Kenosha tribune & telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1856-1859, 1858-02-04
Kenosha Times en- wendell phillips.

| Kenosha Times en- Wendell Phillips.
Wendell Phillips, in his lecture lately
in this city said the Kansas Nebraska
Act, repeating the Missouri Compro-
mise, opened to Slavery, territory which
had hitherto been consecrated to free
dom. Thereupon the Kenosha Times,
undertakes to enlighten the darkened
understanding of the lecturer, and the
public in general. Says the Times; ale
(Phillips) should have added that the
same act opened to freedom, territory
in which slavery had been implicitly per-
Imitted." 1t is a mistake that any ter
ritory of the United States, was COM
mitted to slavery by the terms of the
Missouri Compromise-th instrument
furnishes no such evidence. The prin-
ciples of the Missouri Compromise, as
they were understood, were substan-
italy re-affirmed by Congress in the an
nexation of Texas in ls45, in language
as follows-"Such States as may be
formed out of said portion Of said terri
tory, lying south of thirty six degrees,
and thirty minutes, north latitude, com.
menly known as the Missouri Compro-
mise line, shall be admitted into the
Union with, or without slavery, as the
people Of such state asking admission
may desire; and in each state, formed
out of said territory north of said Mis-
souri, Compromise line, slavery or invol-
untary servitude Except for crime) shall
be prohibited. The binding obligation
of the Missouri Compromise, was rec
ognizcd by Congress, and by successive
administrations, more than thirty years.
Will the Times tell us, what portion of
U. S. territory, was doomed to slavery
by the Compromise, and secured to free
dom by its repeal?
Again, the Times says, the repeal of
the Compromise, Ensured all the terri
torres of the u. 5. hereafter to free
DOM This is monstrously absurd, pro-
vided the doctrines of the present ma
tional administration are entitled to re-
Spect. The Dred Scott decision, de-
clares the Constitution of the United
States carries slavery into the terrific
ries President Buchanan, recognises
he binding force of this doctrine in
his message. Slavery has now legal
existence in the territories, If the prinoi,
pies Of the modern Democracy are to
prevail. Does the Post master editor
of the Times rebel againt it, Or does he
acauiesce?
Again says the Times, sit (the repeal
of the COMPROMISED secured to the peo-
pie of all the territories the right to
choose Tor themselves the character OF
their own institutions" The fallacy of
this statement, is now being fully illus
trated in the case of Kansas. The so
called democratic administration, and
the so called democratic party which
upholds it, are using every endeavor to
force upon that territory laws and in
stitutions, contrary to every principle
of the boasted popular sovereignty doc
trine, and adverse to the wishes of an
overwhelming majority of the people.
The people are to be allowed no voice
in determining the executive, the legisla-
tive, the administrative and the judicial
frame work of their government; the
right of suffrage, the system of educa-
ton, the kind Of banking institutions,
and the character of corporations;-in
short, whatever pertains to the funda-
mental law of a state government, the
people of Kansas are to be denied the
right to choose for themselves. Moth
ing but the question Of slavery, and tina
most meanly unfair, was submitted to the
people by the Lecompton Constitution
Yet President Buchanan and his sup
porterS signify their intention to impose
this Lecompton swindle upon the PEG
|, pie of Kansas. Is this what the editor
of the Times, means by securing tho
5 people 1.-The right to choose for them
selves the character of their institu
tions?"
5 All the unhappy difficulties which
e have existed in Kansas, in respect
to the character of its domestic institu
tons, are justly chargeable to the re-
peal of the Missouri Compromise
: Every sane man knows, that the troubles
respecting the slavery question in tina
, Territory, would never have had an eX
lstence, had the compromise remained
unrepcaled; Kansas would have beer
just as secure to freedom by the force
: of that instrument, as were Illinois anC
: Wisconsin by virtue of the Ordinance
of 1897. Q. T. Q.
, IMPORTANT FAcT.-A significant fac
] was stated i'll the house Of represents,
o tives by Mr.. Hatch, of New York-tha
i the inland commerce of the northwes
=, tern lakes and rivers surpassed the for
eign imports and exports OF the Unitet
y States.-JdaeScl2e Gazette.
One other fact ought to be stated il
! this connection, that while tens of mil
lions are annually expended by the Gen
S eral Government for the protection o