Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1856-07-03

ready gained by the example OF Kansas III
its valiant struggle against oppression, and
in the development of new science of emf
grafton. Already in Lawrence alone there
are newspapers and schools, incluaing High
School, and throughout this infant Territory
there is more OF mature scholarship, in pro-
portion to its inhabitants than in all South
Carolina. All, sir, tell the Senator that
Kansas. welcomed as a Free State, will
be "ministering angel" to the Republic,
when South Carolina, in the cloak OF dark
ness which she hugs, "lies bowling"
The Senator from II iDois Mr.. Douglas
naturally joins the Senator from South Car
oil ma in this warfare, and gives to II the su-
perior intensity Of his nature. He thinks
that the National Government has not COM
pleteIy proved its power, as it has never
hanged traitor; but, if the occasion re-
quires. he hopes there will be no hesitation !;
and this threat is directed at Kansas. and
even at the rends Of Kansas throug hout the
country. Again occurs the parallel with
the struggles Of our Fathers, and borrow
the language OF Patrick Henry, when, to the
cry from the Senator, of "treasos, "trea-
son." reply, "it this be treason, make the
most of it," Sir. it is easy to call names;
but | beg 10 tell the Senator that if the word
"traitor" is in any way applicable to those
who refuse submission to tyrannical Usur-
patton, whether in Kansas or elsewhere,
then mus, some new word, Of deeper color,
be invented, to designate those mad spirits
who would endanger and degrade the Re-
public, while they betray all the cherished
sentiments of the Fathers and the spirit oi
the Constitution, in order to give new spread
to Slavery. Let the Senator proceed. II
will not be the first time in history, that
scaffold erected for punishment has become
a pedestal OF honor. Out Of death comes
life, and the "traitor" whom he blindly exc
cutes will live immortal in the cause
For Humanity .weeps onward; where to-day The
martyr stands,
On the morrow crouches Judas, with the silver ir
his hands;
While the hoo,ing mob Of yesterday in silent awe
return. =,
10 CLEAN up the scattered ashes in History COLDER
Amonr these hostile Senators, there is ye
another, with all the prejudices OF the Sena
tor rom South Carolina, but without hi'
generous impulses, who, on account OF hI'
character before the country. and the rancol
of his opposition, deserves to be named.
mean the Senator from Virginia, Mr.
Masou.l who. as the author Of the Fugitive
Slave Bill, has associated himself with ;
special act of inhumanity and tyranny. .
him I shall say little, for he he has said lit
tie, in this debate, though within that littl'
was compressed the bitterness of life absor
bed in the support Of Slaver7. He holds th'
commission o: Virginia; but he does not re
present that early Virginia, so dear to OH
hearts, which gave to us the pen OF Jefferson
by which the equality OF men was declared,d
the sword of Washington by which lndePend
epce was secured; but he represents tha
other Virginia, from which Washington on
Jefferson now avert their faces, where In
man beings are bred as cattle for the sham
bles, AID where dungeon rewards the Plou
ma,ron who teaches little children to rrler
their bondage by reading the Book OF Life
It is proper that such Senator, represent
ino such a State, should rail against Ere
| Kansas.
But this is not ALL The precedent IS still
more clinching. Thus far have followe
exclusively the public documents laid befor
Congress, and illustrated by the debates @
that body: but well-authenticated facts, no
of record here, make the case stronger still
II is sometimes said that the proceedings i
Kansas are defective, because they orig
mated in a party. This is not true; but eve
if it were true, then would they find supper
in the example of Michigan, where all tn
proceedings, stretching through successiv
years, began and ended in party. The PIC
posed State Government was pressed by t.
Democrats as a party Test; and all who dl
not embark in it were denounced. Of tn
Legislative Council, which called The hrs
Constitutional Convention in 1885. all wer
Democrats; and in the Convention itsel
composed of eighty-seven members, onl
| seven were Wings. The Convention
1886 which gave The final assent, originate
in Democratic Convention on the 29tl
October, in the county of Wayne, compose
of one hundred and twenty-four delegates
all Democrats, who proceeded TO resolve
THAT the delegates of the Democratic party q
| Wayne, solemny impressed with the spreadin
evils ana dangers which refusal TO go lnio IN
Union has brought upon the people OF klchlgan
| earnestly recommend meetings TO be lmnedlatei
convened by their fellow citizens IN every count
| ,f ,ba m the expression OF incl
sentiments in iavor of the election ana call OF an
| other Convention. in time 10 secure our admission
into the Union before the first Of January next
Shortly afterwards, a committee of five
appointed by this Convention, all leadin
Democrats, issued a circular, "under tn
authority of the delegates of the county O
Wayne" recommending that the voter
throughout Michigan, should meet and elec
i delegates to q Convention to give the neces
sary assent to the Act of Congress. In pur
suance of this call, tie Convention met; ant
as it originated in an exclusively party re
commendation, SO it was of an exclusivel
party character And it was the action u
this Convention that was submitted TO Con
gress, and, after discussion in both bodies
on solemn votes, approved.
But the precedent Of Michigan has anothe
feature. which is entitled to the gravest at
ten,ion, especially at this moment, whe
citizens engaged in the effort to establish
State government in Kansas are openly ar
rested on the charge of treason, and We ar
startled bv tidngs of the maddest efforts L
pre-. this procedure of preposterous Tyranny
No such madness prevailed under Andres
Jackson; although, during the long pendenc
of the Michigan proceedings, for more tha
fourteen months, the Territorial Government
was entirely ousted, and the State Govern
ment organized in all its departments. On
hundred and thirty different Legislative act
were passed, providing for elections, impo
sing taxes, erecting corporations. and estab
fishing courts of justice, including Suprem
| Court and Court Of Chancery. All pro
cess was issued in the name of the peopl
of the State of Michigan. And yet no at
tempt was made to question the legal valid
i,y Of these pro ceilings, whether Legislative,