Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1858-02-25
IET1W FOTIty F.VsS.
Where are wa Drifting Z?

Yesterdays intelligence that the Commit
tee Of Investigation raised in the National
House Of Representatives on the motion Of Mr.
HARRIS, of Illinois, had decided by majority
vote-tbat majority created by Mr.. Speaker
ORR, in direct violation OF usage, as we'll as Of
parliamentary law-to restrict examination in
to the Kansas frauds, adds another load to
the mountain of injustice which has accumu-
lated since it has been decided to deprive the
the people of Kansas of their rights. The
same despatch from from Washington an
nounces the rsmoral Of tteo distinguished Dtn.-
ocrats from office, no doubt aro7ced|g because
they oppose the inRlction Of the Lcc0mpton Cam
st'tmtiOn upon The people Of Kansas. These
are Mr.. PRICE, postmaster at Chicago, H., and
Mr. MILLER, postmaster at Columbus, Ohio.
1t is apparent, therefore, first, that the vote
of the House of Representatives in favor of
full and thorough exposure of the frauds Of the
minority in Kansas, is to be disregarled and
defeated and second, that every Democrat
who differs from this scandalous injustice, or
from The platform Of the ensmies Of The Union
IN The Lecompt0R C0nstitnti0n-we mean the
pro-slavery leaders of the extreme South-is
TO be read out of the Democratic party.
The annals of politics will be ransacked in
vain for a parallel to these extraordinary pro
ceedngs. We begin to doubt whether, in
deed, this is land Of liberty and of law. :
That which was the administration policy in
Jnne and July has become the Administra-
tion's detestation in February The Demo
Gratis who endorsed and strengthened that
policy, in the belief and with the knowledge
that they were acting in harmony with the
President of their choice, are elected from
Office, because they adhere to this position :;
and their fate is he'll! up to others rs a solemn
warning. The long catalogue of unlenied
frauds in Kansas the Infamous manner in
which portion of the Constitution was sub
mitted the refusal to regard bg.i lection
against that instrument the effort to deprive
the people Of their own officers and the Legis-
lature duly elected the repeated protests of
the Conventions, Legislatures, and representa-
tives OF the people against the Lccompton
Constitution the testimony Of four Governors
sent out by the General Government all tend
ing to provo the same facts,-all these acts,
not to speak Of the outrages of the pro slavery
party before the Convention began its sttingS,
have excited deep, resistless. and almost uni
versal resentment in the free States
This feeling has penetrated to the remOtest
regions 1t has become tue master sentiment
of the Democratic party. And the response
10 it, from Washington, is the refusal of a com
mittee of the House to carry ont the nStruc-
tions 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 sympathize with
she popular sentiment against these wrongs
and frauds.
The pastimc of reading men out the Demo
cratic party is dangerous one II is sugges-
tive of fierce and fatal retaliation. Let us
consider it practically and frankly
General IACKsoN'S name and example are
invoked in support of this determination A
more unfortunate authority cou'd be suggest
ed at the present moment General Jackson
was not only in favor of fair play, but he had
way OF his own in other matters The nui!i-
ferS Of the South understood him. He made
short work of their threats, aud by his bold
and indomitable will taught them not ONLY his
own strength, but also the strength and lura-
bility of the Union they attempted to over
throw. We are very sure that General JACK
SON issued his instructions to Governor Walk
ER, to give the people OF Kansas the uuquaIi-
ned right at all hazards, and over all obsta-
cles, OF voting upon their own Constitution, he
would have stood to that pledge against all
the Vaccinations and threats of the South
Their Legislatures, and their KErrrs, ard
their MAsoNs, would have Numbered in vain
lie would have stood by bis faith, like true
soldier by his flag, holding his life cheap if lie
could sacrifice it for such principle
And with all re pect for JANIS BUCHANAN,
We do not hesitate TO say, that if he had main
tanned the stand he took in his Instructions to
Governor WALKER and in all his intercourse
with that gentleman mp to November, 1851
the doctrine asserted broadly asserted by the
washington Un'0n as the Administration 3