Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-08-29
SPIRIT OF The MORNING PRESS.

The HtetltgsHcsr publishes at length the
bill introduced into the Senate by Mr.. Crit
tenden. for the solution of the Kansas i'm
broglio, which it commends-adding that If II
fail, it will fell not through its own defects,
but on account of the infamed condition Oh
Congressional sentiment on both sides. IN
few words, this bill proposes to abolish inc
Legislature of Kansas and to vest It's fdnc-
lions under the provisions of the Kansas. Ne
braska act, in the Governor and Judges &c.
1t secures to the people of the Territory the
rights of free speech, property, to bear arms,
immunity from unconstitutional vexations, or
prosecutions at law, &C., &C.; and makes il
the duty Of the President to employ United
States troops, if necessary, to punish any in
fractions in the Territory of the rights the bill
proposes to secure, to keep open the highways
of emigration to the Territory through any
States or Territory, &c.
We have nee idea, whatever, that this bill
can become law, because, in the first place,
1t is clearly designed to undo the Kansas Ne
braska act; stripping the people of the Terri.
tory Of the sovereignty conferred upon them
by that law, and placing them under system
of pupilage to Congress and the Executive far
more direct and all-pervading than anything
Of the sort that has heretofore existed under
the Government Of the United States.
1t further proposes to bring the troops of the
General Government unnecessarily into imme-
date contact with The affairs of the neighbor.
ing States, the people Of which have in no in
stance, interfered to prevent constitutional and
proper immigration into Kansas. Not man
going there through Missouri has been stopped,
except such as essayed to 90 both armed and
organized for the special purpose of taking
part in the civil war existing there, the proof
OF which lies in the publications concerning
their intent preparations and movements,
made in journals earnestly sympathizing with
them.
While We doubt not the entire integrity and
eommendable public spirit actuating the orig
lnator Of this very last panacea for the ills Of
the Territory, We see no reason whatever to
counsel submission, direct or indirect, to the
purposes Of the revolutionists Of Congress. We
would not abate an inch of the demand for
the enactment of the naked appropriation bill,
and We would hold them in their places in
House and Senate until the 4th of March next
if that be necessary to secure the defeat Of
their schemes for overthrowing the supremacy
Of the constitution and the law, that by rapine
and bloodshed their instruments in Kansas
may work out their share of their nefarious
ends.
The Union reviews Blair's seven column
letter to Cave Johnson-the very last Fremont
party Paixhan-with great ability and effec-
s;veness showing that Blair's hostility to Mr..
Buchanan arises solely from the fact that
paving been a member of Pclk's cabinet, he
tBlair) suspects the Democratic presidential
nominee CT abetting bis dismissal from the post
Of editor of the Democratic national organ.
In the course Of this article the Union ex-
plains that Fremont is Blair's especial nom
inee, selected by him because he was unknown
and incompetent; and that Blair himself is
now simply after the attainment Of two essen
tials to his existence-the gratifc alton of the
two ruling passions Of his life as public man.
Viz: revenge, and plumber.