The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1858-03-12

Navy to pay the officcrs and seamcn
of the expedition in search OF DR..
Kane ut the same rate as allowed
those in the De Havens expedition.
The hour Of one having arrived
the special order of the day, the
Kansas Bill was taken up.
Mr.. Stewards Speech.
NJ, Seward delivered q lengthy
speech, discussing the following pro-
positions: First, That whereas, in the
beginning, the ascendcncy Of Slave
ry iu the States was absolute. 1t is
now being reversed.
| Second, That Whereas, heretofore
the National Government has favor
ed the change Of the balance from
the Slave States to the Free States.
1t las now reversed this policy and
opposes the changes.
Third, That national Intervention
in the Territories in favor of Slave
labor, an Slave States is opposed
to the natural, social and moral de-
velopments Of this Republic.
In arguing these propositions, Mr..
Seward said that Nebraska was re.
signed to free labor without a strug.
gle, and Kansas became the theater
Of the first actual national conflict
between slaveholding and free labor
imni rants who meet face to face to
organize through the machinery Of
republican action, o civil communi-
ty.
In this hour Of trial, the new sys-
tenn OF popular sovereignty signally
fails, because it is impossible to or
ganize by one single act, in one day,
a community perfectly free, perfectly
sovereign, and perfectly constituted
ont OF elements unassimilated. unar.
ranged and uncompassed. Free la.
bor rightfullv won the day Slave
labor wrested the victory to itself by
fraud AMI violence.
In speaking ot tho opinion pro
nrunced BY the Supreme Court OF the
United States in the Dred Scott case,
he said that in this ill-omened act. it
forgot its own dignity, which had al
ways been maintained with inst ju,
diciAl Jealousy.
1t forgot that the province Of q
Court is simply jus aicere, and not
all .j"S lire. II forgot that one foul
sentiment does more harm than
many foul examples, for the last do
but corrupt the stream. while the for
mcr corruptS the fountain, and it and
the l'resi lent alike forget that Judi.
cial usurpf ton is more odious and
int1lcrahle than any other among the
manifold practices of tyranny.
No wonder that the question be
fore us eXcites apprehension and
alarm. There is at last North side
of this Chamber, II North side Of the
Chamber Of il representatives. and a
North side OF the Union, a. we'll as
South sides to all these. Each oj
them is watchful, Jealous AMI reso.
lutte.
II it be true. as has 40 often been
asserted, that he Union cannot sur
vive the decision by Congress Of ;
direct question, involving the adop
tion of Il free State into this Unior
which will establish the ascendency
Of free States under the Constitution
AMI draw after it the restoration o
the influence of freedom in domesti,
and foreign conduct Of the Govern
: ment; then the day of dissolution il
at hand.
Further, he said, let the Suprem,
Conrt rccede.
Whether it recede or not, we shal
reorganine the Court, and thus re
form its political sentiments anC
practices, and bring them into har
mony with the constitution and law
of Nature.
In doing so, we shall not only re
assume our own just authority, bu
we shall restore that high tfibuna
itself, to the position which it ough
to mHintain, since so many unalien
able rights of citizens, and even o
States themselves, depend upon i.
, imparsiality and its wisdom. If yol
, attempt to coerce Kansas into tn,
Union under the Lecompton Consti
J tuition, the people OF that Territor,
4, will resist even to civil war. Yol
, are pledged to put down that revo
. luton by the sword. Will the peo
pie listen to your voice amid tn
thunder OF youl cannon? Let bu
= = one drop Of free citizen blood b
. shed there by the federal army, an,
the countenance OF every Represent
: ative OF u free State in either IIous
; of Congress will blancl, and Ii
tongue will refuse to utter the vot
y necessary to sustain the army in tn
: butchery of his fellow citizens.
Mr.. Thompson, IN. J.,) in all,
! ding to Kansas, said that now wa
the favorable opportunity to eu
:. her troubles by admission into IL
J Union.
y Hc contended that the Lecompto
. . Constitution was expressing the wi
u OF the people OF Kansas.
y y He replied to the many argumen
: y against that instrument, and il
u stanced cases of fourteen Stat
!. l. whose Constitutions were adopts
y without submission to the people,
II II II wrong has been suffered by the 0
- ponents Of the Lecompton Constit
Z, tion, that wrong was in consequen
" 70 of their own misconduct, and tLer
o. fore they have no right to complai
: II tho Free State party have
a. large majority, as is pretended, tn