Speech On The Bill For The Admission Of Kansas

Author : Jesse D. Bright
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780656448173
Total Pages : 20 pages
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Download or read book Speech of Hon. Jesse D. Bright, of Indiana on the Bill for the Admission of Kansas as a State: Delivered in the United States Senate, March 20, 1868 ( written by Jesse D. Bright and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-13 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Speech of Hon. Jesse D. Bright, of Indiana on the Bill for the Admission of Kansas as a State: Delivered in the United States Senate, March 20, 1868 Mr. President: The constitution of Kansas, with all the circum stances, it is believed, directly or remotely connected with its forma tion, being now before us, the question is: ' Shall the Territory he admitted as a State, under that instrument? Undoubtedly it is the policy of the government that her Terri tories should be converted into States as rapidly as a due regard to the welfare of their inhabitants will permit. This is alike the interest of both - of the general government on the one hand, to be relieved from the local maintenance of the Territories and of the Territories, on the other to be relieved from that interference of Congress which must unavoidably continue to exist, to a greater or less extent, so long as they remain in their condition of dependency. Whilst a Territory is in its infancy, unable through weakness - a paucity of in habitants, sparsely settled, and of very limited means - to sustain itself, the propriety of extending over it the paternal care of the gen eral government must readily be admitted but, whenever it has ao quired sufficiency of strength to bear the burden of its own support, it is due to the rest of the community to be relieved from it. Each State of the Union, under our system of government, has to maintain its own local organization, and why not the Territories, whenever they possess the ability The only means by which this can be ao complished - the only way which has hitherto been devised of trans ferring the sustenance of the Territory from the common to the local treasury, where it more properly belongs, is by admitting it into the Union as a State. What the exact expense of maintaining our Ter ritories is it is not necessary to inquire. We know, however, that it must he very considerable and that whatever it is, it is defrayed out of the national treasury of the States, whilst the States in addition have to sustain the charges of their own separate organizations. It is but right that every community should bear the burden of its own support, and whenever a Territory, by the strength of its numbers, has acquired that ability, its inhabitants should not only be permitted to form their 'own separate government, but if they refuse, should be coerced into the measure by all fair and just appliances known to the Constitution. The States have an interest in this, which it is their right and their duty to protect. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.