Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1856-08-08
The Kansas Biii and the Democrats
ic Party.


friction, and to that principle of the Kansas bill
which left the regulation of their domestic affairs
TO the people Of the Territories. subject only to
the provisions OF the Federal constitution. than
did this. Each Of these propositions was a corol'
larry of the other. The Missouri restriction we
regarded a violation of the spirit of the cons,i-
tuition. as destructive Of the equality Of the states.
and establishing precedent for legislation by
Congress with reference to slavery. Its original
enactment we could not look upon in any other
light than great wrong to the South, and ITS
remaining upon the aiute book was but perpei-
uaton Of that wrong. We thereforereoiced ntiis
repeal, and we're prepared to meet whatever con.
sequences might result from IT, The abrogation
of that restriction brought into force the great
publican principle. that had been for thirty years
suppressed by 1.-THE principle, to-wit: that all
the people of all the states have equal rights in
the Territories md that the inhabitants of the
Territories, when invested with sovereignty have
right to choose their own domestic institutions.
and frame their own organic laws. and come into
the union without conditions or restrictions free,
untrammelled and independent the original
members of the confederaoy. Regarding the Kan
sas bill. fairly oonstruedas establishing this prn
ciple, we gave it a cordial support, aud we have
thought Of retracing our steps. But We feel it
obligatory upon us to warn the people Of the South
of the danger there IL that the Kansas bill will
not only be emaseuated of all virtue aud vigor,
bat that IL will be converted into engine of mis-
chief to the South--hy the agency Of the Demo.
cratic party. How this is TO be accomplished
proceed TO sfew.
A. nj
il contained a provision permitting foreigners,
who had taken other step towards naturnliza-
ton than the first oath. declaratory Of their de
sign 10 become citizens, TO vote and exercise NIL
the privileges 4 citizenship ia the Territories.
This T,soYsios was objected 10 in the Senate and
the effort was made by Mr. Clayton Of Delaware
to have it stricken cut We do not remem-
bnr the vote in the Scaate-but either in that
body. or the House (then Democratic by large
MAJORITY the amendmen, was voted down, mud
foreigners, newly arrived in the country, totally
ignorant Of our institutions, with no intelligent
ideas of government, but with fixed hostility
to slavery, were permitted TO take part in deter
mining the question whether Kansas should be
free or slave State. Seeing the advantage given
them by this provision of the bill the Emgrant
work to turn portion of the stream of immgra-
ton upon Kansas. In an official publication,
put forth by them and quoted by Mr.. Douglas in
his Kansas report, tlev assert that il will be an
easy thing to induce thirty thousand immigrants
1t year, IN their arrival al ports to proceed
at once to Ksnsas. A little over three years, nt
this rate. would give Kansas population. com
posed altogether of foreigners, sufficient to form
State. Ii is needless 10 say TINT these foreign
ers, bringing with them the prejudices of all
classes in Europe against slavery, and knowing
nothing. as political question, Of the rights of
the South or, as a social one of the condition and
treatment OF the slave, would, to amnn, throw
their votes in favor of Kansas being free State
We are aware that during the present session
the Senate have made effort to get rid of this
provision Of the Kansas bill-but it still remains
part ct the law, incorporated in thy Demo
cratic votes. Horace Greeley has well sad that
immigration is the cradle of freedom and Went
worth, of Illinois, in passage which wo quoted
from his paper yesterday. urges that the most
eifectual way To prevent the introduction of slave
labor into the Territories is To anticipate it by
foreign free labor. Thus, b.. the action of the
Democratic party, the South is placed at the
disadvantage of having to contend not only n
ganst the North--outnnmberlng her III white
population nearly as two to one--but against the
aboli:onists of Europe, pouring upon our shores
at the rate of a thousand a day. Aud what is
true in this respect OF Kansas is true also of all
the other territories.
s. Another Interpretation given to the Kansas
bill by the Democratic party in which the South
is placed at fatal disadvantage is this Instead
of holding that the kansas bill gives perfect
equality of right, in all the Territories. to the
citizens of all the States--ihey take the position
that 10 Territory where slavery does not exist
it cannot be introduced except by legislation au-
thorizing it: that the constitution of the United
States, which gives the Northern man the right
ito go into any such territory with whatever prop
erty he possesses, & YES the Southern man no
such right, but compels him to wait on the out
side till permission is granted him by some
competent legislative authority 1t is true
that Southern Democrats do not advocate this
doctrine. but they have chosen to nominate. and
arc now supporting Cor the Presidency, candi-
date who has openly avowed it, and whose cleo
ton cannot be otherwise regarded than as the
appreciation by the party of the position he mas
publicly taken on this question, and has never
reeanted er modified The effect of such doc
trine in practice must be that any such territory
will be populated by anti slavery men from the
North and from foreign countries who would
never accord 10 the South the privilege of coming
in. And as nearly all the Territories ale nov
free, il follows as a consequence that they will
continue to be SO, and that the South will be eff