The Kansas herald of freedom., 1857-03-14
AFrERNooN SESSION.


the reading of the report of the Com
mittee on Miscellaneous Business, the
Michigan question was frequently
alluded to, and it was stated by SOME.
gentlemen that the cases of Michigan
and Kansas were not parallel. On
this question Mr.. j. Blood spoke as
follows -
As it has been said here that the
cases of Michigan ard Kansas were
not analogous, / wishto state what /
believe to be the historical. facts in re-
lation to the case of Michigan, as I
believe the cases are parallel in most
respects. Congress rsfused TO pass
an enabling act for Micliigaa; the peo-
pie of Michigan adopted a constitution
and organized a State government
and put it into operation, driving ont,
or displacing the Territorial govern
ment. The cases differ mainly in the
fact that Michigan put her State gov
ernment into operation, and Kansas
has not and in one other respect ::
Michigan was Democratic, and the
administration and Congress were
Democratic. In Kansas the people
are in favor of free State, while the
administration and Congress have
been pro-slavery. In 1885, Michigan
having held convention and framed
constitution, without the consent of
Congress, applied for admission into
the Union as State, which applies
tion Congress refused to grant. In
the spring, or summer of 1886, Con-
gress passed an enabling act, pro-
posing that if Michigan would hold a
convention and release a district of
territory claimed by Ohio, and take a
district of country at the north, on
Lake Superior, that she should then
be admitted. At this time President
Jackson appointed John Horner, OF
Virginia, Governor of the Territory Of
Michigan. On his arrival in Michi-
gan he found State government in
active operation. The people refused
to recognize him as Governor, by
compelling him to leave the State,
and in November of 1886 Michigan
voted for Presidential electors. In
December of the same year, State
convention agreed to the proposition
of Congress, and changed the bounda
ries. This act I believe was passed
by the convention on the 10th of De
cember, and after the electors had cas-
the vote of the State for Martin Var
Buren, aud this vote was received by
Congress and counted for Mr.. Var
Buren. In January, 1887, Congress
passed an act admitting Michigan into
the Union as State.
Mr.. Parrott made few pertinen
remarks on the character of our oppo
nents and the administration as fol
lows -
Our opponents, securing the loca
government in the outset, by fraud
have, through the instrumentality Of
inquisitorial, ploscriptive and ostra
ciSive enactments, managed to retair
it to the present time. What are
these acts They set at naught. by
repeated infractions. the constitution
and laws of the U. S-they over.
throw the longest established and mos
valuable usages of the common law
erected as bulwarks to stay the usurp
alton and oppression of those in power
they strip the people of the las
vestige of popular power and consigr
them to what they hoped would be an
unbroken vassalage-they defy the
power of public opinion by their in
human atrocity-the halter and glib.
bet, balls and chains, collars and
locks, the faggot AID the stake, are
the amiable instrumentalities fabri-
Gated to finish the Internal infamy o.
which their own promotion was the
beginning. All this, have these usurp'
ers devised but to put their work
into execution" aye, there's the
rub" In vain have they sounded
the notes of war and summoned &
desperate and drunken soldiery to oui
soil dispirited and defeated, they
have retired with banners trailing ir
the dust. In vain has pusilIani
mons and perfidious President pro,
claimed the validity of these ediets,
styling resistance to them revolution
and seeking to extinguish it with the
bayonets of venal soldiery the cur:
of faction, too, which he turned loose
upon US, have skunk back, sileneed
into their kennels. In vain has {
subsidized press hurled its thunders a
our heads and howled its anathema.
in our ears. In vain has an American
Senate, which once was and ought t.
be now an honor to the country, en-
| dorsed these enactments and brushed
aside with parricidal hand their owl
ofspring-the organic act-to strair
these sinking bastards to their hearts
The truth is simple, that nothing i
a law, or has the sanctity thereof
save the will of the people, and tha
legitimately expressed.
The report was then unanimousl..
adopted.
|
EVENING SESSION.
The following resolution was ofere'
/ by Fl. Miles Moore =
| Resolued, That DR.. G. Robinson b
requested to withdraw his letter ten
! dering his resignation as Governor o
! | the State of Kansas.
1t was stated by persons presen
that the resignation of Governor Rob
inson had not been presented to tn
Legislature of Kansas, and hence ha'
not taken effect. =
The resolution was passed uaani
! mously.
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