The Davenport daily gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1869, 1857-09-19

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iFor the Davenport Gazette
Having reviewed tue course of our Dem
ocratic representative on most import
ant question in which our national character
was involved, and in which the very fcun-
daticn Of our institutions were endangered;
and having shown that the Democracy Of
Iowa have really endorsed the acts of pro-
slavery rufiianism in its attempt to crush
out p" freedom Of speech in our national
councils, we now proceed 10 notice some Of
the acts Of Mr.. A. Hall in reference TO the
Kansas question.
IL Is daily becoming more and more evil
dent that the thirty fourth Congress had
the power to settle the difficulties in the
Territory Of Kansas peacefully and perma-
nen'ly by merely carrying out the simplest
principles Of justice and humanity. II had
been proved, on the clcarest evidence, that
thousands of armed men rushed from Mis-
sour into Kansas and there elected citizens
of Missouri to act n Legislature for Kan
sas that this illegally constituted body
enacted the most oppressive and diabolical
laws. and thus the people Of Kansas were
really without government.
Congress had choice Of two remedies,
either to abrogatc all the acts Of the bogus
Legislature and provide for the election Of a
real Legislature by the bona als citizens Of
Kansas, or TO change its organization BY adj
uniting Kansas into the Union ~ a free and
independent State. The latter would have
been the most sure and the most direct way
Of settling the question, and il might have
been supposed that this plan would receive
the hearty support Of the Democracy, since
1t would have brought their much vaunted
principle Of popular sovereignty into full
exercise. But unfortunately for the peace
1T the nation, the demands of justice were
sacrificed to the demands Of party, and not
the strenuous efforts of the
friends of freedom, the great question Of
liberty or slavery in Kansas still remains
unsettled
We deem IL If the utmost Importance
that the course Of the Democracy ON this
question be clearly kept before the people
hence we again refer to the record
In June, 1856, Mr.. Grow, Of the com
mittee on the Territories, reported bill for
the admission of Kansas into the Union as
a State. The opposition to this bill was
strong and determined; every effort was
made to stave OF direct vote. In all these
efforts, 10 recommit. lay on the table, etc.
We find Mr.. A. Hall steadily voting with the
most ultra Of the slavery propagandists.
Al length on the 2sth OF June the question
came up On its final passage, and was de-
testcd by the vote Of Mr.. A. Hall, the vote
being nays loI, yeas loo. Mr.. Hickman,
OF Pennsylvania. being the only Democrat
that voted yea.
On the Sd q July, Mr.. Barclay moved
reconsideration Of the above vote, which
was carried by l0l yeas against ~ nays,
Mr.. Hall voting nay. Again the question
was put on is final passage, and again Mr..
Hail voted my--the vote being loo yeas
and " nays. Two Democrats only, Messrs.
Hickman and Barclay voting yea.
We have neither the space nor the incli
nation 10 follow our Democratic represen-
tative" through his votes on the admission
Of Whitfield rs Delegate from Kansas, the
Army Bill, etc. Suffice il TO say that he
was ever found side by side with the de-
tenders and extcndcrs Of American slavery,
in all their efforts In oppose the citizens Of
Kansas.
The course Of the Hon. Geo. W. Jones
was So identical with that of Mr. Hail. that
We shall only trouble the reader with one
extract from the record
On the "a &c July, Mr.. ,;eycr moved an
amendment 90 Mr. Douglas bill authorizing
the people Of Kansas "a form State Con-
s'itntlon, etc, providing for the repeal of
the laws Of tie so-callcd legislature Of
Kansas, whereupon Mr. Wilson moved an
amendment abroeating all the laws Of that
body, which was lost by vote Of IS nays
20 yeas among the former We find Geo.
W. jones of Iowa.
These then are the services which the
. D,mocraey Of Iowa" consider worthy Of
especial notice and approval; these are the
acts which entitlc !. our Democratic Senator
and representative 10 their gratitude
and 6 confidence" But the second Tues
day in October will prove that the people
such representatives and such cndorsers.
AGRIcoLA.