Mr. EDMUNDS. Mr. President, I do not rise for the purpose of entering at large into the discussion, because I perceive that gentlemen of the Senate are unwilling to hear; but I do rise for the purpose of saying one word in reply to my friendfrom Kansas, who admits that this constitution as it is now presented to us, or rather that this instrument which will become a constitution when we agree to it and not before, is radically unjust and wrong in its provisions, and yet he feels bound to agree to it on account o the fact that the previous act If it was a new question, I would vote at any timetion of Congress, and himself as a member of it, has committed him to that course. Now, I undertake to declare that in my opinion until this proposition which Congress holds out to the people of the Territory shall have become final by the action of both parties, ratified by the final action of both parties, it is wholly and perfectly within the control of Congress to undo it whenever, in its judgment, founded upon a sense of any previous mistake or upon an question of policy which may arise, it shall think fit to undo it. We may organize a territory today; we may disorganize it tomor row; and the whole course of the Government and judicial decisions under territorial laws has always been to uphold the doctrine that over the Territories, whether in an unorganized or an organized condition, the lawmaking power of the land has supreme and complete control, as much so as it has in this District, where by the Constitution, under other words to be sure, we are invested with legislative authority. Now, I beg to put it to my friendfrom Kansas whether he would feel bound by the express committal of Congress in the act of 1854, to admit this Territory into this body as a represented State with a constitution such as the act of 1854expressly authorized that people to make. The act of 1854, which organized that Territory, was born under the blessed influence of what is called the squatter sovereignty or Douglas doctrine, and by that act Congress expressly committed itself to allow the people of Territory that to set up the institution of slavery if they pleased, and solemnly agreed in advance, if it be an agreement, that they would receive that State with slavery if it chose to have slavery. The language of the act of 1854 is in these words: “And when admitted as a State or States, the said Territory, or any portion of the same ”