Staunton vindicator and general advertiser. (Staunton, Augusta County, Va.) 1858-1860, 1858-02-27
The Senate Committees Report on the
IccgmptCn Consultation.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 18-The report made
to-day by Mr. Green, Ono. from tire ma
iori:y of the Senate Committee on Terrific
ries rectes at length the events which have
occurred in Kansas. 1t asserts frat a ma
jority Of the people may simply, as in an
Gent days, in mass meeting, make Con
stitution, or they may eject representatives
to make one for their, OF elect representa-
tiycs to draft one to be submitted to Them
for approval or rejection The last mention
ed was most approved during tine last few
years, though formerly the second method
was very generally resorted to. The call
of the Convention in this case, was coaccd-
ed to have been strictly legal also the elecs
ton Of delega9es. Was it not logical to in
fer that Convention legally called, legal
ly elected, clothed with authority to make a
Constitutions no more be interfcred
with by Governor, Judge or Legislature,
either to increase or diminish IFS power CT
alter, modify or nullify its acts, than the
people could be interfered with, had they
assembled en- masse, instead Ct By repre-
sentatives? En- concENsion. the Committee
SAYS: 1.-The abolitionists in Kansas had thus
far sought power by methods Unknown to
law, and by violence, and rot through the
peaceful agency of the ballot-box. gla7iss-
ing to have majority Of voters in the Ter
ritory and therefore able to elect Legisla-
ture and Convention, they yet ask Congress
70 wrongfully do for them what they may at
legal times and in legal places, do for then,-
selves That is, to change or abolish their
Constitutions and in case Congress refuse
70 comply with their Constitutional demands,
tn threaten to afflict the colsatry with an
attenrt to blondshed and revolution, unless
Congress will do for them what they assert
they are anxious not to do for themselves
Lat which they wilfully refuse to do-theJ
Threaten to plunge the country into a civil
war. This conduct is SO exceedingly I'M
reasonable, as to force convictien rpon the
mind that they are conscious of being
l.ewyrless minority. and only expect to be
se to compass their understandable ends
~ departing from tie general Nay CT lscastte
AMI quiet IF yoaf Committee are not
greatly mistaken, these reckless men mis-
Judge the American people. and will be pe-
qglired to seek peaceful methods for lie re-
dress of all their grievances, whether they
be real or imaginary
The bill reported by the Committee rccifos
Fiat the people of Kansas have framed for
themselves a Constitution ard government
republican in form, and the Convention held
at Iecompton has. in their names and in
their behalf. asked Congress to admit her
as State into tile EIl.io.s; therefore it is de-
clared that Kansas be admitted into the
t,nion on an equal footing with the original
States in all respects whatever. The bill
also prescribes tire bs,-sndaries. ontaias the
usual regulations relative to grants Of pah-
Ec lands, as IN tic case Of Minnesota. and
gives Kansas for the present one represcn
fatve in the House of Representatives,.
We omit synopsis Of the minority report
for want of space. !