The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1858-01-15


the people Instead submitting this proposed con
stitution by the agent the convention deferensl
10 the principals the organized sovereign people there
usurpation-a Withholding from them OF q iAar
Free full and equal election to choose or not to choose
their constitution Of selfgovernment IL was ca
PATE il WAS all ON one side ii was in gambling phrase
the foul .sheads wn and tails you lose =; the const-
tuition obliged to be adopted with the clause with
the clause the vote Was bound to be 'for the
stitution, it all and no and may that
submission to election all Election is choice
of alternatives adopt well reject There no
choice in this and equality OF voters in this
Three went to the polls. said II vote for the
constitution with without the clause : but and
said ''We vote against it, with without the clause
AS vote counted BIS and ca not to be count
ed and thus made not only 70 Offset two, but to
he sole substitute In fact for three against the ma
jority Of two to out of three.
Now, this but the unveiled trckery and shameless
fraud of so-caed schedule. There neither right
justice in it. The democracy Of Virginia at least
title of any sort founded fraud occult pail
pabe like this We gay that between the convention
Of Lecompton and the people Of Kansas the question
jus and d. jure the whole constitution In all its
parts ought TO have been submitted to all the legal
pro and con- and the two voters ought 10 have been
allowed their voices against well the voter
his voice for it. And far slavery concerned it
made the against that species Of property to
submit the slavery clause alone to the election of the peO
pie Why discriminate In respect to that peculiar nst
tuition ?! lis it because it PECULIAR If contend
for anything especially it is that property shall not
be distinguished Disseminated from other property in
legislation 1t stands on the footing of right to
protection aud preservation which Is claimed for any
other description Of thing owned possessed by others
property Why this singled out for the chances of
prohibition Was 1t not enough that the Badger amend
ent of the Kansas Nebraska bill had already enacted
that all laws protecting and establishing 1t prior to 1919
20 should be repealed Why repeat discrimination
against slavery in this schedule Of submission
This ground enough to make pro- slavery parsans
reject it, In fact and Of right If the constitution had
been submitted at ALL in whole in part to the peo
pie 1t would have been impartial and more just to
the stakeholder than it submitted If there be
mistaken and misguided and misgui1ing parties In
the South who would be guilty of arayng against the
equal rights Of slave property the irresistible and indspu
table rights of popular sovereignty would our
property from the guardianship of such folly, md really
property and protection must always most safely rely
rather upon law and order and the rule Of Justice and fair
dealing task nothing but what right, and to sub
init to nothing which is wrong On the ground Of pol
icy then well ye the whole constitution ought
to have been submitted all the legal voters without
fear favor fraud force SO much for the de jme
3d. The convention fit to submit the constitution to
the voter alone and not to all three of the voters
and the convention legitimate 1t was legitimate de
faao Congress could not go behind the return it can
not intervene we told except to that the law
has authorized the act and that the form republican
The law authorized the act and grant the form Of
the constitution itself be republican We don't agree
with Mr. Senator Douglas that his Kansas Nebraska
act was not an enabling statute and we don't agree
either with the President Mr. Buchanan that slavery
the people The Kansas bill enabled the people gov
ern themselves that its first and its chief
excellence, and every municipal Institution OF State
government is domestic institution The President
is bachelor and he must therefore, be excused for not
eomprehending domestic Institution as well as we
who have houses full Of children He had better rea-
sons for his Recommendations than he assigned He was
bound to look to the fact that this was the work OF e
climate convention and that the work itself in
form republican and that these subjects for Kansas
alone to Judge Of But whether Kansas had been allow
cd to Judge whether her people had been allowed to
choose to elect TO adopt or reject the constitution OF
government proposed foF whether they had been
allowed 70 govern themselves, another fact which
had also to be looked tod fsa, whether the schedule
was republican Ds fao, whether there were not other
domestic institutions besides slavery which ought to have
been submitted to the sovereign, legal voterss
It is the very gadness and glory of State govern
ments when organized that they guard and govern the
hearth stones and homes OF the people OF the United
States The STATE governments the municipalities Of
sovereignty which embrace especially the individual per
sons the families the households the affairs and the
homes our people 1t is that which makes State rights
State laws State organization State action, precious
because SO domestic IN confcdcacy The federal gov
eminent embraces rather national and foreign subjects Of
jurisdiction and therefore, ought to leave all domestic
questions TO tho States and the people What then
Why then ii the schedule OF AuDsson was anti-repub
lican If it partial If it did not acknowledge and al
low the sovereign right of the people to Judge for them
selves on the question of highest dgnitythe organic
law of their government aud Disseminated unequaiy
between the subjects of property the Congress of the Uni
ted States ought not to reject the legitimate and repub
can constitution but ought to adopt It, subject to fair
and legal vote of the people of Kansas according to
law to be prescribed by their territorial legislature and
to admit the State under the constitution whenever the
Territory shall proclaim its approval and adoption by the
people If they adopt It, to admit her into the Union
pso % and If they reject IT, to leave the people OF Kan
,as In their own way to organize another convention
and so submit another constitution to Congress for ap
proval. s
This would be plain and easy solution and would take