The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1858-11-10
SENATOR HAMMOND AND THE NEBRAsKA-KAN-
vs. 49, SAS ACT.

SENA1OR HAMMOND AND NEDnAohA-
sAS ACT
We publish to-day an address recently delivered
by Senator Hammond at Barnwell Courthouse, South
Carolina We publish it as one Of the most striking
and suggestive speeches that have met eyes for
some time on federal politics. 1t is remarkable as
entirely free from that tone of alarm which has
discredited the efforts Of South Carolina speakers
and writer's for a long time, and unusually con-
servative, hopeful bold, and candid expression of
sentiment for that State While its views of our fed
era relations are taken from extreme stand point
they in their general spirit national and conserv-
alive; and although the sentiments announced by
the orator are individual and exclusive rather than
conventional and there is much in the speech for
the national patriot TO dissent from, there is vast
deal also that he will cordially assent to. The gen
era effect upon the reader of the perusl of such
speech cannot fail to be wholesome and conserva-
tive, and we accordingly spread it out in our col
umns without comment, except upon couple Of de-
tached passages, which quote:
When four years ago the Kansas and Nebraska act
was passed. giving governments TO those Territories,
WAS like most Of you, private citizen was earnestly
engaged in renovating old lands and creating new out OF
hitherto mpeneabe. and had as little desire
or expectation of again taking part in public affairs
as the ambitious of any of here present made
up my mind then that this bill faught with trouble
and euson to the SOUTH and SO expressed myself ON all
suitable occasions.
Through the most disgusting well tragic scenes
of force and fraud the Territory of Kansas at last came
before Congress for admission as a State =
Governor Hammond does not state the grounds
on which he thought at the time of the passage of
the Kansas Nebraska bill, that it fraught with
deluaion and trouble to the South; but we infer
from the tone of his speech that these grounds
alluded to in his mention of the "tragic scenes of
force and fraud' which enacted in Kansas in
the efforts of parties there to inaugurate State gov
eminent. ... ..s
No one can look back upon the scenes which were
enacted in that Territory without shudder of hor-
ror, and few be at loss for the true cause to
which they are due but do not think it follows,
that because Kansas was organized under the Kan
SASH Nebraska act, that measure contained the seeds
Of dscord which forth in such harvess of dis
traction and turmoil as have afflicted that Territory
for SO long time ".
These troubles were due to the excited state of the
public mind the slavery question: to the efforts of
the abotionists Of the North to bring about
Of violence in Kansas which might indamo the north
ern mind to such degree as to concentrate the north
ern vote on sectional candidate in 1860, and to
grave omissions III the Nepraskahansas act ITSELF
which experience ana trlai nave most glarngly ex-
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