The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1858-04-08

let the fiction return to those tribunals
who are by law made subject to it.
This is a question above that sort Of
argument It is inquirable into Else
how can we judge that it is their Con-
stitution2 10 is the first time, I Believe,
that such a question has ever come up
in the Senate of the United States. In
all former applications for admission,
there has been one thing about which
there has been no question; and that
was, the willingness to be admitted and
the Constitution under which they de-
sired to be admitted. There has been
no question about the authenticity of a
Constitution, or about its expressing
the true will Of the people before this,
that I know Of I am satisfied there
has been none; but now that there is,
we must inquire into the authenticity
Of the instrument offered to us; we must
inquire whether It is better on full con-
sidoration, to admit this instrument and
the State with it or not; and, in the ox-
ercise of that judgment, we are bound
to look abroad for the truth wherever
we can find IT, Think, therefore, these
matters are all fairly subject to our
consideration.
Now, Mr.. President, convinced as L
am, from these imperfect views Of the
evidence in the case, that this instru-
ment is not really the Constitution Of
the people Of Kansas or desired by
them to be accepted by you in their ad-
mission into the Union; and believing,
moreover, as verify do, that it is made
in fraud and for a fraud; believing that
these matters are inquirable into by US,
and that the inquiry has led us to abun-
daut light on this subject, cannot, /
will not vote for it. Viewing it as | do,
| should think that, with the opinions [
entertain, I could not put my hand to
her admission without violating my
sense Of right and justice; and I would
submit to any consequence before ]
would do that.
WHAT CAN THE SOUTH GAIN?
Now, Sir what considerations arc
there, apart from these which I have
stated, which could lead me to give on
could compensate me for giving, n vote
against my sense Of what was right and
Just? What is the advantage to our
whole country, or to any portion of it,
to result from taking Kansas into the
Union now with this Constitution? Is
anything to be gained? Is the South
or the North to gain anything by it? !
see nothing to be gained by it., Think
there is not a gentleman here who be-
ieves that Kansas will be a Slave State
Before this Territorial Government was
made, many Of the leading men Of the
South here argued that Kansas and Ne
braska never could be Slave States. BY
the law Of climate and geography, il
was said they could not. So said my
friend from Georgia, Mr., Toombs, and
so said Mr. Stephens.
Mr.. TooMBs-Neycr.
Mr.. HALE-Mr Badger said so.
Mr. CRITTENDEN-Mr, Kejtt and Mr.
Brooks Of South Carolina said so. The
opinion was expressed by numerous
Southern gentlemen that Kansas coulC
never be a Slave State 1t was for the
principle that they contended; and the
principle, the abstract principle, was 9
just one.
Nh HAMMoND-With the permission
of the Senator L will ask him. "Did
understand him to say that Mr.. Keit
had declared that Kansas never would
be a Slave State?"
Mr. CRITTENDEN-Yes, Sir; so it il
reported, Mr. Hunter, Of Virginia
said:
"Does any man believe that you vii
have Slaveholding State in Kansas o,
Nebraska"
Gov Brown, of Mississippi, said:
"Thdt Slavery would never find {
resting place in those Territories" "
Mr., Douglas said:
81 do not believe there is a man il
Congress who thinks it could be perma
nently slaveholding country"
Mr.. Badger, of North Carolina, said
81 have no more idea of seeing
slave population in either Of them thar
I have of seeing it in Massachusetts,"
Mr., Millson, Of Virginia, said
"No one expects it. No one dream
that slavery will be established there. +"
Mr.. Frederick P. Stanton, Of Tennes
SEQ, said:
"The fears of Northern genteme
are wholly unfounded. Slavery will no
be established in Kansas and Nebras
ka."
The late Mr.. Brooks, Of South Care
lima, said, in his speech Of the 18th q
! March, 1851
"If the natural laws Of climate and o
soil exclude us from a Territory ofwhic
we are the joint owners, We shall nC
aud we will not COMPLAIN
Mr.. Butler, Of South Carolina, sal,
on the 2d Of March, 1854:
IF two States should over come int
! the Union from them (the Territories
liz is very certain that not more than on
of them could, in any possible event, /
a slaYeholding State; and L have not ii
least idea that ever one would be"
Mr. Keitt, of South Carolina, In J.
speech of the Both of March, 1854, Qur
ted Mr. Pinckney Of his own Stat
that
practically, he thought Slavery wouI
not go above the line Of go 30' by II
laws of physical geography, and, thor,
fore, that the South lost no territory
for Slavery"
This is all the authority I have; it
q compilation.