The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1857-09-23

On Kansas affairs Mr.. Wilmot becomes
quite belserant, and hurls vindicIive ssper-
sions on the National Administration. He
talks as though be did moi know that the odi.
ors test laws enacted by the first Legislature
had been repealed BY the last; that bis party
friends in Kansas are daily ava,ling them.
selves of these bosus laws that MIR. Robin.
con, the Topeka Governor, had petitioned
Mr. Stanton, when acting Governor, 10 confer
the appointment Of commissioner TO scknowl.
edge deeds on his friend, by virtue Of the
territorial laws. He seems determined TO
give the version of affairs that will best sui,
his purpose. Having presented startling
picture OF the wrongs and ouirages which,
according to his story, have been wsntonly
Inflicted upon the free State party Of that
unhappy Territory, he makes the following
sweeping defamation
"I affirm that the administrator know all
about these outrages, and yet they upheld
them. They sustain the Missourian usurpa.
tion, and they dare not be just, because they
are the slaves Of the slave power who crea-
ted them and upholds them.n
This is terrific indeed, coming from q
candidate for Governor, but Mr.. Wilmot's
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 its first act was to appoint a
Governor TO "debauch Kansas from all alle-
glance to the South and deliver her into the
hands of Frss Soil fanasics," and that, tsto
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
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 the
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 viii say that Col. Keitt may not reason
ably imagine the fantasies to be hereafter
played by "shivering Cabinets" and econ.
vulsive Administrations"
Then, again, MIR. Wilmot and his party
seem to be in great tribulation lest the slave
power should deprive 80 me 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 win the Democracy; but does
not this ickly concern for the rights of the
people who come with exceeding bad grace
I from Mr.. Wilmot and his party, who in the
convention that nominated Col. Fremont,
laid it down as principle, that not only a
portion, but all the citizens of Kansas should
be deprived of the right of saying whether
they would have slavery or not. They claim
ed that right for Congress, and virtually held
that though nine-tents Of the people might
desire slavery, the interdiction of Congress
should be conclusive. Itwas no half way
business with them. It was a part of their
faith to deprive all the people ofthe sacred
opportunity which they falsely aliege the
Democracyarea attempting totake from some.
They execrate the interference Of Missouri
in the settlement of the Slavery question in
Kansas, and yet according to their own doc
trine not only Missouri, but Massachusetts
and all the North and South are invited to
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 will
on the subject. Why even now Mr.. VIII
mot and his party viii not say that they will
be content with the decision Of the people,
and admit Kansas.as State unless thatdeci.
sion be against slavery. They will agree 10
| take her into The Union when she obeys their
dictation and not till then. It was in this
connection, in the contest last Fall, that we
ridiculed their pretensions to exclusive
! friendship for freedom in Kansas, whilst
holding that the people should not be free to
select their own institutions. We claimed
that the Democracy were more friends of
"Free Kansas because they wished to
have the people perfectly free to select 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 as to
Slavery. The question in the Presidential
issue was not whether she should be free or
slave, but simply whether her own bona
| fide citizsns should be permitted to decide
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