The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1856-07-23
Douglas, Iknnsns Hin.

paper is eminently wise and Just, inasmueh as
il repeals so much Of the legislation of the Ter
ritorial Legislature as sought to impair the rights
of bona fle residents on the vote for Delegates
to form Constitution or to apply unjust tests in
the performance of civil duties. 1t also guards
against a reputation ofsuch legislation by decla-
ring that it shall not hereafter be exercised
The bill also prevents the incursion Of Border
I'rdiians at the moment Of any election, by re-
quiring residence Of three months preparatory
to amy vote, and complete registry Of legal vo-
ters. The bill goes a little further than this,
and step further than usual by restricting the
right to vote to the citizens OF the United States
II has 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
months ora years residence, whether citizens
or not; and the power has long been exercised
under organic provisions of their State Cousti-
tutions This arrangement has been highly
beneficial to the growth Of New States, and has
had the effect to thin the ranks of this Specious
Of population on the seaboarl, where it would be
hurtful, and to turn the new emigrant into a
useful cultivator of the soil. Had the bill in
question conforIned to this policy, few foreign
ers might have been induced, before their right
Of citizenship had become complete, to aid in
subduing the wildcrness--for such Kansas is
and will long continue to be--to the uses of
man. But the change which the bill makes in
this reepect in the policy which has prevailed at
the West, is doubtless recommended by the
certainty that in no other form could it obtain
the votes of the American party in either branch
Of the Legislature, Under the circumstances
it was therefore wise and judicious. AS the bill
stands, all questions concerning 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
the locality, known as such by registry, and
allowed to vote without any just or improper
restrictions This is carrying out the true prin-
cipal of the original hill, the operation of which
was impoded by the incursons of residents of
Missouri Noman in his calm senses can fail to
approve Of the present bill; or, doubt if it be-
come law, that the preliminary steps in the
Territory by which Kansas will be prepared for
admission, are to be regulated with entire fair
ness to all sections Of the country. We have
never had any doubt, and have not now, that
Kansas will be admitted, whenever admitted
as Free State, and such will be the conviction
of all those who look at the state of the facts in
q dispassionate manner, The State of Missouri
which lies between Kansas and market for its
productions contains forty-one millions of acres
of land, about one third of which remains un-
sold. To much of this large residue, the Grad
uation Act, passed in 1852 applies That act
provides that land which has been in market for
thirty years or thereabouts, may be sold at
shilling an acre and the residue at prices be-
tween that and a dollar, according to the length
of time it has been subject to entry. The in
habitants of Missouri enjoy the monopoly ofth
public lands, because it is slave holding State
"A condition unGayorablc to emigration from the
free States. In Lowa--although so recently ad- \
mittcd as state, and having harsher climate
land sells at higher prices than in Missouri
No inhabitant Of Missouri, in his senses, would
give up the immense monopoly in cheap lands
which he enjoys, and remove his slaves into
Kansas, which is yet unsurveyed, with the GER
tainty that he can obtain in Kansas, under the
only single quarter section of
land and that at a dollar and a quarter an acre,
and with the possibility, when the survey is
made, that other settlers may be found on the
same Quarter section, who will be entitled to
the portion of ION which they are located A
in Missouri is safe in the tenure by
which he holds his negroes, which he would not
be in Kansas There is, therefore, 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 frightful expense able bod
led white men leave the Territory daily because
they find there no easy means of support The
only class of persons who at present 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 In
dians, and relying on their skill in obtaining
good locations, to pay their daring and sacrifices
Such men keep always few hundred miles
ahead of the great body of settlers, and prepare
the way for the latter.
They are hardy, enterprising, unscrupulous
and brave, and generally obtain the best loca-
tons, which they sell at small advance Much
of the difficulties experienced in Kansas, arose
from the fact that the vocation of these m en-
was disturbed by the action Of Massachusetts in
sending out emigrants undera special act Of her
or that tii6y might secure the loca-
tions to which the Borderers thought them
selves entitled by virtue Of their adventurous
sufforings and sacrifices. The "Bordcr Ruffians, ."
for their own interests, determined to give these
for town sites and good locations,
brush, and in too many instances, the results
has proved, adopted the same mode of warfaIe
to which they had been accustomed in contend
ing with bears, panthers and Indians. They
subsist in great part on the products Of the
chase and are equal to the Indians in powers OF
endurance, and his superior in most other re-
spects. The settlers in Kansas, sent out by
Emigrant Societies. had no means of support
and many Of them quickly returned to civilized
regions. A Commissary General. with subsis-
tcnce to last for year, would be necessary with
each squad of inexperienced settlers, who with
this advantage would scarcely be tempted to re-
main in Kansas after the supplies thus furnish