The Washington union., 1858-02-04

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people by requiring majority of two-thirJs the ees
lature to before they will allow the majority 20
call for amendment But the climax o anti-repahlican
ism is the provision that mo alteration shall be made %
AFFECT the rights Of property in the ownership Of slaves
a doctrine that would tumble into rretresale ruin the
federal constitution and the constitution of half the States
In the Union including that OF the gentleman Own
State for there IL not of these which does not con
tain stringent and dlatory limitations ~ are oand IN
this Kansas constitution. The argument hy which he
supports this view is that the democracy ~ taught m
Ohio believes in tho rspssabty Of everything by the
popular voice. Do the democracy Of Ohio ccaslde,
the clauses Of the constitution securing a those great
rghtssuch freedom Of spssch freedom o the press
liberty of conscience, inviolaby Of property
able by the populsr will Do the democracy If Ohio be
eve In the repeaAbity Of that clause gusaying tha
right of State equality OF representation in the sen
ate Of the United States This may be democracy Ia
Ohio but hope II IL democracy confined 70 Ohio
alone t.may he epnblicanism, but II rs NOT TAG const
tutional republicAnsm of America IL IN the red repub
licanism Of France The very tenure by which the gen
teman exercises the privilege o uttng these objections
against the Kansas constitution is an oath to support
constitution liable to them all constitution imposing
the heaviest restrictions the power Of amendment
constitution whose frames intended IT, not as an nstru
Of power but instrument Of protection against
power.
It would be well for these gentlemen 10 consider when
and by whom this particular mode Of adopting consti
tuition which they insst Is the only true mode, was first
established 1t not by the fathers OF this republic
the of 1776. The federal conSttutl0n WAS not sub
mitted for adoption to direct vote Of the people nor
the constitutions Of the old thirteen The 6rst ia
stance in modern times far my researches So, was
the constitution Of lS99 which subntted TO The peo
pie of France and accepted BY vote of thres ifon TO
fifteen hundred This In acre.1ance with the teach
ngs Of Roussespv the doctrine Of unlimited inviibe,
undeegated power of the people doctrine almost iden
teal in terms to that upon which the opp0ston to the
admission of Kansas rests What the RESULT The
sovereignty the people established and recognized
the King beheadcd, the nobility were banished the
religion abolished property oonsted and France con
vcted into moral and political volcano from the
fct Of whose scorsnt elements the demon Of cen
alizaon and military despotsm the rod ofwhose power
smoe down all the valuable rights Of the people and the
cherished interests Of humanity 1t was during the pro
gress Of this fnacal and bloody drama that one Of ITS
most conspicuous and sangunary actors appalled, by the
magnitude Of the power which lie had invoked exclaim
ed Do not see the project OF appeal TO the people
tends but 10 destroy the representative body It sport
ing with the sovereign majesty Of the people to return TO
il work which 1t charges you to terminate promptly
The next constitution submitted to the people was the
consular constitution of 1802only three years later
making Napoleon Bonapartc consul for life and confsr
ring him the power Of naming his successor and the
Senate; in other Words dcspotsm. 1t was submitted
the Of the people Of France and accepted BY
56s 1886, against 1914 And from that time the unliN
tied sovereignty Of the people has been the potent nsru
ent by which the Napoleons have fastened upon France
despotsm grinding and delasing than that Of the
Autocra of Russia The fathers Of republic proceed
ell principles totally opposite Adopting o. funds
mental dogma that all political power springs from the
people, they insisted and incorporated into their organic
law that this power should not be unlimited and abso
lutte They accordingly established our grand system OF
representative government, with its checks, balances
guarantees and organic lawsthe noblcst political ns
tuition that adorns the pages Of the history Of civilization
and which experience has shown to e tho only means OF
securing md dusng among the people that broad civil
liberty which constitutes the distinguishing features Of
the American and British governments say British
government for the statesmen Of 1776 founded our in
sttutios not upon Utopan theories but upon those great
fundamental principles Of the common a inherited from
the % ancestors which guaranteed to Fglsh ffeemen
popeT oa personal security personal liberty and private
forms, as i,violable hrep& p&aianr yretfefieh
earth.
The convention in Kansas having declared in their
fundamental law that the right Of property In slaves al
ready existing shall not be ntereed with has only given
constitutional sanction to principle as old ~ the oun
tons of free government And SIR Congress il bound
by the most solemn obligation that honor can impose TO
Init her with this very clause in her constitution Sir
We Of the South demand the redemption OF your pledge
The issue Is boldly rendered and we are ready to 80 before
the great Areopagus Of the American people upon It. And
when the enemies Of Kansas shall attempt to justify their
opposition to her by invoking principle which has del
ued Europe in blood only to sink her into more degraded
dcspotsm will justify her admission upon the princi-
pies which lie at the foundation Of republic We will
c upon the people to stand true to the traditions Of
ancestors and the practice Of the government when Wash
ington was President and the men Of the revolution min
istered at the affairs Of liberty
One word on the bill introduced into this House by
member from Massachusetts, Orr Banks calling another
convention In Kansas for the purpose OF framing second
be submitted to the people for acceptance
or rejection Mr. Chairman Congress has no moro right
to call convention Of the people of Kansas than y has
the right to call such convention in New York By the
of Congress- and the action Of her people the entire
relation of Kansas this government has been changed
1t longer Territory Of these United States She
has, by your authority and permission thrown on the
habiments Of territorial dependence and stands now
State clothed with all the attributes and powers Of State
and asks admission equal in this noble confederation
of sovercignes You may reject her application II you
will but it will be your peril TO remand her to
her territorial condition you cannot any more than you
roll back to their hidden the waters of the
Mississippi Kansas II separate organized living State
with all the and arteries Of life in full development
and vigorous activity Between your laws and her people
she can nteposc tho broad and radiant shield of State
sovereignty and may laugh TO your enabling acts
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