The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1857-1858, 1857-09-16
The slaveheIaer,s Presiaens.

IAe Sl0VG0OA00H'o F3S81OcMte
President Woolsey Of Yale College and 9th
er distinguished citizens of Connections have
memorialized Mr. Buchanan against his using
the army Of the United States to force the peo-
pie OF Kansas to obey the laws Of the Border
Ruffian Code.
To this memorial Mr.. Buchanan has sent an
answer, the pith Of which is contained IN the
following paragraph:
The Congress Of the United States had most
wisely declared il to- be the true intent and
meaning of this act-the act organizing the
Territory-not to legislate slavery into any Ter
ritory, nor TO exclude it therefrom, but to leave
ii to the people thereof, perfectly free to form
and regulate their domestic institutions in their
own way, subject only to the Constitution of the
United States.
As . natural consequence, Congress has also
prescribed BY the same act, that when the Ter
ritory OF Kansas shall be admitted as State, il
shall be received into the Union with or without
slavery, as their Constitution may prescribe at
the time OF their admission. Slavery existed at
that period, and still exists in Kansas under the
Constitution Of the United States.
This point has at last been decided by the
highest tribunal known to our laws. How IT
could ever have been seriously doubted is mys.
terry. If confederation of sovereign States
acquire new Territory at the expense Of their
common blood and treasure, surely one set OF
the parties can have no right to exclude the
other from its enjoyment by prohibiting them
taking into it whatsoever is recognized to be
property by q common Constitution.
To the statements Of this extract we wish to
call public attention. Mr.. Buchanan here de-
clares what we have been told thousand times,
that the Nebraska Bill did not legislate slavery
into Kansas. How then did it set there. 1t
/ was prohibited by the Missouri Compromise Of
1920. Alb, says Mr. Buchanan it exists under
4 tie Consultation of the United States. Here
I, is the Slaveholders' doctrine enthroned in the
presidential chair. The Slave Power has con-
quered the Executive, as well a. the Judiciary,
ef the nation.
/ Our readers need not be told that this is en-
:irely new doctrine for President TO take
! No such sentiments can be found in any exec
utive document heretofore. We defy the friends
Of the administration 70 point to . sentence
| written by any President from Washington to
| Pierce which sets forth that slavery exists in
!, any national territory sader the Constitution Q,
tie United States. The old motto of the Re
| public was "Liberty and Union" Mr. Bucnan
an has corrected the fathers Of the nation, and
makes Slavery and Union the watchword.
Mr. Buchanan takes no notice Of the main
4 point made by the memorialsts-that the Bor'
| der ruffian code was not made by the people o.
Kansas, but spends his strength in showing thai
slavery exists any how in Kansas under the
national Constitution.
1t devolves upon the people Of Iowa to sa,
on the 18th Of October, whether they will sent
. man to the Senate Of the United States. WHIT
will support for six long years these and oshe
usurpations of the Slave Power.