Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1858-07-22
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if we voted.down the English bill We would
never get a cent to assist us in building
railroads, Government houses, and Univer-
sites of learning. All these the people
would have 10 build by their own unaided
enterprise. He argued that We would get
from the FIVE per cent. of the proceeds of
the Land Sales, enough to sustain a State
Government for five years, and if We had
State Government more people would
emigrate to the country; we would work
quietly and harmoniously, and our domestic
troubles would cease. He thought that if
we were once organized into State Gov
err ment, we were beyond the control of
the Federal Government, ard might call a
new Constitutional Convention, form a
new Constitution, and adopt it without
trouble No man OF the least intelligence,
he said, imagined that Kansas could now
be made Slave State. All The Lecomp-
ton Constitutions that could be formed,
with the combined power of dozen such
Administrations as BAchanan,S, could not
bring about such a result. Kansas was
free, and had been for year past. 1t was
useless to deny it. The English Bill
granted us no power to determine in favor
Of another Constitution. 1t was State
under tie Lecompton Constitution. or none
at alb Ii we could obtain admission under
any other Constitution, he would oppose
the English Bill, but he thought we ought
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not now get il under any other. The
Democratic party. he said, had, by their
course on the Lecompten question, thrown
away the only plank IN their platform that
was not roltssns s,and the only bond which
ne dsriss.zt ssahsr. That plank vas the
doctrine of"Sauatter Sovereignty" The
Democratic party was dead. No power on
earth could revive it. The present Ad-
mihistration would 60 out of Office not only
with the memory of its injustice to Kansas
to condemn it, but by a reckless and profit
gate expenditure of the public money, it
uuId leave the Government almost bank
rupt, and if the National debt, at the close
Of the four years, fell low $500 .OOO, 900,
the whole policy of the Administration
would have to cha nge. All this is the
work of the Democratic party, and has
killed it. He argued that it was the inten-
ton of the trainers of the English B Il to
have it rejected, in order to keep the two
Republican Senators and a Republican
delegation out of Co igress, and by waiting
against the English Bill we do Just what
the Administration wants us to. We
should defeat their wish hes. We could get
no men of stability and capital to settle in
Kansas unit. we have peace and quiet.
In reply to the Doctors ar guments, Sec
re!ary Stanton made few remarks. He
said that the position that men Of enter
prise and capital would not settle in Kan
sas until we were admitted as a State, or
that the people of the States would not all
US with their means in prosecuting works
of public improvement. was not tennble.-
What people could have confidence in our
honesty or pGtr. .otism, if we, after denounc-
ing the LecomptoD Constitution, and pro-
claiming that we would never consent to
it as Government, should now meanly
abandon our position, anu cowardiy forsake
our princi pies. No, let Us FATHER STOW the
world an example of people who sPurn
seif- interest for the sake of glnrious faith,
and sCorn to be either driven or bribed into
accepting Constitution We can only look
upon with loa,hing. He agreed with the
Doctor, however. that the Democraiic
party was utterly destroyed.
AT the conclusion of Mr.. Stnnton's sec
ond speee., K. NcBktney, Esq, inrres-
ponse to loud calls, rame forward and
briefly addressed the meeting. Mr.. Nc
Bratney wss the only avowed Republican
thai spoke, and his address was charter
lzed by freedom of thought and ex?res
sion exhibited by none of the others, be
cause he was unlrammeled by party bonds.
He spoke Of the English Bill as thing so
despicable in its every feature that the
thought Of it's adoption by the people could
not be tolerated for a moment. No argu-
ment could be adtuced in favor of our ad.
mis- sion at the present time, which would
not be equally applicable with the next
Congress. That Congress would oe thor
oughy Republican. and as the Republicans
are now, and ever have been, the on iy true
friends of Kansas, wezmay expect to re-
ceive from them that justice which had
been denied us by the DEMOCRATIC parity
AS men, we ought TO defeat this English
Bill; as freemen we ought not to submit to
it, and as Republicans the duty of voting
it down was imperative.
At the conc lusion Of Mr.. McBratney's
Col. Abell followed, taking strong
grounds in favor OF the English Bill, be-
cause it was to the pecuniary interest OF
Kansas to do so. And yet the Democrats
of the Free States deny that the English
Bill contains brlbe!
A Good Selection.