The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1856-08-06
Z WooDsFIELp, MONROE COUNTY, OHIO, AUGUsT g. 1856.
The Kansas Pacification Bill.

! The Kansas Pacifcation Bill.
The New York Journal Of Commerce
a high toned paper, thus diseourses OIL
this great question: @ 8. ssE :
The New KANSAS BILL which has pass
ed the Senate OF. the United States, and
been sent to the House cf Representa-.
tives for concurrence is eminently wise and
.ljust, inasmuch as itrepeals so much of the
Legislation of the Territorial legislature as
sought to impair the rights of bona tdt
residents on the vote for Delegates to
form Constitution, or to apply unjust
tests in the performance of civil duties
1t also guards against repetition ofsucf
Legislation, by declaring that it shall moi
hereafter be exercised The bill also pre-.
vents the incursion of Border rufians q,
the moment of any election, by requiring
the residence to three months preparatory
to any vote, and complete registry ol
legal voters This bill goes a step fur
ther than this, and step further than
usual, by restricting the right vote 70
the citizens of the United States. Ithas
been the policy of the new States in the
West to encourage emigration, on the
part of foreigners, by allowing them to
vote after six mouths or years residence,
whether citizens or not; and the power
has long been exercised under organic
provisions of their State Constitution. -
This arrangement has been highly benii-
tcial to the growth ;ofnew States, and has
had the effect to thin the ranks of this
species of population on the seaboard,
where it would be hurtfu1, and to turn the
new emigrant into, a useful cuItivator OF
the sol. Had the bill in question: con-
formed to this policy a few foreigners
might have been induced, before their
fright of citizenship had become complete,
to aid i'm subdueing the wilderness for
isueh Kansas is and will long continue to
be--to the use of man. But the change
which the bill makes in this respect in the
policy which has prevailed at the West,
| is doubtless recommended by the certain
| ty that in no other form could it obtain
the votes of the American party, in either
tOIduSfi VI ttiC ioldluKS. HtlCI tiic Cir
cumstances, it was therefore wisesand ju-
dicious. As the bill stauds, all questions
lconcerning the admission of Kansas as a
State, preliminary and other, are to be
decided in the Territory, by citizens of the
United States who are actual residents Of
fthe locality, known as such by a registry,
and allowed to vote without any unjust
or improper restrictions. This is carry
ing out the true principle of the original
bill, the operation of which was impeded
by the incursions of Presidents of Nilsson
ri. No man in his calm senses can fail
to approve of the present bill; or doubt,
lif it become q law, that the preliminary
steps in the Territory, by which Kansas
will be prepared for admission. are to be
regulated with entire fairness to all sec
tions of the country, We have never had
any doubt, and have not now, that Kan
sas will be admitted, as a Free State, and
such will be the conviction of all those who
look at the state Of the facts in a dispas-
sionate manner. The State of Missouri,
which lies between Kansas and market
for its productions, contains forty one mil
lions ofacres of land about one-third Of
which remains unsold. TO much of this
large residue, the graduation Act passed
in 1852 applies. The Act. provides that
which has been in market for thirty years
or there abouts, may be sold ata shilling
an mere, and the residue at prices between
that and a dollar, according to the length
5nf time il has been subject to entry. The
of Missouri enjoy the monopoly
.of public lands, because it is d slaveholdig
State condition unfagorabie to emf
gration from the Free States In Iowa
SO recently admittedas state
and having a harsher climate, land sells
at higher prices than in Missouri No
|inhabitant of Mo, in his senses, would give
up the immense monopoly in cheap lands
which he enjoys, and temove slaves IN
to Kansas. which is yet unsuryeyed, with
the. certainty thathe can obtain in Kansas
under the pre-emption act, only a single
qnarter section Of land, and that at o. dol
lar and a quarter an acre, und with the
possibility, when the survey is made. that
other settlers may be found on the same
quarter section, who will be entitled 10
that portion of it on which they are To-
Gated. "A STAKEHOLDER in Missouri is safe
in the tenure by which he holds his slaves
which he would not be in Kansas. There
lis, ,therefre, no probability that Kansas
will become Slave State. Indeed, it
would be utterly impossible in the present
new condition of the State, to sustain
slaves in large bodies, except at fright
ful expense. Able-bodicd white men
leave the Territory daily because they
find there no easy. means Of support
The only class of persons who find it easy
to remain residents of the Territory are
those who keep always in advance of the
movements of civilized men, killing bears,
panthers and Indians, and relving on their
skill in obtaining good locations to pay
for their daring and sacrifices. Such men
keep always a few hundred miles ahead of
the great body Of settlers, and prepare
the way for the latter. -. s 49, ssss,s
B They are hardy enterprising unscrupuz