Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-09-30
keen it Before Ihe Poop e.

That the English Compromise Bill
referred the Lecompton Constitution t
the people of Kansas, which they re
jected, and keep it before the people
that the English Compromise Bill i
based on correct principles, and has beef
productive of much good to the coun
try.
Keep it before the people, that its ten
dency has been to allay sectional agita
ton aud remove all cause of hard feel.
ing between different portions of tho
Union.
Keep it before the people, that it has
healed the wounds of ''blceding Kan.
sas' and secured to her people the priv
ilcge of regulating their domestic af,
fairs in their own way, subject to the
Constitution of the United States
Keep it before the, that it has reuni-
ted the Democratic party and brought
all national and conservative men into
utilization with that political organiza-
tion.
Keep it beftre the people, that it has
relieved Congress from a complicated
and dangerous question, and prevented
further interruption to the transaction
of the public business.
Keep it before the people, that it stul-
tilted and demoralized the Republican
party causing members of that party to
exhibit duplieity and hypocrisy before
the face of the country, in pretending
to favor a measure (the Crittenden
Montgomery bilD under which Kansas
could come into the Union as a slave
State, and with only forty Thousand in
habitants contrary to their professions
in their national platform and otherwise.
Keep it before the people, that Kan
sos, by means of the English compro-
misc bill, is now at peace-that the re-
turns of the late election and other in
formation conclusively show that her
population will be sufficient to entitle
her to admission under that bill, when
ever hereafter she may properly apply;
and that when she does apply with a
constitution properly adopted and re-
publican in form, she will be admitted
by Democratic votes, and with or with
out slavery, as her owp people may de-
termine.'
Keep it before the people, that there
is no doubt but that Kansas will be ad-
mitted into the union under the Eng
fish bill as a Free State.
Keep it before the people, that the
opposition shrek for freedom but do
nothing to sccurc it; that every one Of
the nine free States admitted into the
Union within the last ifty-six years
were admitted by Democratic Congress
es, and all but one California under
FilTmore) under democratic Presidents.
Keep it before the people, that when
the Republicans charge that the Eng
fish bill contains a land bride or that it
proposes to grant more land than that
usually granted to new States, or more
was proposed to be granted by the
Crittenden Montgomery bill, they charge
what is not true.
Keep it before the people, that when
Kansas to form a constitution and
for admission into the Union, she
will be entitled to admission under the
English bill, with the same amount of
population for a free as for Il slave State;
and that all assertions of the Republi-
cans that it will, in that case, require a
greater amount of population for n free
State than it would for a slave State is
false and ~unfoundcd.
Keep it before the people, that there
is not one word of truth in the asser-
ton, made only by hypocrites and dem
agosucs, that the census referred to in
the bill is the dcccnnial census to be ia
ken in 1860 and 1870. The bill shows
directly to the contrary on its face, and
besides all persons the least familiar
with the legislation of the country know
the census in such cases is usually
taken under the Territorial authorities
and whenever they choose.
Keep it before the people, that what
The Republicans really want is s%ectinal
agitation, Office and spoils.