The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1858-03-17
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duty oi examining it..
l hear on theiother side Of the Cham
Der, great deal said about gigantic and
stIpendouS frauds and the Senator from
n. l. yesterday, in portrayirg the charac-
ter OF his party and the opposite one, la id
'ne whole OF those frauds upon the pro.
slavery party To listen to him. YOU would
have supposed that the regiments of emf
grants recruited in the purlleus of the great
cities Of the North, and seut out, armed
and equipped with Sharp's rifles, and bow
lie knives and revolvers,to conquer for free
dom IN Kansas, stood by, meek saints,
innocent as doves, and humble as lambs
brought up to the sacrifice. Think of
them: General Lanes lambs, They re
mind one Of Col. kirks lambs. 10 whom
they have family resemblance. pre.
sumo that there were frauds; aud that if
there were frauds, they were equally great
on All sides; and that any Investigation
INTO them Oh this floor, or bv a commits.
sion, would end in nothing but nfic,ny
almost unendUrb!e disgrace on the United
States.
But, sir, the true Object Of the discus
SION on the other side of the Chamber. is
10 agItate the question of slavery. have
very great doubts whether the leaders on
the other side Of the House really wish
20 defeat this bill. | think they would
consider II vastly greater victory to
crush out the Democratic party in the
North, and destroy the leaders Of the
Kansas Nebraska Hill {; and am no, sure
that they have not brought about this i'm.
orogIi2 Tor the very purpose. How
strange Is 1t that they tell us that. wear
alter year, the majority in kansas is bea.
ten at the polIsl They have always had
a majority, but they always get beaten
How could that be ! 1t does seem. from
the most reliable sources of information,
that they have najority, and have had
majority for some time. Why has not
this majority come forward and taken
possession OF the government, and made
"a ifce State constitution, and brought il
here We should all have voted for its
admission chcerIuIIy. There can be but
one reason: II they had brought, as was
generally supposed ut the time the Kan
saS Nebraska act WAS passed would be
the case, free State constitution here.
there would have been no difficulty among
the Northern Democrats ;.thev would
have been sustained 10y their people. The
statement made by some OF them, as |
understood, That that act Was good free
State act, would have been verified. ana
the Northern Democratic party would
have been sustained but its coming here
slave State, it is said, will kill thar par.
ty, and that is the reason they have re.
trained from going to the polls that is
the reason they have rciraned from ma.
King 1t free Stat when they had the
power. They iuteuu TO make il a free
State AS soon as they have effected that
purpose Of destroying the Democratic
party at The North, and their true rea-
son here is 10 agtale slavery. For one,
am not diNpo"od to discuss that ques-
ton here IN any abstract form. think
the time has gone by for that. Our
minds are all made up. am willing to
discuss it-and tha at is the way il should
he and must lie dscusscd-as a practical
thing, AS Thing that is, and is to be -
and to discuss its effect upon our political
institutions, and TO ascertain how long
those political Institutions will hold 10 yelh-
er under It's effects.
The Senator from New York entered
very fairly into this field yesterday.
was surprised, the other day, when he SO
openly said the battle had been fought
and won. Although kneS, and had
long known it TO be true, | WAS surprised
10 hear him say SO. | thought that he
had been entrapped into a hasty express
sion by the sharp rebukes Of the Senator
from New Hampshire and am glad to
see that yesterday lie has come out and
shown that 1t is Il matured project Of his;
that these words mean all that thought
they meant that they mean that the
South Is conquered province, and that
the North intends 10 rule it. lie said
that 1t was their intention to take this
Government from unjust and uniaithful
hands; that it was their intention 10 con-
secrate all the Territories Of the Union to
tree labor and that, 10 effect their pur.
poses, they intended TO reconstruct the
Supreme Court.
Yesterday, the Senator said, Suppose
VIC dllllt haiIS2S "Itn inc Lee tmpt9n
constitution what guarantees are there
that Congress will not again interfere with
the affairs Of Kansas ?" meaning, sup.
pose, that it she abolished slavery, what
guarantee there was that Congress would
not force it upon her again. Sir, so far
as we Of the South are concerned, YOU
have, at least, the guarantee OF good
faith that never has heen violated. But
what guarantee have we, when YOU have
this Government in your possession, ia
all its departments, even il we submit
quietly to what the Senate. exhorts us to
submit to--the concentration Of slavery
in It's present. territory, and even TO the
reconstruction of the Supreme Cour t.
that you will not plunder us with tariffs I;
that you will not bankrupt us with inter
nal Improvements and bounties on fish !;
that you will not restrain as with navi.
CATION laws, and other laws impeding
/ the facilities of transportation TO South.
ern produce What guarantee have we