The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1856-10-01
Republican PaTty and Negro Ex-
pLtTSi0F1.

The Pepublican party profess to be par-ex-
cellence the friend Of the Black man, and yet
every Republican in Congress was in favor Of
excluding all free Negroes from Kansas. Out
of Congress too they are in favor Of this, because
all Of them whom we have heard speak upon
the subject are in favor Of admitting Kansas as
State under the Topeka Constitution.
> Now at the time this Topeka Constitution
was made, it was determined to submit to a vote
of the people the question of admitting or ex-
cluding free people Of color from the State; the
decision to be binding upon the Legislature
The vote on this subject can be found in the
Report of the Kansas investigating committee,
between pages 718 and 755, inclusive, and
summary Of the vote can be found on page 81 Of
the same document. The vote was as follows.
In favor of the Exclusion Of Negroes
and Mulattoes." 1887
Against the exclusion of Negroes
and mulattocs." 453
Majority in favor Of exclusion 894
On page Gas of the same document, under the
caption Of Constitutional Proclamation" Col.
James H. Lane, Chairman of the Executive
Constitutional Committee announces the result
as follows;
"And I do further proclaim and make known
that Of the votes cast at the aforesaid election
for and against the passage ola lawby the Gen
e1al Assembly, providing for the EXCLUSION OF
FREE NEGROES FROM THE STATE OF KANSAS
the result Of such vote to operate as instructions
to the General Assembly, majority are IN tQ-
vor Of erclusion as ascertained by the returns o
said election now on file in the office of the ex-
ccutiye committee
JAMES II. LANE,
Chairman EI. CcmmiNee.
Again. This provision was not to operate 70!
week, Or mouth, Or year, or from one meet
inI Of the General Assembly to another, bu
, for a period NINE YEARS. Section 4 Of arti
= Gle 16, of this Topeka Constitution, (sce pag'
G31 Of said report,) is as follows:
"SEC. 4. No convention for the formation 0
Il New Constitution, shall be called, and no a
y mondment to the Constitution shall be by tn
a General Assembly made, BEFORE THE YEAR IL
IS, nor more than once in five years thereafter
y Now we have a pretty specimen here of tn
= humanity aud liberaIity Of those who are so con
+ stantly "Shrieking for liberty in Kansas" an
!. who are daily shedding their crocodile tear
Il over the hardships Of the down trodden Negro
~ They are the advocates Of the same provision
it resisted by Mr., Adams and others in 1919 til
% insertion Of which in the Constitution Of Mis
n souri kept her out Of the Union until it was &c
of pealcd Thus these phi!anthropjsts, these lar2
,e hearted sympathiser5 for the down trodden ne
!. gro mean to have Kansas free. Free indeeC
|. free of colorol frc2moa as well as slaves
10 They would expol in their boundless philanthrt
!, ply, all the coloEod race free as well as bon,
:. from the cultivation of the rich soil, from Il
N enjoyment Of the pure air, from the occupation
W the fertile valleys CT free Kansas--not for Sc
4 son either but for NINE YEARS. This is VIII:
Of THEY, these Republican philanthropists, mea
10 by liberty and equality. Such liberty as tt
in despotsms Of the old world give their oppres
,e cd subjacts--by cnacting such tyrancal laws
expcl them from their Kingdoms. Look upt
10 the picture, yo bla5bng advocates Of "lreaeoI
, and eruality' in Kansas