Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1858-04-28

8 EDe c&& ga0a Re, % sAec0mP tss
.sas now asks Tor dnissi6n into The Union. col
league says II does not ebody the will 81 the peo
pie, and be therefore Is against it. His language i:
u must ssy Tia. xhen her ss.erted here every
nsa e Kansas s e
snaiched from the people, unconstitutional test ca
piled. BY which he niso1is eetai.st the
tod and The proof tend. that way that not more s.
represented in the convention dc ubt the pprety Of sup
porting the constitution framed thus" ~ =!
Government of Kansas ruthlessly snatched from
the people! test oathsl majority kept from partic
patton in the government not more than halt the
counties permitted to be represented in the conven
ton! These are the charges which have been made
and often repeated through al the different moods
and lenses by the whole Black Republican school,
and now gravely affirmed by my colleague. Sir, if
the namo of the senior member from Ohio had been
would any one have admitted its authority? Says
Mr.. Giddings: "Usurpatons and brute force were
rcsorted to for the purpose Of extending and sup.
porting slavery" Says Mr. Wilson: - In this con-
test, slavery has startled the nation by series of
acts of violence and frauds" &c. So said Mr.. Sew
have spoken upon the question. These are the au.
thorities, l suppose upon which my colleague relies
to sustain his charges against the pro.slavery party
in Kansas Why, sir, this cry was commenced in
1854, Immediately after the passage of the Kansas
and Nebraska bill, and it has been kept up ever
SINCE Sorry am that southern men now found
to join in it. That the pro slavery men have COM
mitted no wrongs, | am far from saying. Assailed,
they have been by lawless bands of Abolitonists
who boosted Of their intention first to abolitionize
Kansas and then overrun Missouri, they would have
been more or less than men had they borne them
selves fautless in such contest. But SIR can the
charges against the pro.slavery party, made by my
colleague, be sustained by any other authority than
that to which have alluded?
have already proved by Gov. Walker, az we'll as
by the Raleigh Register. that these disorganizers
we're in q state of rebellion and resistance to the
laws. That they refused to register their names
and establish for themselves such form of govern
ment as they desired, the evidence is equally abun
dant. In the affidavit of George Wilson, contained
in the Senate report by Mr.. Green, he says:
"At the time when the taken under the law
providing for the Lecompton convention was the acting
Of the fact that the two wings of the eeSae PARTY
of that county, composed of moderate Free Sofers
and the adherents of threatened the life of who
should attempt to take the legal census: and say
der OATH that the life of any making the attempt to
execute the law in that particular in danger and the
foregoing threats the which the Ia
ed Tine
"1n regard to Passmore Williams.
Judge of Probate for Allen county, members of the soca
ed free State party stated to in person that be at
tempted the law and did leave they would
the law, and left the county because he believed his life in
danger. Mr. Williams is from Illinois, and is u freeState
0"e eesrd pS of for
Franklin county, he left the county and the Territory
of 1 his property and having his Life
passed the law appointed Judge of Probate
and other officers, who refused to serve alleging
that they afraid doing would Gust them their
lives Consequently no census taken, and no legal
election held"
fmy time would admit, might adduce further
proof of the same import
But my colleague says test caths were imposed.
One Of them was an oath binding officers to support
the Constitution of the United States the organic
act and the fugitive slave law; this, at least was
not, to my mind, so very monstrous--but they were
all repealed before the constitutional convention
called, SO that no complaint could exist on that
But these poor innocents, these meek and or
derby Black Republicans were disfranchsed in half
the counties in the Territory! SIR has my colleague
been intent in his labor of love in hunting up
charges against the proslavery party in Kansas,
that he has not had time to look at the official evil
dence? l have already shown that the FreeSoilers
refused to register their names, and actually drove
off the officers and would not permit them to dis
charge their duties. 1t is we'll known that several
of the counties alluded to had no population; in
others there were than ten or fifteen voters
each in all of them together the Free Sellers could
only drum up abou: fourteen hundred, although
they had everything their own way-the ro-slavery
men denying inc FaIIoy OF the electiOn anu taxing
part in it. These people were not disfranchised
and denied participation in the territorial govern
ment and formation of the constitution. Although
urged by every consideration that could animate pa
trots aud influence good citizens, they actiously re-
fused to have part or lot in the matter.
Now, I have shown by evidence which my COL
league cannot impugn, that these people de-
prved Of no rights; that they themselves refused TO
participate in the elections and have no right to
come here now and claim to take advantage of their
own wrong If they were in the majority, they
should have resorted to the peaceful and republican
method of the ballot to redress themselves. If,
is most likely, they were in the minority, they
had none to be redressed.
Mr.. Chairman, the constitution Of Kansas was
framed in regular manner and in strict accordance
with all the requirements and forms of law; but my
colleague would have it referred to the people for
ratification or rejection. Is it necessary to submit
constitution in order to ascertain the will of the peo
pie, and make it binding? Then the constitution of
North Carolina has no validity for it was not sub
mited Then the constitutions of all the rest Of the
original thirteen States, except one, are of no bind
ing force; for believe Massachusetts, is the only one
which submitted her constitution! ~
This doctrine would moreover, remand to a terri
torial form Of government hrteea out Of the eigh-
teen new States that have been admitted for five
only of them all have submitted their constitutions.
Every knows that the constitution of the United
States was never so submitted and far North.
Carol'ha 10 cohceTheu, anu lnitih Tue ssme was tue
in all the rest even the delegates 10 the con-
vention which framed that instrument not cleo.
ted by the people, but by the Legislature
But, sir, want to know of my colleague how long
he has advocated the doctrine that it the duty
of the Lecompton convention to submit the result Of
their labors to the peoplef In the late be-
tween my competitor and myself, in the first dis
trict he took open ground against submission, and
denounced the administration for favorng it through
| Gov. Walker. He declared that it would be ia
| grant wrong to the South. said thcn IS repeat
now, that tho submission refusal to submit the
| constitution Of Kansas was question with which
me Nor uon ale.
sas bad anything do that it belonged solely to thu
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