Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1856-06-24

Any opposition must be iounded on afundamen-l
tai peryersion Of facI6k or a perversion Of
fundamental prineipleaf which no speeches can
uphold, though surpaBsag in numbers the nine
hundfed thousand piles dkiyen into mud in order
10 sustain the Dutch So mouse at Amsterdam
Thus, on every groun, Of precedent whether
as regards population 81 forms ofproceeding; al
SO, on the vital princille Of American Institu-
tions; and, lastly, on tn absolute law Of self
defence, do now inYoA the power Of Congress
to admit Kansas at once and without hesitation
into the Union. eNew States may be admitted
by Congress into the Unipnp such are the words
OF the Constitution. 1fBou hesitate for want of
precedent, then dol APPEAL TO the great princi- |
pie of American InstituNons. IT. forgetting the |
Iorgin of the Republic, you turn away from this |
principle, then, in the rame of human nature,
trampled down and oppressed, but aroused to a |
Just self-defence, do Head for the exercise Of
this power Do not hesrken, pray you, to the
propositions Of Tyranny and Folly; do not be en-
shared by that other proposition of the Senator
from Illinois, Mr.. Doughs,] in which is the hor-
rid root of Injustice and Civil War. But apply
gladly, and at once, the True Remedy, wherein
are Justice and Peace
| ME- President, an immense space has been
trayersed, and ! now Atand at the goal. The
| largumentin its various phrts is hers closed. The
Crime against Kansas has been displayed in its
oIglh anu eAtent, peBtnfihk With tnc OveItnIOw
| of the Prohibition Of Slayery; next cropping out
lin conspiracy on the BORDERS Of Missouri; then
hardening into continuity Of Outrage, through
organized inyasions andmiscellaneous assaults,
I'm which AZ security Ms destroyed, and ending
at last in the pe9feotq hiugation Of generous
lpeople to an nnpreoc u N usuypation; Turn
Ling aghast from the Oh which, like mulder,
seemed to confess Itself 0with most miraculous
organ" " we have locked with mingled shame and
indignation upon the fonl Apologies, whether Of
4 Tyranny, Imbecility, Absurdily, u Infamy, in
which it has been wrapl ed, marking especially
the false testimony, congenial with the original
Crime, against the Emefant Aid Company Then
, were noted, in succession, the four Remedies,
whether or Tyranny-Folly y-Injustice and Civil
4 War-or Justice and Peace, which last bids
Kansas, in conformity with past precedents and
: under the exigencies OF the hour, in order to
redeem her from Usurpation, 10 take place as
a sovereign State Of the Union; and this is the
True Remedy. If in this argument have not
unworthily vindicated Truth, then have spo-
ken according to my desires; if imperfectly, then
only according TO my powers. But there are
5 other things, not belonging to the alignment,
l which still press for utteranee.
Sir, the people Of Kansas, bone Of your bone
and flesh of your flesh, with the education Of
, freemen and the rights Of American citizens, now
stand at your door. Will you send them away,
OF bid them enter1 Will you push them back to
. renew their struggles with deadly foe, or will
you preserve them in SECURITY and peace7 Will
s you cast them again into the den Of Tyranny,
or will you help their desparing efforts to escaped
6 These questions ! put with no common solicit
tude; ior feel that on their Just determination
! depend all the most precious interests of the
g Republic; and | perceive too clearly the preju-
e dices in the way, and the accommodating bitter
: ness against this distant people, now claiming
. their simple birthright, while am bowed with
: modification, as recognize the President of the
i United States, who should have been staff tC
}: the weak and q shield to the innocent, at thu
! head Of this strange oppression.
i AT every stage, the similitude between the
v wrongs OF Kansas, and those other wrongs agains
n which our fathers rose, becomes more apparent
: Read the Declaration Of Indepe ndence, ant
. there is hardly an accusation which is there di
|. rected against the British Monarch, which ma,
not now be directed with increased force agains
q the American President. The parallel has
!, fearful particularly. Our fathers complane
q that the King had ''sent hither swarns of off
GERS, to harass our people, md eat out their sub
Z stancej' that he chad combined, with others, Il
) subject us to jurisdiction foreign to our Con
stitution, GIVING HIS ASSENT TO THEIR ACTS OF PRE-
! TENDED IEoIsLArIoN;,lthat che had abdicate
!, government here, by declaring us out of bis pro
bCCttOug anu WAoiNN WAX AdAlNbT bof tuht II
i had excited domestic ipsurrection among us, an
. ENDEAvoRED TO ,BRISos.H II THE IEHAHITArTs OF on
= rRoyTIER THE NsRCIri35s SxvAuEs,1 that sour re
peated petitions have been answered only by re
s. peated injury" And this arraignment was apt
j. ly followed BY the damning words, that "a Prince
: whose charactenis is thus marked by every az
81 which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be tn
u ruler Of a free people, And surely, Pfesider
a. who has done all these things, cannot be lie:
"A A D.x Ia -.
al sibillty is brought directly to him. His odenc
5e has been both Of commission and omission. H
on has done that which he ought not to have dont
'i- and he has left undone that which he ought
have done BY his activity the Prohibition {
n Slavery was oveTturReds BY his failure to ac
re, the honest emigrants in Kansas have been left
Id prey to wrong OF all kinds. NULLUM FIAaITIU
u ExrITIT, NIsI PER TIE. And now he stands for
Ter the most conspicuous enemy Of that unhapI
he Territory. af ~ 6-g
in As the tyranny OF the British King is all r
IS, newed in the President, SO on this floor have 4
nd old indignities been renewed, which embitter,
I'D and fomented the troubles OF our Fathers. II
sss early petition Of the American Congress to Pa
n, lament long before any suggestion Of Indepel
m dence, was opposed-lke the petitions Of Kal
byl sas-because that body "was assembled witho
t a any fequisition on the part OF the Suprer
m Power" Another petition from New Yor
ny. presented by Edmund Burke, was fatty rejecte
eg- as claiming rights derogatory TO Parliamer
20 And still another petition from Massachuse
m Bay was dismissed as "vexatous and scands
ID, ous," while the patriot philosopher who bore
v" was exposed.to peculiar contumely. Throug
X out the debates, our fathers were made the bl
Of sorry jests and supercilious assumption
And now these scenes, with these precise obje
,v- tions, have been renewed in the American Sc
be. ate. t
ms With regret, come again upon the Senai
ns- from South Carolina, [hir. Butler,] who oml
sto present in this debate, overfowed with rage
EN- the simple suggestion that Kansas had appli
md for admission as State; and with incohere
of phrases, discharged the loose expectoration
for his speech, now upon her representative, a
en-. upon her people. There was no extravagance
der the ancient Parliamentary debate which he
noe not repeat nor was there any possible deviati
from the truth which he did not make, with
, Z, much passion, am glad to add, as to save
The from suspicion Of intentional aberration. 3
bev the Senator touches nothing which he does !
cen disfigure-with error, sometimes OF princip
Il, sometimes OF fact He shows an incapacity
~ accuracy, whether in stating the Constitute
ix or IN stating the law, whether in the deseiI-
I'M statistics oT tIr utvrv-;ens bi scholarship.
.ne cahnot upe his mouth, Dntout theie flies bI
=" der. Surely he ought 10 be familiar with the
"a Of franklin; and yet he referred to this hou
nu' hold character, while acting as agent of
az az fathers in England, as above suspicion; and
ue. was dome that he might yepointto false CT
,h ho tIast with the agent Of Kansas-not know