Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1856-08-28
A lew days ,inee Mr. CampbeII in M, n

A few days since Mr.. Campbell in bis place
made the important statement that be bad been
cen6dentially informed that 20 prosecutions
would be had against The present Kansas prs.
Oners, and asked the House to Tecede from a.
mendments to the judiciary bill, which we
give below in the official proceedings. The
House did rseede from those amendments in
that bill. Mr.. Campbell utterly refused to give
the authority for his belief that prosecutions
would not be pressed, aad the Republicans not
willing TO trust to floating promises, insisted up
on its amendment to the Army Bill.
This confidential Communication to Mr.. Camp.
bell, and the late numerous reports that the Ad.
ministration was "backing down" upon the
Kansas outrages, were but a cat in the meal
tub and considered mere decoys to entce the
House to recede from its prOViso, pass the
Army Bill and then use the money to crush
out freedom in Kansas. The Republicans
we're not to be caught by this trick. II It was
the honest design Of the Administr alton to re.
lease those men, it could be done by one scratch
of the Presidents pen, aud thus all difficulty
be removed. The secret reason for The rumors
that for days had been borne on the wings of
the wind, to the effect that Kansas Rufian OF.
6cers were 10 be removed, and nolle entered
upon the indictment against Robinson, Brown
and others, was now made apparent. The
closing act Of this desperate Administration was
to be stuPendous fraud. But the back bone
Of Republicans was stiff. and they would trust
to no confidential communication, nor flying
rumors
A letter writer say5:
Toombs in the Senate boasted that the House
would back out from the Kansas amendment,
because the same bill contained an item of
$3.50, ,00O for books for members, with which
he said the Senate intended to buy the House
Mr. Seward repelled the slander, and immedi-
ately afterwards the House recedsd from the
book appropriation.
A committee of conference between the two
bodies was called, but the House committee
said to the Slnate. If 1t be the honest intention
of the Administration not TO prosecute these
trials for treason, the provso to the bill is harm.
less, it will have no effect; but If those iuten-
tons are not hOuest, it certainly should be at
tachod. The reasoning was conclusive, but
The faithlessness of the Administration party
was shown by the Senate refusing to adopt the
provso. and the bill failed to pass. The Pres
Ident has therefore called an extra session for
Thursday next. We believe in this, too, an-
other trick has been played. The Pro- Slavery
members without doubt were made aware of
the intention to call this extra session, and all
remained in Washington, while the Republi.
cans, kept in ignorance of the move, have ma.
ny of them got too fathom Washington to get
back by thursday. The bill therefore may by
such trick be forced through.
The responsibility for the defeat of this bill
rests upon the Senate, who by its course direct
ly endorsed ana backed up all the vile acts
perpetrated for months past by the Border Ruff
fans upon the Free State settlers in Kansas,
even to the surrounding Of that Territory. not
only on the Missouri River but on the very
sol of Nebraska, by armed bands, to intercept
and keep back emigrants from the Free States.
- Cleve Herald.