The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1859-03-25
BEDFORD, PA, FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 25, 1859

Topeka people exclude them they, like tht
neighbors we read Of, went round them we
like the good Samaritans, shun not their destitu-
/ lion or degradation-we alleviate both. But
! LET that go.
i Oregon has, in this matter, done no worse
Ethan the gentleman's friends did in Kansas. ]
,,ef1nk she acted unwisely in it-that is her
business, not mine. Bot the gentleman from
i Ohio MIR. STANToNI questions me, how could
+ a negro in Oregon ever get his freedom under
The constitution they have adopted | tell
him, under their constitution a slave cannot
exist there. The fundamental law is against
II. But he asks, how could his freedom ever
oe established, as no free person Of color can
sue IN her courts Neither can they in Geor-
gla still our courts are open to this class of
people, who appear by prochein ami orguardan
Nor is there any great hardship in this for
married women cannot sue in their own names
anywhere where the common law prevails
Minors also have 10 sue by guardian or next
friend. We have suits continually IN our
tribunals by persons claiming TO be free persons
OF color. They cannot sue IN their own names,
bnt by next friend. They are not +; and just
SO will they be in Oregon, if the question is
ever raised.
Mr.. REAGAN. By the laws of Texas free ne
groes are prohibited from residing in that State,
and hence have no right TO SUE in her courts
and yet the courts there have entertained
jurisdiction Of suits for the liberation OF free
negroes, and have assisted in the prosecution
OF such suits, III which they were declared free
under wri:s ofhqbeas corbDus
Mr.. STEPHENS, of Georgia. | understand
the gentleman TO say that the constitution of
Texas is similar 10 this, and yet that her courts /
are opened Just as | stated in reference 10
Georgia : and that he himself has assisted free I
negroes in the courts of Texas TO obtain their /
rights There can be 40 difficulty upon that
score. Let me say to gentlemen on the other
side Of the House, not 10 lay the fattering
nnctIon to their souls that they can escape by 4
such pretext as that.
But il was Inimated by the gentleman from /
Ohio, that last year we voted to admit Kansas |
as slave State with view of getting two /
Democratic Senators, and that our object is the
same now in regard to Oregon. Sir, IN this he
is mistaken. We stood fhen, as now, upon
principle. Had Kansas been admitted under |
the Lecompton constitution, all of US knew that
the probabilities we're, that two Republican |
Senators would have been elected. Nor was
The large Democratic vote in the Senate, soon |
TIT --s - .ii~f tho a a saiSSior ~ f-r,r,
based upon any such idea as be intimated. II |
could not have been. When this bill passed |
the Senate ii was not known what sort OF Sena- |
tors would be elected there, any more than it |
was as to Kansas. The election in Oregon had |
been heard from. 1t was hot contest. And
at the election which afterwards came off, the
member who was returned to this House vas
elected by only sixteen hundred majority.
Under these circumstances, how can the gen.
leman attribute such motives to the action OIL
Democratic Senators Where is the slightest
evidence for such an impuauon May be the
gentleman attributes TO others the motives by
which he himself is governed-that is, a wish
o brlng in the State under political auspices
avorabie TO his own view Of public policy
May be he thinks, by rejecting this constitution,
he State may come in under Republican IN
lead of a Democratic banner for he said her
admission was only question OF time. | will
not say that this is his object in opposing this
bill; but do say, for myself, that | am not gov
arppd by such motives as he has intimated. |
will vote, whenever State comes here with
constitution republican in form, and with an
obligation resting upon me to vote for her
omission, irrespective of what may be The
political cast of her Senators and members elec;
will never do wrong that right may Afterwards .
cone from it. Wrong does not produce such
rtits. What you plant and SOW, that you reap.
will never commit an Acknowledged error,
hoping that good will come of #. Good ends /
le1er Justify wrong means according to my '
,ode of morals. Honesty is the best policy in
III Ihings. Perhaps most of those on the other |
,id of the House who 90 against this bill, do Q
20 barely TO be in opposition. To such ] would J
;ag what | once said to a gentleman in my dis Y
rict. When | was gong to address tie peo- t
pie at a Particular place, meeting him on the 7
gay, a'ked him If he was going TO speak be i
aid he q7ly wanted to know what side | was I
pom to u against it. said 'that Is the reason S
'ou are dways in the minority YOU give me
hoice otsides upon'all questions, and of course 4
take tIp best" Laughter. Would it not be e
YeIl for gentlemen on that side to consider the o
ooint, baeIy as a matter of political or party d
actics That gentleman was SO well pleased i
With the -emark that he went and heard me v
IN the OCCASION alluded to, and from that day a
o this he las never failed to vote for me. IF r
he oppose side will allow me, will say to P
hem it is,ad policy in any party to oppose
barely for opposition sake. Let d
ne ehtTei them not 10 oppose thls oti-aS .
some of TIM do, fear-barely because Demo- Il
Gratis vote DR. it. By this course, you give us |
choice of sles in great issue OF right. /
One woi further, upon another subject, and e
call the epeeial attention of the House 10 ii. 0
It is the obIci,n raised to the constitution of {
Oregon on lccolnt of the alien suffrage feature Ii
IN 1t. Thegenleman from Tennessee, Mr.. Il
ZoLLlcoFFE.l IL his report, quotes a part OF n
the decIsion of he Supreme Court, bearing \
upon the costttiona power of State so TO a
regulate suffagewithin her own limits, but c