Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1858-12-08
Col. WigYall,. Reply.

invitation enle ded to him by Committee re-
0uesiing his presence al late dinner cOmpli'
mentary TO Hon. N, L., RoNHAs, Ia Edgeiield
District, South Carolina, we presume. will be
acceptable to many Of our readers
NJ, tsHALI., Texas, Aug. %, 90.
Gentlemen Your invitation 10 attend the
dinner to be given TO my old friend and school.
mate, Milledge l.. B0nham, has Just been re.
ceiyed, and hasten TO reply tonight so rs not
TO lose the mornings mail. ! cannot be with
you in person, aud yet would not be ALTO
gelher absent.
gladly embrace the opportunity, which
your invitation offers, OF expressing my appN'
cation Of the moral courage, unselIsh deyo.
,ion TO principle aud pure patriotism exhibited
Ly your immediate Representative in his vote
upon the conference Committee Bill. The
question presented was one, in the discussion
of which, the most unering judgment might
have been nj fault. II is only on such oces'
sious that high moml courage can he shown.
Under such circumstances unlllnching nerve
and unse6sh devotion 10 cointIy net upon the
dictates OF reason without reference 10 the
opinions Of others.
The Kansas question had become one Of
difficult solution. Ii she were rejected II was
clearly because Of the slavery clause IN her
constitution A wrong woui thus hc done 10
the South. That we might bear, or not as we
saw Gt Bu; principle was involved and
wrong was done to the Constitution by her
rejection. Congress cannot reject STATE ap'
pying for admission because she has instltu.
tions similar to those Of other States in the
Union. The people of a State cannot be con-
yerted, by IN act OF Congress, into inhabitants
Of Territory. But, on the other hand, ii
Kansas were admitted two Black Republican
Senators would at once take their seats in the
councils of the country. How long would SIa.
verv be protected in the Snte' Modern
Slatesmansh,p has discovered that Constltu'
ton ratified by popular vote, is no Constltu,
tion. Ergo none Of the "oId thirteen had
Consttutions-South Carolina has none now.
Il has also discovered that the doctrine that or.
ganic Law has binding effect, even for day,
anainsta majority, is II doctrine odious and 90.
soIete. In other words, that Sovereignty does
rot reside IN the people--in the whole people,
but in part--that is in a majority. Sovcr.
eqn rover, it says can only be exercised at
the ballot box. Yet it admits that laws pass
ed by Legislature can only be repealed BY
the Legislature, and in the mode prescribed
and that till so repealed, they are binding.
But organic lnw--thc law, by the authority OF
which the Legislature acts, may be repeated
at any time aud il any manner the majority
decides. The Declaration of indePendenee
was made by the Continental Congress. The
members OF that body were not elected by the
people at the ballot boz Therefore we are
still the subjects Of the British Crown. "A
Daniel has come to Judgment IN the person
of Robt. J. Walker. In better days OF the Re
public, it was supposed that STATE Govern
ment could SUSAN itself, BY even calling ~
the mnIiary and naval power Of the Federal
Government against domestic insurrection'--
Now, Governments are supposed to exist by
permission Of the majority, whenever, nhd
however asceralncG. Bat had Kansas been
admitted, wouId the State Government have
attempted TO sustain itself against Topeka
movement? Entertaining the views MI Bnc-
hanan does on this subject, would we have re-
sponded to the call if madc2 Was 1t not
rorepone conclusion then that slavery, and
shareholders would have been expelled from
the country, had Kansas been admitted ! Was
it our business then to urge the admission
Chi bo1.o9 Non-inlcfvention was the Kansas
doctrine. Was it observed? Did not Walk
or intervene? He was removed it is true, but
not till he did the mischief. After we were
badly bitten the dog was called of. But tor
the difficulty of converting State into Ter
ritory, | have no hesitation in saying the South
could, with propriety, have objected to the nd;
mission The laws have never been enforced
there. Men guilty Of murder and treason have
been pardoned before convicton-prosecuiIng
officers have been ordered not to prosecute
optlaws have been allowed to live at large
Men who were allowed by law TO carry prop
ertv into the Territory, had right to expect
that they, and their property, wonid be pro-
tected. no fair experiment can be made IN the
settlement of the Territory.
Bnt "thcrc is divinity that shapes our ends
rough hue them as we may" Kansas mas
han rcIused admission. We did not do it.
One of the conditions is, that it sha i remain
n Territory ill it has population of ninety
thrse thousand. That is in the bond. The
mast we cannot crnrol. We have only to do
with the future, and the present "Let the
dead bury the dead" Leaving the past to
take care of itself we would say that slavery
now exists by law in the Territory, aud de-
mands that it be protected by law. Treason
should not be pardoned but punished. those
CARRYING property there of any kind into the
Territory should be secured BY the Federal
Government in its pcaceable and quiet enjoy.
sment, If this is done and it i. found after n
fair experiment that the Territory is not adapt
cd to slave labor we should be content but not
till then. When the requisite population is in
the Territory, it should be permitted to adopt
State Constitution, and be admitted into me ,,
Union with or without slavery--but not TIL
then. Let the United South make TINS m Iea'
sonablc demand, and no Administration 'a'e
to!be derelict inlthe performance oil lis au'''-
We are not yet so low.
am answered, the battle has been iost anu
won--the verdict is already rendered-h'nsas
will be admitted BY the next Congress with
! q, 4, -..,;,,,;,n vyiihout reference TO DOn-