The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1858-05-15

the foregoing rates
or public buildings to grant the use Of salt spring. and
minerals and 10 for the Of the States the two
funds and the three funds for Internal
imrro verents and roads out cl all sales public
lands within a State. I'D GtiHi hiAiiali.
There is no instance OF the admission of State into
the Union having public lands but these terms either
prescribed for the action Of the constitutional convenon
imposed by subsequent legislation ON the admission OF
the State.
" louisiana Is example Of condition precedent Inn
posed by the enabling act In the third section OF the
act of Congress Of lSl by which the people Of the Ter
tQry of Orleans authorized to form constitution
and State government for admisson into the Union in
addition TO the requirements affecting the constitution to
be made stpulating that il should be republican, and
making very anomalous requisition that the laws of
the State should be promulgated in the English Ian
guagc~-it provided condition for this perms
sion that the convention should pass al ordinance
ognising these rights OF eminent domain, freedom from
taxtion and open highway the rivers to the United
States Tho considerations for these usually contained
in the ordinance reserved for separate legislation
the rights Of the United States preserved in the
/ cenlliANri' ot admission 6.ff anoifNf{ {aa5 ssA
sIhe case OF Arkansas a southern State admitted In
1896 is more decidedly in analogy with this OF Kan
sas beeauseit precisely that of State constuton
recognised, and the admission Of the state into the Union
made nevertheless subject to the condition that the land
| ordinance which accompanied il should be essentially
changed. bsff
In January, 1886, convention of the people OF Ar
kansas made constitution which they sent to Congress
for admission hereunder ~ State accompanied by the
| customary ordinance. The constitution accepted
the ordinance rejected This will be found in the OF
admission dated June Is, 1886 That act is followed
in its order and terms 10y the act which has just passed in
regard to Kansas 1t admits the State in the usual terms
member of the Union, terms of equality with the
original States In the third section it imposes condi
t" The State of Arkansas is admitted into the Union
CONDITION that the people Of the State
shall interfere with the primary disposal OF the
public lands within the States and that nothing within
tbo Inv
ALL any, of the propositions contained in the ordinance
| of the said convention Of Arkansas
"a separate act passed off engthe considera
tons for the grants in the of other States to
be accepted by the State in another ordinance but the
admission of the State made contingent the ecog
milton Of the rights of the United States which
provided for in the ordinance which sent with the
constitution.
" These cases cover the law and the practice in re-
gard to the present Of Kansas and the conference
| measure. M ae,et ~
" The Kansas convention not only insludes claim to
all the grants and reservation made In favor Of other
States, but adds Others extravagant and inasissbly
It oni the usual and essential recognition of
the United States to ths lands and asserts positively the
right of the State to tax them The quantity Of land
which would be required to satisfy her ordinance il
pnted at the land Office to reach to nearly thirty millions
of The sole condition attached to her admission
into the Union is that she should renounce these pre-
TENSIONS and accept the terms, literally reproduced
which have been accepted by other States entering
| into the same reciprocal engagements, =
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the people Of Kansas the the Minnesota
bill just passed Congress and to repeat that the
of land granted Is similar to what has been given other
States The Of bestowing it Is also similar
Kansas her past acts touching her domestic instit
uons' untouched and If she chooses come into
the Union upon the liberal conditions of this BILL
perfect footing aud equality with the other States it is
her privilege TO do 50. r9} X. Ea4
But it may be said that majority Of the people Of the
Territory will vote against the propositions Of Congress
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true, then all that Is worth gote the South has been
gained in the adoption Of the present bill because it
knowledges the validity Of the Lecompton convention
regulating the domestic concerns of the Territory and
repudiaes the abolition dogma of the admission of
slave States If 1t be true that majority of the legal
voters of the Territory opposed to the establishment
of slavery, they would soon convert the Lecompton
stituton into an abolition instrument 1t the State is
not to be slave State permanently, all the stake the
South has had in the settlement of the difficulty is the
recognition of the principle that people in organizing
| their government preparatory to their admission into
the Union, have perfect right to form their inst-
tutions and this principle has been fully recognised in
| the case of Kansas. M
Viewed in a sectional aspect in one important particu
lar the which has just received the sanction of
Congress is favorable to the South than the orgi
nal Senate bill By the latter the Legislature of
Kansas would have proceeded at to elect United
States senators; and Calhoun having awarded both
branches Of that body to the ee-tac party they would
undoubtedly havo chosen those archfends Of mischief
Lane and Robinson The period OF election Ii postponed
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the councils of the country the presence of those pes
lent traitors rt 88
In taking this yiaw Of tho subject we have considered
in its true merits without regard to the fact that it
reported by those shrewd able and faithful southern
statesmen Green Hunter and Stephens and that il
supported by the almost unanimous votes Of the ultra
men Of the South in Congress- embracing the southern
members of the committee together with such
Mason Hammond, Clay, and Toombs ia the Senate and
Quitman and the extreme southern of the Carroll
| mas Georgia. and Alabama IN the House Nor have
taken into account the fact that it steadastly and
with Douglas and Ctcnen at the head Of their respec
| tive squads of traitors and actioniss t8sfage
But in announcing this result have no congratula
tions to offer to readers nor have word OF
soztion to offer to the future The Kansas struggle
has not been without its II s developed the abo
ltion programme of operations against the SOUTH and
revealing the wicked ntents of that party it has reveal
ed ts vgor ts energy, and its strength It has made
manifest the increasing incompatbility growing of
different systems of labor. and diverse schemes of civ
cation between the two sections 1t has taught the South
that the time is fast approaching when she will be
PEELED to rely upon her inherent strength and her
own brave spirit for protection and the maintenance of
her rights But party is left in the country which
sets up claim to nationality The socalle sNationa
American party is myth In the severe battle which
has been fought Kansas did not bring to the aid
States and it is fact patent to every southern man
that but for the compactncss and discipline of the demo
cratic organization aided by such Southern Americans as
zocotr, Ready, Maynard, and Eustis the congrcsson
al ban of black repubcanism would have been placed
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