The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1857-09-23
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this orce favori,e scheme.
On Kansas affairs Mr.. Wilmot becomes
quite beIligerent, aud hurls vindiclive aspers
sons on the National Administration. He
talks a. though he did no, know tina, the odi-
Gus test laws enacted by the first Legislature
had been repeated BY the last; that his party
friends in Kansas are. daily avsiling them--
selves of these bogus laws that MIR. Robin
son, the Topeka Governor, had petiiioned
MIR. Stanton, when acting Governor, to confer
the appointment OF commissioner TO scknowi.
edge deeds on his friend, by virtue Of Tho
territorial laws He seems determined to
give the version OF affairs that will best suh
his purpose. Having presented startling
picture OF the wrongs and ontrases which,
according to his story, have been wantoniy
inflicted upon the free State party OF that
unhappy Territory, he makes the For;owfug
sweeping defamation
al affirm that the Administration know all :
about these outrages, and yet they upheld
them. They sustain the Mssourian usurpa-
tion, and they dare not be just, because they
are the slaves of the slave power who crea-
ted lhem and upholds them"
This is terrific indeed, coming from d
candidate for Governor, but Mr.. Wiimous
language is tame and feeble compared with
the sparkling rhetoric Of Col. Keitt, of South
Carolina, on the other side Of the question.
The Colonel, in his letter dated at White
Sulphur Springs, imputes to the Administra-
ton altogether different action and purpose.
He alleges that It's first act was to appoint a
Governor 10 "debauch Kansas from all alte-
glance 10 the South and deliver her into the
hands of Free Soil fanatics" and that, "to
say that the cause of the South was lost in
Kansas prior TO the appointment Of Walker,
is 10 palliate fraud by falsehood." Here is
a wide difference between big doctors. But
the Southerner seems TO have the best ofthe
contest. Indeed the best attempts of VIII
mot and his school of orators, TO show tho
subserviency of the Administration TO the
slave power, fall far below the most ordinary
efforts of Col. Keitt, the Charleston Mercury
and the New Orleans Delta, TO demonstrate
its Free Soil tendencies and its treachery TO
the South. With such fire in front and rear
who will say that Col. Keitt may not reason.
ably imagine the fantasies TO DO hereafter
played by "shiyering Cabinets" and econ.
vulsive Admintst strations.n
Then, again, Mr.. Wilmot and his party
seem to be in grea, tribulation lest the slave
power should deprive some Of the citizens
OF Kansas ofthe opportunity of raising their
voices against the institution at the ballot
box, lest some be deprived of that high and
sacred prerogative, the right of suffrage
They decant eloquently on the sacredness
of this right, and hurl destructive anathemas
upon the heads of all who shall attempt 10
restrict or usurp this proud function of
American freemen. The people and the
whole people must be heard. Now this is
all very well, and they cannot 60 further on
this point than will the Democracy; but does
not this ickly concern for the rights of the
people who come with exceeding bad grace
from Mr. Wilmoi and his party, who in the
convention that nominated Col. Fremont,
laid it down as principle, that not only
portion, but all the citizens of Kansas should
be deprived Of the right of saying whether
! aaoy wouIo nave slavery OF nur. Iney rIaIrn-
ed that right for Congress, and virtually held
that though nine.tents Of the people might
desire slavery, the interdction Of Congress
should be conclusive. 1t was no half way
business with them. twas part of their
faith to deprive all the people OF the sacred
opportunity which they falsely allege the
Democracy are attempting to take from some.
, They execrate the interference of Missouri
in the settlement of the Slavery question in
Kansas, and yet according to their own dor
irine not only Missouri, but Massachusetts
and all the North and South are invited 10
interfere through their representatives in
! Congress. The pratical effect OF their doc-
trine being that the power to decide the
! question for Kansas is to be found every
where else in the United States except in
that and the other territories-that the peo-
! pie of the States who do not go to Kansas
shall have a voice on the subject, but those
who do, SHALL not. How absurd, then, their
affected distress lest by design or accident
some citizen of Kansas may be deprived Of
the opportunity OF giving effect to his VIII
on the subject. Why even now Mr. VIII
mot and his party will not say that they viii
be content with the decision of the people,
and admit Kansas..as State unless that deci-
sion be against slavery. They viii agree 10
take her into the Union when she obeys their
dictatiou and not till then. II was in this
connection, in the contest last Fall, that We
ridiculei their pretensicus TO exclusive
friendship for freedom in Kansas, whilst
holding that the people should NOT 6s free to
select their own institutions. We claimed
that the Democracy were more Fiends OF
"Free Kansas" because they wished 10
have the people perfectly free to selec, all
their domestic institutions They holding
that Kansas should not come into the Union
unless she adopted their views and the De-
mocracy maintaining that she should come
| in, no matter how she might decide rs 10
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