The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1858-10-07

AZ iItS5IHg tue ptopic, nave uccidTtu tHht
the people OF each State and each Territory
should be left perfectly free to form and
regulate their domestic institutions 10 suit
themselves. hold that the people Of X an.
sas, when they have the requisite population,
have right 10 come into this Union with
slavery or without it, Just as they please,
and that We are bound 10 receive them with
whatever constitution they may make in
pursuance Of law, and embody their viii
and did not oppose the Iecompton consti-
tuition because Of the slavery clause it con
tanned, opposed it because it was not the
act and deed OF the people Of Kansas, be
cause it did not embody their will because
it was the act Of mere pitiful minority
attempting to cheat and deiraud the major
ity Of the people of Kansas out Of their 10.
alienable right Of sclfgovernment. This
was the ground on which opposed the Le-
compton constitution, and the vote which
was taken in August upon the English bill
in Kansas, by which that Lecompton con.
stitu.ion was rejected in the ratio Of eight
or ten TO one, demonstrates that | was right
in my opposition to the Lecompton consti.
tuition. Now, the question is whether
the people Of Kansas shall hereafter be al
lowed to come into this Union with Just
such constitution as they may see proper
TO make. F1 my part, hold that they
have a right to come with free State con.
stitutlon, or with pro slavery constitution,
just as their own people may decide for
themselves, and it is none Of your business,
nor mine, nor the people OF Kentucky, nor
of Indiana, nor OF any other State, whether
they shall come in as free State or slave
State. That is a question for the people of
Kansas, and for themselves alone with
which no power on earth has a right to in
tcrfere.
Bot we are often asked-l have been du.
ring this campaign-why did not, after
fighting the Lcompton constitution until it
was dead sustain the English bill, sending
the constitution back for the ratification or
rejection OF the people Of Kansas. will
tell you why did not vote for il because
it provided in substance, that if the people
of Kansas accepted the Lecompton consti-
Triton, they came in at once with $4,000
people. but il they demanded the right to
have free State, according to their own
choice, they should not come in for years,
or until they obtained 93,420 inhabitants.
For my part, said then, and say TO you
now, that whenever territory has people
enough for slaveholding State she has
enough for free State. Great applause
will never recognize one rule for the slave
States and another for the free States. |
hold that equality among tho different States
of this Union is cardinal, fundamental
principle in this republic. am willing to
adopt the rule Of requiring the full ratio for
member Of Congress for all new States,
provided you will apply it alike to Kansas
and to every other territory of the Union
but | will never consent to make an excep-
ton of Kansas, and thus say, by my vote,
that a free State shall require twice as many
inhabitants as q slaveholdng State, and be-
cause | would not and could not conscien-
tiously give vote in favor OF such an odious
distinction IA that, you aft told that am
to be hunted down by all the presidential
aspirants in the land with the Washington
Un,on as their organ, and it is even said
that the power and patronage of the federal
government is to be used to elect an Abo-
litionst over me, because | was so stubborn
that would not vote for that English bill.
Let me ask you how well are ts friends
standing up to liz Tell me 10 what free
State OF this Union is there any one man.
Democrat or Republican, Iecompton or
anti Iecompton that will will not repudiate
the only provision left OF the English bill
The only thing left Of it since the vote in
August it, that Kansas shall not come into
this Union until she has 93,l20 inhabitants.
Go over into lndiana-does any one of the
Democratic candidates dare to stand by that
provision of the English bill Go over
there. ask English himself whether he does
ask Hughes, ask Niblack. ask Iovey, ask
Secrest, ask J. q. Davis, ask Walker, ask
Holman. ask Ray. ask j. W. Blake, who
now sits upon this stand. whether one oi
them darc take the position that they stand
by that clause in the English bill
am informed by several gentlemen from
Indiana now present. that in that State no
one Democratic candidate for Congress
stands by that provision of the English bill
which declares that Kansas shall not be AL
mitte,i into the Union until she has the full
ratio Of people for member OF Congress,
out tuhl, tu tuN Nttltia % tuth NUt w NNli
pledges himself 10 vote for the admission Of
X ansas a. soon as her people shall form
constitution in accordance with their own
wishes, and in pursuance of law, without
reference to the number OF her population.
There arr now prgscut a, least, thousand
IL the citizens Of Indiana from various
portions Of the State, and aTpcal 10 them
to say whether NV Information m this point
Is not CORRECT. Dne OF thel'amocratic can
djat,s for Congress now sits at my side,
and has furnished me with letter which he
has published TO his constituents, ple,iginG
himself on this pnint, FROM which letter
viii read an extract
Asa member ~ ,he Democratic patty.
DO not recognize the right 81 one Congress 20
pas. any law ~hich Subsequent tuuSrps. NAV
NJ; repeal, alter ~ modify, All 4 should Be-
elected. and the people ~ hAn>as should, AZ
any time during nv term, apply f'f admission
into the area with legally formed cons,.ta.
ton, wAlth : the vii Of hel people, ! shna.i
,etppnf, that ami cation regardless OF any az