The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1858-01-06

Territories but that these were matters which belonged
excluyely to the States and Territories themselves This
the pith and substance of the Kansas Nebraska bill
Ii contained not single line saying how the States and
Territories should exercise their rights.
Coshocon Dcnoorat
The question is now reversed whether Congress has
right to compel Kansas to into the Union in
tam way, not at all 1t is contendsd that she shall
not n did Ohio, with constitutions which has
not been submitted ~ the people although the people had
choice IN electng the who formed it, and will have
the power to make new such as they may deem
better suited to their wants and wishes
1t is not enough that the slavery question submitted to
the approval rejection Of the people, but that all other
questions must be submitted We hold that were we
citizen Of Kansas should advocate the submission
Of that instrument to the people but citizen OF
Ohio member of Congress, after the people have
elected their delegates knowing their sentiments and
the State asks admission not compelled to listen
to the caor of those who did VOTE and refuse ad
mission because the constitution is not just would
have made IL, made just In the way preferred.
From the Lancaster Eagle.
The great objection 10 the Lccompton constitution is
not that its provisions not acceptable with the
cepton of the slavery clause, but that the whole nsru
mcnt has not been submitted for popular ratification
We confess disappointment and regret that the whole
document not submitted to vote of the people for
approval rejection But neither the Kansas Nebraska
act the platform of the Cincinnati Convention re-
CURED the submission OF anything more than the ques
alone without any side issues and if the black rcpub
cans again fail to do their duty by absentng themselves
from the polls and refusing to VOTE thereby permitting
the pro slavery fanatics to carry the question in the at
frmativc let them be held responsible When it is
sidered that the Topekes publicly declared that they
would vote down any constitution the Lecompton con-
vention might submit, it affords for the
ton of the convention In refusing to submit their work.
condemned it was, unseen by these wild agtators
Whether Kansas will be admitted under the LecoInp
ton constitution remains to be The matter is in the
hands of democratic administration, supported by
democratic Congress and that they will give it due
sideation and act TO give general satisfaction,
have not the least doubt
Should Congress proper to admit Kansas into the
Union under the Lecompton constitution and the nsru
nent should prove Objectionable to majority OF the
citizens of Kansas they will have the undoubted right to
change it at their pleasure Ii is expressly provided in
the bill of rights that the people have at all times in
enabe right to alter REFORM abolish their form of
government in such manner they may think proper
From Sentinel
The people of Kansas after much trouble decided to
form constitution for themselves they support
cd in doing by the Kansas Nebraska act of Congress
The people of Kansas sent their delegates to their
ton to make for them (the people of Kansas) State
stution The delegates of the people of Kansas met in
Kansas and made constitution for Kansas. Was not
this leaving the people of Kansas free to form their
institutions subject only to the United States constitu
ton We think it was. Here was no interference on
the part of Congress the President was thcrc 1t
pears not 1!
Now as we have before said it is correct principle
that after the people through their representatives. have
formed their constitution it should be approved by
the votes of the people, yet, if neither the
gressona the territorial act requires it to be submit
ted after it is formed in their ay whose business is
it but their If Congress wishes the correct princi
pie carried out let them follow the timely advice of
James Buchanan and put clause in their enabling acts
requiring the constitution to be submitted they did in
the Minnesota bill But they neglected to put any such
clause in the Nebraska BILL and must take things
they are
But this manner of permitting the people to form their
institutions in their ray without congressional inter
ference after it is DONE when the act did not say hoc it
should be DONE is called in the polite phrase of the day
" sufng the constitution down the Threats of the pcO-
ple' We formed our constitution Of 1902 in own
way by representatives, and it not submitted to
US but it stuffed down throats but 1t did not
to hurt very much and It set lightly on our sto
machs for We take it, that this thing of
submission to the people is not indispensable condition,
unless the congressional act requires it, Let the Pesi
dent advice be followed and then there be ques-
ton about it hereafter
From the Ashland Union
ALL then who in favor of quietng sectional agta-
onwho have at heart the peace of the country and the
welfare Of the democratic party-w say admit Kansas
into the Union oaa ddy Release her from COMPRESSION
al pupilage her from the politics of the country
which the questions that belong solely to her interests
and the arbitrament of her people have literally
adopt the policy of the President and con6ne
the agitation within her limits by admitting her into
the Union Then If her people prove incapable OF
selfgovernmcntf they resolved to continue the
element and under the advice of Greeley Chase Co.,
involve their State in civil war, and
Give her the god Of storms
The lightning and the gae'
Why upon the heads of themselves and their outside ad
vsers be the responsibility There will be no bloodno
damn spot upon the hands of the democratic ad-
ministration of the democratic party Let all do
duty and leave the consequences to God and the
people