The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1858-04-29

with the English BILL as it involves an invidious
discrimination between new States, allowing
Kansas to come in imnsediately as q slave
State, but postponing her as free State till
she has ninety-three thousand population. He
is apprehensive, probably, that it may be drawn
into precedent, which may operate against
the admission of new slave States, should power
change hands. he has the reputation, too, of
being fsir-minded, honorable man, and may
revolt ct the mean discrimination attempted in
this case. How would Southern men feel and
act, had it been demonstrated again and again
that four-6fths of the People of Kansas were
anxious to come in as slave State, and
reckless majority in Congress, disregardiDg
their win, should virtually say TO them, Sanction
free-State Constitution imposed upon you by
usurpation, give the lie to all You have professed,
and you shall have instant admission and plenty
of land but reject this free-State Constitution,
follow out your own will and views of policy,
and you shall not come in as a State till you
have twice your present population, and as
to any grant of lands, we promise you nothing !:
how, We ask, would Southern men feel and
act in such an exigency? Can You imagine
that any man among them would originate
such proposition? Where are the Engishes
and Pendletons of the South
But, whatever the motives of Mr. Quitmsn,
it is certain that 30 greatly was he scandalized
by this English proposition, that he was anx.
ious to bring forward proposition, establishing
one rule for the admission of new States here
after, no matter what their institutions. His
political friends, however, showed him no for
bearance he was not allowed to submit his
proposition.
On the question of adopting the English mo-
ton of postponement (asamended) till thesecond
Monday of May, the vote stood-yeas 100, nays
104 and then the subject was postponed till
Wednesday. This result was brought about
by the absence of Mr.. Hill, of Georgia, who had
moved postponement for two weeks, and by the
votes of Trippe of Georgia, Chapman of Penn
sylvania, Cox and Lawrence of Ohio, who,
having voted with the Opposition on Saturday,
voted with the Administration and Mr. English
on Monday. Mr.. Chapman, we learn, declares
that his vote on that occasion is not to be re-
ceived as an indication of his purpose to vote
for the English bill, against which heis prepared
to vote. As to Messrs. Cox and Lawrence, the
Lecomptonites, we spprehend, calculate now
upon their aid. From present appearances,
the final struggle is approaching. Ere this
number of the Era reach our subscribers,
the telegraph may have announced its termins-
ton. The contest has been so protrscted, has
taken 80 many different forms, and SO often has
decision been prevented by unexpected
causes, that we do not feel authorized to pre-
dict the result, although we incline to the opin-
ion that the Janus STAGED measure will pass.
Should it pass, we shall then see whether the
People of Kansas are honest or dishonest !;
whether they are prepared to give the lie to
their professions of devotion to free institu
tons whether they can be hired to desert
their true friends, to sanction the usurpation
which has trampled them under foot, and the
Constitution which they have twice repudiated,
and to sustain President and Party which
have insulted and made war upon them, by
upholding Border Rufianism. We shall not be-
Geve them capable of such meanness and wick
edness. They have now the Territorial Gov
eminent. They can maintain peace, freedom,
order. They may be shut out of the Union by
the Slave Power and It's Democratic" Party
in this Congress, bat another Congress will do
them Justice. "Justice to Kansasa will be
the watchword of the popular elections from
henceforth, and Mr.. English and his followers
will have to yield place to men who will vindi-
cate the rights and the dignity and equality of
the free States, which they have betrayed.