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miltee Of Investigation raised IN the Ma
tional House Of Representatives on th,
motion Of Mr.. Harris, Of Illinois, had de
cided by a majority yote--lbat majority
, created by Mr.. Speaker Orr, in direct yio
lalion Of usage, As well as parliamentary
law--to restrict examination into to Kan
sas frauds, adds another load 10 the noun
tain Of injustice which has accumulated
since It bss been decided to deprive the
people of Kansas Of Their rights. The
same dispatch from Washington aBnoun.
ces the removal oftapo disiiRgaished Dem
Ocrats from Office, no douJt apO,edly Be.
cause hey opposed The infiction 2fhs lie,
compton Constitution upon he people o,
Kansas. These are NJ. Price, postmss-
ter at Chicago. H., and Mr. Miller, post
master al Columbus, Ohio. It is apparent
therefore, first, that the vote Of the House
Of Representatives in favor Of a fall and
Thorough exposure Of the frauds Of the
minority 10 Kansas, is. to be diTegarded
and defeated /; and, second that every Dem
ocrat who differs from this scsndalous in-
Justice, or from the platform ofthe enemies
o'Ho Union on tie LscomptoH Coast'tH-
ton we mean the prO.slaverY leaders Of
the extreme South--is to be read out Of
tie Democratic party. ... ..
The annals Of politics will be ransscked
in vain for a parallel to these extraordinary
proceedings. We begin to doubt whether,
indeed, this is land Of liberty, aud OF
law. That which was the Administration
polisy in June aud July has become the
Administration detestation in February.
The Democrats who endorsed and strength
ened that policy in the belief and with the
knowledge that they were acting in har-
mony with the President Of their choice
are elected from office because they adhere
to this position; and their fate is held up
to Others as solemn warning. The long
catalogue of undenied frauds 10 Kansas;
the infamous manner in which a portion
Of the Constitution was submitted; the re
flsal to regard legal election against that
instrument; the effort to deprive the peo-
pie of their own officers and the Legisla-
ture duly elected; the repeated protests Of
the Conventions, Legislatures, and repre-
sentatives of the people against the Le-
compton Constitution the testimony Of
four Governors sent out by the General
Government, all tending TO prove the same
facts, - all these acts, not to speak of the
outrages of the pro. slavery party before the
Convention began its sittings, have excited
a deep, resistless, and almost universal re-
sentiment in the free States.
This feeling has penetrated TO the reno
test regions. 1t has become the master
sentiment of the Democratic party. And
the response to it, from Washington, is the
refusal of committee Of the House to car
ry out the instructions of the majority Of
that body demanding the investigation and
the exposure of the wrongs and frauds in
Kansas, and the removal from office Of all
who dare to sympatlize with the popular
sentiment against these wrongs and frauds.
Tile pastime Of reading men out ofthe
DCmoerdtic party is a dangerous one
1t is suggestive of fierce and fatal retalia-
tion. Let us consider it practically and
frankly.
GeEeral Jackson's name and example
are invoked in support of this detelmiDa.
tion. A more unfortunate authority could
not be suggested at the present moment
General Jackson was not on y in favor Of
fair play, but be had way Of his own in
other matters. The unllifeIs Of the South
understood him. He made short work of
their threats, and by bic bold and indom,
liable will taught them rot only his own
strength. but also the strength and durabiI
ity of the Union they attempted to over
throw. We are very sure that had Gen
ersI Jackson issued his instructions to Gov.
Walker, to give the people of Kansas the
unqualified right, at all hazards, and over
all obsticIes, Of voting upon their own
Constitution, be would have stood to that
pledge, against all the Vaccinations and
threats of the South. Their Legislatures
and their Eeitts, and their Maons, would
have thundered in vain. He would have
stood by lis faith, like a true soldier by his
flag, holding bis life cheap ifhe could sac
rifce it for such a principle.
And, with all respect for James Buchan.
an, we do not hesitate to say,that if he had
maintained the stand hetook in his instruc-
tions to Governor Walker, and in all his
intercourse with that gentleman up to No
vember, 1857-the doctrine broadly asser
ted by the Washington Union as the Ad
ministration's policy on this great issue
be would have united around him body
of friends as devoted and as disinterested
as those who SO long clung to his cause in
the darkest days of his career. He would
have consolidated all parties in the North
| in his favor. He would have recalled into
the Democratic ranks, as permanent Dem
ocratic States, Maine, New Hampshire,
Connecticut, New York. and Ohio-now,
we fear, hopelessly lost to the Federal Ad'
m;nistration by the effort to force them up
on a platform whose whole superstructure
is open and scaudaous fraud. The miser
able handful of discontents in the South
| (his foes at Cincinnati, and his foes now
on every part Of his policy that does not
|
square wi h their own Procrustean exac-
Itions) would have been lost in the upris-
ing of the people in the South in favor Of
the Union. He has, however, changed his
course, and now, to the sorrow f all true
patriots, the Democracy are also caIledup-
on to change theirs, on pain of ex 'cornmu.
nication; and the Southern secessionists
lkolllv come forth with their uitimatun-