Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1858-03-06

ton, and that Gen. Whitfield had been driven
from the Territory under threats of assassination.
This. he said, was the reason of the absence of
the federal officers in Kansas. 1t is useless to
cry "peacc," when there will be none until Kan
sas comes into the Union.
Mr.. Collamcr of Vermont followed. lie re-
ferrcd to the Missouri Compromise as having
settled the slavery agitation, and it being a fair
bargain, he thought il unjust in the South af-
ter receiving her portion of the advantage, to
rcpudate the compact. Who believed, he ask
ed, in 1854, that slavery would exist in Kansas !?
1t was u well settled principle that the power to
regulate, implied the power to prohibit Mr. G.
quoted instances to show where this power had
been exercised, and referred to a case in Miss
issippi in 1896, as in point. lie defended the
Emigrant Aid Society, denying that the emf
grants from the North went to Kansas merely
to VOTE without designing to stay there. lie
referred to the fundamental elections, carried
from Missouri, and other gross outragcs, into
which the Government had never examined
Adjourned.
In the Senate, Tuesday, Mr.. Colamcr contin-
ucd his remarks from the day before. lie said
the only choice allowed the people of Kansas
was whether they would have slaves or be
slaves. lie alluded to tn territorial laws
and to the several successive governors who
were sent out to administer them and who were
summarily removed because they could not per-
form impossibilitics, because they could not en-.
force the laws and yet do justice to all parties.
lie referred to the Lccompton constitution and
said it was idle to resort to special pleading to
hide the fact that that instrument was never sub
mttcd to the people. If it had been they would
have rcpudatcd it once and forever. The pres
idcnt admits that. The whole thing was a cheat
and dcusion.
He referred also to the new political dogma
that slave property in its legal character and
tenure is precisely like other property, and to
the decision of the supreme court in the bred
Scott case. lie would not deny that the SUI
prcme court might give an opinion concerning
slavery when the question was properly before
it. but he regretted they should have taken ad-
vantage of their position to issue "eScathedra,"
their endorsement Of a political dogma. The
cndorsers of accommodation paper seldom find
il profitable business. lie then discussed the
nature of property in man contcnding that the
only safety for slavery was to make it local, and
asking what will be gained by making Kansas "a
slave state The free state people will soon gain
the asccndancy there even if Calhoun cheats
them ont Of the legislature now, and then when
they refuse to pass laws for the protection OF
such property what will it be worth
Mr. Pugh of Ohio gave notice that he should
offer an amendment to Mr.. Green's substitute
for the admission of Kansas and Minnesota to-
gether, to the effect that the people may alter
or abolish their form of government in such a
manner as they may think proper, provided that
it be republican and in accordance with the con
stituton Of the United States
Mr.. Seward of y. y. got the floor and the
Senate adjourned.
In the Senate, Wednesday, the special as
signment, being the bill for the admission Of
Kansas under the Lecompton Constitution, was
taken up.