The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1856-07-08
pougIa.s' New Rill.

s. ae24 80 Douglas New Bill.
Douglas is at last scared at his own fire.
He threw the brand into the peaceful elements
Which has kinded great fame, stirred up an
imosities, and matured them into the most
bitter hatred He finds lying at his door the
hideous hydra-headed monster of crime and
anarchy, which he himself let loose in the de-
voted territory of Kansas, and now alarmed
by his own convictions, he seeks to do pen
ance to stop the evil, and to restore to the ter
ritory its wonted quietude. See his plan
AS Chairman of the Committee on Territories,
he, reports a billTn relation to Kansas, and
gives notice of his intention to press an imme-
date vote on it, The bill is as follows g
1t provides for the appointment Of five Com
missioners, to be selected from different sec
tons Of the Union, to represent fairly all po-
litical parties. They shall take census OF
all the legal voters in the Territory, and make
fair apportionment of delegates to be elected
in each county, to assemble and make con-
stitution for State government. When the
apportionment be thus made, the Commission
ers are to remain in session every day, except
Sunday, at place most convenient to the in
habitants Of said Territory, to hear all COM
plants, examine witnesses, and correct all er
rors in said list of voters, which shall be pre-
viouSly printed and generally circulated
pthroughout the Territory, and posted in at
least three of the most public places in each
voting precinct in each county. As soon as
all errors have been thus corrected in said
lists, the Commissioners are requested to cause
a,corrected list of the legal voters to be prn mt
ed and copies presented to each Judge OF Elec-
tions, to be put up at places of voting, and cir
culated in every county of the Territory, be-
fore the day of the election. No person is to
be allowed to vote whose name does not APP
pear as a legal voter at the election for dele
gate to take place one day preceding the cleo
ton, and the Convention to assemble on the
first Monday of December, to decide first,
whether it be expedient for Kansas to come
into the Union at that time, and if so decided.
to proceed to form o. Constitution and State
Government, which shall be Republican in
form, and be admitted on an equal footing
with the original States. The bill provides
that no law shall be of force or enforced in the
Territory infringing the liberty of speech, or
of the press, or the right Of the people to bear
arms, and also for furnishing illegal voting or
fraud and violence at elections, and authorizes
the use of military force for that purpose =
The main points that the present inhabitants
of Kansas shall decide all points in dispute at
fair election, without fraud or violence or any
other improper influence. All white male in
habitants over the age of FL are to be allowed
to vote, if they have resided in the Territory
three months previous to the day of the cleo
ton, and no other test shall be required-no
oath to support the Fugitive Slave law, nor
any ether condition whatever shall be re-
quired.
Looks fair, don't it?-and probably would
be fair had there been no rascality antecedent
to this. He now most magnanimously pro-
poses to leave the settlement of all questions
tothe people, those who shall, by commits
sion of five persons. of all parties and sections,
have been ascertained to be legal voters in the
Territory. Was it with view to this pacific
demonstration that he had his myrmidons sta
toned along the Missouri, to intercept GER
tain class of emigrants, whose peculiar provin-
cial dialect made "keow" of "cow," and send
them back with abuse. Was it with view
to this that his lawless bands have been en-
deavoring to expurgate the Territory Of all
who entertain opinions adverse to the extern
sion of slavery and the usurpation of Missouri
border-men. In fact, has it not been the labor
of his whelps Atcheson, Stringfellow & Co.,
to secure, if possible, the exclusive occupation
of the Territory by pro-slavery men, or at least
to such an extent as to control the elections
Or does his guilty soul tremble at the cry of
"Retribution" that goes up from the smoul-
dering ruins Of Lawrence, and the blood stain
ed soil, where fell those who dared to main-
tain their opposition to the ungodly black
code of psuedo-legislators- now to APP
pease the wrath ola grossly injured people
We are perfectly willing that the bill should
pass; we believe there are free-state men
enough in Kansas to settle rightly all the
questions ifleft to them, and give back to free
dom the gem which this same Stephen A..
Douglas-the would-be President-has at
tempted forcibly to wrest from her.
or The Chicago Journal Of Tuesday says
that two bets were made by a produce mer-
chant with regard to the amount of corn in
hat cit n kbo,1