Arkansas true Democrat., 1858-01-12
From the Louisville Courier. 'e Tammany Hall Meeting-The Kansas
 Question
T NoOHU1
 CLARENCE,


 he democratic meeting at Tammany Hall in New York last Wednesday eveuing was I,rra aud enthusiastic assemblage of the friends of t5o . adm Illustration. The Herald fills nine of its coiumnS ID an account of it. Letters from di.- statesmen who could moi attend uvaro read speeches were made, and resolutions in aoh the course oi President Buchanan were passed " 0'o
 II seems therefore that there are noo,,l. ii, .i .ne of'n as well as Tn the south who stand by tue I resident m his hansas policy The demo- a"ic parry Is not yet severed. Mason and '.., a,xon'S he Is not the division of the partv- ne'e are democrats north of that line who will o-oPeiaVe "IVh the democrats south oft They s1e iloI gong 10 be thrown into confusion and 'oaN 'neA ran KS upon mere bubble. There F ao question pending that is worthy to divide 'nc Pat'S' and those who hoped to get up A di- 'soH on '"e hahSas question, will find their nopeS disappointed. The democrats, who. with out mature dehberatlon, and without knowing exactly what they were about, drew off from .he party upon the Kansas policy of the Presi aent' will soon be bound right As we have said oeioFe' they will all get right before their hope. Iw opponents can make up their minds as to .ne character oi the split they anticipated and k'->- NN iOA III IHe party.
 "e nave always thought the administration wS wssS rlSht on the Kansas question. The great 'peecn ol senator Douglas did not change our ophioh' thousand such speeches. or even more powerful ones, could not have chanoed our 1e"s. The facts of the case were before us -1u -n the law which governed these facts was be- ,ose us: and all We had to do was to applv the s-N to the facts This simple application of the a.~ to the facts brought us to the same condM. s.on Wth the President upon the Kansas ones. vs' ,,o'' ana we have often wondered how Senator DouSias ana others could be led astray. The pes, course of Senator Douglass is antagonistic .e nus present position, and if we wanted to oHnS forward arguments against his nresent sSNs or the Kansas question, it would be diff. cuit |" md stronger ones than he has heretofora nade of himself. '' N''e'oio'e
 w nave heretofore taken the ground that nailSas was a part of the Louisiana nurchase n. .nu placed by Congress under peculiar leoisla ' .ye jurisdiction; that the Kansas N ebraska act elgnedly gave this territory ample legislative P9"ers, and placed her beyond the necessity of ]. <aO f. Is termed an enabling act, when she should yrHHe He steps to become one of the States of the unlon; that this kansas-N ebraska act cave the s0sli'ory power to establish legislature and gave 'nlS Legislature power to call a convention 0forn constitution; that the leoislature was tomed, and called the convention and ,bat ,ho conS made constitution. An theses,ens @sre regular, and ln accordance with inc oroar;c law ot the territory. Indeed, the author;,,, I,,. wnich the constitutional convention was osuaa into being has not been questioned. until of Ia,e " any body except those abolition fanatics wbo would question anything that was right. Wa Anow oi nothing in the history of territories he. oohhS olates more regular than the successiv ve ssels oi hansas-hrst, the Louisiana mrchase. second, the Kansas Nebraska act. third inc ter' ritorlal legislature; fourth, the act Inf tbe Ieo;s. ia!ure calling the convention; fifth, the election oi delegates under the law; sixth, the assemblno ot the convention; seventh, the making of the consutution, and eighth, the submission of the AaVeTy clause ot their work to the vote of the Eople- Every step is regular and legal, and Son9ress cannot legally establish itself into 8 eourt oi enquiry to go behind the final act of tho eohVehton. IL matters not how much we ma, 'gret that the convention did not submit the Mhoie constitution to the vote of the people, nat was their business, not ours They were
 sovereign body, empowered to do just what tney nave done, and we know of DO legal way P getting behind their act to revise and regulate F'a a, alter and dictate.
 me convention had law and precedent for
 n'' they did. Neither the Kansas Nebraska
 % nor the legislative act calling the convention,
 tba nv me delegates to submit their work to
 snb,p; pGOpe' Nor did precedent require them to swbst 'l ,ho saelr work. They had all example for sStaTas old In the constitution of the United
 As wa ala In many of the State constitution.
 fen "s nave said before, there are no less than
 .sn ol the State constitut;ons no, in onsrs,;on
 we annealaa were submitted to the people, and if
 been acte1 .u so all the constitutions that have
 of the s,atal under Tn this Union, large majority
 'u00h to the people at all '"s'' N''' 00'-''-