Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1858-04-28

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equally Sufficient " justify her admission under The
he other . poio. nsae ~ the so,sets.n it0ui
North Carolina Is that the Lecompton constitution
Ks not the will Of the people Of Kansas In order
say upon this point it is necessary that should
fer, as briefly may be, to the legislation Of Con-
gress in reference to slavery and to the events which
have tTanspired in Kansas. On the application OF
Missouri one Of the States Of the Union, she vas re.
fused admission account Of the slavery feature of
her constitution In vain did southern men, and the
conservative portion of northern men, urge that
Congress had right to reject State for any other
reason save that her constitution anti republican.
bitter contest arose. which excited serious appre-
tensions on account Of the safety of the Union. At
length the proposition contained in the eighth
ton of the act of March 6, 1920 by which slavery
was be excluded from all the territory of the Uni
ted States north of the line of Sc deg 80 mn., was
offered, and in an evil hour, accepted by the South
This was to be a compact, bond of peace! and yet,
in the very next year after its adoption, it set
at defiance by the North. Again and again, suisse
quently, when the South applied for admission Of
slave States this sacred compact as it has been
called, and for which my colleague has SO much ven
Grafton, utterly repudiated by that section
which had forced it upon the South as measure of
peace and harmony. At length after the conclusion
ofthe with Mexico, by which We acquired extern
sive territory, some of which south of the Mis-
souri, restriction line, in utter violation of that
promise, and in total disregard of every principle
of justice, an effort was made to exclude from
just and equal participation in the fruits of that
glorious war by the application of the Wmot pro.
viso. thereby intending to exclude us from all that
vast territory, acquired, as it had been, by COM
mon expenditure Of blood and treasure, of which
and do the North no injustice when say 1.-THE
South contributed her full share.
At this crisis the South agreed to run the Missouri
line through to the Pacific, and thus forever settle
the dispute: this offer was persistently rejected by
the very men who have since proclaimed that com.
promise q sacred compact, binding Is the Constitu.
ton itself! Denied even this small concession to
our just demands nothing left the South but to
fall back upon her constitutional rights anG to insist
upon equal privileges in all the Territories. After
struggle which shook this Republic to its deep foun-
dations the question disposed Of far as Utah
and New Mexico were concerned, by the legislation
of 1885, l shall not stop here to inquire into the
wisdom of the compromise measures of that year.
l may say, however pdssQnt, that according to
my honest opinion, the South Jared in this as she
had done in every other compromise to which she
has given her assent Peace, or rather truce was
undertook to organize the Territories of Kansas and
Nebraska, in 1854. In the mean time both the DO
litical parties then struggling for power adopted in
their platforms the principle Of non Intervention
serted in the legislation Of 1850. In order fairly to
carry that principle in organizing the Territories
Of Kansas and Nebraska it became necessary to re.
peal the Missouri restriction, which excluded slave
property from those Territories The time had now
come when the soundness Of the two parties, and
their fidelity to the principles asserted in 1850 and
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tested. The result proved that the northern wing
of the Wing party, which in the days of its great
leaders, Clay and Webster, had always given evil
dcnce Of the possession of conservative prin-
cples utterly unsound, and it soon fell into that
grave to which it was SO justly consigned. The
Wings repealed the Missouri restriction, and firmly
established the principle of non Intervention.
The Territory of Kansas was thus opened up for
settlement by southern as well As northern men, and
the Black Republican party, which had crawled
forth from the ruins of the Wing party, like huge
serpent from among the fallen columns Of some mag
nfcent temple, soon found that if left to herself
and emigration permitted to flow through its natural
channels, Kansas would become slaveholding State.
An emgrant aid society, with capital Of $5,O0O,-
900, chartered by the Legislature Of Massachu-
sets, whose obect was the settlement Of Kansas
with free-soi population, to wrest that fine Terri
tory from the South, and thereby prevent another
slave State from being admitted into the Union.
Maddened by the pious eloquence of such fanatics
as Parker and Beecher and in6amcd by the vehe.
ment defamation of the Black Republican leaders,
thousands Of kansasshriekers, armed with rifles
and revolvers, rushed into the Territory.
The laws passed by the Territorial LEGISLATURE
were repudiated the regularly constituted author
tiles set at defiance; and spurious government set
up by these traitors, who placed themselves in a
state of open rebellion. Sir, is this picture
drawn? Will my colleague deny that the Free.Soil
party in Kansas whose violated rights he SO feeling
ly depores, in state of rebellion against the
government established by Congress2 We have
the official evidence of Governor Walker to sustain
the declaration. -
In his proclamation to the people of Kansas after
making most earnest appeals, he says: -
"a rebellion inquous, and necessarily involving
such awful has never before dsgaced
age or country.
"Permt to call your attention. as still claiming to be
citizens of the United States the results of rvou
tonary proceedings You are ina"gurang rebellion and
of the territorial government and defyng their authority
you are eonsprng overthrow the Of the
into effect in the mode designated by yo by putting
laws orcby into execution would involve you in the guilt
He further says ..
tabis government for the city of Lawrence in direct de-
ance Of the territorial and DENYING its exist
the duty of taking oath to support this scacd
State constitutions thus distinctly supersedng far in
your the territorial created by the Con
! gress of the United States" :
Governor Walker in his letter to the Secretary
of State Of July 20, 1857, says:
"There is imminent danger unless the territorial govern
ment is sustained by large body of the troops of thu
United States, that, for all practical purposes it will b.
overthrown or reduced to condition Of absolute imbe
cilty. constrained. therefore, to inform you that
with view to sustain the authority Of the United States
have Immediately stationed at Fort Leavenworth leas
two thousand regular troops, and that General Harne
should be retained IN command
If this evidence is not complete, will add tha
which my colleague cannot gainsay In his issu
of the 10th. February, 1858, the editor of the Ra
leigh Roadster saws: -