The Union and eastern journal. [volume] (Biddeford [Me.]) 1854-1858, 1856-05-02
Kansas Resolves, Passed by the Legis
lature.


Kansas Resolves, Passed by the Legis.
lature. .r.
We publish below the resolves relating to
Kansas, passed by the Legislature, together
with those offered by Mr.. Morse and voted
down by the Coalitionists. Mr.. Farley OF
the Senate, and Mr.. Fuller Of tho House,
Omitted the majority resolves, which, as II
will be seen, take the same ground occupied
by Stephen Arnold Douglas, In the bill which
is pressing before the U. S. Senate, ris: a
ground Of hostility to the free state move
ment in Kansas, into the Union with her
present Constitution The resolves adopt
cd by the Coalitionists, were Us follows
Kennebee Journal.
Resolves relating TO The Extension Of Slavery
TO The Territory Of Kansas, and TO secret
political Associations.
Resolved, That in the judgment Of this
legislature, the settled conviction of the
people of Maine are adverse to the extension
Of Slavery over the territories Of the United
States; but'that the " resolves relating to
Slavery" approved March II, 1855, set
forth doctrines which are not satisfactory
to the people of this State, and are calcula-
ted to increase sectional agitation without
accomplishing any good result, and place
the State in an attitude of apparent HOSTILE
ty to the Union and the constitution.
Resolved, That the people Of Kansas Ter
ritory, under the Constitution of the Unit
cd States and the provisions Of the Nebns-
ka-Kansas Act, the true intent and meaning
Of which, by its very terms, are declared to
be, "to leave the people thereof perfectly
free to form and regulate their domestic in
situations in their own way, subject only to
the Constitution are entitled to protection
against interference from any quarter, in
tended to thwart and prevent the actual
settlers in said territory from the full and
complete exercise of the right Of suffrage,
and the enjoyment Of all civil and political
rights and privileges incident to their posi-
ton, and necessary to secure the Just regu-
lation of their domestic institutions.
Resolved, That the territory of Kansas
should be admitted rs State into the I'M
ion, whenever it shall have . sufficient pop
ulation, and the people thereof haveadopted
q constitution, Republican in its character,
and have conformed to the usages which
have heretofore been considered necessary
and proper in similar cases.
Resolved, That secret, oath-bound politi.
cal associations, are hostile to republican
form of government, destroy the rights OF
minorities, and the independence of the cit
izen, corrupt the purity of the ballot box,
and become " potent engines by which cum
ming, ambitious and unprincipled men are
Enabled to subvert the power of the people,
and usurp for themselves the rcins of gov.
eminent"
The Resolves offered by Mr.. Morse, and
rejected, were Us below. The first one,
which is quoted, is indentically the same,
word for word, with that adopted by the
Democratic State Convention in lS49, and
several gentlemen who were in that Conven.
ton, and voted for it then, were also in the
Legislature and voted against 1t on its
passage. So much for the Mbnskal con.
sistency.
Resolves relating 10 Siarery in The Nc'iona
Territories, and TO The repeal Of The Ms.
sour Compromise.
+" Resolped, That the institution of hu.
man slavery is at variance with the the.
DRY of our government, abhorrent to the
common sentiment of mankind, and fraughi
with danger to all who come within the
sphere of its influence that the Federal
government possesses adequate power to in
habit its existence in the territories of the
Union that the constitutionality of this
power has been settled by judicial construc-
ton, by cotemporancous exposition, and by
repeated acts OF legislation.
Resolved, That the expcdiency Of Congress
exercising its power over the territories, ID
conclusiyely demonstrated by the fact, that,
out of oil that vast portion Of our national
domain which has been left without slav.
cry restriction only ONE FREE STATE has
been added TO the Union, and that state
California; under circumstances so anoma.
lous as to afford no ground of hope for q
similar result elsewhere while on the 9TH
er hand, the six powerful and prosperous
states of the Northwest, stand as SO many
witnesses to the wisdom of that Congress.
sional policy which dedicated the original
territory to +" freedom forerer."
Resoired, That slavery, in the slave states,
is beyond our constitutional power; We,
therefore, seek not to interfere with or dis
turb it. But slavery, in its relations to the
nation, is the concern of every man in the
nation in its relations to the free states,
is the concern of every man, in the free
states.
Resolred, That the repeal of the 9Th sec
ton Of the Act Of Congress Of March 6,
1920, for The purpose of carrying human
slavery north Of the Missouri Compromise
line, was wrong which no lapse Of time
can palliate, and no plea for territorial or
" squatter sovereignty" can justify; and
that Slavery, the greatest of all wrongs upon
human nature, should never be suffered to
spread over soil now free, nor into any ter
ritorial or squatter sovereignty" can JUS
tify; and that Slavery, the greatest of all
wrongs upon human nature, should never
be suffered to spread over soil now free, nor
into any territories of the United States.
Resolred, That the Kansas Nebraska bill
by which the Missouri Compromise was re-
pcaled, was intended to open, and actually
has opened, the territory included In il to
the inroads Of slavery, and that il gives to
the citizens of the territory no power to pro-
tect themselves against this great social NOR
al, and political evil. The measure had its
origin in the corruption of party politics its
legitimate fruits have been Invasion, usurpa-
ton, violence and bloodshed-all tending to
that greatest Of calamaties, Grill par.
Resohod, That the most speedy and peace
full way of curing the alarming political
evils Of the day, is to procure the admission
of the territory Of Kansas into the Union
rs rRER State, ut the earliest practicable mo-
mont and therefore that our Senator's and
Representatives in Congress be requested to
use all honorable exertions to secure the
civil and political rights Of her people, by
giving her welcome into the great family
Of Free States, according to her already ear
nesiiy oppressed desire, with Us little DELAY
us the necessary forms Of legislation will
permit. .-r l.--.--..
Resolred, That the UNION Of these states
xras c,r,nn al bx fba ~, tr;nts nf tba Do..l..