The Kansas herald of freedom., 1856-04-19
Orieiaa! Correspondence.
Er tie Herald Of Freedom,
Senator Douglas Report.

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The report of Senator Douglas. on
Kansas affairs, esinees as much fairness
| and eaador in its detail of the facts CON-
prising the history of our troubles as
could Re reasonably expected, when it is
considered that the Democratic nominee
for>President is not expected to carry
those States which have produced the
linordinate, and unnatural and forced
"emigration," so much complained of by
him.
In short, the emigrating State of Mas
sachusetts he had no hope of-but Ais-
souri may be calculated upon, if the
Americans are properly attended to-
Blu: to the report. | propose to convict
the Senator of total peryersion of his
toricai facts, and of the principles of his
kansas and Nebraska organic act
He begins by quoting the 10th amend
ment of the Constitution of the United
States, as follows: ''The powers not
delegated TO the United States by the
Constitution. nor prohibited by it to the
States, are reserved to the States respec-
lively, or TO the people" He further
tells us that the said organic act ''was
designed to conform to the spirit and let
ter of the Constitution" and. .'left the
people free to form and regulate their
domestic institutions and internal con-
Germs in their own way, subject only to
the Constitution of the United States
But it will be seen, in the concluding
part of tie report, that the ''people'
must regulate their own internal con-
Germs, subject to the enactments of a
body of men not elected by themselves,
and that the regulation" is to be furthei
"subject" to an act of Congress, to be
hereafter passed, giving them permission
to regulate" their own internal affairs,
and TO reform abuses in the formation Of
a constitution.
He is equally oblivious after the fol-
lowing quotation from President Taylor,
in the case of California: ''My orders
were that all the measures Of domestic
policy sdop:ed by the people of Califor-
MIA, must originate solely with them
selves, without the interference of the
Executive. Yet the Senator tells us
that the proposition of the people oil
California to hold a convention and or
ganize . State Government originated
with, and ali the proceedings were had,
in subordnation to the authority and su.
premacy oftEe existing local government
of the Territory, under the advice, and
with The approval of the Executive gov
ernment of the United States.
After this peryersion of his own pri.
Yate principle, little surprise will be ex-
pected by perverted statement of the
facts in our sad history. l will, howev.
er, notice few instances of the mos
glaring, and which the ''actual settlers
here will be enabled to notice at tirstsight
1.-THE natural consequence was, that i'm
mediate steps were taken by the people
of the Western counties of Mo-, to slim
ulate, organize and carry into effect q
system of emigration similar to that Of
the Massachusetts Emigrant Aid Compa.
Iny." Again; each family could send
one of its members across the line to
mark out his claim, erect cabbin, and
put in a small clop, sufficient to give him
as valid a right 10 be deemed an actua
settler and qualified voter, as those
who were being imported by the Emf
grant Aid Societies.
Now every intelligent man, who wa:
residing in this Territory at the time o
our elections, knows that no system o
emigration was organized or carried int
effect by the people of Missouri; ant
} that the elections were carried, not BY
the smigrants from Missouri, & for ma
jority of the real emigrants voted Will
the Free State men, but men who die
not pretend 10 reside in the Territory
J but who came in and did our voting TO
! us, and, in most instances, returned t.
! their own State the same day. 1t is no
+ that class of Missouri emigrants tha
, "built cabins and put in small crops,
: that the "actual settlers" object to as
f sisting them in Regulating their own af
fairs, in their own way" but those gen
r aensen! who visited our Territory the frs
r and only time when they voted at on
/ elections; who paid their half dollar sacl
: for registation of "claim" that the,
3 never saw or expected to see, and psi'
!; their dollar, each, for tax receipt, wher
| not furnished gratuitously; aud unde
these pretences imposed their votes at tn
point of the bowie knife. against the in
offensive inhabitants of the Territory
: Whatever popular sovereignty ma,
r be in theory. such it was found in prac
. tice--and as such, finds an apologist il
Senator Douglas. He, too, in the nam
5 of democracy, "bows down and wor
{ fships the dalk image of Slavery!" Il
the name of democracy he insults an,
villifes her children! An aspirant for
: democratic nomination for the Office o
President of this Republic, he dares t,
r characterize portion of its citizens a
..imported!' Is he indeed so extremel,
Southern in his proclivities, that he re
CARDS the white emigration of the Nortl
as commodity TO which the epithe
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