Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1858-05-04
From the philadelphia Press
Colonel FOrDcy On the EMghsh
ErryersEcra1
WAsHINeTcE, April 25.

since Saturday mormUgs tnaba seI'o~S ~
ection had taken place IN the ranks oi the
National Democratic members who have J
been steadily opposing the LecomPton !
raud, and that on Monday the Engllshed
from the Conference Com
mittee would be adopted. Al this moment
| am happy 10 inform the readers Oh Inc
Press that the column which stood tiTm on
Friday and Saturday still stands firm. IL
is true that some distinguished names are
mentioned in connection with tins oe-
fection, and that the hopes OF the Admin
istration are considerably elated ut TINS
hour of writing; but the mole the EnSllsh
is discussed, the more odious
1t must become TO every intelligent citizen'
The proposition of submission Is adroitly
presented; but the fact which Will strike
the popular heart eyerywhere, and when
is sipnally consistent with the whole trick
ery of this entire Lecompton business, Is
this: that if the people of Kansas VIII vote
for the Lecompton Constitution, then, and
in that case, they will be admitted into tile
Union; but, ifthey reject it, they must walt
the time when they have reached popu-
lation sufficient to entitle.them TO kep-
resentatiye, (93, 900. at present, ard about
12O 900 under the new apportionment OF
1860, J which will keep them out four or
Eve years longer, leaving them IN the
meantime under the control Of the same
pro- slavery influence which has oppressed
them from the beginning. In other words,
Lecompton, with its protection and per-
petuation of slavery, shall be made the Con-
stitution of Kansas, with population, ac-
cordnp to the pro- slavery men themselves,
of not more than SO, 900; while, if the peo-
ple reject it, and proceed to make Con-
stitution of their own, they will be kept
knocking at the doors of Congress until
they have attained the requisite ratio of
population!
The English bill, in order to secure the
support OF the Southern extremists, omlts
that portion of the Original Senate bill re-
ported by Senator Green, upon which 80
:, much stress was laid for the purpose OF
capturing weak Democrats, that pro-
claimed the doctrine that the people OF
Kansas could Immediately proceed to alter
the Lecompton Constitution outside OF the
provisions of the Constitution itself. You
will recollect that, on this theory, power
full appeals have been made to the people
: of the North to agree to Lecompton. Mr.
+ Buckalew, of our State Senate, based his
plausible, yet unsound, report upon It,
while John Van Buren and others rune
the changes upon it until it was elevated
into new article Of the Democratic faith
= But now Mr.. English, in order to obtair
the SUPPORT of the seventy-six Southern
Democrats in the House, who lately volet
e to strike out that provision, deliberately ex
punges it from the new programme, an'
= SO leaves Lecompton purely and simply
: pro slavery Constitution.
II This plan is the inauguration not onl.
!. of n new but a most dangerous principle
Il 1t is flying in the face of the entire actlo
/ of the Democratic party. No man VII
Il votes for it from free State can ever OK
/ pect to stand before the awful tribunal
Il popular Indignation and investigation. l
Il 1854 the entire Democratic party vote
= for the admission of Kansas, when tn
~ number of her population was far belo
What is at the present day, and in 1876
the Administration planted itself upc
y the theory that the Kansas Nebraska 81
5? was an enabling act of itself, and now,
at clap the climax, we have Mr.. EnSlls
" coming forward with a proposition to az
=. NIT Kansas into the Union with PR
W slavery constitution, in the face OF the az
Ut mission that the popula tion ot the Ierl
a tory is but Sc 900; while, in the same oh
d! he takes care to insert prohibition again
~ her admission under any other Constt
ton until she has attained new and
~ creased ratio Of population!
H. II 1t is not pretended by the opponents
mt this new scheme that hereafter steat
ID, ratio shall not be applied to the new Stat
&C. asking for admission into the Union, D
III we protest against this shuff1ing incons
" tency, and these dishonoring diserimin
es! tions against the people Of Kansas, mere
to to crafty false pride of power, and
IN? save these Southern gentlemen who ha
ou placed themselves upon record as resolv
T, to 90 out of the Union should Kansas
~ be forced into it with the Lecompt
AL brand upon her brow.
in The intelligent citizens will percel
axe that the compromise, SO miscalled, pl
uo vides that Kansas can only be admit
:, into the Union as a slave State.
-, l regard this entire English program
M AS in the last degree Objectionable.
lon will not be settlement, but continuat
in of dissession. Every National Democr
ost who has heretofore voted against Leoon
Co., ton, and now ~otessfoR this programn
hopelessly stuItifes himself. He will
ave before his constituents with the brand W
his brow, and will lose, not only his 81
respect, but the confidence and respect
'or- men of evory other party. The Repa'
be cans will fling into his teeth his vote
.r, favor Of the Lecempton Constitna
u, which he has SO often denounced, his
wn' dorsement Of the odious distinction as
eld: ratio between a slave Coustitutien and
rity that would be free, and also his appro
Col. of the idea, SO Extensively set forth in
pom Calhoun contrivance, and so ostentatiou
The abandoned by the Administrator org
rive Tut retained in the English dH, } viz:
had doctrine that the people Of Kansas n
t at not alter the Lecompton Constitution III
ETY., 1864, and only then according to
!. in e.ronasest nrnvisinns of the Constitution