The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-01-09

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my warmes, sympathy the sentiments and Objects
Of your ceiebraor trust that your venerabe order
win always upheld the federal constitution, with which
you proudly cEm 70 be ootemporancos, that you will
strive 10 revive and perpetuato the spirit Of the Revo
enasy fathers who You BOAST were your founders and
opssed 70 sectional eomgsa strict construction OF tho
constitution opposed TO a compromises Of its pFovi
vi-icns-true democracy Ne republican FORM as sop-
posed 10 the lcentiousness Of moss nalortes
snactng their own hieber aw"-and tho liberties Of
the people against all power delegated undelegated
the victory of New Orleans Its hero was guided
by law md bound by duty when he took tho respons
bility 20 city then, and afterwards to
try from fee more formidable than foreign bayonets
He the motto fhe Union must and shall be pre-
served land hope that bis great authority still resns
potent 10 stamp upon ev9y heart and upon every BAN
per IN the whole country To Eeserve we must steadi
y stbers to the Dc mocraec ah and PLATFORM we must
stand you In standing sy James buchanan the peo
pie stood by Andrew Jackson He had contend with
the money power, and s1bdued by the Samson Of de-
"hghcr law and the survives in yigor 10
ebs for the chosen people God forbid that the Samoan
OF democracy shall at last be Samson Agopistes shorn
and blinded 10 become destroyer Almost every 0ther
people and every other party except the American de-
ocracy, have had their "bridges of asses bit do
bridgeoi slavery OF any other subject for stall
1T n career and progress Of national greatness And
country, and they half stubborn as the
cantssses. driver can get along after manner
with an ass that can bat tho crueiest 'goad will
not prevail with the asses who can't. They the
stuboornest Of all, and 70 stall lust in the
way and at the very place Of most danger. They bray
political religion and religious politics. The best whip
which touched these exactly the raw was
James Buchanans Concstoga thong, laid right upon
forty fanatical preachers dall IN a row." As to your
other MOTTO "Cv and religious liberty" ours saved
Ivy the Virginia democracy in 1865. We struck the dark
lantern out of the HANDS Of ipesble SAM and
are found so poor as 20 "burrah Tor him. We, there
fore have some right To say TO You other topics that
all common and justice require is that let each
others property and peace and political privileges alone,
and attend to the of interests res
pectively AT home. When happen meet in the
mon Territories, To makeTew bones and neghborhoods
there all have to do respect each others equal
rights. II We are Southern slavehoders don't let
property be invaded or taken away from us; don't allow
any power to prevent us from settling upon common
lands or don't drive away from the settlements
We have made upon domain purchased OF won by COM
mon treasure and united vaor On the other hand if
prefer that slavery sha not be Incorporates IN the
body polite OF which you 10 become members,
promise You that shall not be imposed upo YOU with
our consent either by force by fraud We propose TO
together 10 the polls equals justly respecting each
others rights and there determine by legal yotes what
shall be the law Of the Ii property be established
in one form another it shall be respected aad for
hidden IN any oher particular form, shall not in that
fol m exist in that community. Now has this Just, fair
aDe equal course been observed in Kansas? fearlessy
say that has not been observed Force and fraud both
on both sides have been attempted and have a shame
lui extent prevailed Ana is the great vocation OF de-
mocracy TO put down bothfraud and force this and in
all other cages How The case divides itself into two
catePofestbc de jre in the Territory between
the Convention and the people and the other de pc in
the country at large as between Congress and the Terri
tory In the hrst, in Kansas there an " Enabling
Satute.n II the Kansas Nebraska did enable the
people to bold aConven,ion, to make laws for their
own self government bad virtue in it at all. The
Kansas Nebraska bill organized Territory, asd
the people thereof enabled thereby % govern
Themselves. nv their own laws they Organized a
Convention 10 frame constitution OF State gov
eTDmept That Convention therefore, d. jsre legt
mate II formed copsiutloD and had ricIl, m forn
n. That was It's function and there its power ended.
cept TO submit i, ss proposed organic law 10 the fair
and free election of the sovereign people 10 be adopted
10 be rejected by them They tbes organized being
Of legal voters alone sovereign. The entire
ton ought 10 have been submitted 10 their lawful
az the polls Fbe not delegated TO the COnN
ton 10 proclaim and establish constitutions had
TO he approved by Congress and much hal 20 be
approved by the sovereign principals for whom the
agent, the Convention acted. IL a statute
law repeaable at will by Legislature n sit yearly and
to be chosen by the precincts of annual elections
the great fundamental organic law under which tes and
tenures and franchises 70 be held and judges and
legislators were 20 So, and executive authority To
WELD the arms OF state and offices 20 he led and
justice u be administered and law To he enacted,
and confederate station TO be assumed, and sove
reicnty itself be nssumed-and wa 70 be TIRE
peaabe Ivy esis ation and 70 be- in word the supreme
constitution OF state, under which she TO be
ccived into the most glorious Union of states which
ever protected and fortified the liberties of mankndi
What! Tell us that instrument of this dignity that
republican government ITSELF was not TO be submitted in
Us form and pan proposed TO the only lawful sovcregns
the organized people-Dot a mass OF persons hut
the iona de inhabitants and legal of the state
be governed for their election, to adopt reject ~ De
jsTe say ought to have been submitted. Pure and
undefiled republicansn, conservative democracy
CURED tba, II should be so submitted There s mob
ocracy In that idea II is even, just steady organized
free republican action the law OF popular liberty defined
by citizenship snd the rule OF election and tho truc ex
ample OF essential sovereignty IN the people Instead Of
submitting this proposed constitution by she mere
agent the Convention, dcserentiay principals the
organized sovereign people. there a usurpa,ion-a
Withholding from them Of fair free fuI AMI eaus cleo
ton 10 choose or not N choose their constitution Of
self government II was er part II was all on side
II was IN gambling phrase, the foul 'IIesds win and
tails you lose the constitution obliged To be adopted
with the clause without the clause the bound
10 be ''for the constitutional all pro aud con:
and say that submission TO an election at
all. Election choice OF atcrnatvos-to adopt 10
reject Ia reject we'll adopt IN adop, well
Ject There was no choice IN tins case, and no equality Of
voters N the case. Three men went IN tho polls said,
81 vote for the Contribution, with or without the causc
but and sad, 1--WE vote aganyt ~ with without the
clause Az vote counted, BE and Cs not to
he counted and thus made not only TO oset
bot 10 be sole substitute in fact for three nganst the
jority q two Ia of three Nov this but the
unveiled trckery and shameless fraud Of called
due. There neither right nor justice in H. The de-
mocrscy OF Virginia ut least title Of any sort
ioupded fraud, occult palpabe, like this We say
tina. as between the Convention Of Iocompion and tho
people o Kansas the question Dc iurr lure
the whole Constitution in all is parts ought 10 have been
submitted to all the legal voters pro and and the
voters ought 20 have been allowed their against
well the voter his voice for u. And far a.
slavery concerned, II made the against that
species NJ property 70 submit the slavery clause skne
the elec'ios II the people Why discriminate respect
10 thst peculiar institution " u because 10 was
recuiarf u We contend for anything especially IL
u that property shall he distinguished or dis
eliminated from other property in legislation stands
on the footing Of right to protection and preservation
which claimed tor any other description OF thing owned
possessed by others a. property. Why va this
singled out Ger the chances Of prohbitiohy Was not
enough that The Badger amendment % the Kansas Sobras
ka bi bad Already enacted that al laws protecting aud
,stabf hing PRIOR a. 1sIo'2o should be rcpcacd Why
repeat Discrimination against slavery this schedule "
submssony This was ground enough ~ make pro sla-
very ar'ars reject H. In fact, amt Of right " the
sutuson bad not been submitted at all in whole Part
~ the people u would have been impartial and
more iaet 10 the avehoIdcr than as u submitted n
there be any mistaken and misguided and msgudng PAR
ties the South wbo would be guilty Of arrnyng against
the equal rights Of slave property the Irresistible
dsputabe rights VI popular sovereignty would have
our property from the guardianship ~ such folly re-
ly, property and protection must always safely
rely rather uron law and order ard the rule of Justice
All fair dealng-to "sak nothing but what l. right
and 10 submit TO nothing which is wrong" ON tho
ground 81 policy, then, well ss de lure, the whole
constitution ougb 20 have been submitted all the legal
voters without fear ayor fraud force. "a much
for the case de urc 30. The Convention 1t TO sub
init The constitution 90 the voter alone, and nos 10 all
three q the voters, and the Convention legitimate
u was legitimate. q, fdo. Congress could no, 20 behind
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