Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1858-04-01


laurels.
Adjourned.
WAsHISGroN, March %.
SENATE-The Senate was crowded a.
gain to-day. The preliminary business
was unimportant. Mr.. Green replied to
the Senator from Michigan, denying that
the friends of the Lecompton Constitution
have been driven from their position. The
Senator from Illinois implied the same
thing, but it is not so. The committees
report stands unchallenged-its every in
dividual charge is sustainded by official ev-
iience, and the only exception taken to the
report is by the senior Senator from Yer
mont, whs objects to the use of the harsh
capitalization of rebels.
Mr.. G. then made some desultory and
preliminary remarks in reply to the Sena-
tors from Michigan, Illinois and Vermont, land
then went into the main line Of the argument,
saying that the Kansas Government was
Government de tacfo, quite as much as in
thease Of California, even if you admit that
alleged frauds were committed. He drew
parallel between the cases of Kansas and
California, citing Mr.. Douglas opinion, on
the latter in support Of his own views on
the former. He then said, that the state
ment that nineteen counties were disfran-
chised in Kansas was meant TO deceive
Those counties were wilderness, without
inhabitants. He defended the legality of
the early steps in the formation of the Le-
compton Convention, and denied the asser-
tiop Of the gentleman from Vermont, (Mr.
FOster) that there were broken pledges on
the part of Waller and the President.-
Everybody knows that Walker was in ia
vor Of submitting TO the people. He advo-
Gated it, but had no power to pledge it,
The Senator from Illinois says, the only rea-
son they did not submit the whole Con,titu-
tion, was, 1t was said that If would be vot-
ed down. Who said SOP No one except
the Senators from Illinois and Michigan
The great question is, does the Constitution
embody the will of the people, and wheth-
er it is the legally expressed will? The
rules Of evidence are the same in equity and
law. We cannot take flying rumors and
the opinion, of Governors as evidence
That is fraught with danger that, if car
ried 10 its ultimatum, would bring bristling
bayonets and cannon pointed at the walls of
the Capitol to substitute the opinions of g
mob for the forms of laws. All the legal
forms having been complied with in COM
ple,ing the Lecompton Constitution it was
complete enactment, and the people had
no right 10 vote, whether or not it was q
Constitution. What would Senators say if
the Constitution of their own States, after
being in actual operation, was 10 be submit
ted TO the people to see whether it is Con-
stitution or not? The Senator from Ken
lucky said it could do no harm, and only
show abundant care 10 submit again and a.
gain to the people. Yes, try again. Col.
Fremont would have liked that principle to
try again. As to the cry of fraud, it re-
minded him of-but he would not apply the
maxim 10 the Sena,ors-that a lie we'll
stuck 10 and often repeated is as good as the
truth.
Mr.. G.. continued TO analyze The re-
peated frauds, admitting that frauds did ex-
ist, but none TO violate the Constitution
Further than this no legal evidence exists
TO show that this Lecoupton Constitution
does not embOdy the will of the people, and
if we go beyond the legal evidence we strike
at the very principle of liberty. He ad-
mitted that the Senators from Illinois, Mich
igan, California and Kentucky were not in
fluenced in their acts by the existence or
Of slavery, but they were as
sis'ing 10 build up party dangerous to the
Union, and whose fundamental principles.
just enunciated, is, no more slave States
Had it moi been for these, Kansas, many
weeks since, would have. cen a young sis
Ter in the federation & States. Among 9TH
cr things, he said that Black Republicanism
was crushing out true Democracy in its
course, and would never meet its barrier
I'LL it met the cannon Of the Sooth.
He concluded by expressing his ardent
aspirations for the consolidation and perma-
nency of the Democratic party. 1t Is Of no
Importance that Gen. Calhoun has given
certificates to the Free State party. The
principle involved is one vital to the South
and the North, for the interests Of both are
SO interviewer that they cannot be severed
vi hcut injury TO both.
Mr.. G. then referred 10 the statement Of
Mr.. Douglas that the Constitution can only
be changed before 1864 by the exercise Of