New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-04-10

Ns,e been received; be now moved b h'd On '''
~ Ne SEWARD ssd be desired 70 be heard on the
tn srh,ec, wa- postponed and the special order re-
s,med. the right Of the floor belongingto
NJ. SEWARD, who addressed the sena'e a. '0'-
le~s: ana, and ooo.
non; 70 govern il well u dnncu" snu rare "aoeu.
80. ar con.ress of the United States In the exer-
s;,e Of lie most important function, that Oh o
v.a.,sl Constitution over added domains and salute
the Senate in the most august Of all it's mani.
s,a characters itself Congress Of thirtyone free,
.nu.l sovsreign States assembled to decide whether
tae majestic and fraternal circle shall be opened to re-
live vet another free equal and sovereign State. The
C.n,titutou prescribes only two qualifications for new
s,s..o namey-a substantial civil community, and
,s,nbIcsn Government. Kansas has both Of these.
III. circumstances Of Kansas aud her relations towards
the Union are peculiar, anomalous and deeply inter-
sstpg The United States acquired the pr'Vlnse ..
Iouisians (which included the present Territory oi
Kansasl from France, in 1908, by treaty In "'cn
thsv avred TINT It's inhabitants should be Incorporated
into the Federal Union and admitted a. soon as pS
HE according 10 the principles of the Const'uon' I"
the ep;oymept Of all the rights, advantages ane imnu-
,;es Of citizens Of the United States Nevertheless,
w.,..s WAS In 1920 assigned home for an indef-
,e rerod 20 several savage Inden tribes, and closed
.r.,,st immigration and al other than aboriginal civ
uixation. bat not without cO,emporaneous pledge
90 The American people and TO mankind that neALet
slavery nor involuntary servtude shoulc be tolerated
therein forever In 1854 Congress directed remsVa
of the Indian tribes and organized and opened Kansas
70 civilization but by the same act reScindeo lne
ledee of perpetual dedication TO Freedom, and seost-
s.,.d fr il another which declared that the fuure
o1of.y.. ~foo.Iyf raot tor gtahi isl
orto exclude Slavery they should decide through the
.st;op Of the Republican Government, which Congress
~,deled and authorized them to establish under the
protection of the United States. Notwithstanding ths
latter pledge when the Dewy associated people Vi
Kansas 10 1885, were proceeding with tne nn1cnrely
~ nonular elections in the manner prescribed by Con.
ress 20 choose legislative bodies for the purpose OF
Organizing that republican government armed Danus
invaders from the State of Missouri entered the Ter
rtory seized the polls, Overpowered or drove away
Che Inhabitants, usurped the elective fanchse, depo
rted false and spurious ballots without regard 10 aesu
hrity Of qualification of numbers. procured oi1claI
certificates of the result by fraud and force, ana thus
ere ated and constituted legislative bodies to act tor and
m the name of the people OF the Ierritory. lhese
legislative BODIES afterward assembled, assumed %
be legitimate Legislatu set forth code OF munlc
nal laws created public Offices and Allied them Win
Officers appointed for considerable periods by them
selves and thus established complete and eifecuve
foreign tyranny the people OF the Territory
These higb-handed transactions were contaminated
with the express purpose OF establishing African
Sisvery as permanent institution within the territory
by force in violation Of the nstura nights OF tue PeoPe
soemnly guaranteed TO them by the Congress OF the
United States. The President of the United STATES
has been accessory to these political transacnon
with full completely in regard to the purpose Tor wncn
they were committed He has adopted the usurpauon,
and made il his Own and be is maintaining 1t with
the military arm of the Republic. Thus Kansas has
been revolutonized and she now lies su6lugated ana
PROSTATE at the foot of the President OF the Ontea
States while he, through the agency of foreign tyr
amy established within her borders, is forclby intro,
ncing and establishing Slavery there, In contempt ana
defiance of the organic law These extraordinary
transactions have been attended by civil eommotons,
IN which property life, and liberty, have been ex-
posed to violence, and these connections still con-
finue TO threaten not only the Territory Itself, but
ao the adjacent States, with the oalamites and dis.
xraces of civil war. am fully OF the gravity OF
the charges against the President OF the United States
which this statement Of the condition and relations OF
Kansas imports. / shall proceed, without fear ana
without reserve to make them good. The maxim
that a sacred vail must be drawn over the beginning
Of oil Governments does not hold under our system
shall first call the accuser into the presence OF the sem
ate then examine the defenses which the PRESIDENT mas
made, and last submit the evidences by which ne Is
convicted. The people of Kansas know whether
these charges are true false. They have adopted
them and, the ground Of the high political necessity
which the wrongs they have endured and are yet ell
daring and the dangers through which they have al
ready passed. and the perils 10 which they are yet
exposed have created they have Professionally organ
lied Themselves State, and that State Is ROW here
by its two chosen Senators and one Representative,
standing outside at the doors of Congress- applying to be
admitted into the Union as Of relief insispensa
BILE for the purposes of peace freedom and safety hs
new State Is the Presidents responsible accuser Inc
President of the United States, without waiting for the
appearance Of his accuser at the capital anticipated
the accusations and submitted his defenses against
them to Congress- The rst of these defenses was
contained in his Annual Message, which was communl
Gated to Congress on the 30th of December 1858.
examine it. You shall see at once that the Presidents
mind oppressed was full OF something too large
and burdensome to be concealed, anu yet too critical
to be told Mark il you please the state of the case
ut that time so early August, 1855, the people OF
Kansas had denounced the Legislature. They had at
voluntary elections chosen Mr. A. ii. Reeder TO repre-
sent them in the present Congress, instead OF j. W.
Whitfield who held certificate of election ander the
authority of the Legislature. They had also, the
23d day Of October 1885, by similar voluntary elections
constituted at Topeka an organic Convention which
framed Constitution for the projected State They had
also on the 18th Of December 1885, at similar vOlun
cary elections adopted that Constitution and its tenor
was fully known 1t provided for elections to be held
throughout the State the 18th of January 1885,
70 Gil the Offices created by it. and it also required the
Executive and Legislative officers, thus 10 be chosen
70 tmbe a, Topeka the 4th day of March 1856,
30 nauguate the new State Professionally, aud to take
the necessary for the appointment of Senators,
who, together with Representative already chosen
ahoud submit the Constitution TO Congress at early
day. and apply for the admission Of the Sta of Kansas
into the Union. All these proceedings had been based
the grounds that the Territorial authorities of Kan
sas had been established by armed forsyn usurp stion
and were nevertheless, sustained by the President of
the United States A institutional obligation re-
qpred the President "to give 10 Congress in his An
nual Message information Of the state Of the Union"
Here is all "the information which the President
gave to Congress concerning the eyests in Kansas,
and its relations 10 the Union:
In the Territory Of Kansas there have been acts preadiia
justify the nterPosOn Of the Fedora Executive
That could only be In Of obstruction TO Federal law OF
Of insurreetion which II should occur would be my duty