Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1858-01-28

ger amendment of the Kansas N Nebraska
bill had already enacted that all laws pro-
teciing end establishing it prior TO 1920
should be repealed Why repeat o dis
elimination against slavery in this schedule
Of spbnission2 This was ground enough
to make pro-slayery partisaps rejectit. In
fact, and Of right, IL the Constitution had
not been submitted al all, in whole or in
part, to the people, it would have been more
impartial and more just 10 the STAKEHOLDER
than as it was submitted. If there be any
mistaken ane misguided and misguiding par.
ties in the South, who would be guilty of
'arraying against the equal rights Of slave
property the irresistible aud indispufable
rights Of popular sovereignty, we would
have our property from the guardianship Of
such folly, and rely, as property and pro
lection must always most safely rely, rath-
er upon law and order, and the rule Of
justice and fair dealing TO 'ask nothing
but what is right, and 10 submit 10 nothing
which is wrong" On the ground Of poll
,cy, then, as well as de- juFc, the whole
Constitution ouehtnloihave been submitted
10 all the legal voters, without fear, favour,
fraud or force. So much. for the case de
jure. r. . n''' y ,'l'''''.- '''' "
Sd. The Convention saw fl to submit the
Constitutional the one voter alone and not
10 all three of the voters, and 1.-The Conven.
ton was Legitimate, 1t was legitimate de
facto Congress could not go behind the re-
turn; it cannot intervene, we IRE told, ex-
cept 10 see that law has authorized the oct,
and that the form is republican, sHs1. ~
The law authorized the act, and we
grant the form Of the Constitution itself to
be republican. We don't agree with Mr..
Senator Douglas that his own Kansas Ne
braska act was not an "enabling statute,
and we don't agree, either, with the Presi-
dent, Mr.. Buchanan, that slavery was the
only domestic Institution" to be submitted
as such to the people. The Kansas bill en-
abled the people to govern themselves; that
was its first essence and its chief excellence
and every municipal institution Of O State
Government is domestic institution. p
The President is a bachelor. and must
therefore be excused for not comprehendme
a domestic institution" as well as we who
have houses full Of children. He had better
reasons for his recommendation than he as.
signed. He was bound to look to the fact
that this was the work Of legitimate Con-
vention, and that the work itself was il
form republican, and that these were sub
ljects, for Kansas alone to judge of. Blu
whether Kansas had been allowed to iudg,
whether her people had been allowed t,
choose, to adopt or reject the Constitution
Of government proposed to them whether
they had been allowed 10 govern themselves
was another fact which had also 10 be look
ed TO de fdcto, whether the schedule wa
} republican? De fdcto, whether there wer
not other domestic institutions besides slave
: ry which ought 10 have been submitted t
the sovereign legal voters? ST.
! II is the very gladness and glory of oil
State Governments, when organized, tina
they guard and govern the hearlhstones AM
: homes of The United States The State Gov
ernments are the mum, qualities of sovereign
!; ty which embraces especially the individual
F., persons, the families, the households, til
g affairs, and the homes Of our people. 1t i
E; that which makes State rights, State laws
' State organization, State action, so precious
n because SO domestic, in our confederaey.-
: The Federal Government embraces rattle
!, national and foreign subjects of jurisdiction
r and, therefore, it ought TO leave all domesti
questions to the States and the people,
: What then2 Why, then, if the schedule {
J! submission was anti-repubican, if it wa
$ partial. if it did not acknowledge and allo,
:, the sovereign right of the people to judg
4 for themselves on the question Of highe,
: dignity, the organic law OF their governmel
E and Disseminated unequslly between tn
: subjects ofproperty, the Congress of tn
: United States ought not to reject the legiti
I mate and republican Constitution, but ougl
o TO adopt it, subject 10 fair and legal vol
/. of the people OF Kansas, according 10 Ia,
d 10 be prescribed by their Territorial Legi,
S lature, and to admit the State under the Cor
), stitution whenever the Territory shall pr
!; claim its approval and adoption by the pc,
! pie. Iithey adopt it, 10 admit her into Il
e Union ipso ! acto; and if they reject it,
9 leave the people of Kansas in their own wa
J. 10 organize another Convention, and 10 sui
e nit another Constitution TO Congress f,
S, approval. rt~ -' '
S This would be plain and easy solution
and would take all the asses over the .bridl
G Of shrieks.' And for any difference of opiI
u ion as 10 the mere mode Of submitting {
IS solving this question, protest that no tru
:, honest, earnest Democrat shall be prescribe
e No Northerner ought TO denounee the Pre-
j. ident for recognizing the fact of the legit
e macy OF the Lecompton Convention, and !
=; Southerner ought 10 denounce Senator Dou
at las for coutending manfully for the right
: the sovereign people to adopt or reject the
pit own form of self-goyernment. There is !
l. conflict, in truth, between the two prime
Piles de jure and de tactor-they, combine
10 rule the case, and rule it rightly. 1t m,
m be very desirable to have Kansas admittt
re as State as early as practicable, but not
=; ing will be gained by admitting her into Il
IN Union in mode offensive to majority
IS her voters. Wisdom should teach minc
L ity to insist upon nothing but what is su
ct tanned by perfect fairness and justice.
Or majority can take care of itself and a minC
u, ity should be the last to resort to eth
ID fraud or force. Nothing less than Il
I'd h;ohaxt tome of nnralifv ran nrotsnt