New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-07-10


A.. scsft<ns IL tpdictuents ali over the Ierrn~y.
Seeo.d, The came secfion Of the :nse' org sue ~
saw. tLsi the me nbers VI The ccuoch snSu suse III
"iwo yesn; hut their term has oeen p!Vcnsu 49,
..pe msbner 20 aeoyiy Aree pears, 80 thai tne souo
ci'or eco I'd in MARCH, less, remain IN once UNI IL
let of January, l.5s hpser than msfnoo. y,
House hoios his sest by tie su;hon'y Of aS oou,
ehts And It TO I'M IA Sc.ea s,ould expire
in Lin. month"; frt ID ths time, ou, WHICH, 'h denao
the oresbic law, have taken upon theuiseives ~,
treir term 70 q period DiLet-en mouths oi.eru'' s
Jndp- Dougls, de.r-s in b., bib, 10 suomt tno w.
ton Of when shall be taken preparatory 70 ID
mission AZ A State and to cothe hem win 'he su
inieLdeDce Of the mOvemen'sin the ien''oIy 1900
pary to sald &C m,rsion. Whei We nave -
to cay tie Constitution atty, the Jus', H.
"nIa,tial,t, !" the "tumanry" Of theu acts thus
fan no o. viii nee1 TO ark, why an Dot siune, Io'
one, 10 give them the slightest degree o' PG"
tboity Hereafter but, on the cont a'yi ..ssd soS
IL m them that which they nave mesN! "'~'f
tyranbicaly exercised. ,,u....,
But IL 10 these two points, It 10 repneo ina sIe 'et
of ID. House of Representatives Sts 'enaea oy sas'
mock L. gislsture to expire on the 'Vtn Vi Msio"'
ted uoutbs befur- toe House takes us seas' oua
the Courci i'll March, 1857 tea mouths o. lore the me-
CouIcil meets It follows that, though the Neorasss
bill e1tei dsd vopulsI sovereignty oy Bvh TUG
Pyesc ent abe oute coar) OF two vi the ,oies VI
Of the Gov.rrmept, the executive and judicial, AID
le 10 ID. De, Die only the gislstive, sun-ct 10 TWO
thids veto Of the Presidents Governor 'his Lgs
lature SO leeisls;ts that tberO u 10 HOUSE VI
s.ustves there from March, 1856, TO January ieo',
AID no C,upcii from March, 1857 to January, 1000
in word 60 that there can be no L-gi-i1ure IN tne
Territory from March 1856 to Jauus'y, 1885, except
frtm j nusIy TO March, leJI, BAhLLi i"o "oNi'
OUT or IwHSIY TWO! :.
Jh.r6. rhe next violation OF the Organic Jaw =
the eLscpg of fugitive slave law 10 tnat terloiyi
although, by section t~ebty eight 0i the Nsor1eA"
til TIT Fugitive Slave ls~ Of he cnlfed States ~ss
4, cIar, "t It and be ia full force WITHIN the
''hu its Of the Territory of Kunas." This 4 one OF
,le Violations that DO not complain much about ior
~. 4 liz. - rrflh
National op. end reQu req the slave claimant 10 poy
The cots in ADVANCE bat allure TO it to shov the
utter iecbsIess Of the Kansas legislators ana tnen
dis. egsro Of the law 81 Congress ny 'his lay l.ec
IT, re 2s ana 29 psge 329 psrsons are pohioted IRON
taking II gives rod tie Territory, except 10 accoru'
snce With its provisions, and are tined $500 II they
90 20.
ia we'll known our If the national Treasury; ana sec
op thirty Of the NJ Dr. ska bill enscts that the Chief
Clerk of The L. shall receive four COLLARS per
day. al the othr Clerks three dollars per Gay bat
ON page 4i If the Kansas code you VIII ma an extra
donceur to ID. Clerks If eft. and twenty cents per
hundred words for lnde King and coping Jo1ruas on
page l45 another law, declaring tta If the Secretary
thep ac'ipg Governor after Governor keedet re-
NOV should fuse his assent TO The ABOVE, tue Iuiei
AND Asi Clerks should receive sioo eacn out ot
The Treasury berd,s their pei Diem; and on me next
page page l46 the pay Of the Eoro'hng ana togross
inc CT rks Is increased four dollars per day on the
lie contingency, although the Organic aE expressly
fix, il a, three dollars per day. The legislators acted
s. the, had Lot only conquered the people OF Kan
| s.s. but ID. nstionsl Treasury also.
Fifth: section twenty 1.-TWO OF the Organic law gives
tb, Cove IN excu-vely the night of determining who
were elected member Of the Legislature. lie did so,
throwing out about one third of the members elected
at the first election, the ign Of terror and o' violence
n,.v,ntne ole copt.ts of other equally fraudulent
returns But the Legislature WHEN assembled, with
| out eyamlnstIob VI tie merits OF each case, aud
without authority to commit such an act at all, thrt W
ont MI the members elected at The second eecton and
| .;,t.A II .b.r t.an
| Governor had expressly cenied.
S,A 81 ctiob w, MY four Of the organic law enacts:
Ihs p: % Of so s w ,as the
lion Ct the States. bu lao aadH be d'ed interfering
| p,th ihe primary d"po'aI ~ TIE '0h
But If you will turn to page 6oo you will see how
| cooly this bogus Legislature ignores both the Ne
braska bill and the presumption law for 1t declares ~
il tie owned the COIL hot IN actions of uespdss eject
| nent &C. settlers shall be protectef IN their pre-
enp,ion. one hundred and sixty acres, but of
| three bun drsd and twenty acres; That such claim
"may be- located in tao different PARCELS to suit the
"cOpy eriepce { the holder, without being CON.
p.lleu tv Drove sn actual ncosuIe;" and tue stil
more fsgrsp. rtpuoiation Of the Congressional pre-
.npiop Law, that occupancy by en4nt shall be IN.
" sic cred ,qury valid personal reeidence, under
which the Who'll Territory may be preempted by Mis-
souiss. Aud this law, with the others Is to be en-
forceo by the President!
S,renM. SECTION thirty oftbe Nebraska bill enscts
SECRETARY tn, Juovs~ e and all other ccH officers IN
sad Terrrtory shall be to support the COnstitu-
ticn Of the United States ano faithfully to discharge
he dutie. OF their erpec tiye Offices No more.no
le.s But the leg ators Kansas with the same dis
regard Of the Coz gre sion Al law that market their
oLer acts enacted anotb-r kind Of official oath, on
| page 43s Of tb.ir code, As follows:
"slc Al tmee,, elected appointed under sny existing
or .u5.,qneIu, sed this Territory, shall take and
sub.ente tbe following oath u ,fc.: l. =, do soemnly
sIy Coast. uiio' of the United States aid that vii
lI0 and .IGa The gI.'ISS OF .. &c, sPsa And As s
PROVISIONS Ct the Law Il the United STATES eonmony Ino~n
to The best on .bi, my self dehsrse my
| duties in the Office Of -; SO help mo God.'"
You cannot fail to notice that, in this oath,
framed by the bogus Legislature tn Fugitive Save
law j. elevated to "higher la "" than the Constitu.
ton for the officer il merely to support tle latter,
but is required to that he viii Support ASD
| SUSTAIN the o,h.r.
Berides til. se pslpable, fragrant and uncon-
Territory point you TO fire eqaaLly direct and
open RELATIONS Of the Constitution Of the UaedStates;
fi that instrument has been trampled upon reck.
| lessly a. the laws If Congress.
First. The veD first amendment 10 the Constitution
of the United States prohibits the passage of any law
"abridgiDg the freedom Of speech aud 1t is si1
pi6cabt foct cab be learned from Hickeys Consi
tuiOp, psge SO, that this, with number Of other
euepdm.pis to the Constitution which follow II,
fubnited by Congress to the various Stats in l7s9,
in meoiatey after the adoption Of the Consultation it.
stlf with the following p'.amoe:
of their soop,is the Constitution dese order
%,ioo,, ana re,t, iet,re eLan,e. hold be added
IbeiefUie the amendments that followed were pro-
posed.
thus II is coucusvely proven that the amendment,
DIobitipg any Infringement Of The freedom Of speech,
was adopted to prev, Mt an abuse of porer," which
our tor.uthers feared might be attempted by de-
geperote deceLdaLs OF some later period Of his
Tory. But though they thus sought 70 preserve and
pro'e free speech, by constitutional provision, their
propheiic esis have been reslz by the enaciors of
l. a IA II