Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1858-05-13
EVERY rOWNDA BRADFORD COUNTY Pa BY GOODRICH

who justified the bloody scenes Of the summer
and autumn Of 1856 who have denounced
! Walker and Stanton and Dennis for exposing
! the frauds Of October, Of December, and Of
! January last-do you believe the men who
| have incurred all the odium of sustaining these
| acts, which have brought disgrace and dis
honor upon our common country, for the pur-
pose Of making Kansas a slave State-do you
believe they will yield it up now, when they
have their final gripe upon the people, when
/ they have three commissioners who can count
/ Kansas in under the Lecompton constitution
/ Sir, the public judgment of the country, ava
kened to this proposition and to this condition
of affairs, may make even these men act with
common honesty Nothing else will battle
them. | say to the people Of Kansas, of the
United States, if this measure passes as /
suppose it is to pass, for we see the potent in
fuenccS Of executive power all around US and
about rs, nothing can save Kansas from being
counted into the Union by fraudulent votes,
but the Vigilance Of the people Of Kansas and
the public judgment Of the people of the Uni
ted States. ! have no faith in this Admins
tratiou; none iu the President; for know they
want Kansas to come into the Union as
slave State Failing in all efforts to force
her in the Union, you now propose 10 bribe
her in by rewards, by penalties and if these
viii not do, you have cot the power in this
scheme to bring her in by fraud.
tell you frankly, this bill will not make
peace unless YOU mean to use fraud. That will
close it. Use fraud gentlemen and you have
the power to close it and that alone will close
this controversy for the people will spurn
l,r;l-
/ stitution, and they vii not come in under it,
unless You count them in by counting fraudu-
lent votes. Suppose you are not able TO do
that, and Kansas rejects your LecomptOn con-
stitution do you think the people of Kansas
or the people of this country will regard as Of
any force your declaration that she shall not
make a constitution, and come into the CniOn,
until she has ninety-four thousand inhabitants!
! No. sir | think the intelligent people of Kan
sas will vote down your constitution they
/ will not accept it, unless you count them III
by counting fraudulent votes and if they do
! reject it, they will make another constitution
and free constitution. You have settled it
/ that Kansas has Inhabitants enough to come
/ in as q slave State Yes, northern men, rep
reSeuting Rhode Island, New jersey, Penn
/ Sylvauia, Indiana, Ohio Iowa-these men, in
] this House and in the other, are voting here
! that Kansas may come in under the Lecomp-
/ ton constitution, which forbids any future Le-
gSlature ever to abolish slavery ; that she may
come in under that slave constitution with her
present population, be they few or many but
4 she cannot come in until she has ninety-fOur
Thousand if she will not come in under this
constitution. Sir, We will charge this upon
these men in every school district Of the free
States we will hold them up 10 the indignant
judgment Of betrayed pcOple-ycS, sir, be
! trayed people We viii hunt them down, ana
dance on their political graves. Let the peO-
pie of Kansas make a constitution submit it
+ to the popular will bring it here as a free
State Iou have voted that she has inhabi-
tautS enough tn come in as n slave State and
! let US see these men keep her out as a free
State, if they dare. les, sir, We give you no
tice now that you cannot close this question
under Your new scheme, except by stupendouS
and gigantic frauds You can do it that way !;
but you cannot do it honestly. The people of
/ Kansas will snurn Your bribe They will make
a constitution they will come here asking ad-
mission You can keep them out if you choose
to do 50 but YOU keep them out at your
peril.
If the proposition made by the Senator from
Kentucky had been adopted, this whole Ques-
ton would have been settled to-day The peo-
pie would have taken a fair vote under men
appointed hy the concurrence Of beth parties
We should have had far vote on the Lp-
compton constitution Il would have been
voted down uuquc>tionaby by an oyerwhelu
ing majority. Then the people would have
made new constitution and adopted it. and
the President would have made his procama-
/ ton. and Kansas wonld have been sister Of
the Confcderacy. That proposition, made hY
the Senator from Ken tucky. and accepted by
Us in both Houses promptly, would have cos
cd this whole Kansas controversy and have
closed it forever ] tell the Senator from Nir-
g;uia Mr HUNTER who talks of truce. tha,
this is 40 truce. He could not draw a bill.
with all his ingenuity, thar would have less of
peace in it. Every man vino knows the con
d..i0n Of affairs in Kansas knows that the
people now want to come into the Union, that
they will never accept your L"compton consti-
tuition unless Won count them in frauduentlv !:
that they Will make a constitution and come
here and ask admission If you admit them
YOU may then close it. bnt you DO not close it
bv this scheme for you say they shall not be
admitted until they have a certain number of
inhabitants You may admit them in spite Of
this restriction aud close the controversy bnt
if YOU meat to adhere to the provisions of this
act, You have on hand an open controversy,
running through months-perhaps years
Now von will adopt this measure, think
but YOU will have to pay the penalties for it,
depend upon that. II is a proposition you
cannot defend here-you cannot defend it any
where listened to the Senator from Nir-
giuia the other day and if any man can de-
fend This measure lie can do il; | listened 20
the Senator from Missouri listened ve>ter-
day to the speech Of the Senator from Ohio,
Mr. PUGH = | have listened today TO the