The Shasta courier., 1858-03-13
The Kansas Resolutions.


IN thel3d inst, the following joint resolu-
tions were offered in the Assembly by Mr.. STRAIT
ton:
Whereds, The people of the Territory of Kan
sas did, on the 7th day of Dec, 1851, by a con-
vention assembled for that purpose form them
selves Constitution and State Government
which Constitution and Government so formed
is republican; and ,rhereas the said Constitu-
tion has been submitted to the Congress of the
United States with the view of the admission of
Kansas into the Union as an independent State !;
therefore,
Resolued, By the Senate and Assembly of the
State of California, that Cur Senators be in
structed, and our Representatives requested, to
vote for the immediate admission of the Terri
tory of Kansas into the Union, on an equal foot
ing with the original States in all respects
whatever.
Resotued, That the Governor be- and he is
hereby requested to transmit copies Of these
resolutions to onr Senators and Representatives
in Congress.
Mr.. Ballou offered the following as a substi-
tute:
WAeeas, The members of this Legislature
are utterly opposed to sacrificing principle for
the sake of expediency; and aohereas the sub
| mission of the slavery clause alone of the Kan
| sas Lecompton Constitution to the people there
of, is gross violation of the principles of the
original Kansas Nebraska Act, which recogni-
yes the doctrine of popular sovereignty in its
broadest sense. Therefore,
| Resoived, By the Senate and Assembly of the
State of California, that our Senators in Con-
gress be, and they are hereby, instructed and
our Representatives requested, to vote agains,
the admission of Kansas into the Union under
the Lecompton Constitution, or any Consttu-
| ton whatever, until the same shall have been
| fairly submitted as an entirety to the qualified
electors of Kansas, and received a majority OF
all the votes cast thereon
These resolutions were referred to a commit
tee of all the Democratic members of the As
senibiy, which committee met in the Assembly
Chamber in the evening-that is, forty of the
sixty-hpe Democratic members so met-and
adopted the resolutions of Mr.. Stratton by the
: foiiowing vote:
AYEs-Messrs. Anderson, Aud, Crane, Curtis
Davis, Edwards, Ely, Galbraith, Gordon, Gra-
ham, Groom, Haldeman, Harris, Havens, Hill OF
Sierra, Holman, Kabler, King, Loofbourrow
Marshall, Mitchell, Safford Sheridan, Simons
Spilman, Stratton, Street, Thomas, Upton, Tut
| tie, Ward, Young Mr.. Speaker-33.
NoEs-Messrs. Ballou, Caldwell, Hill of Ne
vada, Kitchens, Mccoy, Moses, Sherwn, Wilson
is.
On the day following, the 4th they passed the
Assembly by the following vote:
AYEs-Anderson, Aud, Buel, Buel, Crane
Curtis, Davis, Edwards, Ely, Galhraith, Cor
Edon, Graham, Groom, Haldeman, Hamlin, Han
cock, Harris, Havens, Heath, Aill of Sierra,
Holman, Kabler, King, Lee, Lewis, Loofbour-
row, Markley, Marshall, Mccoy, Minis, Mitchell
Ormsby, Parker, Pearls, Pico, Stafford, Sheridan
Simons, Smith of San Bernardn Spillman
Stakes, Stratton, Thomas, Upton, Tuttle, Walk
er, Ward. Warfeld, Young, Mr.. Speaker-49
| NoEs-Ballou, Banks, Burbank, Caldwell
Cherry, Gray, Hill of Nevada, Kitchens, Hobart
Holiday, Moore, Moses, O'Brien, Palmer, Shep-
ard, Sherwin, Stout, Wilson'S.
| Mr.. Street not being present when the vote
was taken, was permitted to have his name en-
tered upon the records in the affirmative.
1t remarkable fact that not a single As
semblyman, of all those who voted that the
Lecompton Constitution is republican, ever read
that instrument