The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1857-01-29
THE KANSAS CALUMNf.

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ia the Boston Post
THE KANSAS CALUMNY.
The recent legislation Of Congress respecting domestic
derived as II has BEEN from the original and pure
fountain Oh legitimate political power the will of the ma
or promises ere long, aay the excitement
This legislation is founded upon PRINCIPLES as ancient as
ee government itse and, in accordance with them has
SIMPLY declared that the people of Territory like those
OF otat shall decide for themselves whether slavery shall
or shall not exist within their limits Buchanan
The opposition have ceased reeratng the charge against
the democratic party that it designed restore the A
can slave trade asge that the South insist
on such an mpossbility qua condition Of its
support TO national administration This allegation was
always as ridiculous it libellous as daring and
criminal in its inventors il insulting to the ine
gence they addressed but recent evenprompt and de-
cded southern aconhave buried it beyond the touch of
political plummet
The Kansas charge is of the import and is going
the same way. Mr. Buchanan's clear words we have
quoted state the simple exact truth to the Kansas prnc
ple what's in the Nebraska BILL and in the Cincinnati plat
form what the administration have naugurated and the
democracy have defended and what viii stand out in the
future the foundation which hot parisans began
their work ofperverson With this in their hands reg
ment OF agitatng demagogues hungry for place. set In
motion machinery that successful in persuading tens
of thousands that the democratic party were pledged to
make of Kansas slave State that this was the object Of
the Kansas bill; this the meaning of the Cincinnati
it was asserted that the object of all use the phrase
of the Fremont presto force SLAVERY Kansas at the
point Of the bdyona! This the allegation that tens Of
thousands well-meaning voters, here in New England
were made to believe and believing they cast their
votes for Col Fremont the sole Kansas to
freedomi 593
In vain was it that this charge was denied here al the
North that in the press and in public meetings. it
contended that all the democratic party pledged do
to allow to the actual settlers of the Territory the
right of framing their organic law they pleased
make Kansas slave soil free SOIL they pleased In
vain was citation upon citation made from speeches of
southern statesmen to the effect that calumny
the South 10 represent that demanded that slavery
should be forced to free territory The horde of po
cal beers went with their work as though no refa-
ation had been made and anybody who did join in
their hue and cry made the subject Of the grossest
SANDER Even they who stood by the Missouri Compro-
mise who inveghed against the Nebraska bill who
mathematical the administration but who still refused to
enlist under the sxteenSate banner Jared better than
the stiff sound indomitabe national democrat who had
the moral courage and independence breast the senseess
camor and to vndcae the great principle that is mbod
led in the Kansas Nebraska bill The malignant phi
lanthropiss did what they could to pat in pillory Of
obloquy all who did not join them in bounding down the
democratic party. ""t
Time, though somebody says it is nothing and does
nothing, already has allowed events to show the hollow
" .
Nebraska all through the clamo silent rebuker of
the agiAors ar.a anna cateoory
There has been change in egsaton the organic law
is the same s disgraceul local acts
unrepealed the instructions that given to Reeder
and Shannon but repeated line for line to Geary
and they but pointed faithful execution of existing
provisions Of the Kansas organic law not Of the con-
dons have been realized which demagogues said Kan
could Only be pac6ed and saved and yet there are
peace and order and progress in Kansas Yea nineenths
.<ok
Such is the Of the whole batch of letters from Kansas
come from whom they may. We have cited from them al
ready Here is letter from that sturdy blackepublican
organ, the New York Times d s 5as4 f5a N
LAWRENCE, KANSAS TERRIToRY
.a. q Saturday, Jan. 8, 1857.
The great and important change that has become visible
in the condition of Kansas since the arrival of Gov Geay
subject of general remark not only here but through
the Union. confess that quite surprised at his
success and although some Of bis acts may not have elicit
ing to substantial and impartial justice to all bona
@ settlers of the Territory without distinction of party
What can we ask?
have examined the subject carefully and from frequent
conversations with the governor well as with prosa
very and freeState Of conservative sentiments who
competent to judge Of the motives and effects of his
policy am confident that Kansas affairs will soon cease
to he merely sectional question Governor Geary has
qured the confidence and respect of OF the peo
pie of the Territory and determined to perform his
mission in creditable manner. - ! believe that
good policy and justice require fair treatment towards
those southerners who have brought their slaves into the
Territory and that under circumstances should they be
deprived of their slave property by territorial egisa
tive be compelled suddenly to send away their slaves
The great Of the freeState of Kansas believe
entertain these views. s R5 a@Ga
There time for sober second thought to do its
work of reflection and justice. The President had the
same designs and policy under Shannon which he has
der Geary Shannon unequal to his day but let 1t
be remembered, under him the gallant Colonel Sumner
discharged his duties energecally humanely and eecu
ally he drove the border ruans Bnords men, out of the
Territory and he quashed that incpent nsurrecon the
Topeka egslature and for weeks during the pres
Dental struggle there peace in Kansas But outsi-
ders said that the Fremont would get with
the spectacle before the country of successful triumph Of
popular sovereignty that there should then be peace
and a plan of invasion matured. Them when this
plan was carried out, there renewal of the war
Governor Geary energy put end to this and there is
now state of peace
Thus has the policy of President Pierce as to Kansas
yndicated ITSELF before the close of his term of Of
fcs There is now motive to get up false issues, to
clanor and deceive to msrepresent and calumniae to
create and continue state of civil in Kansas There
ia no presidential elecon Again there is peace in Kan
sas and peace and time will assuredy vndicate the
principle Of the Kansas Nebraska law. Well, therefore,
may the Washington Union say that "the which
will stand out the history of the present administration
as characteristic of its policy is the organization of ter
ritorial government in Kansas and the great principle
which underes this is that asserted In the Kan
sas awe right Of the people qfa Territory 10 exercise all
he powrs necessary for the regulation of her ocn domestic
Institutions in their oay, subject only to The constitution
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