The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1858-10-28

able PRACTICAL oDetlcles In the way VI oDsc.i"S
for you nomination in another district. these
obstacles are so apparent to all persons famillar
with party movements, that need not ennme-
rate them to you.
"The breach of confidence | speak OF 1t
only as an act of indiscretion) by you in giving
general publicity to Mr.. Brega's private
memorandum Of our conference, would OF 1t.
self deprive you of any claim upon me, based
upon . stipulation you had already violated.
IL the leaders ofTammsny Hall and the Five
Points are lost to all sense Of shame it is to be
hoped thsk n the mass of the party there ID q
modicum of honor and good faith which will
manifest itself at the approaching elections.
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.sdl .z,aa OREGON AND KANSAS.
At the last session of Congress, the friends
of the Administration, having everything their
own way, passed through both branches of that
body bill to admit Kansas into the Union
under q ProSlavery Constitution, although it
was well known that the population fell far
short of the Congressional apportionment of
! SO ,423; and with a degree of contemptuous
insolence for the Northern people, beyond all
parallel, they declared, in the terms of the bill,
that unless the people of Kansas should vote
to accept the Pro Slavery Constitution, fraudu-
lently concocted by an outside gang of rufians
and political gamblers, they should not come
into the Union at all, until their population
should become about double what it was then
known to be. The Republicans and the Oppo-
sition of al shades denounced this disgusting
Partially to Slavery before the people in the
recent Congressional campaigns in Pennsylva-
MIA and other States, and notwithstanding the
fact that the candidates in the interest of the
| Administration, without an exception, attempt
ed to evade the issue, by consenting to admit
Kansas without reference to the amount of
population, the dodge failed to save them from
the popular condemnation which their base
subserviency TO the Slave Power merits.
In the face of these historical facts, which
no man having the slightest regard for truth
would for moment dispute, the friends of the
Administration can still muster the GOODNESS to
insist upon the clause in the English bill which
threatened Kansas, if she should reject the Pro-
Slavery Constitution, with exclusion from the
Union until her population amounted to SO, 42S.
And what must we think of Northern men, who
are so lest to selfrespect as to support an Ad-
ministration whose policy it lie to make an
odiously partial and insulting discrimination
in favor of slave over free State
Notwithstanding that English aud Cox, and
the rest of them, whether elected or defeated,
abandoned this insulting proviso in the Eng
lish bill, the organs of the Administration in
this city, and further South, affect Indignation
at the thought that Black Republicans and
" Douglas Democrats" should harbor the trail
torous purpose of bringing Kansas into the
Union before she acquires the "requisite popu
lation" under the English bill
The Legislature of Kansas Territory, recently
elected, will not assemble, we believe, until ANU
airy, when it will be too late to appoint day for
holding an election for delegates to a State Con-
vention, for the Convention to meet and frame
q Constitution, and for the Constitution to be
ratified by second vote of the People, in time
to be presented to Congress before the 4th of
March. But it has been suggested that the sub
ject will come before Congress in another form
1t is probable that the Kansas Territorial Legis.
lature will petition Congress for permission to
organize a State Government, without refer.
ence to the question of population and then
we shall see stested the power of the Slavery
Propagandists over their Northern allies, ii
hope to evade it.
The course pursued by the Administration
and its friends has been equally false and
treacherous, as it regards Oregon. They put
through bill at the last session of Congress
for the admission of Oregon into the Union as
State, without asking questions about the
number of its inhabitants but, it is well known
from the vote polled at the most recent cleo.
tons, and from the testimony of intelligent OBJ.
servers, that the population was not more than
forty FIVE, or, at the utmost, fifty thousau6 This,
however, was matter of no sort of consequence,
90 long as there remained no doubt of the faith.
full allegiance of the embryo State to the Black
Democracy. The bill had passed the Senate,
and would have gone through the House of
Representatives without question, if doubt
had not arisen as to what might be the result
of the then pending elections. Untoward news
had reached the Atlantic shores, and the party
a. we learn on respectable authority held a
caucus, and resolued to let the bill sleep until
the next session, when the political complexion
of the new State would be known. We know
the result. The friends of the party in power,
as is generally the case in the new Territories,
whore patronage Is all powerful, have carried
the day, and elected a Representative and two
Senators, who from inclination or party drill
yin support the ProSlsvery policy of the Pres.
dsnt. There is therefore no longer any cause
for hesitation, and the very presses which are
horri6ed ct the thought of violating the terms
of The English bill in regard to Kansas, will be
foremost in welcoming Oregon, with a smaller
population, but with Democratic" Senators
and Representative, into the family of States.
The Administration will, without scruple
enter into the nefarious conspiracy with the
! Southern fre-eaters, at the next session of Con
gress, to exclude Kansas with sixty or eighty
thousand inhabitants, because the Republican
party predominates in its councils, while il
will urge the admission of Oregon with forty
Eve or City thousand, because it is faithful in
its allegiance to the slave interest. This is the
policy already marked out, and all unjust, bare
faced, and unprincipled, as it shows its author.
to be, we predict that it will be followed up te
the bitter end. They have been overwhelm
ed with shame and ignominy BY the re-
suit Of the recent elections, but We predict tha
they will persevere. They are conscious tina
their Northern popularity is irretrievable, ant
they will stick the closer to the slave oligarchy