Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1856-09-11

BY common aud universal consent in Kansas
.hese laws remain unexeeuted, and mortal
man has ever made complaint to n court Of
justice, so far as | can learn, for writ or pro-
cess for a violation of any one of those obnox-
ious laws. You know that they have neve
been executed. You know that the very Off
GERS of whom you complain in Kansas do not
pretend TO enforce them. Hence you have no
right TO suppose, and | undertake TO say you
do not believe, that those particular laws are TO
be enforced by this appropriation and, there
fore, the excuse which you give for the defeat OF
The army appropriation bill is not sustained by
the facts Its mere pretext, and has no foun-
dation in truth.
Whenever find man saying 10 me on the
stump that his vote against the army bill was
in order to prevent the President from enforcing
those particular obnoxious laws, l shall say TO
him that he knows that pretext is not true
that there is not an honest man living who does
not know that it is a mere excuse. You know
that the appropriation bill is not for the en-
forcement of those particular laws. You have
been told before, time and again, that no one of
those laws has been enforced, no one Of their
penalties has been inflicted. no case of the
kind has ever arisen yet, VIXEN one of you
rise to make speech to excuse the crime OF
stopping the wheels of Government and pro-
ducing civil war in the Territory of Kansas,
you cite these very laws which nobody pre-
tends to enforce. Whenever men are driven TO
give false reason for their persistent action, it
shows that there is a true reason which decency
or patriotism does not allow them TO avow.
i show that the pretence in regard to these
laws is false reason, and the inference is that
there is a different one which impels their &C
ton and why not avow the true one, if con-
sstent with honor, with duty with patriotism!
\ l.
no Presidential election approaching, there
would be entire quiet and peace in Kansas.
am constrained to believe that each crime COM
mitted there recently has been done by the
orders of a political organization. l am con-
strained to believe that Lane is the regularly
appointed agent and commander for that pur-
pose, and that this is not to cease until after
the Presidential election. When that election
is over, If the Constitution triumphs, as | be-
lieye it will, there will be peace in Kansas for
there will be no motive for any political party
to spend money to fit out bands of maraUders
and desperadoes TO get up civil war.
None of you will pretend that these obnox-
ious laws, to which you refer SO often, have
been the cause of the disorders and disturbances
which have occurred in Kansss.
Again: is it really true that you are ANXIOUS
| TO get rid of these obnoxious laws? If it were
true, with your organized majority in the other
| House, sufficiently numerous and well trained
| to defeat the appropriation bills aud stop the
wheels of government, e9ql9 you not have
passed a bill to repeal the obnoxious laws -
You have not dared to pass bill TO repeal
the obnoxious laws? You have not dared to
pass a bill to repeal them for fear the Senate
would concur, and thus destroy your political
capital.
We passed bill to annul them once, and
sent it 10 the House of Representatives, and
your majority would not take it up and pass it.
We then sent the bill a second time, and your
majority in the House of Representatives would
not take it up 1t was well known that the
reason why you would not take it up was the
fear that a few of your men would join us aud
pass the bill. 1t vas unnecessary for US 10
send third bill--twoe, assuredly vas enough.
II is no excuse to say that our bill contained
other matter which you did not like in connec-
ton with that repeating section. If you had
insuperable objections to the other matter, if it
involved your consciences or your Judgment,
you could have stricken out all that you objec-
ted to, and sent US the residue You have had
assurances sufficient to-day thai your action
would be concurred in by the Senate in mo-
ment if you had done it; and if your folks are
sincere in desiring these obnoxious laws TO be
repealed, you will take up our bill and Ger
tainly pass the repeating section, wh.ther you
pass the remainder or not, befole l., o'c,och &c
morrow We shall now wait to see whether
you are sincere in trying to get rid of these OBJ
noxious laws. believe, and it is painful to
me TO be under the necessity of saying that
have been forced to the conviction, thai you
will not permit these obnoxious laws to be
swept from, tue statute book until after the
Presidential election. ! believe you have dis
tinct understanding that the repeating shall not
pass. 1t is the main plank in your political
platform for the pending election.
In addition to the fact that these "od.ous
laws Of Kansas are not responsible for the
destruction of the Free State Hotel aud tho
Printing Offices at Lawrence; the arrest of
ROBINSON, Brown and DIETzLER; nor for
any of the disturbances that have arisen in
that Territory, the speech Of Mr.. DOUGLAS
discloses another one of the utmost import
ance and significance. He shows conclu-
sively that the Black Republicans of the
House are alone responsible for maintaining
those laws upon the statute books of Kansas.
Let this be remembered by every m an who
is compelled to listen to the doleful Jeremi-
ads of these snivelling, canting hypocrtes.-
MIR. DOUGLAS tells you. In express terms,
that if the House had passed the Senate bill
shorn Of every other provision except the
repeating clauses, the Senate would have
concurred. Mr.. HUNTER, of Virginia, in a
speech on Mr. WELLER's bill, an extract OF
which we published last Tuesday, tells you
the same thing. They challenged the House
to pass the bill in that shape, if they would
pass it in no other, and send it back to them
| for concurrence. The House refused to do
it, for the sole reason that it would deprive
them of little political capital in the Pres.
idential election. They wish to make just
such use of those laws as the y0urnol Is
making, when it falsely asserts that they are
the responsible causes of all the atrocitie:
that have blackened the pages of the history
Of that ill-starred Territory.