The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1856-07-19


nlr. TrGmbulrs A me ndmeats 10 the Kansa. 81
| in the Senate. ,
! The following is a portion of the proceed
ings in the Senate on the I'd inst: ei8e' .6t
Mr.. Trumbull moved to amend the bill b
adding the following as an additional SET
ton: .ao
"SEc. - .4nd be it further enacted, Tha
it was the true intent and meaning of tn
act to organize the Territories of Nebrasls
and Kansas not to legislate Slavery int
Kansas, nor to exclude it therefrom, but t
leave the people thereof perfectly free to reg
uiase the institution cf slavery in their ow1
way, subject only to the Constitution of th
United STATES; and that, until the Territori
al Legislature acts upon the subject, the own
er of slave in one of the States has N,
right or authority to take such slave into tn,
Territory of Kansas, and there hold him a.
a slave; but every slave taken into the Terri
tory Of Kansas by his owner for the purpos,
of settlement is hereby declared to be free
unless there is some valid act of a duly-con
stituted Legislative Assembly of said Terri
tory, under and by virtue of which he may
be held as slave"
The amendment was not agreed to-yeas
9, nays "a, as follows:
YEAs-Messrs. Durkee, Fessenden, Foot
Foster, Hale, Seward, Trumbull, Wade and
Wilson,. .,
NAYs-Messrs. Adams, Allen, Bayard
Bell of Tenn, Benjamin, Biggs, Bigler
Bright, Brodhead, Brown Cass, Clay, Crit
tenden, Dodge, Douglas, Evans, Fitzpatrick
Geyer, Hunter, Iyerson, johnson, Jones q
Iowa, Mallory, Pratt, Pugh, Reid, Sebastian
Sldell, Thompson Of Kentucky, Toombs
Toucey, Weller, Wright and Yulee-34.
Mr. I. offered another amendment to the
effect that the people Of Kansas have full
power at any time through their Territorial
Legislature to exclude slavery from said
Territory, or to recognize and regulate it
therein.
Mr.. Benjamin moved to amend the amend
ment by adding thereto the words: "Sub-
ject only to the Constitution of the United
States;" which was agreed to.
The question being on the amendment as
amended, it was rejected-yeas II, nays 81
las follows:
YEAs-Messrs. Allen, Bell of New Hamp-
shire, Collamer, Durkee, Fessenden, Foot,
Foster, Hale, Seward, Trumbull and Wade
Ill.
NAYs-Messrs. Adams, Bayard, Benjamin,
Biggs, Bigler, Bright, Brodhead, Brown,
Cass, Clay, Crittenden, Dodge, Douglas, Ev-
ans, Fitzpatrick, Geyer, Hunter, Iverson,
johnson, Jones of Iowa, Mallory, Mason,
Pratt, Pugh, Reed, Sebastian, Siidell, Stu
art, Thompson of Kentucky, Toombs, Tou-
cey, Weller, Wright and Yulee-34.
Mr.. Trumbnll then moved to amend the
bill by adding section declaring all the acts
and proceeding of the Territorial Legislature
of Kansas utterly null and void, and that no
person shall hold any Office or exercise any
authority or Jurisdiction in said Territory,
under or by virtue of any power or author
ity derived from that Legislative Assembly,
nor shall the members thereof hereafter ex-
ercise any power or authority as such.
The amendment was rejected-yeas IL,
nays 36-as follows
YEAs-Messrs. Bell of New Hampshire,
Collamer, Durkee, Fessenden, Foot, Foster,
Hale, Seward, Trumbull, Wade and Will
son-I1. -
NAys-Messrs. Adams, Allen, Bayard,
BelLof Tennessee, Benjamin, Biggs, Bigler,
Bright, Brodhead, Brown, Cass, Clay, Crit
tendon, Dodge, Douglas, Evans. Fitzpatrick,
Geyer, Hunter, Iyerson, johnson, Jones Of
Iowa, Mallory, Mason, Pratt, Pugh, Reid,
Sebastian, Slidell, Stuart, Thompson of KY,
Toombs, Toucey, Weller, Wright and Yu-
lee-36.
The above votes are significant. The men
who professed to be willing to leave the peo-
pie of Kansas perfectly free to regulate their oaon
affairs, have not only declared void numer-
GUS local laws of the Territorial Legislature,
but have utterly repudiated the right of
that body to exclude slavery. They have
voted that in the absence of any Territorial
legislation, slavery may go into the Terrific
ry, or rather against resolution deciding
that it could not go in under such c;rcum-
stances, which is the same thing. Thus has
the Senate recognized slavery as national
institution and declared by implication that
it needs no local law to authorize it's exist
ence in any Territory Of the Union into
which slaves may be carried.