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| SESArE-The Senate took PUP aud passed a
number Ifbills from the Court Of Claims, and
making appropriations for thespa yment of Ger
tain claims
Tie question Of printing the testimonial of
the Kansas Legislature was presented by Mr.;
Cass, and resumed
Mr.. Butler opposed the motion on the ground
that the memorial was too arrogant IN language
to print. 1t would be a violation of one of the
rules of tllcsSehatc He had no objection to
Kansas coming into the Union either IS a free
OF slave state but he wanted it to inter honestly
at tlegatel and not climb thewall orcrcep under
lit.
Mr. Mason thought the memorial ought not to
he received, but. should move that it be laid on
4 the taRle.
/ Mr.. Seward desired to be heard on the qucs-
tion-thc subject'was postponed.
The special order resumed, being Douglass
Kansas report, Seward said the Constitution
prcscribcs only two qualifications for new
State, namely, substantial, civil community,
and republican Government Kansas has both
of these. The Circumstances of Kansas, and
her relations toward the Union are peculiar, an
omalous and, deeply interesting. The o. S. aC-
dnircd the provinces of Louisiana which included
the present territory of Kansas, from France, in
1903, by treaty, in which they agreed that its
inhabitants should DC Incorporated into the Fed
hcral Union and admitted as as possible
According to the principles of the Constitution,
to the enjoyment of all the rights and advanta-
geS and immunities of citizens of the United
Stacts Nevertheless, Kansas was in 1920 as
signed as home for indefla:e period, 10
several savage Indian tribes, and closed against
immigration, and all other than aboriginal civil
za'ion, but not without accntemporaneousp pledge
to the Amcricon people and to mankind, that
neither slavery nor involuntary servitude should
bctolcrated therein forever.
In 1854 Congress directed removal of the
Indian tribes and organized and opened Kansas
to civilization, but by the same act rescinded the
Iplcdge of perpetual dedication to freedom and
substituted for itanother, which dcclaredthat the
future people of Kansas should beleft perfectly
free to establish or to exclude slavery, us they
should decide through the action of the Rcpub-
lican Government modelled and authorized them
to establish under the protection of the U. s.
Notwithstanding this latter pledge, when the
newly assaciotcd people of Kansas in 1866, were
| proceeding with the machinery of popular cleo
ton to choose legislative bodies for the purpose
of organizing that Republican Government, armed
bands of invaders from the State of Missouri CHI
tered the territory seized the polls, 9vcrpowered
! or drove away the inhabitants and uSurped the
elective franchise, and deposited false and spuri-
ous ballot; without regard to regularity of quail
LITIGATION members received official certificates of
the result by fraud or force, and thus, created
land constituted legislative bodies to act for, and
in the name of the people of the territory
These legislative bodies uftcI wards assembled to
be a Legitimate legislature, and set forth a code
of municipal laws and created public offices, and
filed them with officers appointed for consltl-
IerabIe period by themselves, and thus establish
ed complete and eifectual foreign tyranny
These high handed transactions conSummatcd
for the expressed purpose of establishing African
slavery rs permanent institution within the
territory by force, and in violation of the natural
rights of the people solemnly guaranteed to them
by the Congress of the q. S. The President OF
the o. S. has been an accessory to these poltl-
cal transactions, with full completely, and no re-
gard to the purpose for which they were COM
mittcd. He has adopted the usurpatton and
made it his own, and he is now maintaining it
with the military arm of the Republic. Thus
Kansas has been revolutionized and the terri
tory now lies subjugated and PROSTATE at the
feet of the President of the q. s., while he thro'
the agency of foreign tyranny established with
in hcnborders, is forcably introducing and estat-
fishing slavery, therein in contempt and defiance
of the organic law. These extraordinary trans
factions have been attended by civil connections,
in which property, life and liberty have been ex-
posed to violence, and these connections still
CONTINUE to threaten not only the territory ITSELF
but the adjacent state with the calamities and
ldiSgraces.Of civil war.
am aware of the gravity of the charges
against the President which this statement OF
the condition and relation of Kansas imparts-
the people of Kansas know whether the charges
are true or false-they had adopted them, and
on the ground of high political necessity, which
wrongs they have endured and arc enduring,
and dangers through which they have already
passed, and pcrils to which they arc yet exposed
have created-they have Professionally organized
themselves as State, and that State is now here
by its two chosen Senators and one Representa-
tive; standing outside the doors of Congress, APP
plying to be admitted into the Union as means
of relief indispensable for the purposes ofpcacc,
freedom and safety. This new State is the Pres
ident's accuScr, and lie, without waiting for the
appearance of his accuser at the capitol antici-
lpated the accusations and submitted his defence
against them to Congress
Mr. Seward, in combating the arguments of
the Presidents special message, assails the ma
iority report of the com. on Territories. He
said how far twas lawful or morally right for
the people of Kansas to employ the same agen-
cies for defence, for their lives and liberties, may
be question for casuists but certainly it is not
one for me. can freely confess, however, my
deep regret that secret societies for any purpose
whatever have obtained place among the politi-
cal Organizations in the Republic, and it is my
hope that the experience we all have now SO dis
ltinctIy had, that they can be hut too easily
adopted to unlawful scditions and dangerous en-
terIriscs, while they bring down suspicion and
ccnsure on high and noble causes when identii-
ed with them.
He closed with an earnest appeal to Northern
/. Senators not to close up this new Territory
against the enriching streams of immigrants, by
pouring into it the turbid and pernicious waters
u Mr. if Clay obtained the floor, and the Senate
4ousE-Thc House resumed the considcra-
ton of the deficiency bill.
i Mr. Shorter commended that Massachusetts,, by
4 her conduct relative to the fugitive slave law
had placed herself outside of the pale of the
EConstitution, and ought not to be represented
there. The South had been vietimized every
time she had compromised with the North and
he hoped therefore no further attempt would be
made of that kind.
but every Southern State, is resolved that should
the Government fail to protect them in their
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