The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1858-10-01
COZ BIGLER on TIE OPPOSITION,
E1raa from hs Speech Of Los Wm. Bii0. Of PeaaslDa-
MAJ &ai0oed al Clarion Sept Ia, 1858.


rrfaa from ne Spesch q A2s nm byf1. 81 re"H'ytoa-
MAJ da'oered AZ CLARION. Sspf 'M, 1895.
Let us trace il for a moment Ia the first place they
discarded and drove into obscurty every man who voted
10 aopt the Missouri line ON the qrouad that il favored
slavery and sine, 1854 they have attempted the same
thing ON every man that voted TO abolish that line
They said it was adopted to extend slayeryand they
said il was repealed 10 extend slavery In s4s they yo
ted in both branches of Congress against adoptine and ex
tending IL MS final settlement Of the slavery onetion m
the Territories and In 1854 when the s,perse
ded that line entirely by the principles of popular soyer
eighty they called ID srilepe Then thew met the nile
CATION OF its want Of constitutional authority by saving
that the question should be decided By the Supreme
Court And now when decided by that tribunal they
say the decision is wrong and are attempting 10 throw
the question back into Congress again In their last
national or Fremont platform they claimed for Congress
the right TO control the slavery question In Kansas now
they make it matter of complaint that some Of the in
habtants have not enjoyed that right In 1854 they
denounced the democratic party for adopting the princ
pies of the Kansas law now they have the erontey 10
assa us worse if possible than ever for not carving
these principles out On the question Of bringing Kansas
in as State they have been no less inconsistent They
attempted 10 force her into the Union on the
of mass meeting held at Topeks in 1855 proceeding
without the authority OF law and Ina utter defiance of All
law and then afterwards talked gryey about the nfor
mates aud want of legal authority in the Lecompton
convention They defended Jim Lane ia his atempt to
impose fraudulent memorial upon the United States SEN
this subject and in his outrages In Kansas and
then talked seriously about the tricks and frauds and inn
constitution did not represent the will of more than two
or three thousand Of the people of Kansas and vet they
had attempted to create her State on the Topeka cons
tuition which did not represent half so many From the
beginning 10 the end OF the struggle in Kansas they
boosted OF the overwhelming majority Of their party and
constantly told the country the great wrongs nct
ed upon them In other words that one democrat could
Cypress five republicans They banished free peo-
pie of color from the territory and tolerated slavery for
time by the Topeka convention and afterwards abused
the Lecomptontes for following their example. They
talked vehemently against slavery but never acted against
it. In june 1851 they were invited to make Kansas
free or slave State under laws which Gov Walker and
the President and Mr. Douglas had each Just
and proper but they would not act Some would not
VOTE because they could not recognize the bogus laws
Others because the registry act had not been fairly adj
minstered They put ticket in the field conseq uent
y the pro-slayery men were elected to the convention
But in September following there was another election
about slavery but for delegate to Congress and for
the local oicers-and that too under the same laws
that provided for the convention Then what did these
haters of slavery dor Were the bogus laws still in the
way By no means They rushed to the polls and
elected Parot to Congress- and secured all the offices and
all the emouments What next /? On the 2lst of De-
cember following the question was presented for their
decision, whether Kansas should be free slave State