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lance or rejection. How is il 10 be sub.
mitiedi IL shall be submitted 10 this
form: Constitution with Slavery or Oon.
stitutiOn with 10 Slavery" All men must
vote for the Constitution whether they
like It OF not, 10 order TO be permitted 20
vote for OF against Slavery. Thus a Con-
stitutiOn made BY a Convention that had
authority TO assemble and petition for a
redress Of grievances, but not to establish
q goyeTnTent-a Constitution made uB,
der pledge Of honor that it should be
submitted to the people before il took ef.
teeti Constitution which provides, on its
face, that it shall have no validity except
what It derives from such submissions
submitted to the people at an election
where all men are at liberty to come for.
ward freely without hindrsnce and vote for
it. but no man Is permitted to record
vote against It, This would be as fair au
election as some Of the euemiss oi Napoe-
on attributed to him, when he was elected
First Consul. He is said TO have called
out his troops and had them reviewed by
his officers with q speech, patriotic aud fair
IN It's professions, in which he said to them
"Now, my soldiers, yoS are to 90 to the
election aud vote freely just as you please
If you vote for Napoleon, all is well vote
against him, and you are instantly to be
shot" That was fair election. Laugh.
ter, This is 20 be equally FAIR, All
men in favor Of fhe CoLsttuton NAV voIA
for III all men against il shall moi vote at
ALL Why rot ltt them vote against til
| presume you have asked many man
this question. have a very large NUN.
Der OF the gentlemen who framed the
ConsttuFon, quite a number Of delegates
aud stl! larger number Of persons who
are their friends and have received the
same answer from every one of them,
never received any other answer, What
is thSH They say i they allowed a mega
I've vots the Constitution would have been
voted down by an overwhelming msjonty,
add hence I'e fellows skall net be allowed
to vote n ALL Laughter.
Mr.. President, thGt may be true, II is
no paIt OF my purpose 10 deny the propO.
sihOn thai tie Consolation would have been
voted down il submitted 10 the people. l
believe il would hsve been voted down by
majority Of four 10 one, am inform ed
BY men well posted there democrats
tnst " would be voted down by ten 10 one
rome say twenty b. one. But is il a good
reason why you should declare il 10 force
without being submitted 70 the people.
merely because il would have been voted
down by Ten 10 one. il you submitted it?
What does the fact proVel Does il not
show undeniably. that On overwhelming
majority Of the people Of Kansas are unal-
ierably opposed 10 the Consolation? Will
YOU force Il upon Them against their will,
simply because they would have voted i
down If you bad consuItel tnem? II you
will, Sfe you going to force il upon them
under fhe plea of leaving Them pe.ftctly
free TO form and regulate their domestic in.
atahons in their own way3 Is chat the
mode in which am called upon 10 carry
out the principles of self government and
popular sovereignty in the territories-tc
force Consultation on the people against
Their will, in opposition 10 their protest,
with a knowledge of the fact, and then TO
assign, as a reason for my tyranny, that
they would be 30 ob.tnate and perverse as
70 vote down the Constitution If | had Civ.
ell Them an opportunity TO be consulted
about ia Sir, deny your right or mine
to enquire of These people what their OBJ.
iectons 10 Gat COnst tUkon are.
They have right to judge for them.
selves whether they like or dislike il. Il
is no answer TO tell me tha the Uonstitu.
tion Is good one and uuotjectionabe.-
kis not satisfactory TO me 10 have the
President "sy in bis Message thnt the Con.
'ttution is m admirable one, like all the
Const tutioRs Of the new States which have
been recerty formed. Whether good or
bad, wht Cher obnoxious or not, is none OF
my business aud none of yours. Itistheir
business and not ours. I care not Whit
they have in their ConsiitutoR, so that il
sulti them and does not violate the Con.
ettuhon Of the United Stntes, and the fun.
dament'l principals of libeity upon which
our inft fttutions rest | am not going 10
argue the question whether the banking
system established in that Constitution i
wise or unwise. 1t says there shall be nu
monopolies, but there shall be one Of dis.
count in the State with two branches. All
| hOve TO say on that point is. if they wanI
banking system let them have il, il they
do not want it, let them prohibit il. Il
they want bank with two branches, be
it so if they want twenty, it is none of my
business; and it matters not to me whether
one Of them shall be on the North side and
the other on the South side of the Kaw
river. or wtere they shall be.
While l have no right to expect to be
consulted on that pcint do hold that the
people of Kansas have right to be consul
ted and to decide it, and you have no
rightful authority to deprive them Of that
privilege. 1t is no justification, in my
mind, to cay that the provisions 70. the el.
igibiity for the Offices Of Governor and
Lieutenant Governor require twenty years
citizenship in the United States. II men
think that no person should vote and hold
Office until he has been here twenty year
they bave a right to think 20, and il 4
majority Of the people Of Kansas think
that no man of foreign birth shOnId vott
or hold office unless he hes lived there &C
ysas. it is their right to say SO, and ] have
no right to interfere with them; il is thei
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