The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1859-09-22

aecision Of the question whether she
should cQme into the Union as Slave or
Free State.
This vas The burden of all the speech
"a of his advocates, the printed addresses
bf the party committees-the editorial
aeclarations of the "Demo3ratie" press.
Even in his inaugural address, the same
profession was made, aud IN the instrnc-
tions given to hrs selected Governor OF
Kansas it was reiterated. But this would
have been fatal to the designs OF those
who we're determined to fix slavery upon
Kansas, and the policy thus repeatedly
axowod was abandoned with sudden ana
indecent haste. The most strenuous ef-
forts were made, and Presidential lntiu-
ence was brought to bear with itsu5most
mower, ip the multiplied forms OF patron
age, TO force through Congress, and I'M
pose upon the people of Kansas against
their will, the fictitious instrument con-
rocted by the conspirators against popu-
lar rights in the Territory at Leoompton,
for the purpose of giving slavery arecog-
pized position, and tying the hands of the
majority In their efforts to rid themselves
of a system which they regard as lrrecon-
cilable with their interests and prospsrl-
ty. Fooled in this the administration,
nevertheless, succeeded, by working on
the easy virtue of members, whose resist
ance Welded to the Establishments and
promises of the dispensers of official favor,
in forcing through Congress a modified
plan by which the people Of Kansas were
approached with bribe in one hand aud
penalty in the other-instant admission
as State if they would consent to the
Introduction of slavery, but continued
condition Of territorial pupilage, shopiG
they spurn the offer, until officers apoint-
ed by their oppressors should certify that
they constituted population at least
double that required in the case Of Ore
gon, in the hope that they would be IA
tigued into submissian. But, thanks to
the indomitahle spirit of the American
Peoplel the residents of Kansas have
stood firm in the Yindicaticn of their
rights, and by the cause Of free labor;
and needless of government prohibitions,
have formed constitution in accordance
with the known will of the majority on
this great question. Of course, the
Democratic party" as identified with the
administration, In accordance with the
policy of its chiefs, and the dictation of
Southern propagandists, have resisted
this action of the majority, and intima-
tions are now given that tie admission of
Kansas shall still be opposed and pre-
vented as punishment for the persistent
devotion of her people to Presdom. Shall
not the voice of Pennsylvania-tfe proud
proof of the mighty energies of the In
hustry of her freedom in building up
happy and intelligent Commonwealth
be heard in thunder tones ef rebuke of
that obstructive disposition aud policy,
which deny the soundness of those prin-
ciples on which her institutions are found
ed, and ia effect refuses to the majority
of the people the right to frame their own
Constitution of Government unless thev
incorporate in its provision which ehall
establish slavery permanently among
them? Will she not vindiCats the right
of her own sons to goin and possess these
new territories, and establish there the
dominion of Free Labor which has
wrought out her own sohd prosperity, and
has established her as the firm and un-
shaken Keystone of the Federal Arch
Not content E;th this effort to oyer
throw the interests Of free labor in Kan
sas, southern propagandists of slavery
make still further reqpisitions on tbs
yielding disposition Of that class Of poIiti-
sians IN the North who have hitherto lent
ihfmgfelyef sBgse tR the he fprthorance of their de-
them that Congress shall intervene in the
Affairs of the Territories. should the peo-
pie. there refuse by their legislation to
make special provisions in favor of slave
fy, by enaoting code for the protection
Of that "peculiar institution" and thus
coerce by federal power the majority to
submit to its establishment and perpetu-
ation among them. These men insist
that while Congress has no right to ex-
clpde, If is its bounden duty to sustain
every effort to introduce slave labor into
the Territories, and we find the Admin
istration "Democratic Party" in Pennsyl-
yania, by the heresolutions of its State Con-
yention and the address of its State Com
mittee, fully agreeing to this doctrine, and
eonceding the propriety and duty of its
practical enforcement by Congress, This
is the issue made and presented by those
who control the t.tDemooratic" politics of
the South, and concurred in by their al
lies in this great and free commonwealth
AT the demand of this dictatorial spirit,
the Territories Of the Union are to become,
IN substance and in fact, closed against
the entrance of the Sons of the people of
Pennsylvaria, who by the labor Of their