New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-07-14

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pass on TO examine the bill 10 tsbes'ings upon the
restoration Of order ard the safety Of property, liberty
and he, within the Territory Of Kansss. Tie bill Is
espt cisly commended to the ground that 1t will
eject those great objects Bu. II Seems TO me to fol
bot OF them altogether. II proposes that the people
of the Territory may bold Convention in December
next and adopt state Constitution They may refuse
10 adopt Constitution; and IL they should adopt one
Congress may nevertheless reject toe net State. 1.-THE
people make it Free State, the senate may reject it.
because ii If free. IL ia made Slave State by any
iDeass the HOuse of Representatives may reject it, be-
cause il is Slave Stae In cit the remedy at
an end, and the Territory will be left just where il is
now. During the intervening interval. Aid after 1t,
the rsurped and tyranDical Government of the Mis-
sour Boidercrs will remain in the full exercise Of their
hateful furcons. The same popular spirit OF rcsolue
independence which Justly siss them now will con
tnue to resist the m hereafter The Territory il prac-
ticsly under martial law now, and under rnsrtia law
il mus. remain. Whereas, if you admit the State now
un6er the Topeka Constitution, or other wise abolish
the usurpatOn existing there, it must happen either
that the amy may be withdra W. or that, while they
maintain peace and order, oppression will cease.
The bill declares that laws of a certain character
Sd all rot be enforced within the Territory. aud the hon
orabe Senator from Kentucky regards this provision
ms abrogatng ZONE OF the tyrannics laws enacted by
the u.Wppg Legislature Certainly 1t does not abolish
ell these laws II il doubtful how many, or which OF
of them effe ctually II did not msunderstand the
honorable Senator from Georgia, the author of the
bill, no gave II as his opinion, that whue the ou re-
asserts and Ieenacts the Bill Of Rights contained
in the Constitution of the United States these
obnoxious laws of KaIsss do not in fact con-
fict with the Bill of Rights. Here, then, will
be ample room for misspprehensiop. misunder-
standing. and conflict. The Free State party
will assume that the obnoxious laws of tho usurp-
il g Legislature are annulled The Save-Sate men,
on the other hand, will martsin that they all remain
in force. The conflict between them will 60 to the
courts Of the Territory for decision. From those courts
al in v,rniyo IN
Court Of the United States. How those courts will de-
eide on questions to which they virtually party,
we already know too wen, because know that they
hove alre ady aCudicated that tavern in which Free
state en- are eitertsned is Nuisance and that Free
State presses nusancee and that even g. bridge,
over which Free-State men travel, Is also a
nussnce and that all these nusaDces may be absted,
on the presentment of packed Grand jury without
Trial. and by an armed posse com,tatus consisting Of
enlisted Pro Slavery bands; and we know, also, that
treason to the United States Is adudged by the same
courts to consist not merely in levying war against the
United States giving aid and cOuntenance to their
eremes but in assembling peacefully citizens, to
petition Congress for q redress Of grievance.
The process which this bill proposes for taking the
census, dhtnctipg the Territory and ascertaning the
qualifications Of electors, and conducting the elections
is to be cOideO TO commission appointed by the
President of the United States by and with the advice
and consent Of the Senate have already seen who
was first appointed Governor OF the Territory by the
Preside mt and Senate, and how and upon what grounds
pointed his by the President and Senate and
bow and upon what grounds he retained by the Pfes
ident. have also seen who were appointed Judges and
msshas for the Territory by the President and Senate,
and how and upon what grounds they still retained
in Office by tho President. / have seen how the
Governor, judges and msrshals have plunged the
Territory into all the horrors of anarchy aad civil
war; in an effort to compel the people to renquish the
right of self government to fee from the Territory
for their ves. want more civil agents sthin the
Territory appointed by the present President of the
United States said, when addressed the Senate in
April last that Kansas brought to a state ofrevo
luton BY the expressions of the President of the
United States and had assumed attitude Of revolu
tior, which tolerated indeed, by the C,ns utOn,
but was, nevertheless attitude of revolutions; and
that in this, in all revolutions the evil could only
be corrected by separating the oppressed altogether
from their political relations to the oppressor. say
the same thing now.
will not dwell infinitely on other objections which
have been justy raised by my associates here. am
content to say in general terms that the President OF
the United States has perpetrated d coup ftat, by
which the Territorial Constitution, given to the peO
pie OF Ksnsas by the Congre of the United States,
has been absolutely subverted; that the President
holds absolute power over that people, IN the name and
the form indeed, Of spurious legislative, ministerial,
and judicial authorities; that Slavery il practically
tabhed there already by force; ,hata portion of the
people are slain, while larger portion nave been
com of speech and of the press, and the personal
ipviolablity of the electors well as the purity
Of the bhlotho are subverted, while the leaders OF
the party of Freedom either dispersed beyond the
Territory, imprisoned within it, charges Of pre-
tended crimes. The elector can only reach the polls
De post hs vote under the protection OF the army
OF the United States. The circumstances are parallel,
almost to the point Of coincidence with those which
attended the election by which the Republicans Of
France invested Louis Napoleon with the powers of
an absolute cespotsm. Fix q day upon which
The people and sna o sn' that dsy
what remains of the free population will be
spirited away. new and factious immigration OF
Pro Slavery electors will rush into the Territory from
adjacent Slave Slater. Order and silence will indeed
prevail. The elsctsr will receive his ballot at tho
hands of the soldiers who have restored the Territory
to this condition of quiet and peace and the counting
Ct the baos will ten the simple story that the Missouri
Territorial usurpaton is adopted and converted into
State sovereignty, by the voice OF the ensaved peo
pie Of Kansas.
Here is a premonition of the manner in which
Save State Convention would be obtained under this
bill. 1t ia an extract of the testimony of Col. john
Scot of ST. Josephs, Mo-, given before the Commit
tee of Investigation of the House of Representatives,
and will be found in their report:
"hsmy intention ard the intention Of ges. many other
Issue determined upon BY the people OF this Territory
adoption OF the State Constitution TO remove to this
TERRITORY acquire the right to become legal voters
uTon The lesdrs purposes Of our ntsned re-
to the l to to be the and se
nc, purpose and would think Of mag
that purpose believe there are great many in
Missouri who so situated"
We are assured, indeed, that the bill shall be go
modified as to allow the electors, who have fled the
Territory, to return. Who can vOuch for the ability
of those poor emgrants, scattered over the Free
states to return to their homes in the Territory,
if they should be 40 disposed None can be safe in
the Territory without arms, or beng alone; None can
return to the Territory in numbers, and with arms,
because armed parties are dtarmed and sent back by
the army of the United States. -, ~
The ho1 orable Senator from Kentucky (Mr., Crit
tendcn asks me whether will 90 no.hiDS-whether
sball ne done IN cOmDOse this fatal strife