New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-01-29

alterations with carrier sno 1sS
Kaasas- Nebraska bill or any act wnoa o, h.nds
49, -, .Ss, can nss. deriaEds this o. our names
TIE cdmrnou and copceded NIGHTS q h,en i.q.. ~,
because you have DO right. ga Snrstitntion mon
Sces'ny "sss;nst their will And tbs - preciseY
-, ar 7 compton conspratoe ask you 70 eo;
IN a.. shole proceeding was sdehpeieiYe a"u ''oou
tbo ~ S,,ss an obnoxious Constitution upon an IN,
scnee aOd resisting people; and you are nov asked
40 eopsunInate the wrCps A. - 81 . ,.or.,
minority, and coming up here sskng WIN SlT
~ our aporoyal BY the Federal Executive; not on the
81. md u justic, but upon the plea OF ranqln'y:
That same old plea Sir, that made the COMPROMISE "a
400 A, broke il in 1854; TINT has already Dauon@+
;yId slavery and localized Freedom; changed oy con-
Traction the organic law Of the Federal Upion rom
free Constitution into an instrument ny "hicn enS M
.itutions peculiar TO the southern portion o ne I'm
fede,ncy are carried into all the Territories OF ne
Union heretofore hereafter acquired 90 tnaI tne
music of the Guon with which We are required 70
Keep step the clsnking Of chains ana the fatng OF
csfies. o,.:-., .ho. ,,o p;ax,o
Adr ;n,stra,on came into POWER upon the statute OF
yenose. There had been great hnahty IN 1871 Inc
slavery question bad been definitely settled. There
was 10 be no more agitation upon that subject, IN or
ont ~ Congress We were TO have good time gen.
srsI,y. andI msy add, indefinitely. Well, Sir, that
Administration had scarcely entered upon the respon-
ghiIites of the Government and had time 10 reafrm
it, doctrines and pledges of repose before these
Union-sav and cause, neces-
sfy or invitationreopened the Slavery controversy
both in and out Of Congress, by striking down the
Missouri settlement TO the end that Slavery might be
extended over the Territories from which for con-
alteration ana by the solemn s,ipuatons OF both sec
tons Of the Conederacy il had been forever excluded
That acso unjust and unfair TO the free people and
free aborers of the North-neyer had and never can
have but one solution its design was TO make Kansas
Slave State. 50 we believed and 20 we charged.
The argement of popular sovereignty, put forth with
al the zeal and pretense OF new revelation, Wss ouI
n tub thrown 70 the whales mere devise; deiuslOn
and snare in order to alGy the public excitement and
prepare the country for the next aggressive step IN he
progress and contamination OF the wrong. so we Also
belle we'd, and 30 likewise charged Less than ioer
wears have sed and those predictions have become
history and those charges arc more than verhed In
the past history and present attitude OF Kansas sub
nit TO the House and the country, we have all the ele
ments of entire demonstration.
bold ard reckless minority OF her people, intent
ON purpose 10 be accomplished only by cheat, have
framed Constitution to suit themselves, and IN known
and shameless defiance alike OF THEFT own pledges and
the public will. How have they done all TINS! I'm
der the protection of the Federal army, commissioned
and sent there to enforce the will of the minority.
Msjorites, in free land like ours, can enforce their
own will. II is only the necesaltieF OF minortles
which require the aid OF dragons. That minority,
affecting TO represent the people of Kansas, are now
here with their Slave Constitution, asking admission
into the Onion as an equal State. That Constitution
from the Territory under the ofhe Federal bay
onets, aud now appears here naked and unindorsed
not only but with the dust and odor Of the grave upon
it, to which it had been committed by the votes OF
more than ten thousand freemen. Shall we breathe
into il the breath OF life Shall attempt to give it
force and vitality return it, corpse as 1t came for
final burial in the soil it was created to enslavel
Well, Mr.. Chairman, the President tells Us that the
Kansas Nebraska act did not require the whole Con-
st tuition to be submittedonly that part which re-
hates to the domestic institution Of Slavery; that
the Kansas Nebraska act IL satisfied by such sub
mission Who made that act the standard by which
To measure the rights of American freemeni The
right of our people to selEgovernment decide Tor
themselves the Institutions under which they are 10
iiyss derived from higher sources than the Kansas
Nebraska bl--their own intrinsic manhood; right
not conferred but vlndicated and guaranteed by tbe
constitutional structure and maxms OF the Repubhc.
an free to confess do not know what the Kansas
Nebraska act does require IL has received So many
different and successive interpretations from ITS
friends in order to meet the new sXigences OF the
Democratic party and the Slavery question: 1t Is DIM
cult to say what is its present. or what is to be its
Gnal construction At the time OF its imposing advent,
II was Claimed, at least BY the National Democracy
North that under H. the people Ofthe Territory might
exclude Slavery while in the Territorial condition
BY MS Interpretation in the Cmelnnau platform ths
people might exclude it when they came to forms
State Constitution. BY the Presidents Message It Is
understood to mean-snd this Is the ast
that the people may exclude IL ai.el uey pecone
State. So far, then We have three interpretations
l. The people may exclude Slavery while in the
Territorial condition. -, =,
=. The people may not exclude II while IN the
Territorial condition, but may when they come TO form
Constitution, preparatory to their admission into the
Union. -, -.
3. That the people may not exclude it before their
admission into the Union, but may in short time al
forward provided they can. an A
(" this extent no more. This is the great doctrine OF
popular sovereignty; the new revelation; the stump
u speech in the belly of the bil what the eloquent
gentleman from Mississippi called the second Dcca-
!: ration Of Independence" Are the Democrats from
The Free States, are the Democrats from the Slave
States, satisfied with this "lame and impotent con-
clusion :"
But again, Sir, the President says that the question
Of Slavery has been fairly and explicitly reierredto
"the people, whether they will have Constitution
'with or without Slavery" The inhnnty OF this
statement is radical one-its entire want OF iounda-
ton in fact. affirm, Sir, that no such question was
submitted or intended 10 be submitted at all by the
Iecompton Convention. No matter which form OF
ballot the people voted, whether 1.-THE Constitution
with Slavery or the Constitution with no Slavery
they had slave Constitution STILL and could not have
anything else or different Did these IecOmpton des-
pots suppose that the rest OF mankind were fools aud
could not detect the iaud bold and patent The very
face Of their record No. Sir, they knew it was q
cheat-they confessed it was cheat. They intended
10 do lust what they did; and expected II would be
known aud read of all men IL the last desperate
throw Of the dice and they meant to frame Consttu
ton 20 odious in ITSELF and coutiVe such agencies and
modes of submission "a necessarily ~ exclude every
man not in the conspiracy whether republican or
Democrat, from the polls and rely upon the Admins
tfation aud its majority in Congress ~ see Them
through. Did they count without their most we
shall see. can assure gentlemen OF one thing; II the
expectations OF the Lecomptotes are realized IN TINS
regard the Democratic party, 30 called, Will become
geographically what il is III fact, mere sectional
party.
The members of the Convention who Were opposed
70 the sham proceeding, and in favor Of sending the
Constitution franea directly 10 Congress, without
committing N any form TO the ordeal OF the public
judgment dd not hesitate To denounce the scheme OF