New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-03-13

commence vhep tvv force ksneas irssd9~n'iy mo
tbs Union
In Is4s the Ba-nburners or Free soIers Of New
York With Mosaic ticket for President and Vice
President and Sts.e officers, oes. the National De-
mccrscy, who supported Cas- and Butter neary
20 900 votes, BY the agitation betor the people OF IA
political heyesy, the lmot Proviso, meanly spphed
vss 10 tie three n.LoI BIZ 20 enable Z. 70 cary
the war with MEXICO. TIE Anti Slavery senii nent
ofthe North has become srehgi0us sentiment snd q now
particularly powerful, growing on. Of the do nneerpg
and aggressive spirit VI prtion CT the South oe
State Of NeS.lo ok was carried Of the Democrats is.t
FALL because reary 100 900 citizens who had the Fall
before voted he Repubh1 ;icke: remsneda a: home,
Induced 20 DO so BY the ssugursl Of Gov. Walker, by
tbe PresdeIts Instructions "a him, and ne teiegrapoc
dispatch T. my colleague Mr.. Sexlesl thst he would
not remove the Governor for thro wing on: the Oxford
and Niece i.suds, morally right but techticsily
wrong, ana 20 believe this the people OF haosas, un,
der this Adm nistrstion, woud have TAR pay, an
that the State would be admitted rs Free state I'M
der the auspices Of The President, in accordance with
the wishes of q large majority OF its people. In my
district alone, nearly 5000 Republicans did not vote
Now force Kansas IN az state under tns OBNOXIOUS
Lecompton Cor satu.on, and predict that the AGti-
Lecomp.on party will cary New-lo next Eau oy
over fifty thousand majority; that majority OF the
Representatives elected 20 Congress next ral VIII De
Anti-Lec0mpton; and thst Auti lecompton states
man will be the next President OF the United States
Stop agitation upon this subject by Presl'ental
edct, BY ,ffice-holders crying, Peace, be stu
Impossible When this can be done we snail not De
cratic party will be buried low in political iniatny
as 20 prevent lis resurrection by the united enorls i
the entire South. Stop that agitation winch oenaueS
that popular sovereignty shall reign 0mnlpoent III '
Republic! No. never Sir, 1t Is the chlld Oh nsn'i .
gaInbols on the htOp and in the valleys Throughout;
our beautiful country. 1t is that spirit when lVeu
where Tell dwelt; it had Hampden for votaryi
is wrested magma chdrta from King john gave tue
habeds corpus act TO Britain; and the Declaration oil
Independence to this country. 1t has ever been the
life OF the Democratic party Jefferson was an aiIa-
tor. Monroe al agltator, when ne announced 'he
doctrine of nOn.lnerference OF European powers ON
this continent "a sound doctrine. ana one thar nope
10 see this Administration enforce. Andrew Jackson
WAS an sgstor, and sgtated the United states Bank
out Of existence We agitated Texas into the Unlon
and by system Of hsrd agitation, fought Kansas
and popular sovereignty into favor with the people,
ard agtated M Buchanan upon it into the Preslden-
tal chair Opposition 20 agitation is the child OF dark
ness it begotten by despotisro and fostered oy
Kings and Emperors. IL has In France established
the censorship OF the press, and used "a keep gnt
from the oppressed people, and them in ignorance.
As Den ocrat, considering how much benefit agita-
ton has conferred upon the people OF this country IN
the adoption OF all the wholesome progressive mea-
sres OF the Democratic party, can never consent 70
oppose agitation, especially when believe justice Will
finally follow right. NO. Sir, glory in agitation, and
proud Of being agitetor against the Lecompton
Constitution.
pes not seek 10 control by patronage. honestly be-
Geve that but for patronage, fast becoming the bane
of the Republic, not ten Democratic members from
the Free States would be found supporting the Lee
compton Constitution as il has been presented 10 us.
For n,yself, not being one Of those who
"-c crook the pregnant hinges Of ne knee
Where thrift may follow ;swniEs'
/ SIN rrevocably against it.
The President in 1874, in his speech on Texas, not
only occupied the position of fayorng the submission
Of the Constitution to the people, but recently in his
message promulgated sound doctrines upon this sub
jet, which am disposed 10 irdorse and follow. he
says:
IAN were cordially gSsd upon the srss. doctrine Of popular
sovereignty which the vital principle OF our tree institutions
Had hen Se. from any GT. that aigsn SoI . be
the members convention thereafter be elected TO with
hold the question Of slavery from the people ana 70 @o S
CONSTITUENTS this would have instantly rejected Every
4Ts stie. ne"sns SsS sro..h
humber q th. iDh:sa, S..as: = e n form M
.n or i .s WITH .RS Il States
however he example .e. by the last cOnsress re-
the .Ppoy the people of the proposed state
be followed future oceson took It for granted tbs.
ample founded correct principles and hence in
to Governor Walker in favor OF submitting the Cons
tuition the people were expressed in general and unqualified
terms"
1t is true that Florida and Iowa were, Samese-twin
like admitted yoked together; but Florida was not
affected by the Missouri Compromise, and was $50
thermally adapted for slave labor. Arkansas and
Michigan were admitted after the same fashions but
Arkansss was also Slave territory, south of the Mis-
sour line Neither of these cases can fairly be quoted
as applicable and binding precedents. BY the passage
Of the Kansas act the want Of unsnmity IN the sdms.
sion of new States intended to be remedied, aud
by fixed principles thereafter new States were to be
formed and admitted pursuant to the mode prescribed
in that act, viz: by the act and deed OF the iona
fde inhabitants of the Territory speaking TO Congress-
through Constitution framed by themselves, sub
mtted TO the people, and approved by them. The
doctrine that the Convention in Kansas had the right
to adopt the Constitution in express violation of
the fundamental act Of the organization Of the Terri
tory; and unless in the act Of the Territorial Legsa-
ture calling the Convention, was expressly provided
that the Convention should have the power to
the Constitution, they had authority to do II, and
their duty to refer the instrumentthe most i'm
pOraAt for their welfare, happiness, and government,
that could ever be passed upOn-to the vote of the
people, for their ratification rejection. The people
in territorial state cannot before the formation OF
State Government, confer any authority, inferen.
tally or by implication" and they cannot be Invested
Of any Of their rights Of sovereignty or otherwise,
without express warrant Of law.
Hence l argue, without referring TO the written
pledges violated by Calhoun and his disgrsced asso-
catss that they would submit the Constitution TO the
people, that under the Kansas Nebraska act no ex-
press authority having been conferred by the Terrific
rial Legislature upon the Convention TO adapt, but
simply TO torn aConsttution, the Convention usurped
authority in attempting to do so without submitting
to the people whose approval alone can give vital
ty TO their organic law. The Constitution of this
Union had to he approved by the several States or
large mejorty Of them before it became the Federal
compact Tie Constitution Of my own State, referred
TO by the President in his recent Message was SUBJ
ntted to the people for approval or rejection. The
Constitutions Of about one-haf Of the States Of the
Union were submitted and approved by the people be-
fore they had force and effect.
But, notwithstanding this has been the custom,
not, for arguments sake If every State Consttu-
tiou before 1854 had been adopted by the Convention
and not by popular approval; insisting, do that
the passage Of the KsnsasNebraska act formed
epoch and settled precedents in the admission of new
States 10 be formed out Of our immense territories.
II not. why this act drawn with 90 many general