
mission of Michigan. She was met 10 some
extent. by endorsements aud obstacles but
IN DESPITE of them. she fought her way into
the Union and, now she is there, she Is dis
posed 10 help Kansas IN, with the same free
institutions that have been sanctioned m her
own experience. And MIcbipan only re-.