Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1856-09-10
TIE KANSAS LAWS


The fsueda- Republicans are trying to raise
tremendous fuss over the enactments of the
Kansas Legislature That Assembly, in or
der to do great deal of legislation in short
time, adopted such laws in the Statute Books
of Missouri as were adapted to the Territorial
condition of Kansas. Most of the Legislators
being in f'vor Of making Kansas Slave State
aud believing that they had the right to pass
laws on the subject Of slavery, hastily enacted
two three statutes in regard to slave prop
erty, and for its protection.
These laws have always tecn regretted
even by judicious and conservative advocates
of slavery in Kansas. They were adopted in
the heat OF partzanship By excited bordercrs
Meetings held even in Missouri, have not hes
itated to express condemnation of these stat
utes. The President of the United States,
although it is not in the general, proper for
him to express any opinion in regard to laws
of mere local territorial concern, yet has taken
occasion in message to Congress to initiate
respectfully that these laws were i'll advised
They have been publicly denounced by lead
ing Democrats in both Houses of Congress
Democratic Statesmen and Legislators like
Lewis Cass, Stephen A. Douglass, Daniel S.
Dickinson, Horatio Seymour, James I, Orr,
and James M. Mason have openly condemned
these particular enactments. The Democrat
c Senate twice passed bill for fair ADJUST
ment of the Kansas difficulties, in which, by
an unusual and perhaps somewhat extreme
act of sovereignty, yet for the sake of conci-
ation and peace, these very Kansas Laws
were repealed. The Democrats of the House
stood ready to vote for these bills The
Democratic Press and Party throughout the
whole eoun:ry applauded thesc bills and urged
their passage.
And now, in the face of all these Demo
cratic propositions 10 repeal the Kansas laws
and i'll the face Of all their bitter denuncia-
tions of these laws--how did these Black Re-
publicans act? They professcd such cictcsta-
ticn of these laws, that they counselled armed
resistance to them-did they then Jump at
the chance Of doing them away by peaceful
legislation? Just the reverse of this. The
Republican" members of the House refused
contemptuously even to consider the Senate
bills, Democrats urged them Oh the Houses
eonsideration-but again and again the Free
Soil majority kept them on the table. The
presses, and speakers, and meetings of the
Black Republicans. all over the North and
West, opened out in full cry upon the bills of
the Senate, although these bills were fairness
itself, yet the Black Republican party, pro-
Tossing such concern about the troubles in
Kansas, and such opposition to its slave laws,
vocferously rejected propositions. which, if
accepted, would have done away the laws that
| ara-ALnoxious and have given peace, quiet,
and comparative harmony to the distracted
| Territory.
Now, from the sclf-stultifyng and factious
conduct af the Black Republicans what is the
necessary inference? Why, that they irish
these hansas lars to eriSt, IN .faU, for The
present, and ,eiM tic Kansas troubles to con-
time longer. They want to use them as
electioneering instruments. They want to
elect Fremont, and get themselves into power
and fill their pockets with the coveted emolu-
ments of Federal office. by means Of the
shameful civic discords and outrages in Kan
sas,
The people of the United States have the
intelligence to comprehend the designs aud
arts of these canting, hypocritical tricksters.
| We use no bated words-for these Free-soil
leaders are deliberately using the terrible,
| and fearful troubles of Kansas with evil, and
pitiless callousness and mcndacity. as political
appliances They talk of -humanity-polti-
| clans who deliberately perpetuate war, blood
shed and death, that they may ride into flee
on the wbirlwlnds of an exaggerated excite
ment! riley claim special sancity-these
Catalincs, who deliberately rock the Union to
its base, that they may vault into its high
places. -Phla. Argus.
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