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1 Stephen A. Douglas, In the Senate of the United States, August 1, 1854 Mr. Douglas Made the following Report [to Accompany Bill H.R. 75] 1 (1854)

handle is hein.slavery/isusdgm0001 and id is 1 raw text is: READ AND REFLECT! 1. Let every lover of his country remember that during the present Congress, as will be siovn by the following official records, the Republican (Fremont) party bave voted to violate the most solemn treaties of the United States with the Indians. 2. That they have voted to violate the compact with Texas, by which the United States purchased all that part of Texas north of 36' 30' and included it in New Mexico, with the guarantee that when admitted as a State the said Territory, or any portion of the same, shall be received into the Union with or without slavery, as their constitution may prescribe at the time of their' admission. 3. That they have, by their votes, repudiated the compromise measures of 1850, which contained the same guarantee in respect to the Territories of New Mexico and Utah, and to the support of which every Whig and every Democrat stood pledged by the platforms of the two great parties in 1852. 4. That they have voted to legalize and establish hereditarslavery in the whole of Kansas, and to introduce and establish slavery in a part of New Mexico, and to declare that children who shall be here- after born to be slaves for life and their posterity after them, in viola- tion of the great principles of self-government and State equality, which should leave the people of each State and Territory perfectly free to form an'd regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the Constitution of the United States. 6. That they have voted for a bill which recognizes the validity and binding force of all the laws enacted by the territorial legislature of Kansas at Shawnee Afission, and which, in their speeches, they have pretended to be illegal and void, inhuman and barbarous. 7. That they have vot. iii the same bill that all those Kansas en- actments shall be enforced and carried into faithful execution, except the criminal code, which provides for the punishment of murder, rob- bery, larceny, arson, and other crimes punishable by the criminal codes of all civilized countries. 8. That they have voted to grant to all persons guilty of these crimes a general pardon for the past, and a full license to prosecute their bloody deeds with legalized impunity in thae future, at the same time that they pretend that these crimes have all been perpetrated by organized bands of armed pro-slavery men and border ruffian;s upon unoffending and peaceable free State men. 9. That they provided in the same bill, in effect, that no person shall even be punished in Kansas for illegal voting, for violence at the polls, or for fraud in conducting the election, by declaring that the @NLY LA-,:a which provides punishment for these offences shall never be enforced, while they pretend that large bodies of armed Missou- rians are in the habit of invading the Territory, seizing possession of the polls, driving away the lawful voters, and forcing a legislature upon the people contrary to their wishes. 5. That, while legalizing slavery in Kansas until 1858, which is probably beyond the period when it would become a State of the Union, they have voted to prohibit slavery therein -forever from and Reproduced with permission from the University of Illinois at Chicago

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