Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1858-01-28

act. Such being the terms Of the reSolu-
ton, Mr.. f. said that it contained an ap-
proval of the Presidents policy, and not
of that expressed by distinguished Sen
ator in opposition to that policy; and he
read an extract from private letter writ
ten to him by member Of the Democratic
Convention in corroboration Of the lam
guage and purport of the resolution as he
had explained it.
Mr.. Toombs, Of Georgia, thought the
whole explanation of Mr. Fitch entirely
out OF order. 1t was disagreeable to
him to listen to such details res
pecting party convention with whose
proceedings the Senate had no con
cern.
Mr. Douglas remarked that he should
not have claimed the courtesy Of the Sen
ate in the matter, if he had not been refer
red to by Mr. Fitch III connection with the
resolution. The verbal inaccuracy cited
had doubtless arisen in it's transmission
through the telegraph office, where such
mistakes were of daily occurrence. That
the resolution. however. in its corrected
form, could not be made sustain the c0u-
struction Put upon it by Mr.. Fitch was
capable, he thought, of au easy demonstra-
ton. An examination of its language
would show how impossible it was to re-
concile such an Interpretation with the for
mer clause Of the resolution, in which the
Democracy of Indiana declare that they
are in favor of the great doctrine of the
Kansas Nebraska bill, and that by a prac-
teal application of that doctrine the people
of State or Territory are vested with the
right of ratiGying or rejecting at the ballot
box any constitution that may be framed
for their government, and that hereafter no
Territory shall be admit y into the Union, -
DC.
Hence il would be seen that the Indiana
Democrats distinctly AMI unequiyocally
announce that according TO their under
standing the people Of Kansas by virtue of
the organic act, have "a vested right to
ratiiy Or reject at the ballot box any con-
stitution that may be framed for their gov
ernment and 70 suppose that they intended
to except Kansas from the benefit and
practical applicatio Of that doctrine
was to suppose that they meant to rcpudi-
ate, with respect to this Territory, the very
act which had Just been endorsed and ex-
pounded by them as guaranteeing to them
a 'vested right which would be ignored
by accepting the Lecompton Constitution.
And moreover, as the Constitution Of Kan
sas had not yet come before Congress, it
was apparent that in the use of the word
herca5ter, the constitution had expressly
designed to embrace the case of that Ter
ritory rs well as others that might arise in
the future.
Mr. Hale thought that, as personal and
political explanations seemed 10 be the
order of the day, he ought to be indulged
in fc;r remarks explanatory o. the pos;
ton occupied by the Democratic State
of New Hampshire, the members of which
had recently promulgsd, on behalf of the
party, and with reference to the Kansas
question, a resolution very similar in its
terms to that adopted by the Indiana Con
vention. He deemed it unkind to sean too
closely these resolves Of the Northern Dem
ocracy, who, it was to be remembered,
we're exceedingly hard pressed at home, in
somuch that they found it difficult to live
in any place less secure than a Custom
House or Post Office. Resolutions pass
ed by gentlemen in such critical sit
uation deserved, he thought, to be treated
very tcndcrly, when brought to the notice
of the Senate The Democracy Of New
Hampshire, for example. had been reduced
to even CRATER straits, if possible, than
their Indiana brethren. An election was
close at hand in the former State, and it
was apparent that something must lie done
to relieve the party from the pressure of
the o iious Lecompton Constitution on the
one hand and the Administration ap
proval OF that instrument on the other
The State Committee, therefore. in Il Sc
ries of resolutions, had endorsed the Kan
sas Nebraska act reaffirmcd the Cincinnati
platform, complimented Hir. Buchanan
and repudiated the Lecompton Constitu-
ton; in othere words, the New Hampshire
Democratic State Committee approve Mr.
Buchanan, but did not appovc his meas
ures. This, it seemed, was about the posi-
ton they occupied in the premises, and if
it appeared even less comfortable than
that of the Indiana Democracy, it was
probably because the former were re
drced to even greater cxtremities than the
former
The iacetious remarks ofthc Senator pro-
vol1ed much mcrrincnt on all sides of the
and in taking his scat, he thanked
the Senate for its courtesy in permitting
him to plead in behalf Of the Democracy
of New Hampshire, as Mr.. Fitch and Ar.
Douglas had done in behalf of the Dem
ocracy of Indiana.
The Senate adjourned at o'clock.