The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1858-01-29

until Spring, and that there have
been extensive combinations of In.
Idians in that region, instigatcd BY
white men, which rendered Il import
ant that our army there should b Re.
inGrced. ts s
Mr.. Trumbull, from the Commit.
tee on Judiciary, submitted the ma
jority reports on the contested seats
of Messrs. Bright and Fitch.
Mr.. Harlan. Of Iowa, addressed
The Senate on Kansas affairs.
lie supposed that tho leading rcas-
on for passing the bill to increase
the army, was to enable the Presi,
dent to enforce the Lecompton Con-
stitution. There conld be no other
special reason for an increase at this
particular time.
In alluding to the harmonious pro-
fessions made by both factions OF the
Democratic party oftheir attachment
to the principles o: the Kansas Ne.
braska Bill, he remarked that the
President and those who agree with
him, express their attachment to it
on the ground that it advocates non.
intervention, while tho opposite fac :.
ton laid 1t for the reason that it de-
clares that the people shall be left
perfectly free to form and reguls te
their institutions in their own way.
While thus perfectly agreeing in
their appropriation OF that bill, there
was vast difference in the meas.
ures in which they propose to carry
ont the views of the President by an
act OF Congress to secure the organ.
zation of q Slave. state on free soil;
but to adopt the views OF Mr.. Doug
las and those who agrec with him,
would be to secure the organization
OF a free State within the same linn. 4.
its. just as certainly as if Congress
should re.enact that neither slavery
or involuntary servitude shall again
exist north Of thirty six thirty. To
submit that question to a iqir vote
of tho people would be to annihilate
slavery without ceremony, for it was
known in advance that the people Of
that Territory by a large majority
were opposed to theexistence OF
slavery.
Mr.. Polk alluded to the fact that
several Senators had quoted from
Governor Walkers letter in order to
prove that the Lecompton delegates
were elected by a majority OF the
people OF Kansas, and that nineteen
out of the thirty four counties had no
opportunity to send delegates to the
convention.
He read statement originally
published in the Missouri Republi.
can in contradiction Of Governor
Walkers allegation from Henry
Clay, Pate, and other members oil
that convention.
Mr.. Stuart asked whether Wal.
ker had not been in situation to
know the facts which he had stated,
and whether Stanton's statements in
his message to the Legislature were
not TO be relied upon against news
paper statements of three or four in
Idividuals, who were implicated in
Everything charged? The asser'
tions of the persons alluded to by the
Senator from Missouri, should be
taken with the same allowance or
one side, as those Of Jim Lane or
the other.
Il tii. wilson saIu LudL ne was IN
: Kansas during the months of May
and July last, and could assert tha
/ Walkers and Stanton's to be abso
lutely trne in every just sense Of the
word. In fifteen counties no censns
had been taken for enrollment;ma
partly from the neglect OF the off
cials, and partly, in some instances,
because there was no officials to per.
form the duty.
He then alluded to the various
election frruds in Kansas.
Mr. Davis said that he was tired
of hearing these Allegations of fraud