Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-01-14
The Ohio legislature and Kan
sas-ResOiWfiOn of InsIeuefk0n.

Il oS WIN
that the Intervention in the affairs o.
Kansas by the Ohio Legislature, thro.
the action of the Democratic members
of that body, is in all its aspects to be
much regretted. It had been the be.
setting sin of Gov. Chase and his late
BlackRepublican Legislature, TONED
die with matters with which they had
nothing to do, and this same improper
and impertinent interference has re-
ceived the censure, aye, the malediction
of the entire Democratic party and pres
ses. of the State. The people of Ohio
became tired and disguised with the
abolition fanatics who neglected the
business of the State, to shrek and leg
fislate for Kansas, and determined by
an exercise of their popular sovereign
ty,p to put an end to such unpopular
and intolerable p 'actices. AS a sup
posed certain means of efecting their
object, they elected a majority of DEM
octats to the Legislature. And o
the result. These men SO elected go to
Columbus, and before their seats know
them, and before doing or attempting to
do anything for the benefit Of their con-
born, after several nights of agonizing
travail, of a Democratic caucus-pro-
%neuncing their opinions and issuing
their orders in respect to the party and
congressional management of Kansas
affairs!
We understand that the members
who endorse the Kansas policy of Mr..
Buchanan, were against any expression
whatever by the Legislature upon the
subject, but that they permitted a eau
Gus majority not only to overrule them
upon this point, but even to usurp their
votes in Legislative session in behalf of
a resolution instructing our Senators,
and requesting our representatives in
Congress not to vote for the admission
Of Kansas under the Lecompton Con-
sti%tution, unless the whole of that in
strument should be submitted to, and
approved by the people Of that terrific,
ry. For this impolitic and easy COM
plaisance their reward was to be an en-
dorsement-to be taken at a discount,
in view Of the other rcsoiutions-of our
Democratic President.
There is a singular and striking in
C consistency between the means and the
used to secure in the Legis-
what could not be obtained in
unanimous Democratic
vote for the resolution of instruction.
We are correctly informed, it was
threatened that if that resolution was
swallowed, Mr.. Buchanan should in
way, whole way or half way, be en-
dorsed. If this was really the fact, and
WeAhaEe -nosreasone to-deubtity~lot-the4
know who were the engineers
the movement. Between this threat
means-and the declaration and
lssertion-the argument in all forms
md shapes-that Mr.. Buchanan and
MS cabinet were not committed to the
of Kansas under the lie
constitution, the put and out
administration men, with an astonish-
.ng timidity, agreed that the resolution,
without debate, or a sign of dissent to
Tho ono u-bicb tho OtborS ora morn buSEc |
and blinds, should go to the people and
be trumpted in Congress as the %unani-
nous expression of the Democratic mem
bers of the Ohio Legislature. Qucry:-I
the admission of Kansas under the
constitution, is not the poll
ey of the administration, why threaten
that Mr.. Buchanan should receive no
endorsement? |
The Ohio Legislature has no right to
upon Kansas or any other out
side question. That body does not pro-
pose to submit its Kansas legislation to
the people. 1t arrogates and usurps to
that which belongs only to the
or to those representing the peo-
pie in the various branches of the gen
eral government. The Democratic
members of that body seem determined
to act as inconsistcntly as possible, a
part Of them requiring the others to
directly against their own opinions
md wishes. They are full of excuses
FOR the free state men of Kansas, who
would not avail themselves of a fair OPP
portunity to vote against slavery, be-
they were opposed to the Lecomp-
on constitution, but they have no bowc..~
or their own fellow members that they
force under the caucus yoke.
If the Democratic members of the
Legislature, in tn If capacity as citizens,
hose to pass resolutions defining their
Individual positions upon the Kansas
question, there could be no objection,
lnless to their policy. There is, and