Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1860-04-19
Traotltng Memoranoums.
LAWRENCE, X. t. March 25, Is

| men. 1t is SAID tnat Lne laW-IHahlDS power Vi
Pennsylvania, in 1874, passed the following
resolution, "That no member OF the legisIa-
ture will be allowed to come into the house
barefoOted or eat his bread and cheese on the
steps," Who ever reads the history of Kan
Sas, twenty years from now, will undoubtedly
| laugh at some OF the strange freaks of our
Territorial Fathers. Last winter bill pass
ed both branches of the legislature to the ef-
feet, that, owing to the want of suitable ac-
commodations for the members at Lecompton,
that body remove its session to this place
Tawrencel. This act called forth veto from
our very Democratic Governor, SAMUEL MEDIA
RY, who returned the bill with the idea, no
doubt, of having witnessed its annihilation.-
Some member, however, called it up again
and it was passed over the veto by two
third vote The Governor and his party pre-.
tended to question the constitutionality of the
act, whereupon the majority of the two houses
removed to this place leaving the minority in
session at Lecompton.
Lecompton is the capitol of the Territory
where the legislature will meet. except when
they adjourn to Lawrence, until Kansas be-
comes a state that body will then hold its
sessions at Topeka, the city designated as the
State Capitol.
The very atmosphere of Lecompton is taint-
ed with the rufiian democracy 1t was, during
the Kansas troubles, the general rendezvous
of banditti hordes. 1t is located upon the
Kansas river, eight miles above this place. and
contains only few rough looking dwellings
several liquor shops and a pro-slayery newspa
per. These being the sole accommodations
for members of the Legislature, it is no wonder
that they wanted to "pack mp" and leave
There seems to be trouble in the democrat
ic family,-one portion Of it cannot sympa-
thise with the sentiments Of the other for in
stance Hon. S. A. DOUGLAS holds that Terri
torial Legislatures can, constitutionalIy, pass
laws excluding slavery, whereas the President
and his admirers say that neither Congress nor
the Legislature of the Territories have the
power to do it, The following is a report of
what Senator DOUGLAS said in Congress, not
long since When the question came up be
would show that the very night the Kansas
and Nebraska bill passed, he said the sole OBJ
stacle to the repeal of the Missouri restriction
was that the people of the Territory might ex
cludc slavery there. No man who heard him
then could have the excuse for not knowing
that he held the Territorial Legislature could
do it, The Buchanan faction are or pretend
to be hostile to these sentiments A demo
cratic convention, of the Buchanan stamp,
held at Fraukport, Kentucky, after passing a
minority report amended by additional and
more ultra demands for slave code, openly
and unanimously denounced Douglas and his
political friends The Illinois Democratic
State Convention, held at Springfield, passed
resolutions stating the true doctrine of the
democratic party to be that neither Congress
nor the Territorial legislature has the power
to exclude slavery from any Territory Of the
United Stotes, but that the people thereof,
when they form State government have the
right 10 permit or exclude slavery, as they
choose e,-declaring that the principles of squat
ter sovereignty is calculated to promote dis
cord, dSunion, treason and murder, as is prac
tically illustrated in the Harpe:'s Ferry affair,
and expressing full confidence in the national
administration, including its policy upon the
slavery question" Douglas is thus discarded
by bis democratic brethren in Illinois, the
state he now represents in the Senate.
The following extract, however, from late
paper, if true, exhibits q meannesS Of char
acter on the part of James Buchanan, rare
ly if ever before witnessed in a PresiGen,
of the United States A Washington CORES
pondent of. the Ncw York Express says that
to crafty his personal malignity against Sena-
tor Douglas, the President of the United
States, has descended so far as to go to the
ladies of members of his Cabinet and ask of
them to cut Mrs. Douglas, apd put her under
their social ban Can these domestic broils
be sufficiently quelled to enable the party, as
a unit, to support a candidate for the Presi-
dency? We shall see.
1t is amusing to read the rawlings" of the
Southern press nowadays, especially those
emenating from Richmond The Enquirer OF
that city, Richmond, says "The election of
Black Republican advocate of the irrepres.
sible conflict" will be the withdrawal of the
states supporting such election, from the
Union. Such an act would be dissolution
of the Union as formed by our fore fathers .
The most sensible political article we have
seen from Southern pens, is taken from The
! ConfederacH. paper published at Atlanta