The Kansas herald of freedom., 1858-06-12
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, JUNE II, 1858.

cence of God. Just limit the RESPONSE
bility of the Creator to the first conse-
kpeences of each cause, and let all latter
consequences go over 10 the arch tiend OF
evil to defend or answer for. This expla-
nation of the honorable Senator, although
it seems Qerfectly clear to me, yet was not
quite satisfactory until had cast around
to see how effectual it was in composing
other perplexed minds. Sir, the tirst
member of Congress, who, in the House OF
Representatives brok ground against any
Kansas bill that should not submit the.
Lecompton Constitution to the people, is
an honorable gentleman OF Ohio, repre-
senting, / think, the Capital district of
that great State. He defended his posi-
tion and mine in language so strong, with
a tone SO bold, and with logic so tri-
umphant, that l cheerfully contributed
something from my own means to give a
wide circulation to his impassioned and
conclusive address. 1t has thus been scat
tered with my own agency broadcast over
the land. Certainly he is a man who
could not be made satisfied of the equal
truth of two conflicting propositions by
any inconclusive argument. think it
due to him that in this poor way should
aid him in giving to the world his explana-
ton of the harmonies of this new bill,
which has his full support.
"Mr. Cox said he was first in the House
to oppose the Leeompton Constitution, yet
he had come to the conclusion to sustain
the report. Proper considerations had
actuated him throughout. Though the
| Constitution was not to be submitted, the
report provided for obtaining the sense of
the people on it.''
There Mr.. President, is an explanation
as is an explanation; an explanation most
satisfactory-most triumphant. A process
has been provided for obtaining the sense
of the people of Kansas on a question
which is not submitted to them. Sir,
| there is no State but Ohio that could have
provided the logician who could solve
this hard problem with the singular felic-
ity thus displayed. Well, Mr.. President,
being little inquisitive, l have looked
farther to find out, if could, the nature
and form of this process by which the
sense of the people in regard to the Le-
compton Constitution is obtained, without
submitting the question to them. | have
found out the secret. | can't describe it
otherwise than by an illustration or ex-
ample. Isuppose that in Know Moth
irgor Masonic Lodgeitis proposed by some
that certain candidate shall be admitted.
All are unwilling to give offence by rejet-
ing, and yet majority are unwilling to
accept him. They have in those societies,
as understand, balls of two colors, white
balls and black balls, which they use as
tokens in casting votes. Now, the society
ingeniously resolves, that whereas there
is difference of taste among its mem
bers, some preferring to use black balls
and others to use white, therefore they
will ignore altogether the question of ad-
mitting or rejecting the candidate, but
will take vote to settle the dispute about
the balls. The members shall severally
deposit white ball or black one in the
urn, Just which he pleases. If there are
more white balls than black, the white
balls have the preference, and the candi'
date nominated shall come in; but if more
black balls than white ones shall be de-
posted, then ait shall be deemed and
taken" that the Lodge prefer black balls
to white; and not only this, but it shall
also {" be further deemed and taken" that
the candidate was very unworthy per-
son, and he shall thereupon never be
admitted at all, or at least until he shall
have grown ten years older. Laughter.
i Mr.. President, to use equivocation IL
legislation is an act of immortality deserv-
Ing of severe censure. What reverence
i what respect, what submission, what ODE
dience, can you expect from the citizens
if Legislatures resort to such reprehensi
BILE practices in making the laws? There
are very bad consequences of this immora
i transaction lying in the future, if they bt
not prevented by the vigilance and reso
luton of the people. The measure il
that case will draw after it, not merely the
admission of one or more slave States into
this Union, to increase already our too
serious embarrassmentS resulting from an
tagonisms between the States, but all the
grave consequences which must result
from the establishment of belt of slave
States in the center of the continent, from
our Northern to our Southern border
directly across our great highway from
the Atlantic to the Pacific. You have
only by this, or by any other means, direc
or indirect, to fix slavery there, and you
will have raised wall of separation
between the Eastern and Western, the
, Atlantic and the Pacific portion of the
empire, more insurmountable than tht
ridges of the Rocky Mountains, or tht
snow-clad SUBMITS of the further range
that projects its shadow far abroad upor
the waves of the Pacific.
Sir it amuses me much when / heal
patriotic and sagacious men predicting the
, removal of this Capital from the falls oi
the Potomac to the junction of the Ale
gheny and Monongahela, or sometimes
with longer forecast, to Cincinnati, the
Queen City of Ohio, or farther on to st
Louis, and SO settling and fixing the cente
of power in the valley of the Mississippi
Sir, if you will only confne this institu
ton of Slavery within its present ample
boundaries, giving it no further room
, nor verge, the Capital of this country
may remain where it is, but the cente
of the Union will fall nearer the valley
of Mexico than the valley of the Miss
, issippi. Then that Federal authority vii
! grasp the equator on the one side, and th'
north pole on the other. But no sucl
, promise, no such hope, awaits the Re
! public, if you separate the free Atlantic
States from the free States of the Pacifi
coast.
, Sir, while this bill ignores the actua
dispute out of which it originated, it sup
!, presses with double care the great con
trolling political fact whichlies everywher,
Just beneath the surface of the whole de
! bate. If Kansas comes into the UnioI
under the Lecompton Constitution, sh,
will come in as slave State. IL sht
comes under any other Constitution, it i
, hoped by those who advocate Freedom
that she will come as a free State. ""hi
: bill gives 20 Kansas the choice of being ;
/ slave State, and only that choice. Yot
; have already induced the Supreme Cour