Excerpt from Speech of Hon. Sherrard Clemens, of Virginia, on the President's Kansas Message: Delivered in the House of Representatives, February 18, 1858
Sir, the whole theory of our Government pro ceeds upon the assumption that the people cannot be in default, or derelict to themselves, because the power, subject to legal restrictions, is always in their own hands. After a constitution has been put in Operation, they are estopped from resorting to any means to disturb it, exceptt_he legalmeans; and using these, and these alone, they can only remedy the consequences of their own folly in ah staining from voting, or in absenting themselves from the polls. These undeniable truths have a direct application in the case now before us; and for that reason [ask that three editorials from the Herald of Freedom, the organ of the Republican party in Kansas, may be published herewith as appendix No.'l.
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