The Kanzas news., 1857-08-08

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partly by my own Inclination Two weeks
ago Judge Douglas spoke here on the sew
eral subjects of Kanzas. the Dred Scott de-
cision and Utah. listened to the speech
at the time, and have, read the report OF 1t
since. 1t was intended to eontroyert OpiR-
ions which l think Just, and to assail (polit-
ieaIIy, not personally those men who, in
common with me, entertain those opinions.
For this reason l wished then, and still
wish. to make some answer to it, which 1
now take the opportunity of doing.
/ begin with Utah. If it prove to be
true. as is probable, that the people of Utah
are in open rebellion to the United States,
then Judge Douglas is in favor of repeating
their territorial organization, and attaching
them to the adjoining States for judicial
purposes. say, too, if they are in rebellion,
they ought to be somehow coerced to obe-
dience; and am not now prepared to ad-
nit or deny that the Judges mode of CO.
ercing them is not as good as any The
Republicans can fall in with it without tax
ing back anything they have ever said. To
be sure, it would be considerable backing
down, by Judge Douglas from his much
vaunted doctrine of self-goyernment for the
territories: but this is only additional proof
of what was very plain from the beginning,
that that doctrine was mere deceltfuf pre-
tense for the benefit of slavery. Those who
could not see that much In the Nebraska
act itself, which forced Governors and Sec
retaries, and Judges on the people of the
territories, without their choice or consent,
could not be made to see, though one
should rise from the dead to testify.
But in all this, it is very plain the Judge
evades the only question the Republicans
have ever pressed upon the Democracy in
regard to Utah. That question the Judge
well knows to be this: eff the people of
Utah shall peacefully form a State Consti-
tuition tolerating polygamy, viii the De-
mocracy admit them into the Union?''-
There is nothing in the United States Con-
stitution or law against polygamy; and
why is it not part of the Judges ''sacred
right of self-government' for that people to
have ii, or rather to Keep it, if they choose :?
These questions, so fan as 1 know, the
Judge never answers. 1t might involve
the Democracy to answer them either way,
and they go unanswered
As to Kanzas The substance of the
Judges speech on Kanzas is an effort to
put TIE Il rec Otlte III liIe tOf not
voting at the election of delegates to the
Constitutional Convention. He says -
s.There is every reason to hope and believe
that the law viii be fairly interpreted and
impartially executed, so as to insure to
every bona fide inhabitant the free and qui-
ct exercise of the elective franchise"
1t appears extraordinary that Judge
Douglas should make such a statement
He knows that by the law, no one can vote
who has not been registered /; and he knows
that the Free State men place their refusal
to vote on the ground that but few of them
have been registered. 1t is possible this
is not true, but Judge Douglas knows it
is asserted to be true in letters, newspapers
and public speeches, and borne by every
mail and blown by every breeze to the eyes
and ears of the world. He knows it is
boldly declared that the people of many
whole counties, and many whole neighbor-
hoods in others, are left unregistered yet,
he does not venture to contradict the decla
ration, nor to point out how they can vote
without being registered /; but he just slips
along, not seeming to know there is any
such question of fact, and complacently
declares: /" There is every reason to hope
and belieFesthat the law will be fairly and
impartially executed, so as to insure to
every bona fide inhabitant the free and
quiet exercise of the elective franchise
readily agree that if all had a chance
to vote, they ought to have voted. If, on
the contrary, as they allege, and Judge
Douglas ventures not to particularly con-
tradict, few only of the Free State men had
a chance to vote, they were perfectly right
in staying from the polls in body.
By the way. since the Judge spoke, the
Kanzas election has come off. The Judge
expressed his confidence that all the Dem
ocrats in Kanzas would do their duty-in-
Guiding Free State Democrats of course.
The returns received here as yet are very
incomplete; but so far as they go, they in
dicate that only about one-sixth of the reg
istered voters, have really voted ; and this
too, when not more than one-half of the
rightfui voters have been registered, thus
showing the thing to have been altogether
the most exquisite farce ever enacted. I
am watching with considerable interest, to
ascertain what figure 1.-The Free State Dem
ocrats' cut in the concern. OF course they
voted-all democrats do their duty-and of
course they did not vote for Slave-State
candidates. We soon shall know how
many delegates they elected, how many
candidates they had pledged for Free
State and how many votes were cast for
them.
Allow me to barely whisper my suspicion
that there were no such things in Kanzas
as Free State Democrats-that they were
altogether mythical, good only to figure in
newspapers aud speeches in the Free States
Ii there should prove to be one real living
Free State Democrat in Kanzas, I suggest
that it might be well to catch him, and stuff
and preserve his skin, as an interesting
specimen of that soon to be extinct variety
of the genus Democrat.
And now as to the Dred Scott decision.
That decision declares two propositions
first that negro cannot sue in the u. S.