The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1858-03-10
THE ADMISSION OF KANSAS.

sREroRT OF THE HON. JAS. L. GREEN OF MISSOURI
From hs Committee on Territories, on The adnis-
o., sial of KeRsas as a State; made in the Senate
.U February Is, 1858.
The Committee on Territories, to whom was re-
feTred the message of the President, commu-
/. nicating constitution for Kansas as State,
adopted by the convention which met at Le-
compton on Monday, the 4th of September,
1857, having bad the same under considera-
/, ton, instruct me TO report:
g. By the treaty with France, made on the 30th
day ofApfil, 1903, known as the Louisiana trea
ty, Kansas was acquired, with special stipula-
ton for the protection of the rights Of the il :
habitants aud for the admission Of such
States as might be formed out Of that Territory
into the Union on an equal footing with the
Original States. This solemn treaty obligation
has been heretofore faithfully observed, and the
States of Louisiana Missouri, Arkansas and
Iowa have been respectively admitted into the
Union; and another part Of the territory acouir-
ed under that treaty, included in the proposed
State Of Minnesota, is now about to be likewise
admitted. Kansas has the same right to expect
the same treatment in the fulfment Of sacred
treaty obligations, made with one OF the first
powers Of the world.
10 In view of these obligations, and in strict con
formity with the uniform practice Of the govern
ment in fulfihnent thereof citizens of the Unit
ed States have settled in Kansas under the Just
expectation Of having a State Organization
And to protect the people and enable them to
prepare for such an organization, Congress-, on
che 3oth day of May, 1854 passed an act Great
inga government for the Territory.
That act following up the constant practice
of the government and in fulflment Of the rea-
ty with France, contemplates a change of its
form into that Of a State and for admission into
the Union
Under the act of Congress- aforesaid, regll-
lar territorial government was organized, and
the people ofthe Territory were thereby consti
tuted political community, with full powers OF
government subordinate only to the c0nStitu-
tion Of the United States, and proceeded to pass
laws for the protection Of persons and property,
the validity of which cannot now he called in
question.
Soon after the territorial government went
into operation party of diSaijected persons
formed combinations to resist the laws and to
set at defiance both the territorial and United
States governments.
To that end they proceeded TO form an organ
ization. and, although the population at that
time amounted to less than twenty-five thous
and inhabitants in the entire Territory, and
they constituting small minority ofthat num-
Der, yet, in order to resist the legal authorities
under the color of law got up an Illegal assem-
bly, at Topeka, and actually pretended to organ.
ize State government; and this too, without
q congressional enabling act; without the assent
Of the territorial legislature; without vote Of
the people authorizing the election OF conyen.
tioI; but in disregard Of all. That same party
hasheen persistent in its illegal efforts to main
tain its own organization in violation Of law, to
defeat and prevent the operation ofall laws and
che settlement OF all questions affecting the peace
of Kansas, 10 accomplish its ends they con
cocted and effected secret military organ'za
'tion of their NAL contents, pledged TO resist the
legal authorities and actually received Sharpc's
rifles and other arms and munitions Of war
which were sent out from Massachusetts and
other States by tho so-called emigrant aid So
'ceties to enable them to maintain their orci-
BILE resistance TO lawful authority. The soce
ties had previously sent out the worst part Of
the spurious population OF Kansas for the pro-
fessed and avowed object of excluding slavery
from the Territory That attempt was Justly
regarded as offensive to the southern States
The people Of tie United States, through their
representatives in Congress, established the prin
ciple Gstrct non-intervention on the subject Of
slavery in the Territories and States The Su
prcme Court subsequently, sustained, by a sol
emn decision, the same principle.
s, Therelore,or States, or societies chlrtered by
States, or any other combinations, to undertake
to effect an object that Con 5reSS, the Supreme
Court, and the American people have pron0unc
ed against, must, Of necessity, have proved OBJ
noxious. .s.. .r
1.-The action of these societies. in injunction
with their affiliated organizations in the Terri
kOetr nf oIAH al ,iO,f,t 1Ir
throughout the country, as was to have been
expected, ....,.. '..
Charges and complaints were made on both
sides, and the whole subject was subsequently
brought before Congress for consideration. The
matter was fully investigated, and the regular,
legal territorial government was completely sts
tanned and endorsed. Every department of the
federal government in which this question has
been considered has pronounced the same judg-
Inent in favor of the territorial authorities, and
against the party resisting its laws. IL.
IA report was made in the Senate on this sub
iect by Mr.. Douglas, the chairman of the com
mittee charged with the investigation, in which
he says: g,sl
r77H'The passage Of the Kansas Nebraska act
was astrenuously resisted by all persons who
thought it less evil to deprive the people Of
new States and Territories Of State equality and
self government than to allow them to decide
the slavery question for themselves, as every
State in the Union had done, and must retain
the nndeniable right to do, 50 long as the con-
Sttution ofthe United States Shall be maintain
ed as the supreme law of che land. Find
ing opposition to the principles OF the act una
'vailing in the halls of Congress and under the
forms of the constitution, combinations We're
Iimmediately entered into in some portions o.
Ahs Union to control the political destinies and
form and regulate the domestic institutions OF
those Territories and future States through the
machinery of emigrant aid societies. In order
to give consistency and efficiency to the move
ment, and surround it with the color OF legal au-
thority. an act of incorporation was procured
from the legislature of the State of Massachus
cts, when powerful corporation, with a capt
of five millions OF dollars invested in houses and
lands. in merchandise and mills, in cannon and
rifles, in powder and lead in allthe implements
torart, agriculture, and war, and employing a
corresponding number of men, all under the
management and control OF nonresident direct
.ors and stockholders, who are authorized by
their charter to vote by proxy to the extent Of
fifty votes each, enters q distant and 1sparSely
settled Territory with the fixed purpose Of fwield-
fie all its power to control the domestic inst-
tutions and political destinies Of the Territory,
itbScoshes q question OF fearful import how far
ths operations of the company are compatible
with lie rights and liberties Of the people
Whatever may be the extent rlimt OF congress
sional authority over the Territories, it is clear
shat no individual State has the right TO pass any
IaW OF authorize any act concerning or affecting
the Territories which it night not enact in ref
erence to any other State. It's well7setted