New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-03-26
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s,.y.tv n ,es emit Of the majority Of the Con nit
tee 90 territories to call tie psepsshfon tosy ma
the Senate al &C, ior The admission Oh 'oe e"o'e
Kansas. .u..
The sues,on - not that OF lie ad0ssog OF ksnsas
an act OF ADMISSION Plies o: the least TIE
Of the patty 10 be sdatted. The prop stion peo.e
the Senate whatever may be the name ard stye sven
blythe majority ~ the Committee oD Ierr"fes "
bill is 70 question Of tee Gd.ssao OF hsHsss' H. 20
the mcrtt1ous proposition 70 impose upon me peope
Of the Territory OF ksr ass constitution sna to'" VI
government. knosn TO De ooho1.t Is 70 veIy 80
majority Of tbs, people, accompanied oy eteIy ie
:oI or the part of ,he Federal Ainins ston oil as
posi.n 20 compel the submission Of the people o. zee
State by the power of the Federal government, 10
cal sucn attempted coercion an admission OF the oS,e
Of Kansas is to deide the sovereignty Oh 'ne people
Of the State. repeat this no question Oh Tue M
mission Of State Il is of series oil sets IN tne
scbem conceived 10y the nulers who have ootilned
thorough control OF the organisation OF the Demo,
cratic party, TO change the Constitution Oh .he
States by the judicial construction and decisions OF the
Federal Courts and 10 subvert cur nee form OF GOV
eminent. Whether settled plan and combination
EXIT TO provoke disturb ances with view 20 dssoiu-
ton Of the Union, time will fsDy DISCLOSE mere
should be nofear of the full development of any such
scheme, no matter by whom the idea may be enter
tanned, and DO matter who may be concerned IN u.
The American citizen who would esr u has iitte OF
the nj which animated the men who fought Lhe oss
ties Of the Revolution, and established tie independ-
ence, the Liberties and the union Of our common
country.
The wild schemes Of men long accustomed to WELD
the power Of disciplined party organ EATON sre not
alvsys guided by reason. To inquire into the deepe
rate conces Of mad ambition, and TO direct the public
attention to them, is 10 disspa,e them. The Hartford
Convention, held under the auspices OF the Federal
party suspected Of entertaining the idea o. ds-
soy the Union IN certain contingencies. This sus
picion whether well or i'll TO lnded excited the esl.
ousy OF all the freL de Of this country. 1t eIsperated
the prtudices and hostility OF the kerubicens OF tnst
day, and completed the full weight Of accusation
against the Federal party, already loaded with the
law, the sedition act the stamp act, the midn't
Judges ard tine standing army The power OF that
once proud ar patriotic party which, at an early day,
had borne the heat aud burden Of the political contest
that adopted the Constitution and established the
union of the States, gave way and vas destroyed
forever The word &" Federal" as the name OF
party became so odous in the popular ear that no
party, for great many years. has claimed or wonid
accept it. The Nashville Convention, held under
the auspices of the Democratic party az more re-
cent day, faunted its procamaons and purposes Oh
dissolution of the Union but the Nashville CoIven-
| tiCn was believed to be a humbug. l remember 10
have heard distinguished citizen Of Tennessee at
the tin e. speak of that body. He said that but very
few the citizens Of Tennessee had anything 10 DO
with IL it's members were mostly from defiance, and
strangers in that State; and, said he, the Con.
| "veIton should do any act by which the people OF
Tennessee should come to believe 1t menacsd tne
safety of the Union, it would become SO weak that
cts members couli be driven out OF the City OF Nash
Vile by the women of that town with no other
- weapons than their brooInstcks Ihls ConVen'
| tlOn. although neIO only yooAo ob"t noS iooo
| loogment in the memory Of the country tnan the
Hartford Convention, which was held more than forty
Years ago. All remember the abortive treason OF
BUR-; ard the movements for nullihcstlon IN South
Carolina, in 1882 dssipsed by the pen Of Gen. Jack
son. whose proclamation at the time invoked demon.
stration Of votion the Union from the people OF
| every one of the United States.
Recollections of the Conventions at Hartford and
Nashville remind Us that the idee Of dssolvng the
Union has been imputed to some and entertained by
others in this country. have never believed that
the people of any State of the Union favored it; al
though it has become too common to talk OF 1t in the
Halls of Congress- and to pass resolutions on that SUBJ
ject in party conventions and State legislatures.
For the purpose Of extending Slavery into Kansas
gre At wrong has been committed against the principles
of republican government and against the rights Of
the people of that Territory. Let the Federal Govern
ment rctrace its steps, restore the Administration to
the principles and practices of Washington and Jee
SON. abandon the Lecompton Constitution; Withdraw
the troops from Kansas permit the people to make
Constitution for Themselves admit the State into the
Union as every other State has been admitted, in the
constitutional manner in which her people desire TO
com and the wrong which has been DONE great as 1t
s may he forgiven. The country would be at peace
and in rejoicing the return Of the Government to
reason, might forget the past:
| Persist in accomplishing the object for which so
much has been ventured by the present Administers
ton and the which last preceded t-attempt to
| force the Lecompton Constitution upon the peo
pie OF Kansas by the authority Of an act OF Congress
| and the power of the Federal Army-and you will
have ubordinaton resistance bloodshed civil war
| The people Of Kansas will never consent to have
Slavery established among them; they will never
accept Il LecCmpton Constitution; they have already
rejected it, In such an issue of blood between the
Federal Army the people of kansas. the Govern
melt will be wrong and the people Of Kansas will be
tors of the col iict They will not. The people of
Kansas the countrymen and the kindred OF the
people of the States. Your law opening the Territory
for settlement invited them to 60 there Let the Fed,
kndle fire which the Federal Government and It's
army cannot extiDguish.
Who, Mr.. President, is responsible for the long
seres of wrongs out of which these troubles come
And who can be held accountable to the country for
pernicous acts occurring during so large space OF
time, performed in so many places. and participated
in by so many and various persons for two successive
| Administrative of the Government!
Plan, system, design moving and directing the
action of all the varied agencies to common end and
object, plainly visible, from the act repeating
the Missouri Compromise to the bill before u.s. winch
proposes to impose the Slave Constitution of the
Lecompton Convention upon the people OF Kansas.
The act of the Congress that repealed the Missouri
Compromise; the course of President Pierce, stmu.
lated 10 be candidate for denomination, and persuaded
to rely upon the authors Of TINS scheme i9r MS sue
cess the institution Of the Blue lodges in the State of
Missouri; the resignation foce by the President 0fthe
Senate who stragh from the Capitol in Washing
organize in those lodges on the borders OF MIS-
souri, the armed invasion of Kansas; the march from
that State nine hundred armed men, not resi-
dents of Kansas organized in companies and detach-
mens TO the places for holding the elections IN that
Territory; their seizure of the polls on the day of the
election, and their appointment Of Legislators for
Kapsas by force and usurpation the recognition Of
that usurpation as the Government of Kansas by the
Administation Of General Pierce; the odous and op
pressive laws they enacted; the indictments for
treason in the Federal Court Of theTerritory,
which were never tried; the total prostra-
ton of tie rights of franchise 10 elections; the
heated removal of Governors who refu red or failed
TO sustain the proceedings Of the usurpers; the de-
eision Of the Supreme Court of the United States
in the case of bred Scott; the Lecompton Convention