Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1858-09-30

SHALL BE MADE TO AFFECT THE
RIGHTS OF PROPERTY IN THEOWNER-
SHIP OF SLAVES"
At The election provided for above, {2lst Dec.
1851 the free State men. seeing II was 10 be
pro-slavery CoHstitutisn in any event, and that
they were not allowed TO vote for or against the
Constitution, again refused to go to the polls and
about 600 votes only were polled.
: In the mean time the free State men having
succeeded in getting majority Of the Legisla-
ture, passed law ordering an election TO be
held on The 4.h day of January 1858, at which
the ballots Were to be endorsed, "for the Consti-
tuition or against the Constitution" AT that
election there was majority of more than ten
thousand votes cast against the Constitution
Notwithstanding which Jnc. c. Calhoun the
President of the Convention, took The CoRstitu-
tion TO Washington and placed it in the hand Of
the President of the United States
James Bcchanan in obedience TO Southern
Democrats. had already attempted to overthrow
the "qreat principle of popular sovereignty" "the
riqht of the people Of the Territories to regulate
tbe;r domestic stt,aioas "a tc;r oun gdy." by re-
peatedly endorsing the doctrines of the .Dred
Scott decission;' in his Inaugural Address;
in his -Sillimsn Letter." and in his Annual
Message; and now be thought to deal it a death
blow in a Special Message accom- panying the
Lecompton Constitution,
fTOil t1lS SptCiIi oieeSiSe Vi the TeslucHt,
sent TO Congress on the second day of Feb, 1855.
l make the following extracts:
"For my own part, when instructed Gov
-ernor Walker, in general terms, in favor of SUBJ
mitting the Constitution TO the people i had no
object in view cxceptthe all-absorbing question
of slavery. Ia what manner the people of Kan
sas might regulate their other concerns was not
subject which attracted any attention.
/ then believed, and still believe, that under
the organic act the Kansas Convention We're
bound to submit this all-important question of
slavery to the people. 1t was never my opinion
however. that independently Of this act they
would have been bound 10 submit any portion
of the Constitution TO a popular vote in order to
give it validity,
1.-THE question of slavery was submitted TO
an election of the people of Kansas On the 2lst
December last, in obedience 10 the mandate of
the Constitution. Ii is for Congress 10 deter
mine whether they admit or reject the State
which has thus been created. For my own part
l am decidedly in favor of Its admission. As
question of expediency, after the right has been
maintained, if nay be wise to reflect on the
benefits to K;.nsas and 10 the whole country
which would result from its immediate admis-
sion into the Union.
The people will then be sover.
eisn and can regulate their own
affairs in their own Way.'
alt has been solemnly adjudged by the high
est judicial tribunal that slavery exists IN Kan
sas by virtue of the Constitution of the United
States. Kansas is. therefore, at this moment as
much o slave State us Georgia or South Caroli-
na-" -r0
"Slavery can. therefore never be prohibited in
Kansas except through the means of a constitu-
tional provision, and in no manner can this be
obtained SO promptly, if the majority of the
people desire it, as by admitting her into the
Union under her present constitution" (See
Con. Globe, page 533.)
What has ROW become of the precions doc
trine upon which James Buchanan and Joseph
Burns were both elected to Office the great grin-
ciple Of popular Sovereignty and the right of the
Territories TO regulate their domestic institutions
their oUa aray.
Mr. Buchanan tramplcs the rights of the peo-
pie of the Territories under bis feet, repudiates
popular sovereignty, and Gen. Burns susiains
him in his course.
MIR. Buchanan gravely tells Congress that
the people of Kansas cannot regulate their do
mesiic institution in their own way unit, she
is admitted into the Union as a sovereign
State, and General Burns sustains him by his
vote -.
Gen. Burns told the people that under the
Kansas ebraska act slaves taken to Kansas
would be in the same condition as slaves brou't
from kentucky into Ohio, that is they would
be Free" Mr.. Buchanan says that "Kansas is at
this moment as much slave State as Georgia or
South Carolina" and General Burns sustains
him.
Mr.. Buchanan says that slavery never can be
prohibited IN the Territory of Kansas and Gen.
Burns sustains him.
A. H. &c IL
chanan and Burns both knew that the people
of Kansas had rejected the Lceomp;on Consti-
tuition, because the election in Kansas was on
the 4th of January, 1858 and this message was
written on the End of February, 1858.
When the above message was sent to the
House of Representatives, a motion was made
to refer it to the Committee on Territories, but
majority of that Committee being Lecompton
Democrats, Mr.. Harris of Illinois, an anti-Le-
compton Democrat, moved as an amendment, the
following resolution:
..Resolyed, That the message of the President
concerning the Constitution framed at Lecomp-
ton, in the Territory of Kansas, by convention
of delegates thereof, and.'the papers accompany
ing the same, be referred TO select Committee
of fifteen to be appointed by the Speaker Th.t
said committee be instructed to inquire into all
the facts connected with the formation of said
Constitution, and the laws under which the
same originated, and into all such facts and pro-
ceedings as have transpired since the formation
of said Constitution, having relation 10 the
question or prupriety of the admission of said
Territory into the Union under said Constitution,
End whether the same is acceptable and salts
factory 10 majority of the legal voters Of Kan
sas: and that said Committee baye power to send
for persons and papers"
On this equitable resolution the vote stood,
Yeas lis. Nays Ill. So the resolution was
adopted The anti-Lecompton Democrats of
the House voted for it in body, while the Le-
compton Administration Democrats, includ-
ing Gen. Burns. voted in body against
it. (See Congressional Globe. Part LIST, lst
Session 35 Con-, page 622 and 623.)
The friends of Gen. Burns knowing that the
people of this District, without regard TO party
are and have been opposed to the Leeompton
policy of the National Democracy" claim that
Gen. Burns has always been an anti-Locompton
That he was SO. before he went TO Washing
ton, / admit; but the question is
HOW DID HE VOTE? -
The Senate bill, for the admission Of Kansas
into the Union under the Lecompton Constitu-
tion, having passed the Senate. was sent to the
House for their concurrence. when the following
were had:-(Sec Congressional
Globe, part ,, lst session 35th Congress page
1850
ADMISSION OF KANSAS.
Mr.. STEPHENS, of Georgia. Mr.. Speaker,
the hour of one having arrived, NOSE, in pur-
suanee of notice, TO take up the Senate bill for
the admission OF Kansas.
The bill was read first time by its title, as
follows:
An act for the admission of the State of Kan
sas into the Union,
Mr.. GIDDINGS. l object to the bill.
The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Ohio
making objection the bill, under the 10th
rule The question propounded to the House will
flrst be, "shall this bill be rejeeted?"
Mr.. STEPHENS, of Georgia, demanded the
and