Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-02-13

u Mr.. A then quoted from various documents, in
u cluding addresses and speeches of Governor
II Walker, and Senator Douglas, and letters from Mr.
ii. Clay Pate the Kansas correspondent of the
ST. Louis Republican to show that the election of
delegates fairly held and that it the fault
Of the freeState men themselves that they did not
participate in it, The Senator from Illinois had
said the responsibility upon the people them
selves Tor allowing the election to 60 by default
and he hoped, whatever course that distinguished
Senator might now pursue, the Democratic party
: would hold the people of Kansas to their respon.
sibil.y Were they to become parties to the rebel
} lion of the Topekates, and cOuntcnance their
trampliug upon law and order9 That the Lecomp-
ton constitution was unsubmited was no business
of theirs. they were not authorized to supervise
the action of the people OF Kansas, who had the
sole right to determine whether not their consti
titutinn should be submitted and to delegate the
decision of that question to their Convention The
act calling the Convention had not required the
Submission of the constitution then by what au-
i thority should Congress demand tP They had
been told that the submission OF the slavery clause
was a swindle and cheat because slave-owners
were otherwise protected; but lie asked, what dis
I position gentlemen would make of the slaves al
ready there carried into the Territory by South
ern men under the protection Of the United
States Constitution? They had right to take
into the Territory any speciesoi property recog-
nized by the Constitution, and nobody could take
/ IL from tUBU1, unless W0ntCu 1Or 0uDIlC use anu
| upon payment of just compensation
| Mr.. A. next justified the institution of slavery
as righ in itself and of divine origin, and defend
ed the people Of Missouri against the charges made
by the Southern press that they were tnctured
with sbolitionism, ard answered the charges made
at the North that they had unduly nterfered in the
affairs of Kansas. The people of Missouri, he
said, were naturally desirous that Kansas should
be Slave State for the sake Ut good neighborhood
but they would never have interfered in the elec
tions but for the unwarranted and unlawful inhu-
ence of the Emigrant Aid Societies. The aboli.
tonists were not content to settle the Territory III
the usual and ordinary way, but must organize
large noneyed associations, under he uthority OF
of the States Of the Union, for the purpose of
sending into the Territory the scum of the purleus
of their large cities, with the avowed object OF
moulding and controlling the institutions of Kan
sas, and for The unjust and unconstitutional pur-
pose Of depriving the people of the South of their
rights. Then, and not till then, the people Of Mis-
souri, felt themselves justified in interfering, a
measure of selhdelence, to aid and protect their
friends in Kansas. Their conduct was applauded
by all right.mnded men, and would BE- upheld
and honored ty coming generations. The Emf
grant Aid Societies alone, by their unwarrantable
interference, supernduced the outrages and un-
lawful acts perpetrated there and let him say to
the gentleman from Massachusetts, (Mr, Thayer,)
who spoke SO eloquenty of the merits of organized
emigration that he might send out his colonies to
iOIelSH COuHllIeS, Dut, III Hc uesITeu peaCe De
would never attempt to apply that principle to the
settlement of the Territories of this country.
g. b. COCHRAN, OF NEW YORK. gslssi
Mr.. c. Cochrane of New York, spoke against
tie Lecompton constitution. IL was question
of principle, not of policy; of power, not of dura-
ton and if they could impose constitution upon
the people of Kansas for one day, they could for
all time A State constitution was not merely
f,pI op,nn al la pF Stofo hut Sn1f nI
limitation Of the power of the State. If, then,
popular sovereignty applied to anything, it applied
to the adoption of a State constitution. Before
admitting any State they were bound to be satisf
ed that ma ority Of the peoplo of that State, not
minority were asking to be admitted. They we're
now asked to consummate the wrong begun hy the
LecOmpon consplrators to adopt the fruits of their
labor, reeking with fraud and covered With the /
popular condemnation, not upon the plea of justice
but upon the plea of tranquility 1t was the same
old plea under which the compromises of 1850 were
adopted and under which they were broken in 1854
the plea by means of which the constitution
framed to establish freedom had been perverted to
nationalize slavery and localize freedom
The Lecompton constion a fugitive from JUS
tice, escaped from Kansas under the protection of
the United States dragons and covered with the
dust Of the grave to which it had been consigned
by the votes of ten thousand Kansas freemen.-
There had been variety Of interpretations of the
Kansas Nebraska act. AT the time of its passage |,
it was held by the Democrats of the North least
that under it the people OF Territory could e.
elude slavery while in q Territorial condition the
Cincinnati platform said it meant they could ex-
clude slavery when they came to form State con
sttution ; and the Presidents m sssage told them
it meant only that they could exclude suvery after
their admission as State, provided they able
he denied that the question of slavery all sub
mtted to the people by the LecOmpton constitution
and denounced the whole thing barefaced swim
die, and so acknowledged by trainers, who relied
upon the Administration and its friends to force it
through Congress If they succeeded he had
only to say the Democratic party would become
geographically, what it had long been in fact
miserable sectional party.
lie c0ntended that the LecOmpton constitution
proslayery in all its provision and pointed out
the frauds and forgeries attending its adoption
This bald and infamous muckery could deceive no
one, and awaited the certain fate Of the universal
condemnation of mankind. 1t elimination
of whole system of atrocities the last act, of
drama of fraud and despOtlsm, looking only to the
subiugatoD of Kansas to the dominion of slavery.
If Kansas had occupied too much of the public at
tention why did they not localize the quarrel two
years ago, when she sought admission under the
Topeka constitution, which was indisputatly the
will of the majority of her people? Peace was
not wanted then, but when q pro.slavery constitu-
ton came along there was suddenly a great de-
maud for peace and quiet.
MR.. SHAW OF ILLINOIS.
Mr. Shaw opposed the Lecompton Constitu-
ton. He was opposed alike to the abolitonists