Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1856-09-05

suspend the writ of habeas corpus, or which
allow any other than actual residents Of
that territory to vote, or which allow ju-
rors to be selected in any other manner
than by lot, or which punish citizens of
the territory by claiming them together,
and exposing them to labor on the public
works, or causing balls and chains of iron
to be attached to them. 1t also further
declares it to be the deliberate opinion of
Congress, that all persons under arrest in
the territory, under indictments for treason
or other political offences, are wrongfully
detained, and orders their immediate re-
lease 1t directs the Governor of Kansas
to order an election in the territory on the
Tuesday succeeding the first Monday in
November next, at which time all persons
who were actual bona fde residents Of the
territory on the first of May. 1856, shall
be entitled 20 vote and be eligible to elec-
ton. The members of both branches of
the Legislature shall be chosen according
to an enumeration and appor,ionment 10 be
ordered by the Governor. A Delegate to
Congress shall also be chosen, as well as
Sheriffs, Probate Judges, County Commis-
sioners, Clerks, Recorders, &c. False
swearing at any election, is declared perju-
ry, to be punished by imprisonment, for
not less than three nor more than twelve
months, and by fine Of no, less than 500,
no more than $500; and ten days after
the election, all persons chosen shall be
eligible to enter upon their duties to the
exclusion of all persons now claiming such
authority.
Mr. BAYARD ;Buchananite, of Del, }
regarded 1Ir weile-'s hill as of no more
effect than declaration of rights, and as
such could vote for it, but under no cir
cumstances could he sanction any PROPOSE
ton which would bring him into conflict
with the Judiciary or their action as to the
legality of particular laws. He could nev-
er consent to any proposition to modify or
restrain the power vested by the Constitu-
ton in the Executive. He was free to
admit at the same time that some Of the
laws of Kansas we're shocking to the moral
sense Of the community, and some of which
invaded national rights; such laws he was
willing, by declaration Of rights,to abro-
gate, because that was the only way in
which Congress could act, but the PROPOSE
tion of the House to prevent their execu-
tion by the President, without wiping them
from the statute book, could be defended
by no sound principle of constitutional leg
islation.
Mr.. MASON (Buchananite Of Va. said
he voted for and approved the bill passed
in May, 1854, to organize the Territories
of Nebraska and Kansas, because it gave
the people the right to regulate their do
mestic institutions in their own way. This
bill proposed to undo that work and to
prescribe how far they should be free to
make their own institutions, and in what
respect they should not be thus free. This
proposition did not meet his appreciation.
1t seemed to be introduced now as con-
cession to the House, which had engrafted a
measure they knew to be obnoxious to the
Senate upon almost every one of the appro-
pria;ion bills, and insisted upon it to the
defeat of that making provision for the
support of the army. He would move to
lay upon the table every proposition of that
kind, until those who we're endeavoring to
carry into effect these revolutionary pur-
poses should be REDUCED TO SUBM1S-
SION AND BE FORCED TO DESIST
from their efforts to overturn the govern
ment. After the army bill was passed, if
it should pass at all, he would listen wih
great respect to such propositions and de-
liberate upon their propriety-but never
until then would be entertain the subject
for a moment He moved that the bill
and the amendment be laid upon the table.
Mr. WELLER said he was one of the last
Senators who would sympathi-e with the
House in its factious course on the army
bill. The only object he had in view was
to do what the Senate did two or three |
weeks ago, and the bill which he offered .
was no more nor less than one section of
that bill which the Senate had passed, but
which for some reason or other had been /
suffered to slumber on the Speakers table. /
But as the House find so much fault with .
the oppressive laws of kansas-and he
would admit that some Of them were OPP
pressire and as atrocious and infamous as
any 1ars which ecer found their rdy upon
the statue book of any free people IN any
age of tie rorid-why should the Senate
hesitate to declare them null and void ?
As he had before declared, many Of them
we're not only in deroyation Of the organic
la,c, Lu of the Constitution of the United
States. Freedom Of speech was guaranteed
BY the Constitution, but by some of these