The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1856-09-12

which lew fanatics and traitors could raise on
question 50 simple and so easily adjusted.
The Territorial Government Of Kansas was
orgauized on principle which permitted the
men vino might inha5t the new State to deter
mine hat should be its laws and institutions
I bus il expressly declared "ltbeng the true
inteat and meaning Of this act NOT 10 iegisate
slavery INTO any state or Territory, nor TO ex-
cude It tberelfom, bHi 70 leave the people there
OF perfectly free 10 form aud regulate their CO.
nestle Institutions in their own way, subject
Eoaly to the Constitution Of the United States
1ssai. tee, WAS the vefy principle OF the Com
promise bl,ls OF 1850, with reference 10 Calfof-
MIA and New Mexico, and advocated by Ciay
and CasS, and Webster Let Wings, Demo-
Gratis, and Americans, al men who love the
Union, n,-listen 10 the language OF the patriot
Clay, IN lis celebrated report introducing th.
COMPROMISE bills at is high time that the
wounds which it PIE Witnot PyoriSol has iu-
lcted should be healed up and closed, and that
10 avoid in all future time, the agitaions which
must be produced by the conflict Of opinion on
the slavery ques.oB--eXisling. as this instlu-
tun does, in some Of the States, and prohibited,
as II is, IN otberS-thp true principle which
ought 10 regulate lie action Of Congress in for
ming territorial governments for each newly
acquired domain, is 10 refrain from all Jegisla-
ton on the subject in the territory acquired, 50
long as il TetalnS TIE territorial toFnoi govern
mebt,-iraviGg il 10 the people Of such terrific
rs, when they bave attained 10 a condition
which entities 10 admission as a State, To drciGs.
!0r the mseIvrS the question of The allowance or
prohibition Of domestic slayery."-lSee Can
greSsioaoi GioJe, May 10, 1880, page 94G.)
Certainly 10 man Of ordinary foresight could
have believed that honest men IN the North, al
Ter contendiug for this doctrine FIVE Or SIX wears
ago, would turn round aad repndate ii now
But these bypocr;tiCal pretendtrs complain Of
The repra! oi be law known as the Missouri
Compromise, by which Congress legislated Sla-
very out OF Territory north OF So 30, and per-
mitled II 10 exist in all Territory south Of that
linz and yet, in the platform which they have
made for their candidates and party. they SOL
rmnly resoigc, 'tbat lge deag fhe authority of
Congress, OF YerrHoriai Legislature, of any
individual or association Of individuals, 70 Civ,
legal existence 10 slavery in aay Territory Of
the Unitpd States, while the present Consii.u-
ton shall be maintained" Res. I'd, Republ-
can Platform, 1886.
hus the very Compromise, which the Abo-
lItionists at one moment pretend should not have
been repealed. because, as they ailege, it was a
binding law aud compact, they IN the next SOL
EMMY resolve was no law-no compact nav,
more, that it was beyond the power OF Congress
or of any human IowfT to make such law,
while the Constitution SHALL last But we pass
ircm this 10 another topic.
Some disorders have occurred in the contest
of opinion which has been going on 10 Kansas
for two or three wears between The pro-slayerv
men and the Aboiitionists. Whatever they a.
mounted 10, il is fit that those who committed
theSn disorders should take the responsibility and
bear the Consequences. But no one can fail 10
see that aboIitonsn has exaggerated and per-
yeTted every incident connected with them in
the way which IN their opinion was best calcu-
lated to create prejudice and hatred against the
South. ihelI own share in provoking these
quarreis they have tried al! they could to con-
cra!. Instead Of proposing some mode OF set
ding the disputes IN Kansas amicabIy and peace
fully. they have artiully famed the flame and
shown by their hole conduct thai they would
willingly spread civil war tIom Kansas all over
the Union.
Even an assault and battery committed at
Washington city has been used as a means Of
stirring up the bitter waters OF sectional strife.
When riots have been raised in the North to
prevent the execution OF the fugitive slave law,
a law approved BY Washington, voted for by
Clay and Webster, anG signed bY President
Fillmore and murders committed for the sane
purpose ike these al Carlisle and Christauna,
lhrs- same aboitionisis ciapped their hands in
pxuia ton, and cried Well done. When tn.
South complained that her best citizens had
been thus slaughtered for no offence but deman-
ding their lawful rights. the AboIiiionists an
swertd with insult and rlbaldry. But now,
when northern Senator is cantd by the Rep
rpSentaiivp of slavp-hodug State, the whole
Abolition party Is thrown into a wild comuo-
ion OF excitement. We do not Justify or ex-
,use Mr.. Brooks, but we think that those men
who had no sympathy for Kennedy and Cor
such might as well be quiet ABOUT sumner.
In conclusion, we Will briefly refer To one
important fact which ought to consign the lea
irrS Of the so-cal!ed Republican party to their
political graves.
(on are all aware that the Senate Of the Uni
led States is largely Democratic. That body,
'one time ago, passed bill for the pacifcation
1t Kansas, 50 just and so equitable, that no fair
objection can be made against it, 1t provides
or The admission of Kansas as a State, with
uch Constitution as The people themselves
shall choose to have and that the vote upon it
nay be taken fairly, the most stringent regula-
ions are made to prevent any man IRON putting
in a ballot who is not resident. II provides
hat any one who has left the Territory on ac-
count oftae previous troubles, may return and
vote as if he had not gone away. il ahrogates
III the laws passed by the Territorial Legislature
complained Of by the Abolitionsts No man
AN DENY (and 50 far as we know it never has
,een denird,l that this bill, il passed by the 9TH
r House Of Congress, would at once settle the
whole difficulty in manner perfectly fair