St. Cloud visiter [sic]. [volume] (St. Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1857-1858, 1858-07-22

The English-Kansas Bill. i
= We ask tho candid ,attentionsof alt0st.
readers to the following extract from the
speech of Senator: Seward, on the bill
which was, passed in Congress admitting
Kansas into the Union, If she will ac-
cept the Lecompton Constitution, and le-
fusing her admission under any other.
We ask the men Of Minnesota to settle
candidly in their own minds the question.
Is it right TO offer Kansas s, 600, 900 dol.
lars worth of the public lands as bride
FOR establishing slavery in their State?
Would it be right to give her that much
more than Minnesota received; and to give
it for the express purpose Of defeatingsthe
will of a large majority Of the people Of
Kansas? $50 - ,-atst 81
Mr. Crittenden is a southern man and
his amendment to the Lecompton bill said
expressly that the Constitution should be
subjected to direct vote of the people Of
Kansas. Il a majority were in. favor of
it, Kansas should be proclaimed one Of the
States. If a majority were opposed to it
they might, whenever they pleased, call a
Convention, make another constitution and
come up for admission under t,.just as
Minnesota did, an6 in either case they
should receive their full amount of the
public lands. Was not chat fair? Was
it not democratic? Was it not Squat
ter Sovereignty: Why then did almost
every Southern man. and some Northern
Democrats vote against it? The Republi-
cans every man voted for it: and we think
did wrong in doing so; 70, by that vote
they said they were willing to admit Kan
sas as slave State if the people of Kan
sas desired it, but they knew that the peo-
pie Of Kansas wanted free labor, and so
they voted as they did; but what about
the democrats who voted decidedly against
permitting the people Of State to choose
their own constitution?
Read Mr.. Stewards remarks:
have 70 state il. the irsi place, that the bill
makes up and presents 10 the people Of Kansas,
and 20 The country, fictitious or false issue.
When sly i,.lse, mean foreign or fictitious
question $. bstituteu to- thetrle one. The true
issue before Congress and the country, is the
question whether the people Of Kansas shall or
shall moi as condition Of coming into this
Union, have right 10 accept o. reject the Le-
comtou Constitution. Now, be- it understood,
that Congress gives TO every new State, when
it comes inio the Union, dowry taken from
the public land wi.hin It's borders. Every new
State receives i. III evc'y case. Upon the Civ
ing Of such dowry. OF upon the quantity or
extent Of it, spcakin; practically, no question
is ever raised in Congress The Lecompton
Convention seui al application OF q demand
for a large dowry, one larger than is usally al
lowed The Senate passed a bill putting aside,
tbrusting o"i of the way altogether, not only
the amount OF The dowry, but the giving oneat
ALL postponios it until another day; and con-
tented itself with barely dsclaiming, in the bill
an assent 20 the demand which the Lecompton
Convention, speaking in the behalf Of Kansas,
had made. --F.
-1he House of Representatives, in their bill
of the admission Of Kansas, treated The matter
in lae 81 re way. They turned to the Mime
SOFA L'!l: end copied from it into iheir Kansas
bill, which they sent to.lhe Senate, a provision
by which Nsnsas should receive dowry OK
ac'y equ, 10 tha, Of Minnesota.
From line beginning Of his debate to the end,
there was 10 discussion, no question raised
a5ou. the amount of the dowry, or the giving
it; or lhc withholding it, and it was never
heard Of
linen the spcakc, goes on to show that
MIR. English makes this undisputed ques-
ton O.; dove, lake the place Of the real
question u, issue.
I show The Senate next: second false
iasue presented in this new BILL an issue raised
concerning The actual amount Of population in
Kansas. The committee of conference find that
there is jus, population enough to make slave
State, and BY no means enough, not one half
enough, 10 make free State. There it Just
population enough 10 admit the State at once if
it will accept the Lccompton constitution, and
not population at all enough 10 admit it under
any oiher
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Mr.. President, have shown that this bill
gives to the people only show of choice be-
tween freedom and slavery. have next to
show That it provides for overriding, counter
acting, and defeating that very shadow a of
choice i" it shall be in favor of freedom. The
bill provides, not thai the people of Kansas, or
their Legislature or their authorities shall ap-
point the commissioners under whom the con-
templatcd election shall he held and it's results
ascertained, but il constitutes board to consist
Olive persons; and while it. allows two to be
named by The people of Kansas, il asks three
= TO, The President OF the United States Now,
sir, ',cre have been i've nganis appointed by
the F,cside.lt Of The United States 20 hold cleo
tons, and return results in the Territory Of
Kansas already, aud every one of them has
been dishonored aad disgracel for having
struggled 20 prevent fraud, and to certify the
truth about these elections. 2 9@ Is,
:; e. Il
Upo" what &, ou,lds is ills bill, thus shown
to DC so deeply Objectionable, recommended to
us: First, it is recommended as a compromise.