Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1858-09-09
How Kansas is TO be disposed of.

HOW Kansas is to be disposed OF.
If Kansas had adopted the English swim
die, she would have been admitted as a
State, her vote in favor of that rascality being
the evidence, in the eve of the President,
of her anxiety 10 come inio the Union; but
her rejection of that swindle is to be inter
preted, he says, as an evidence other anx-
iety to stay out of the Union. Thus speaks
the Washington Union, the Presidents or
gan:
"After all the contests which have vast
ed the energies of her people, and scattered
firebrands throughout the Union, aUe noao
hare her solemn decision that she prefers
territorial to a State government. Jud-
ging from the arguments most successfully
used in the canvass which has just terrni-
mated, that decision aoas made upon the de-
.Si5erate conviction that the people Of Kan
sas were either una5le or unacilling to an
dertake the support of a State government.
Of this fact none were so competent to de-
side as the people of Kansas. Their de-
cision is now made, and let it be carried
out"
Now, to our mind, it would seem more
rational TO conclude that the people ofKan,
sas rejected the English proposition be-
cause it was one ofthe grossest rascalities
of the day, and not because they wish to
stay out of the Union. They are anxious
to come in as State, but they are not
willing to pay the price of dishonor to get
in. The President lays down bripe to
coax them to come in-they say, we can
not take the bribe;; therefore, says the
President, they do not want to come iR
This is Presidential logic.
The Richmond Enquirer, one of the
few Southern papers that can see the length
of its nose before its face, is not slow to
perceive the drift of this logic. 1t says.
"Whether it is the part of wisdom TO
pcrpetuate the agitation that has lately
subsided, and to make the refusal to admit
Kansas the great question in 1860 for the
division of parties on sectional grounds,
may well address itself to the reflection of
the slave-holding States. Such refusal
would become the rallying cry of Northern
fanatieism, and under its potent influence
the entire North would rally, we fear, to an
overwhelming sectional victory. In our
opinion, it Vould be highly improper to
adopt a ratio Of population, for slare
State, different from that appointed for a
free State. Equal and exact justice to
both slave and free States is the only
ground upon which the Southern States
can maintain their claim to equal rights
an the federal Union. A policy the same
for both slave and free States should be
the demand of the South. Upon such a
policy they can maintain their just demands
at the hands of the North' and upon such
platform only can the Southern States
hope to meet their allies at the North"
True. If the present population of Kan
sas is sufficient to enlitle her to admission
as slave State, (which would have been
accomplished if the English proposition had
been accepted it is enough to entitle her
to admission as free State; and if that
admission is refused by the administration,
the refusal will be made the rallying cry of
the opposition in 1860. The people of
Kansas hsve been trying for three years to
get into the Union-and the attempt to
construe their rejection of the English bribe
as an indication of their desire to remain
out, is the paltriest trick ever essayed in
the juggle of politics. The people of the
North cannot be deceived by it. They de-
mand equal rights in the Union, and will
have what they demand.
All attempts to make slave State of
Kansas having failed, and the last hope of
doing so almost gone-;,ie South must be
compensated" for the failure 'by keeping
her out as a free State, for an indefinite
number of years. That is good, and it
will do us all good to know it.
Let us wait and see how the scheme
works; but in the meantime let US watch
closely the Congressional districts, and Sc
cure, this year, the return of men TO Con-
gress who will make the administration
vince under Northern thunder.-Pihs-
burgh Gazette.