The Kansas herald of freedom., 1858-01-02
they do not emanate FROM legitimate

source.
There is one other point in regard to
this Kansas matter to which desire to
allude. The President speaks of the sub
mission Of the slavery question to the
people of Kansas in the manner in which
it is submitted-but imperfectly at the
most-as fair carving out of the prin-
ciple of the Kansas Nebraska bill. That
bill has been held up before the country
as establishing the great principle of self
government as establishing the principle
for which our fathers fought to secure oul
independence-the principle of allowing
the people to regulate their own domestic
Institutions in their own way and what
does it amount to, according to Mr.. Bu-
chanan? 1t amounts simply to giving the
free white people of Kansas right to
determine the condition of few negroes
hereafter to be brought into the State
and nothing more. The condition ol
those now there cannot be touched. To
this has the great principle of self-govern-
ment now come, according to the recog-
nized exponent of the party which inaug-
urated the Kansas act The free people
of Kansas have no right, under the'Le-
compton constitution, to determine on
the organic law under which they shall
live. They have no right to determine
the institutions for the government OF
white men-not at all. They cannot de-
termine what sort of a legislature they shall
have, of how many members it shall con-
siSt, what the qualifications for member
ship shall be. They cannot pass on the
right of suffrage. They cannot determine
as to the creation of banks, other corpo-
rations, and thousand other things which
are put into the constitutions by the peo-
pie in all Our States, for the government
of free white men but they may deter
mine what shall be the condition of few
negroes, hereafter to be introduced and
that is the great principle of popular SOW
ereignty according to the message!
| shall have occasion at some future
time, to speak more at length in regard to
this document. Ny only object in rising
now was to meet the assumption, not
founded as / conceive in correct law, that
the convention which assembled under the
authority of the Territorial Legislature
was a legitimate convention. 1t was not
as good convention as the one which met
at Topeka, because that convention did
emanate from portion of the people at
least, whereas the Lecompton convention
emanated, as insist, from a set of usurp-
erS.
The elaborate speech of Senator Doug.
las On Wednesday commanded intense
attention, not only on account of the abil.
ity with which it was characterized, bu
also in consequence of the portions of hi
argument which arrayed him against the
Administration and placed him on til,
side of the Republicans, who have utter
ed the same sentiments, more or less, fire.
quently of late years in the Senate Cham
ber and which made good the wosds O.
Senator Seward in his brief speech the
day before, when declaring that Mr.
Douglas and himself now stood on the
same platform! and which caused a num-
Der of the Southern members to express
their regret that he had deserted the Ad-
ministration.
In the debate On Wednesday Senator
Bigler made revelation of the intention
of the advocates of the Teombs' bill which
is worthy of note. He alluded to the fact
that the omission in that bill of any pro-
vision for submission to the people of
the Constitution proposed to bs formed
under it was matter of design and con-
cert among the Democratic politicians
who conferred upon it. 1t is now said by
Mr.. Bigler, that the Jrap'ers Of the 76OnaJs'
bill intended that there should Je no submission
to tie people Of tie Constitution to be formed
u,ader it. Judge Douglas denied any
knowledge of such an understanding and
assailed the Kansas policy of the Admin
istration as a violation of the pledges of
the Kansas Nebraska bill.
w. I. NJ. Army presented to the Presi-
dent this week memorial of several hun
dred citizens of Kansas asking that the
Government lands be kept from public
sale for four years. He was answered by
the Secretary of the Interior to-day, who
said that the Shawnee Reserve would
be sold soon. Other lands in South Kan
sas will not be offered for twelve or eigh-
teen months.
Hon. J. S. Phelps, Marcus j. Parrott,
and W. F. N. Army have been at the Post
Office Department to arrange mail routes
in Missouri and Kansas. Advertisements
will be issued on the 1st of January by
the Postmaster General for mails On va
rious routes, amongst which are the fol-
lowing, which will be open for bids till
the 1st of April
From Lawrence, Kansas, via Prairie
City, Palmyra, ottowa Greek, Ohio City,
Hyatt, and Cofachique to Humbolt.
From Topeka via Brownsville to Coun-
eli Grove.
From Cole Camp to Butler in Missouri,
and from Butler in Missouri, by Moneka,
Hampden, Burlington, 0ttumwa, Califor-
MA, Florence and Emporia to Council
Grove. Proposals for two and also for
three trips per week are invited for each
of these routes.
From Kansas City, Mo-, via Wyandott,
Quindaro and Lawrence to Lecompton.
Bids invited for daily trips each way.
As soon as the routes are established,
and stages are running, it viii much IA
cilitate communication with the States,
and open the country between the State
of Missouri and the Neosho Valley.
MILTON.
nFItis said that some i 200 actual