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ber such an act of justice and humanity as the proudest in her annals. Every member of the Legislature would hasten to record his vote for the appropriation, and feel the conscious satisfaction of having done a deed which all the good would sanction and approve. Our constituents are not automatons. They have the common sympathies of humanity, and the common instincts of justice. They are neither heartless nor soulless. And when the dearest personal rights are invaded-rights which all admit and maintain-the judgment approves, and the heart sanctions the deed which is done in their vindication.

We need not fear that our constituency will not sustain us. Men of all parties have united with one voice in condemning the outrages which have been done in Kansas. There was one who was sent from the 14th Senatorial district of this State to that territory, as an officer of the federal government; but his blood was spilt by ruffian hands, and its voice cries to us from the ground to-day. Would that that were the only such voice that sounds in our ears! But its cry mingles with others before and since.

That Kansas should be devoted to freedom, is the united and earnest desire of all the citizens of this State of whatever party. This we are compelled to believe, or else we are driven to the alternative of imputing to them the basest hypocrisy-an alternative that common charity forforbids us to adopt, while there is any other. And if it is to be made a free State, it can only be done by the agency of actual settlers, who are Free State men.

Such then is our position; representing a constituency that are unanimous in avowing their Free State preferences, and unanimous in cɔndemning the outrages which have been committed in Kansas upon our unoffending citizens, who have gone there to seek a home. The wrath of the few, if any there be, who will ignore their professions, and confess their hypocrisy, we have but little occasion to fear. For out of their own mouths will they stand condemned.

Your committee, therefore, beg leave to submit the accompanying joint resolution, recommending its passage, and ask to be discharged from the farther consideration of the subject.

EDM. B. FAIRFIELD,

1857.

No. 29.

[ No. 29.]

REPORT of the committee on Finance.

The committee on Finance beg leave to report that upon examination of the books of the Auditor General and State Treasurer they find great cause to congratulate the people of this State upon the present condition of their Treasury and the ability and economy with which the financial affairs of the State have been conducted under the charge of the present State officers.

That a large amount of the part paid five million loan bonds have been taken taken up by the State at $585 51 for each $1,000, and that there are now outstanding of this class of bonds when funded only $124,392 55, and as the interest upon these bonds is stopped by the operation of an act of the last Legislature it is probable they will be very soon surrendered and canceled. Great credit is due to the State officers for the adjustment of this perplexing matter and thereby determining the exact amount of the State indebtedness. The facts attending this part of our indebtedness are too well known to require a repetition here. It is sufficient to say that equal and exact justice has been done to all parties concerned.

That part of our State indebtedness now due and which will fall due before the meeting of another Legislature is as follows:

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