Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1858-03-18

the Territorial Legislature, as there is no ac
tual power in the Territorial Legislature evel
to calla convention, but what is derived from
usage and permission, and by an enablin!
act sometimes from Congress.
If the Senator from Illinois, whom l re
gard as the Ajax lebanon of this debate
does not press the question of frauds, | shal
have little or nothing to say about that
The whole history of Kansas is disgusting
one, from the beginningto the end. l have
avoided reading it as much as I could. Hac
l been Senator before, I should have fell
it my. duty, perhaps, to have done so; bu
not expecting to be one, am ignorant, for
tunately, in great measure, of detail and
I was glad to hear the acknowledgment Of
the Senator from Illinois, since it excuses
me from the duty of examining it.
I hear, on the other side of the Chamber
great deal said about gigantic and stupen
dous frauds and the Senator from New
York, yesterday, in portraying the character
of his party and the opposite one, laid the
whole of those frauds upon the pro-slavery
party. To listen to him, you would have
supposed that the regiments of emigrapts
recruited in the purlieus of the great cities
of the North, and sent out, armedand equip
ped with Sharpe's rifles, and bowie knives
and rcvolvers, to conquer for freedom in
Kansas, stood by, meek saints, innocent as
doves, and humble as lambs brought up to
the sacrifice. Think of them: General
Lanes lambs They remind one of Col.
Kinks lambs, to whom they have family
resemblance. I presume that there were
frauds; and that if there were frauds, they
were equally great on all sides; and that
any investigation into them on this floor, OF
by commission, would end in nothing but
inficting almost unendurable disgrace on
the United States.
But, sir, the true object of the discussion
on the other side of the Chamber, is to agi-
tate the question of slavery have very
great doubts whether the leaders on the
other side of the House really wish to de-
feat this BILL 1 think they would consider
it a vastly greater victory to crush out the
Democratic party at the North, and destroy
the leaders of the Kansas. Nebraska bill ;
and am not sure that they have not brought
about this imbroglio for the very purpose
How strange is it that theytell us that, year
after year, the majority in Kansas is beaten
at the polls? They have always had ma
iority, but they always get beaten! How
could that be? 1t does seem, from the most
reliable sources of information, that they
have majority, and have had majority
for some time. Why has not this majority
come forward and taken possession of the
government, and make free State constitu'
ton, and brought it here? We should all
have voted for its admission cheerfully.-
There can be but one reason: if they had
brought, as was generally supposed at the
time the Kansas Nebraska act was passed
would be the case, free State constitution
here, there would have been no difficulty
among the Northern Democrats; they would
have been sustained by their people. The
statement made BY some of them, as under
stood, that that act was good free State
act, would have been verified, and the North
ern Democratic party would have been sus'
tanned; butt coming here slave State, it
is said, will kill that party, and That is the
reason they have refrained from going to the
polls; that is the reason they have refrained d
from making it free State when they had
the power. They intended to make 1t
free State as soon as they have effected that
purpose of destroying the Democratic party
at the North, and their true reason here is
10 agitato slavery. For one, | am not dis
posed to discuss that question here In any
abstract form. I think the time has gone
by for that. Our minds are all made up
| am willing to discuss it-and that is the
way it should be and must be discussed-as
a practical thing, as thing that is, and is tc
be; and 70 discuss its effect upon our politl'
cal institutions, and to ascertain how long
those political institutions will hold together
under its effects.
The Senator from New York entered very
fairly into this field yesterday. I was sur
prised, the other day, when ho SO openly
said tho baltic had been fought and won.-
Although knew, and had long known it tc
be true, | was surprised to hear him say So
l thought that he had been cntrapped into &
hasty expression by the sharp rcbukcs of the
Senator from New Hampshire; and l an
glad to see that yesterday he has come ou
and shown that it is maturcd project Of his
that these words mean all that | thought
they meant; that they mean that the South
is a conquered province, and that the NORTH
intends to rule it. He said that it was theil
intention to take this Government from un
Just and unfaithful hands, and place it il
just and faithful hands; that it was thcil
intention to Can3ocrato all the Territories O.
the Union to free labor; and that, to effcc
their purposes, they intend to reconstruct the
Supreme Court.
Yesterday, the Senator said, "SuppOse W.
admit Kansas with the Lceompten constitu
tion: what guarantees are there that Congress
will not again interfere vitn the affairs o.
, l--aasas g. meaning, I suppose, that if she
abolished slavery, what guarantee there wa;
that Congress would not force it upon hel
again. Sir, so far as we of the South are
concerned, you have, at least, the guarantee