New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-10-02


ton OF Slavery Bcrib Of 30 80. lie kept bic record
c,esp N favor OF avey. Nhile the bill pc odng
NJ. Chase mov,d that he y-ople Of The Territory,
ID Dug, their rppro representatives. may If they
fit, prohibit the existence of avery therein. Bel
voted sgsinFt it. Mr. Chase moved 70 amend by pro-
vdiDg that the people should ohoOee their own Hov1r.
no. for two years. Bell voted No. caucus OF
Southern Wing members If the Senate was Deld over
which Mr.. Tcoubs presided aud which Mr.. Bill
attended. Ttis caucus OF ten Southern wings Goose
committee consisting of 6essrs Clayton, Badger, and
Btl 20 at upon the EDITOR of The NahoHH IHtsf-
hgeneer and present to those gentlemen resolution,
| 10 The effect
Tbat dspp;oye OF Of The National tnegener
uS, ts osnSp Of s whg party Of the South
1t was Dnd. 90 ia THE Caucus that the wing Sem
atore of the South unanimous for the KausAsNe-
braska bill Mr. Badger s5id the or Of the Seoate
"IMirk ,ight say and link hcve le'r authority TO
sov hst With regard results 10 which have
i Sesds 3 no :. Snd,.sooS thai ne position Of gea
deen not be ,'token 6eon ny hgT not vet mad ne
opportunity n spedktns or roffns upon ms 6ht"
Mr. Bell had in the previous session opposed the organ
zsion Of this Territory. chiefly on account of the In
dane and be vOed against the final passage of the BILL
Blu his votes the details OF the bl had been such
and bis scon strangely unsteady that he had lite
sharp controversy the floor Of the Senate with
Mr. Clay .ou, MIR Badger, and especially with Mr.
Toombs
WRONGS OF KANSAS.
Border uAisIdsm invaded Kansas. seized the ballot
boz es IN the 30th OF March 1855, elected Lsgsa
nre and that Legislature enacted slave code, iuhu
msn uuchfisan devilish. Armed men invaded the
TtriuIy, presses were destroyed towns and csblus
bnned, brave or ested, banished, murdered for
fidelity TO Freedom; high ways closed aud men
were arrested under charge OF treason, for framing
Free-State Constitution and asking admission into the
Union. Appeals earnest ever came from the lips
of man were addressed to Congress 70 rlsnt tne
wrongs of Kansas Iu that crisis OF the affairs Of that
Territory when armed hordes were ranging the coun-
ty, when active Free-Stste men were held under ar
rest when the Missouri River was closed by armed
force, when the people OyerbOrDe the TOombs
bill was contrved ard framed not to require the
submission Of the Constitution to the people. Gov.
Robinson ard his assoclaes, held under charge OF
uesson in the camp near Leoompton, sent TINS essae
10 me in Washington:
1--WE wish sinnp to say 70 you and friends in Congress
that such proceeding oH 'esnu IN Sdre 5fae Con
their being Kanssp will be both to have their names
registered ud cote No who has lived here for the last
M. G W. Deitzler in3orsed upon thai message these
NO Dc;
IT, chiefs of bo1deI-rufiansm in western Missouri,
in anticipation Of the passage OF this ToonbS bill,
is u0 their call for action. ndbs containing these
words scattered among the people, already deep
" excited
yorR Dun 1T may be regarded certain the bill
sanze Constitution in Kansas will il II has not already
become law has psssd ths Senate and will pass the House
You have the ,, ht git your duty to goyout inter-
% prompt to Out very necessity cOIps st yST s Is
rodbe there to vote and thus save yourselves and your
We CAD to all around us preparing to move Know
Eng the dy for TIE f. struggle has cone they do not hold
The frieCOs Of Free Kansas sought TO amend this
bill and falling in that defeat it, and in all their
efforts they had to encounter the influence and votes OF
John Bell. Mr.. Seward moved 10 amend the Toombs
bill admitting KaDsas into ,be Union, under the To-
pska Constitution. John Bell voted against it.
Mir. Trumbu moved "that until the Territorial
Legislature upOn the subject, the owner OF slave
has DO right TO take such slave into the Territory of
Ind flara hold him, Ipya and
ave taken into the Territory Of Kansas by his owner
is hereby declared TO be free unless there ia some valid
act Of the Legi,lative Assembly under which be may
he hello as slave;' aid John Bell voted against IL.
MIR. Irumbul moved that all tine acts and proceed
ines of every body Of ms claiming be Legislative
As, smbly III khIsas are declared 10 be wholly and
uuty null ana void and that no person shall hold auy
Office exercise aDy authority by grtne OF any Pc Ter
derived from such assembly and Mr.. Bell voted in the
negative.
Mr.. ColIamer moved "thst until the people of Kan
sss form Constitution and State Government, there
shall be neither Slavery nor involuntary servude In
SAID Territory" and Mr.. Bell voted No.
moved 10 strike out all after the scting clause Of
the Toombs bill and insert, that all acts passed by the
Legs AZURE of kAnsas, Dy any assembly acting Id
such be aud the same are hereby sbrogaied and de-
clsred void and Of effect" and Mr. Bell voted
against il. Now, the laws at which aimed in this
AN, nGment and which MIR. Bell would not vote TO abb
rcpste We. thus characterized by the Hon. John NJ.
CLAY ton Of Delaware, man well known TO the couh-
try ana who never suspected OF fausuclsm or
abolitonism. Mr.. Clayton said "The unjust, inN9l'
tans oppressive and Infamous laws enforced oy the
Kansas II gisla uIe, ought TO be repealed. The act
prohibits all freedom OF discussion III Kansas on the
great subject directly referred TO the exclusive decision
of the PEOPLE that Territory strikes down the liberty
of the or. g. too and is act egregiousy tyrann
cad as ever was attempted by any OF the Stuars Iu-
doris or Pauagenets of England ana tbs Senate per
sfts in declaapg that we shall not repeal them.
will not ever degrade myself by standing LOT an In
stan, by those aboninsble and Infamous laws. Inc
Senate should wash iIs hands of all participation In
these inquiries.
"Tbat no part Of the military force shat be employed
In sid of the enforcement OF enactments OF the al
legged Legislative Assembly Of Kansas that II shall De
the duty of the President TO uss the military force 10
said IL rroJy preserve the peace, suppress nsurrec-
tons repel INVASION and protect persons and property
therein and upon the national highways 10 the State OF
Missouri or eli where from unlawful seizure and
searches" John Bell voted to strike IL out
TIE House put into OF their appropriation bills
the proyso that no part Of the money hereby appro-
rste shall he expended for prosecuting any persoos
,Iged with treason any other polluc i oiense ia
ID% territory of Kansas, and that the money shall not
se WI until oil criminal prosecutions against any
DC ua charged with treason shall be dismissed, aud
son who restrained Of bis liberty by reason
oSe! - secutOns shall be released from cOntne-
OF tuyn p Bell voted to strike it ont, and thus leave
hept CIR o.. ., men, whose only Ofense was the franz
we! we IS Ea.s, re Constitution aud asking ada lesion
Is the I,niop 10 der arrest for treason. Ia l9oo Jonn
in| =, 'e - a the Lecompton Constitution. SO
De 5 DS ten len, Stuart and Bfoderck aud
oll Douei"9' 80 AL freely acknowledge bis alc
ever nave aeu Ssss, ing that product Of force aud
fraDd = the ofBc;.I ionrnats Of tba
Ccrgess Of the Uned sts' ane record o. JV ,
Bell That "resord hears ample evidence una; teo
doctrines of Mr. Calhoun, nov toe doctrines OF tne
sIareeoSe democracy sre sccsp ed by him, and that
the sRgrsssive measures Of the n we ProPsg tuuiss'
base Received mis- support. That reg ord OF twenty
five YEAR, u the Congress OF the one
irdspnabe evidence of his fidelity 10 d' siaVehoabg
interett aud this "record is more fall more conpies,
- oT Iobn Calhoun oy any Othsr public