Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-07-31
A Kansas AboIitioni.t in the senate.

1t would seem that the country had been suff.
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 CHARTERED. in some form or
other upon the generosity of the public, from the
time of their first entrance into Kansas, up TO q
recent period.
The first act of Pomeroy in his new position,
at least the first of any public importance, is the
introduction of bill entitled Gan Act to Sup
press the Shareholders Rebellion" but in fact a
bill for overthrowing the Constitution of the
United States. After recting that the present
war is a war by shareholders for upholding
slavery, and that under the clause of the Consti-
tuition ito provide for tho common defense and
general welfare" the Government has the right
to abolish slavery, the bill goes to declare as
follows:
Therefore, By virtue of the Constitution, a
herein set forth, and great military necessity
forced upon us by the rebellion,
Be il enacted by the Senate and House Of Rep
resentafiues, in Congress assembled, That from
and after the passage OF this act, there shall be
nc slavery or involuntary servitude in any of the
States OF this Union that claim to have seeded
from the Government, and are in 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-
tional 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 emancpated slaves shall
ask IL and the services Of all who m
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
timent-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 or wrong, whether
it is beneficial or otherwise to the country, but
whether the Constitution and the Government es-
tabished by our fathers shall be maintained OF
subverted
The success of Senator Pomeroy's plan would
be a 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 consdera-
BILE support; but it is frank avowal Of the anti
slavery, anti republican branch OF the people, and
will surely be enforced, as the war goes on and
the party in power maintains its control of the
Government. 1t is in fact aduanced Republican
ism, those who do not yet see the propriety OF
subscribing to the doctrine, being voted slow and
unsound, by the Jealous advocates of abolition
by Federal poverty 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 we shall
have left the sembance of the Government under
which we have so long. as a 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.