Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1858-03-23

turning among those constituents of his who
not long since dealt SO summarily with little
nest Of Abolitionists in their midst Fer
our part, we do not and cannot believe their
calculations upon his aid we'll founded He
has not yet given vote from which any such |
conclusion can be drawn, and until he does so /
vote, We repeat, we must regard their expecta-
tons of him to be entirely unfounded L
SENATOR BRIGHr's SPEECH on THE KANSAS
speech of Senator Bright, on
Saturday last, on the Kansas question, was |
mastery and patriotic. Coming as it does |
from distinguished and leading Senator of the |
great Northwest, it must have great force in |
the persistent efforts Of Senator
Douglas Co. to break down the Democratic
Administration therein the Northwest No
statesman could take higher, holder, or truer
ground than was taken by Senator B. After
enlarging upon the general reasons for the
prompt admission of Territories into the Union,
he proceeded to dwell upon the distinctive fea-
lures of the case of Kansas. No objection was
made to her constitution as not being republi.
can in form. The only objection made was as
to the manner Of its making. He thought it as
clear an invasion of the principles of the Kan.
sas and Nebraska act for Congress to REFUSE
admission to Kansas because of the manner in
which her constitution was made, as for Con-
gress to interfere in the matter of Territorial
legislation
Senator Bright showed that all our constitu-
tions, State and Federal, were based upon the
representative idea that under both, MAORI
fiaS annlA only oG ham, alya f.lk hu 6rot
securing a representation. That if msjorites
failed to vote, and minorities, in discharge of q
loyal duty, secured q representation, it was
both legal and fair; and that, under both the
forms and substance of American ideas, no
amount Of numbers could be or ought to be po-
tential in legislation or the making of consti-
buttons, unless it first took care to have itself
represented. He also concusively showed that
the objection that the act of the representatives
was not the act of the people who had an OPP
portunity to vote, was Of recent origin; that it
never was even recognized in debate until it
was brought forward to subserve the purposes
Of anti-savery agitation; that the Constitution
of the United States, although adopted by dele
gates, stated upon its face that it was the act of
the people of the United States" and that
our fathers so clearly recognized this principle
that amendments to that instrument were re-
| quired to be sanctioned by Legislatures, and
not by a direct vote.
He also clearly showed the distinction be-
tween constitutions under royal and demo-
cratic government; that in one case they were
concessions to the people, and in the other mere
cOntrivances for separating the various branch
es of n State government. That inasmuch as
there was but one party to State constitution
it could be unmade or altered at the pleasure
| Of that people; that constitution at most was
but law or rule of action, and required no
higher exercise of sovereignty than the enact
ment of law, and that, as to the propriety of
the submission of a law to a direct vote of the
people, judicial decisions had already de-
cIared against it, and his own State, in her
constitution had expressly prohibited it.
He took the ground and enforced it with
singular eloquence and power, that the whole
principle of the submission of laws or cOnstitu-
tons to direct vote Of the people instead of
to their representatives, was not only subver.
sive of the great cardinal idea upon which our
government was based, but also was In itself
vicious and destructive to all proper legsla-
ton.
lie closed his effort with a noble eulogy upon
the Democratic party and the President. He
| said that whatever might have been his xews
upon these abstract questions, he should never
have allowed them to separate him from
party whose trumphs have been the history
and glory Of the country, or from an admins
tration which has so periodically stepped for
ward in prompt effort &c bring peace and re-
| pose to the country.
The intrepid Senator from Indiana ia en-.
titled to the thanks of every Democrat for the
earnest and able effort he has made against
| absquatulators and their cause.
CALIFORNIA SURVEYS The General Land
Office is in receipt of the following from the
Surveyor General of California Map of the
rancho San Pedro, finally confirmed to Manuel
Dominguez ct al, embracing a part Of town
ship south Of range ~, townships 3, 4 and S
south OF range IL, townships 3 and south of
range IA, and township south of range Is, all
west of the San Bernardino meridian. This
claim is bounded on the north by the ranches
| Sousal RedondO, Tsujita or Los Cueryos, and
Antonio; on the east by the river San Gabriel.
and on the south and west partly by the ran.
| cho Palos Verdss and partly by the Pacific.
and contains AZ, 1l9 1900 acres
ARMY INrELLIGENcE.-Capt.G Geo. w. Gull
lum has been relieved from the superlnte ndence
OF the works under the engineer department
at Charleston, S. c., and of the charge of Forts
Macon and Caswcll, S. c., to which duty Can't.
j. &. Foster has been assigned by order of the
Secretary of War. Capt CulIum takes charge
OF the works at New Bedford, Mass, and at
Fort Adams, r. I.
HE CLOSING SPERCH.-Thc Senate chamber
is thronged to-day, as yesterday, by an intel
lcctual audience, listening to MI Green sum
ming up in his great case with ability and eff.
fectiveness hardly ever excelled in that hall,
wherein the ablest forensic efforts known to
modern times have been uttered.
The WOLCoTr AND MIrrrsoN C,ero IT,