The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-06-21

issue between congressional sovereignty and popular soo
ersgay, under the constitution in the Territories
The other prominent point of difference in the two plat
forms relates To the maintenance OF the constitutional au-
thority Of the laws Ia Kansas The democrats maintain
that until the laws OF Kansas repealed or are declared
invalid by judicial action they must be enforced and ex
ecuted and that individual associated resistance to them
by force is to be regarded nsurecton rebellion,
treason and treated accordingly The black republicans
assume TO determine the invadity of the Kansas laws
without Judicial investigation and uphold their party in
the Territory in insurrectonary and rebeous resistance
to their execution.
This raises issue which, in estimation is fur more
important than that involved in the question whether
slavery shall shall not be established in Kansas.
To assert the right of any portion of the people OF Kansas
their individual judgments to resist the laws OF the Ter
rtory of Congress invalid for fraud or oppression
is TO maintain doctrine which strikes at the founda-
ton of all government and proclaims mob law or MIL
ary power as the true arbiter of legislation When car
red to the extent armed resistance of the constu-
ted authorities becomes treason and it well becomes ALL
whether in Kansas or out of it, who contribute material
aid in money or in Sharpes rifles carry such resist
ance to consider whether the crime of does not lie
at their door,
The laws of Kansas passed in of the constr
tuition and the organic law of the Territory are as opg
aory the laws ola State of Congress The mode Oh
testing their validity is the same in the one case as the
other Who would ever justify an individual or any num-
Der of individuals in resisting with force law OF Stale
or of Congress because in the opinion of such individuals
il was passed by fraud? Who would hesitate to pro-
nounce such resistance either discretionary rebeiou or
reasonable according the character of the resistance
And who would hesitate say that the whole power OF
the government State federal, should be applied to
enforce sch law The case is in respect different when
the laws of Territory are resisted and hence the broad
issue is made up between the democrats and the black
republicans-the one maintaining that the laws must be
executed the other excusing usying orcble resist
auce TO the laws We repeat that this issue is of more
importance to the webeng of the government than the
question whether slavery shall or shall not be establish
ed in Kansas.
In this connexop it is proper to remark that there is
issue between the democrats and the black republicans on
the question whether slavery shall be established in Kan
sas or not The issue u.s. wheher Congress or The people q
The Territory shall determine that question To charge the
democratic party with advocating the Kansas law and in
sstng on the enforcement Of the laws in the Territory o'
the purpose of establishing slavery there is to make false
ISSUE They advocate the Kansas law because it does justice
to all sections of the Union and allows the majority OF the
actual settlers to have or have slavery they choose
They insist on the execution OF the laws in Kansas
because they are passed by legislative tribunal whose
actments must be regarded valid until set aside by legal
means They do not approve the exertons oil president
Pierce to enforce the laws there BECAUSE thereby they wish
or expect him to promote the establishment OF slavery
His orders are directed to the military officers for the
orcemen OF s Jews and the protection of the rights
the free State as well as the pFo-svery The South
does not ask the President to discriminate between pro-
slavery and ansavery in the execution of the laws
What they demand is that the Kansas lac in its true spri
shalbefaihfly cayrisdohaH tie actual inhabitants shall
be protected in their rghto cde heeharGcter Of er domestic
institutions for Themselves These the true and paramount
issues made up between the two parties and on them the
democrats enter the with in whose
wisdom experience craftsmanship, and patriotism they
have implicit confidence and of whose success they have nc
doubt