Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1858-04-14

are tn be bound by such Peter Funk
operation as that! Do you suppose men
are to be entrapped and depried Of
their liberties in this way? The only
/ difference in the result, whether they
voted Tor the Constitution with Slavery
or without it, was whether they would
allow the future Importation of slaves in
to the Stale, or whether those now there
should be kept in Slavery, with their
posterity, forever. Il was to be slave
State, and in the language of the Pres
ident, as much a slave State as Georgia
or South Corolina, whether the people
voted that they would have the Consli
tuition with Slavery, or whether they
said they would have it without Slavery.
Is noIthal a fine aspect to hold up to the
American people. TO suppose they are to
BE- gulled by such a thing as that?
Then they provided, iu the schedule,
that the vote should be returned to one
John Calhoun, the President of The Con-
vention. Ideny, as legal proposition,
that Calhoun could politically live one
moment after the Convention had expir-
ed. All the incidents die with the prin-
cipal. He was defunct, and it was not
in the power Of the Convention to keep
him on foot in his official form one hour
after that.
But, passing by that point, we see the
shrewd irg 'nuity with which it was done
This Calhoun was empowered, as dicia
tor there, to fix all the election districts,
to appoint the judges, his own mere
creatures and instruments, to make the
returns, and they were TO make them to
him, and, as it is construed now, to
make them either This year or next year,
Just as he pleased. They said the re-
turns should be made to him in eight
days after the election, but he need
never exhibit them at all; and lie has
proclaimed in this city. TO the honorable
Senator from Illinois, who has stated 1t
on this floor, that unless this Conslitu-
tion be adopted; he, in his sovereign
majesty, never will make known what
was done!
Mr.. President, is ii not an open, down
right insult, offered to the American
Senate, to seud this fugitive from JUS
tice, armed with this tremendous power
of turning a constitutional majority one
way or the other, just as he sees fit?-
Will the liberty-loving people of the
United States submit to this kind of
authority and dic'ation? Who is this
John c, Colhoun?
A SENATOR. He drops the &C."
MIR. WADE. | am glad be does so,
for the honor of his predecessor. Who
is he? We know nothing about him
The only history of him we have, is,
that he has been Indignantly driven out
by that people, as a violItor of their
laws, as man so infamous that they
you'd not suffer him TO live there at all,
and he fled 10 the place where every
thing that is anti republican and tyranui-
cal seems to hy-he has sought city
OF refu5 here, where everything too vile /!
to live al home seems TO find a place,
Here we are waiting on John Calhoun
for light as 10 who shall govern the
Territory of Kansas. "The State"
Well, the State of Kansas, when it gets
to be a State. l know tie President
calls it State now, and did it a great
while ago. Was ever anything done
Ike it on this continent before? When
before was man armed with authority
to take the votes of the people of State,
bury theSl up in a candle box, if you
please, or carry them in his pocket, and
he refusing to exhibit the truth 10 the
Senate of the Uoited States, to the
House of Representatives, or to any in
ierested to know anything about i'll
Dictator John Calhoun is to say who
shall rule Kansas. A gentlemen here
said the other day, "Colton is King"
He was mistaken Sir, It's John Cal
hOun who is King
But do not wish to pursue This sub
ect any further. | am sick of it. The
Senator from South Carolina
Mr.. HAMMoN said he bad seen enough
% satisfy him that these frauds were
and shameful, and be did not
Ssnt to investigate them. 1t is sieken.
ng; it is loathing to the American mind
o contemplate these nefarious frauds
hat are llouted in our faces; ana we
lave no means 10 redress them. Sir, we
hoald scout them from US, with indig |
lation; and hope for the honor of the
American name, that all these proceed
ngs, SO fraught with most palpable and
Indeniable fraud, will receive the stern
of This hOdv ,
THE CONCLUSION. {
Many gentlemen who are attempting /
0 Justify the admission OF this Territory I
nto the Union under the Lecompton
say that other States have
een admitted without the enabling act
ir, all that is said on this subject L vii
ot say mere sophistry, but it ought TO c
eceive nobody. Perhaps more than 4
alf the new States have come into the
Inion without any enabling act. l do
OF think that such act is al all essential. p
Iere are people all homogeneous, all
aying no matter of contention between
lem; they could get together, and, n
ithout any dissent. frame Conslitu h
on, and ask us to admit them under it. Il
he evidence must be such, always has {
cen such, in every instance, that there :,
as been no reason TO doubt that the "
onstiluIion had the appreciation of the
hole people, or Of vast majority.- T
Eby do you requirer popular vote on y
lat point? Because when there is dis 4
ute, it is the only means OF ascertaining :,
here the majority is; but il there is no =
ispute, you can have that evidence in j
mother way. and it is just as Legitimate. Il
That has that to do as q precedent with b
case where civil war even is raging in n
,gsrd 10 the Constitution that is pre-
,n,ed; where strife, contention, and IL
rms, are invoked to settle the contro ol