Indiana State sentinel., 1861-08-07
A Kansa. Abolitionist in the senate.

n Kansas y DOItt1OntSt the Seh3tc
1t would seem that the country had been sufi-
GENTLY afflicted, by the operation Of Gen Pome-
roy and Gen. Lane. in connection with Kansas
affairs without suffering fresh disgrace from their
presence in the United States Senate In the
course of political events, both of these men
have succeeded in obtaining seats in the Senate.
after having been quartered in some form or
other, upon the generosity of the public from the
time of their FIRST entrance into Kansas, up to
recent period
The first act of Pomerov in his new position,
at least the first of any public Importance. is the
introduction of bill entitled "An Act to Sup
press the Shareholders Rebellion" but in fact
bill for overthrowing the Constitution OF the
United States After reciting that the present
war is a war by shareholders for upholding
slavery and that under the clause of the Consti-
tuition Ito provide for the common defense and
general welfare" the Government has the right
to abolish slavery, the bill goes on to declare as
! follows:
Therefore By virtue of the Constitution a
herein set forth, and great military necessity
| forced upon us by the rebeInou,
Be il enacted by the SeHate and House of Rep
resentatiues, in Congress assembled, That from
and after the passage OF this act, there shall be
no slavery involuntary servitude IN any OF tile
States of this Union that claim to have seeded
| from the Government, and are III open and armed
resistance to the execution OF the laws and the
provisions of the Constitution OF the United States
and
Be IL further enacted, That, Immediately upon
the passage OF this act, the President of the Uni
ted States shall cause his proclamation to be is
sued, setting forth the Immediate and uncondi
tonal emancipation OF all persons held as slaves
in any of the aforesaid States, under the laws
thereof and also ordering all officers to give pro-
lection to all such emancipated slaves shall
ask il. and accept the services of all who may
tender them in behalf of the Government, if in
the judgment OF such officers such services shall
be useful or necessary to the prosecution OF this
| war.
| This is the elimination of the anti slavery SEN
/ tment-the result to which it must arrive, unless
those who support and sustain it, for personal and
ambitious ends, shall stop short of this last and
fatal blow to our federal system. The question
is not whether slavery is right wrong, whether
it is beneficial or otherwise to the country, but
whether the Constitution and the Government
tablished by our fathers shall be maintained or
subverted.
The success of Senator Pomeroy's plan would
| be complete and final breaking down of the
checks and guards of the Constitution, an arbi-
/ trary exercise of power in defiance of the funda
mental law. 1t will not pass the Senate at the
present session; it may not obtain any cOnsidera
ble support; but it is a frank avowai OF the anti
slavery, anti republican branch of the people, and
will as surely be enforced, as the war goes on and
the party in power maintains its control of the
! Government. 1t is in fact aduanccd Republican
ism, those who do not vet see the prOpriety OF
subscribing to the doctrine, being voted slow and
unsound, by the Jealous advocates of abolition
by Federal power-by Presidential proclamation.
To hold their influence and position as party
leaders, the members of the Government must
yield to the popular clamor. of which General
Pomeroy is the representative in the Senate of
the United States.
Events follow each other in such quick success
sion, that it is difficult to say how long shall
have left the semblance of the Government under
which we have so long, as nation. prOspered.
The history of the French Revolution furnishes
no parallel to the rapidity with which the people
and Government of the United States have
drifted on, in the last few months, towards the
overthrow of our political system. Whoever
shall write the history of the United States for
the present period, will be compelled to record a
Transformation more sudden, from freedom to
despotsm, from Republican Government to a
centralized power, than often occurs in the his
tory of nations.-N. Y. Jour. Of Com.