Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1856-07-10

been made is now being tried upon the Ameri-
can people.
Two, bills are before Congress for the admis-
sion of Kansas the prominent facts in regard
to which are respectively the following:
The one known as the "Topeka Constitu-
ton was introduced into the House of Rep
resentatives by party whose most potential
wing or section are avowed Abolitionists, who
openly repudiate and with force Of arms resist
legal enactments of the Federal Government;
some of whom have placed upon the record of
State legislation laws not only directly and in
terms annulling acts Of the National Legisla-
ture, pronounced constitutional by all proper
authority, but they have added the most strin-
gent penal provisions for Furnishing all law
abiding citizens, who shall dare to perform
their duty to the nation in carrying out con-
stitutional laws; these laws also making pro-
vision to prostitute the whole power of the
States, civil and military, to resist the proper
laws of the Federal Government and to enforce
the unconstitutional laws of the States Not
only this, but this most potential and control
ing wing of the party openly and in undis.
guised terms avow their determination to
disregard all provisions of the Constitution
conflicting with their own views even when
these provisions and the legislative enactments
under them,have received the sanction of the
Legislative, Judicial and Executive branches
of the Federal Government.
This controlling section or wing of the Repub-
lican party also avows and constantly attempts
to abolish slavery in the District Of Columbia,
and proposes to control and to abolish the selling
OF slaves to 60 out of the State in which they
reside, or indeed to allow their owners to mi
CRATE with them to any other slave State. The
entire party are welded to, advocate and seek
to enforce the Wilmot proviso, to exclude the
owners of slaves from going even into the ter
ritory now belonging exclusively to slave
States, or having been by slave States given to
the Federal Government.
This party does not seek thesarbitrament es-
pecially provided for by the Constitution to
determine the respective rights of the States,
but carefully avoiding this peaceful provision
of the Constitution, it seeks by the accursed
tyranny of majority of numbers to enforce their
wishes and to strip the minority of all right to
any portion Of the federal domain.
This party, through its organs, avows the
purpose in case there be found at the North
States true enough to the integrity Of the Con.
stitution, who shall thus, through the ballot
box, defeat the intended usurpation,) of en-
forcing its usurpation by force of arms. In a
word, that if by fraud and cunning it cannot
compass its unholy purpose, it will then throw
off the mask and unsheath the sword. ISee
Webb's speech and its approval by the Black
Republican Convention.
But per fas ant metas, it soiA strip the South
of its right of admission to any portion of the
common domain, purchased with the equal
blood and treasure of the South and North.
The principles, or rather the PRINCI-
PIE of the party, is Haunted to every breeze,
and for this inroad for plundering one-half of
the Union they invite recruits from every
quarter, even if prompted to join them, in the
language of one of their high priests, by "the
meanest motives"
This is the party which has introduced the
bill for admitting Kansas only as free State,
with the Topeka constitution.
What is this Topeka constitution? under
whose auspices, and how nader
NJ there be anything too transparent on its
face to admit Of a doubt as TO what it is. or to
allow denial by any from whom shame has not
fed, it is that the manufacturers of the Topeka
constitution do not, and never did, reside in
Kansas; but that it was prepared in the East,
as they prepare houses, to be put up in Kan.
sas, and that the ostensble workmen on il in
Kansas we're mere journeymen, 10 put together
the material already shaped and fashioned in
the East before being sent.
But if it were, in truth, throughout, the han
diwork Of those protesting to have prepared il,
who are they who have done, and how have
they made it, and by what authority did they
undertake it2 The prominent leaders, the
master minds out there, we're Governor Reeder,
SOiOhci Shucr huu 5Ot-utSuH OOVbFBOr hODln-
son.
Governor Reeder, as all the world knows
was appointed by an administration which had
planted itself upon the Kansas N ebraska bill,
by which the Missouri line was obliterated,
removing that unconstitutional barrier against
the migration Of southern people. Governor
Reeder was, with bis own perfect knowledge,
recommended to the President r. governor Of
Kansas upon the express merit Of entertaining
similar views with the Executive The ap-
pointment was made with that express under
standing, and was. accepted by Gov. Reeder
with perfect knowledge that the Executive
entrusted to him the duties of governor, under
the most perfect assurance that he would act
in conformity with the views OF the Executive;
that in fact he himself entertained the same
opinions.
Governor Reeder felt so elated at this conf.
dence in his integrity and good faith, as was
then supposed that in a public speech he er-