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1 Albert Gallatin Brown & Robert Augustus Toombs, Remarks of Senators Brown and Toombs on the Kansas Conference Bill: Delivered in the Senate of the United States, April 29, 1858 1 (1858)

handle is hein.slavery/rsbtkc0001 and id is 1 raw text is: REMARKS OF SENATORS BROWN, AND TOOBS, UN THE KANSAS CONFERENCE BILL. DELIVERED IN THE SENATE OF ,THE' UNITED STATES, APAIL ,2 18s8. The Senate having retonvAf beOiQ ciration of the report of thr committee of co- ferernce on the disagr.eing v,,, e of the twoTIuse on the bill (S., No. 161) for the ad- mission of tfh State of Kansas itito the Cnion, Mr. BROWN said: Mr. PRExpu.T: I desire. in a few words, and without making a speech, to, ssign the reasons why, if we are ever brought to a vote, I shall Tecord mine in favoref this propo sition. I 'mi.ust say ini the outset that I do not like it; there are a great many readons why I do pot.; but as I have bivuh14t my mind to the conclusiop to vote forit, I shall not assign the tenonS why I do'not like it, but rather assign the reasons which influence me to vote in its favor. , . The first1e this: th at we settle this question; and better on these terms, than leave it open. I can see, if left open, that it is to be made the fruitful source of ,disoetent, an4 strife, and of political turmoil perhaps for years to come: I can see how in very many ways it may xndanger, seriously endanger the perpetuity of the Government itself. As long as the quetion is kept open it must continue to irritate the feelings of the peopleof the two sections of the Union. Until this question is settled you canniot begiato have a reconciliation on that great cuntroversy which has been going on for years and years between the North and the South. This question is a thorn which rapklesip the side of the nation. You muet extraO it ,r you can have no permanent peace. If I had no other reason fur going for thi6 bi1 I would do it for that, and that alone1 Itisapeace measure; it brings baling upo -it wings; it brings the different sections of the counstar in closer neighborhood, jii better fellowship. How much is thqre in th, bill, to forbid our taking it? .First it is said by some of those who vote agaipst it, that it is a -submission of the Lecompton constitu6iw to the peopiP of Kwnsas. ..Adthen again others vote against it becaue it is not a;pubmiasion rnmean to state my own views xith perfect candor and with entire fairnegL I do not understaud it to be the submissiof of the constitution-to the people, butT do ujlderstand this to be truv, that you, submit collateral questions-the land queat on,.and, ether in, volved it the Xansas ordinance-to thw people of Kansas; and that if,inreyting upon those questions they choose to deterrmine that they will not come inta.the UIaipn under the Lecomp.toii eonstitution they hare the right to do it. r. ,1 They pass uojudgmrient dirtetly at the polls In the copstitutiqu, one way or theotheq 1[i, each vo'xr can control his own vote by his own reasons; and if he ebo6sea, undet cover of voting torstain the ordinance, to vote ,againt the whole constitutio and against coming into the Union, he can do so; ana if a majozitytke that view of the suject, the State is not is the Union. , I That much is fairie-s and , candor, for thus stands the question if I properly compr& hena it. NTw wbat just ground hAve we Southern men to objept to tt hAt ju there for our opposing iti Wetrtook the ground in the beginig, and .main Atanow, that. ive woulq.not and will uwt sustain a submission of this constitution to. the people undlr-the circumstgnceg of Ls eqming, here. But we took the ground at the same -time that we wouldnot kanction tbi, 'rdipance, plaking as :ik did, exorbtat land;deasando upo the Govqrament, and setting up other preteees which had not beu7 Weni 4 in

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