The Washington union., 1857-09-26
Prom lhs Journal Of oomnsro..
THE NEW HAVEN LEGISLATORS.

i a.. New Haven gentlemen. The word dena1a means
ftrr.y. deprived Of reason Whom God wishes TO
-,troy He first depives Of reason 1t is old and
rte proyerb But il is old and familiar proverbs old
Bd long tried laws old and sound principles, which alone
a, necessary be applied these gentlemen, who
M away BY the foIies Of the party which they have
isd themselves misled TO consider idle talk argu
usnt and sounding phrases proof have peShed mis-
Hably
For the reply which they utter the Presidents letter
first pe is greater blunder than their original letter,
and total sinking OF their beyond fe hope of re-
54mutou II is indeed melancholy 10 old men,
whose heads ought to have gathered more experience,
dragged along after younger and weaker nteecs 10 their
avn damage The document contains very little argu-
usut or reasoning and spreads columns what might
have been as well said and wisely in few lines
The writers first with the air of boys that have found
nrze shout their delight at the Presidents omission to
l deuy two of their statements
We would remark then that the main facts alleged in
hat memorial either passed over without denial, or
l are explicitly ayowed in your reply.
These facts are First i'that the fundamental
rnpe of the constitution Of the United States and of
ur political institutions is that the people shall make
their laws and elect their own rulers Secondly,
that Governor Walker Of Kansas, openly represents
and proas that the President Of the United States is
employing through him Walker army, one purpose
Of which is to force the people Of Kansas TO obey laws
u
avs which it is notorious and established upon evidence
they never made and rulers they never elected As TO
these two facts the material facts alleged by your me
norialists and which chiefly require yindicaon from
1 spiy. i =
In regard to the second of these .facts, the Presi
dent certainly needed not to deny it, The gentlemen
perhaps knew best whether Gov. Walker WAS making
such declarations they said he Their fact
Is, not that the President doing what Governor
walker alleged but that the governor openly repre-
snts and proclaims' so. We allude to this only by
Way Of showing the peculiar style of these gentlemens
augmentation They tell the President that Governor
EaLkr says and and because the President does
not categoricaily deny that he ding and so, they
ay he admits that he is doing candid man would
m that the silence only amounted to admission that
Goy.rnor Walker had said what they declared him to
lave said But the President does not leave the matter
H. He distinctly informs them that he did order mil
Jary force into Kansas TO aid the civil magistrates Do
e gentlemen wish to he understood arguing that he
admits all their stuff about laws which are not their
own (which 1t is notorious and established evil
3enc they never made and other allegations which
minor parts Of their proposition Do they intend to
uv that the President admits by his silence that these
descriptions correct! We pity their weakness they
ado
vet we are compelled to believe that these gentle
sr ooseetionsly think the President by his silence,
siuits that the laws of Kansas bogus and that
Ihis i, sstabshed by abundant evidence they had
I sir vou ordered the military to support the bogus
laVs of Kansas and the President had said, II did,
y would hold that he thereby admitted not only that
HE had sent the military, but that the laws were bogus
suc is the trig these ogcians who appeal thus tr
IunThantly to the admission:
Are these assertions which the whole subject ut issue
Idepends untrue and yet denial Of themnot word
H. nroye them untrue Without such denial what can
va ext yonr emorialists and the country to believe
Land to say? What but that the facts which they allege
arr notorious and undeniable
And now to return to the first fact they style it,
Most perscns would have called it "a proposition y but
our wise men choose to call fact that the fundamental
ncpe Of the constitution is that the people shall make
their own laws and elect their own rulers Doubtless
thew are right No one could hnve stated it more clearly
But the principle Of segovenment requires wiser heads
than the New Haven men carry on their shoulders to un
arstand it. They say that the elections must be heo
Int there must be some Judge whether the election
lair or foul They would perhaps have jury Of New
syn professors TO inquire into the manner Of conduct
L. very election and datermine whether the result was
si or .llsgus'' They would ssye Professor sillman
ma ps;d ut Woosey examine whethz John Smith was
v elecl ~ the legislature of Kansas from one Of the
no. oo,-r.;as -ud on their verdict against him the
~ "a ia led States should interfere and keep
i'm out Of the legislatl W
Do they DENY this mon. rtFons idea Why, 1t stares
bsm in the face in every Ii. .Ne o uleI ei'ers ines
nunriate this bold doctrine ana. fisieh Ihey ue
a1nd-distincty and emphaticaly -at Lac iieStue"'
hall annul the laws of Kansas because incs- NC"
aaEcn Solons-lznow them to be ..bogusl
What then Do they say they demand it because 'ne
avs ''notoriously bogus r. Ono jHdioes Do 'hey
a. they demand if because they established upon
ddehoe'' to be bogus Quo Jacef Shall the Pl esi-
INIT Of the United States be governed by allegations liz
aBI No need argument to make clear the
bly, Of calling on the President to listen to such APP
3ak3
No, gentlemen the principle of self-government in
G country has checks which you in your closets
oratories busy in those sublime pursuits which have
the ofsome of you illustious, have not had
me to consider and understand
The sefgovernment which we have established is not
hnted Our constitution is wisely ordered 30 that no
Oidsn connections affect laws. There may be
mes when 30 far from the people making their own
W., there win be n government opposed TO the win
nd wishes Of ninetenths Of the people The Senate of
United States is beyond the reach Of popular changes
will often occur ID often has occurred that the
E Of majority of the people cannot by any possibility
One the law 1t is also wise provision, not Of the
nsitution but of the common law which is the wis
IN of nations that the law for ne time standing the
Stute- book is the law of the land You explain
suppose the Great Mogul, any other tyrant, had
Ablished the so-called government and laws OF