Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1860-03-23
VOLUME 27, NO. lS.

sinsouri -p'omiso, salc
"h is o"nndr,d ser, Iy tie slsrsAolding
SAFES as gro. f'rumph."
Mr.. Benton, in his Thirty Years 10 TO
United States Senate, says.
"This [ihe Mi'-oud Compromised was
the rork Of III, Sor,h, sustained by the
uSirEp VOICE ~ Mn MoSRoE's Cast.
NET, the united voice Of the southern
Senators, and majority OF tho southern
Representatives"
Mr. Monroe Cabire' Then con led
of Join ouircy hiams, secretary ~
Srln i.an C.. Calhoun, Secret ~ Jf
War; William II. Crawford, Sccr,ay
Tho Treasury smuh Thompson Sec.
reirry Of tie Navy; joha Mclean,
? ,mas;cr General and William Wir,
A1pmcy General.
No special pleading, ~ rircumlocu.
tion o' argument, no deciama,cn can
destroy or bio, out these jaeis. Ihcro
,hey stand, and there hey will forever
stand, MS conclusive proof that the Mis-.
SCUM comprom'se WIS a southern meas.
urc III "NOlk Of the South" and =
.grea, southern ,cumph." The consid-
Grafton received by the South for this
rcs,ric on, was r,.id doion by the ad.
mission of Missouri ~ slave State.
This leads to another inquiry. Has
the South stood by their own compro.
mises, or violated them; This question
100 shall be- answered by stubborn facts
facts which polilicirns neither North
nor South, can ever disproyc. In tho
Senate, upon tho pa'sag. ofihe Kansas
Nebmska bill, nineteen southern scna.
tors yo.cJ FOR il; two ssains, II. In tho
House, siS,y.ninc southern members
voted for il, aud tSo against II.
And We, wg are coolly Iold, because .
northern mar INTRODUCED the oil, that Il
is northern measure. 1t ]. true, mem.
bcrs from the free states voted for tho
bill; but, in doing IL, they outraged ,heir
constituents, who have, fort very act,
sen, nearly every onc of them 70 their
poli,iral Graves. Will gentlemen rom
inc South stand up here and tell Nc hat
bill which commai the yo,cs o! 80
soutlern non. with orly !. against IL,
wls n.tR southern mrasurc' If d, be
said Il. ~ 1rd Nebraska will be even-
iually frgc !a'cs, my anIWer is, no
thanks 20 the South for that. charge,
ilcn, that tie Missouri compromise was
n southern m"a,ugc; and that the south.
em men went almost in body for q
violation of lhsir own comp0cl-a com.
pact 10 which they had made themselves
a parry
.. s. ucN charge Ogains, the south
j.. 'ha., at,' i, had broken down the
Missouri restriction, under the pretense
,ha, the people Of territory were, by
the kansas.Ncbraska bill, 70 DO lcfl per.
fec,Iy free 10 form md direct their own
domestic institutions .G ,her own way,
il undertook TO force slavery into Kan.
sas, first b, violence, secondly by fraud.
The frs, tlrcion held in Kansas wa,
on the 29ih dav oi November, 1884.
The polls were taken forcib'c possession
of by a horde Of armed ruiFians from tic
slave states and ,'' of2,2'.s votes cas-,
fn- Gen. Whit TO Gcmoc.a;ic car.
didatc for { ~. cs,, ',729 we're thrown
by these lawl, inv crs. Tncse facts
appear in the rspor, / Committee CT
the :Iilh Con; IS, sen. ut w. n, House
10 investigate 'i,se fra
IN January and Fc q
censn Of 'hr inh 7c.s ,.t.. r-..oy
-. ua... Uv order OF tue n,. ..ugr;
aa4 1905 men were found, 5y in,csH.
sls, Qualified to vote i0r Eembor, n a
territorial legislature. On ,ho 5O,h OF
Much. Of the same year, 400 election Cor
IN, lbcrs o. ieraiCriHi legislature was
holden 4, this election s-0'ber armed
fomv w1s made iH,O the :efs..ory, and
G30) votes were returned as cast 4
sub,cquen, invest gs,:on proved only
l,ilO legal vo;'' .hUwn leaving 1900
illegal votes c,s; by rlflian invaders.
The territorial legislature chosen a,
this Wors. than mock election, passed
the infamous " kansas code" a compi.
lation of laws worse than the code OF
Dnco. This illegiiima,c Legislature
passed m ac, providing iha, in Oc,oher,
1856, ,ha people shodld vote wheiher.a
constitutional convention should be call.
ed or not. The bona fdc citizens Of
the territory spunci tho act Of these
u,urpers, and refused to participate in
the election. A few tools of,he admin.
is,ra,ion voted; and tho bogus legisla-
,urc, on The 10Th day u February, 1857,
passed an &C, providing f5r the election
Of delegates 10 fame State consiiiu.
ton. The law providing for the con.
vcn,ion and election OF delegates rcquir.
ing census TO be taIen, and tie vo,os
registered in the ihir,y.foIr counties rec.
ognized as election districts. la nine.
teen of these ,hi-iy.folf counties there
was no census iakcn and in ifecn Of
the thirty four there was No registry Of
votes. Governor Water, in his let:ef
Of resignation, says ,hc,c fiioen d.,isan.
chisei counues contained more rniers
than were cas-, ia the whole Territory
at this election. This election was d
mockcry; aad the main body Of the
frce.S'c'e men very properly refused to
have anything to do with il. .
Subsequently, the people Of Kansas
u; their territorial election in Octobev,
1851, achieved an overwhelming free
State rieiory. after this, the convsn.
ton of "usupers" assembled and iiramed
the airocious "Lccompton constitutional
These ''usgrpers" did no, dare 10 submit
this constitution to a fair vote Of the
people, for they kaeic they would spuru
Il so they provided that "no alteration