The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1858-03-25

Kansas desired admission with q Pro Slavery
Constitution, whether he would vote for her ad-
mission7
Mr.. Colfsx said he intended to answer every
point If he obtained the floor.
Mr.. Barksdale replied, that he did not know
that he would be here, and would like to have
the answer now. He would repeat the question,
and desired an snswe..
{, Mr.. Giddines said he would never vote to
make Ohio associate with another slave State.
Mr.. Barksdale inquired if that was the senti.
ment of his party. II TfIft fFEt
Mr.. GiddiDgs replied, that he spoke for the
humane and Christian part of mankind general
= Mr.. BaEisdais. The Black Republican man
kind. have no doubt You do. The true ground
Of opposition was tina. the Constitution tolerated
Slavery. IN s,fa .nsifais9 1a 4
Mr.. Stanton, of Ohio, said, 80 far as be knew,
no Republican member would vote for the ad
mission of a slave State north of $50 3V.
Mr.. Keitt. VIII they vote for slave State
south OF it, qsar 81 1850
Mr.. Stanton. A good many of them will
Mr.. Colfsx, in reply to the question of Mr..
Barksdale, said he would not vote for the admis-
sion of Kansas, if all her people desired it.
When the Missouri Compromise was repealed,
he declared then, and he should maintain it
now, that by no vote of his would be sanction
the result sought to be carried out by that repeal
He then read a speech to show that the Consti-
was not republican in its form, and did not speak
the will of the people of Kansas.
Mr.. Adrain. of New jersey, said be should
vote against the Lecompton Constitution be-
cause it did not express the will of the people.
If he did not do 90, be could not, return to his
| constituents, for he had advocated the doctrine
of submission before them at the recent election.
He should be degenerate son of revolution
airy father, if he should vote to deprive the peo
pie of Kansas of the same rights for which the
revolutionary fathers had fought and bled.
| Mr.. Soaring, of New York reviewed the po
sition of Kansas prior and up to the time she
became Territory, and then speaking of the
Lecompton Constitution, saw no other way Of
action but to admit Kansas under it, and enro
her as State. If they could dictate how the
people should form their Constitution, they
could dictate what the provisions of that Con
stitution should be.
Mr.. Wright, of Tennessee, replied to the re
mark of Mr.. English, who said that of the Dem
ocrats from the Northern States who voted fo
the Kansas Nebraska bill, but three remained
here as members of Congress. That was Blu
one side OF the picture, and he desired to cal
attention TO the other side. Where were al
those Democrats from the Northern States wht
voted against that measure of justice7 1t wa
true that many of them were returned, anG
some OF them were members to-day, but hi
friend knew that most, if not all of them, hst
gone into the ranks of the Black Republican
party, and were to-day helping to swell the mum
Der of those making an unnecessary war upor
the constitutional rights of one portion of tn,
Confederacy.
Mr.. Morse, of New York, read long speed
in opposition to the admission of Kansas unde
the Lecompton Constitution. he contends
that the purpose of the emigrants to Kansa
was not to rescue it from the South, but to saw
it for mankind.
Mr.. Smith, of Illinois, earnestly protsste
against the attempt to set up the issue ths
Slavery or AntiSlavery was the question. Tn
only question which they wished to determin
: was, whether the Lecompton Constitution e.
!. pressed the views and wishes of the majority {
the bona Jfde settlers of Kansas. That was tn
only question upon which the late Presidents
t election turned-the right of the people to d,
} termine their own institutions. unbiased an
unaided. The Lecompton Constitution was NJ
only obnoxious to the people of Kansas, but I
the people of the whole country. To show thi
. he would quote from some of the prominer
| public journals, North and South, and from
? some of the prominent Democratic statesmen
. whose eminent public services had proved fc
3 them the admiration and confidence of th
Union.
) Mr.. Garrett, of Virginia, obtained the floor
and it being quarter past o'clock, P. NJ, an
but twenty FIVE members present, gave way to
motion that the Committee rise; which motto
/, prevailed. -,
journed til Monday next.