The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1858-04-07
From the Washington 'on'on.
The Black Republican SuecedaHeup.

There seems to be good deal more in
the Montgomery amendment than the Black
Republicans bargained for The dullest of
them begin 10 discover thatlthere is cat in
The meal-tub. 1t is a "selP'of the worst sort
"a genuine First of April affair.
The House bill provides that in the cleo
.tions 10 be held under it in Kansas, those res
idents shall vote who are qualified to do so
under the. existing Territorial laws. The
qualifieaiioI n1fueseribed by these laws are
six months res nee in the Territory urd
certain test oaths--among these, one in
which the voter is required 10 swear that he
will support the Constitution and laws of the
United States, the fugitive slave law incIu-
ded, and that he has not interposed to
obstructth execution Of this particular law
Such is the effect oil one of the provisions of
the Montgomery amendment 1t is certainly
odd 10 see the Black Republican party re-
quiring test of fidelity to the Constitution
and the laws of the United States, especially
10 the fugitive-slave law, and solemn alb.
negalion of having interfered to obstruct the
execution of the fugitive slave law We say
this provision is a novel one TO be inserted
in Black Republican measure.
The Federal Constitution provides that
'neo States moybe admitted by The Congress
into the Union % but the House bill improves
upon that provision. While requiring the
voters in Kansas to support the Constitution
OF the United States, the House itself takes
the liberty of altering that instrument in a
radical particular; for their bill provides
that the President, by and with the advice
and consent of the border ruffians and aid
emigrants in the Territory, shall admit Kan
sas into the Union by his own proclamation.
Now, the President is trustworthy man,
and may be implicitly confided in to do all
that an honest man ought 10 do in any mat
ter or emergency, public or private. We are
sure he would not violate the trust reposed
in him by the Black Republicans OF the
House in the least particular But yet we
doubt whether even he ought to be empow-
cred with the discretion of violating the
Constitution of the United States. Eternal
NiSldiiSC 10 tLo PiiSC VI iipOity' AhO oh'7
man power is an everlasting bugaboo with
the "outs." We had, therefore, better stick
10 the Cons+lati on -tll4faa trust even MIR. Bu.
chanan. The act would be imprudent in
itself the precedent would be very danger
Gus.
We will suppose case that might hap
pen, in order TO expose another difficulty
into which this House bill might drag the
Black Republicans. What if, with the army
NOW in Kansas under the Presidents orders
with the 'rufIians" lowering in swarms on
the Missouri border, and "fraud" stalking
sovereign and supreme over the Territory
what if, by the united means of these three
dread agencies, vote should be obtained
favorable to the Lecompton Constitution or,
failing this, what if by these three powerful
means proslavery Constitution, and this
| Constitution should be carried by the poten.
tial agencies alluded to-and what if in Ell.
ther of these events, the President should
admit Kansas BY ihe figt of his own procla-
marion ss u ssa1 4Nate fs.u rrre 6blun! Here
would be rare kettle of fish prepared by
the Black Republicans themselves in this
House bill of theirs. The HeralfS declara-
ton would be realized, and Mr.. Giddings
would discover that he had at last "swal-
lowed niger" in his old age. The Black
Republicans would find that their big oaths
worse than those which the army swore
in Flanders-by which they pledged them.
selves before heaven and earth that they
would never, directly or indirectly, vote for
admitting slave State into the Union-were
all broken into flinders.