The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-05-06

Congress thus endorses the infamy of
the Administration and does all it can
to fasten Slavery oman unwilling peo-
pie. This bill exceeds in impudence
and audacity any otter proposition for
the humiliation. of tie North, that the
South ever devised. The odious Flu
gitive Stare Law, which converted the
soil of the North into hunting ground
for the capture of men, women and
children the breaking down of the
Missouri Compromise, which created
political revolution in all the free States;
the decision of the Supreme Court, in
the bred Scott case, sink into compar-
alive insigifcance, when placed by
the side ofthis last grand swindle, by
which decentralization of the North is
completed.
1t will be seen that this bill provides
that Kansas, now containing popula-
ton of some $4,000 sonls may come
into the Union as Slave State under
the Lecompton Constitution, if she de-
sires SO to 10; but, that if the propo-
sition of Congress is not accepted, and
she expresses preference for white
men and white labor, she must wait
until her census entities her one repre-
sentative, or in other words, until she
has $4,000 people within her limits.
The question now naturally arises:
What will the people of Kansas do?
Will the Free State men-who are ac-
knowledged to be in the majority in the
territory-be. dIoaced to vote on this
question, and thus vindicate their own
honor, and forever crush the machina-
tons of the. slave power there? Or
will the Administration use all the
means which it possesses to fasten this
Iiquity upon them? Now what power
dees the Administration possess for the
accomplishment of the end sought in
this English bill-the elfslavement of
, Kansas. Letu see. In the first place
the coitrol of the election is placed
wholly within the power of the Execu-
! tive. 1t will be conducted by Board
: consisting Of three Federal ohice-hold-
ers and two Republican heads of the
Kansas Legislature. VIII the Presi-
dent constitute this new Board fairly
Has anything been done fairly by the
f Administration in Kansas? Theii ii
will be recollected that he has lately re-
I moved a man from the post of Mashal
.t~F the Territory, for the reason thctIIse
would not coz-nNe az e- assist III con-
summating the enormous and palpable
frauds perpetrated on the 21st of De-
cember and 4th of January last. Will
he not, also, remove ans many who may
attempt to conduct this election fairly
and honestly? We think it is plain
that he will. Again, the District At
toney, who is es-e1fcio one of the
Board of Election Commissioners, gave
an opinion last fall which, if enforced
would have DISTINGUISHED nearly the
whole body of Free State inhabitants
He will, no doubt, renew that opinion
especially when he remembers thai
Gov. Walker and Secretary Stanton
; were removed for opposing it.
Thus it will be seen that in order tx
make Kansas Free State, and crust
this iniquity, the advocates of freedom
must go to the polls prepared to suffel
even martyrdom at the hands of thu
President and his minions, or see Kan
. sas forever doomed.
r We omit the formal statement of tn,
t land grants, which are as follows: Fo
. school purposes, sections 16 and SO o
each township; seventy-two section
for a State University; ten sections t.
pay for public buildings. All the sal
springs in the State, not exceeding l.
in number, and six sections of LAM
with each; five per cent. of proceeds Q
sales of public lands for the construc
ton of State roads. With this brib
, held out to the people of Kansas fo
submission. here is the Act:
SEC. 1. That the State of Kansa
be, and is hereby admitted into til
, Union, on an equal footing with til
n criminal States, acith the Constitutio
n framed at Leconpto,a, and this admi
o sion of her into the Union as a State
. here declared to be upon this fund:
= mental condition precedent, namely
I That the said instrument shall be frs
n submitted to vote of the people {
n Kansas, and assented to by them or
8 majority of the votes, at an election t
g be held for that purpose At said elet
ton the voting shall be by ballot, a
$ each voter may please, propositio
:, accepted" or "proposition rejected.
It Should the majority of votes be Gas
g for proposition accepted" the Pres
q dent of the United States, as soon a
= the fact is duly made known to hin
l. shall announce the same by proclaim;
y ton, and thereafter, and without an
i further proceedings on the part of Coz
!, gress, the admission of the State {
Kansas into the Union on an equs
footing with the original States, in a
h respects whatever, shall be complet