The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1858-05-06

Nothlhg, DuG very orlel u!siH1Ssdi y!
the Kansas question from the feGr OF the
two Houses. This bill settles nothing,
establishes nothing, but leaves al at as
loose ends as ever.
/ The original Lecomptcn bill had at least
this merritt assumed to be q fnaiity.
! Kansas might upset or transform the Con
sritution thereby imposed on her, but Con
gress was precluded from again neddling
with the subject, True; the question
would have oueAaqk a=ajn, in the shape
of contested elections TO the House or
Senate, or bath; lat the bill contemplate
ed nothing Of the sort. 1t professed 10
remit All that ramained OF the controversy
TO the People of Kansas. And what Mr..
Green's bill fully protessed to do, the Crit,
tenden- Montgomery bill actually did
That bill said to the People OF Kansas,
. Ratify the Lecomptou Constitution ii
"you like it, and you are IN the Union ;
- if y,u don't Ike it, frame another and
" fairly ratify it, and you will then be in
1.-The Union. without further action BY
Congress. Here was an end of con-
tention, balm for agitation, a practical
end OF controversy. The People of Kan
sas might quarrel further, should they see
fit: bat Congress resolved and pledged
itself to do nothing but secure them fair
play. But this English bill does not even
aspire to be iaat L says, AceeEt the
.; l,and-Grant as we nave fixed it, and We
" shall consider you in the Unioa under
. the LGcomptQp instrument; rejact it.
and you may not forn another Gansu-
q tuition until census shall have shown
- that YOU possess population equal to
= the Federal ratio for Member of the
F." House" In one case, Kansas comes in
at once as Slave State, receiving large
bonus from the Land Sales about to take
place in the other, she waits fer a much
larger population. an Official census, for
NAL proc'a nation of the fact, q Convention
and new Constitution, and an acceptance
Of the latter by Congress. The strong
probability is that this viii keep her out
at least two years longer. For What?
Five thousand sophiSts, each gifted
with miraculous and well-oiled tongues,
could not effaca the fact that here are
heavy bribes offered, and menaces held
out, to a harrassed, struggling, impoyer-
ished community, designed to lmpci them
TO accept a Slave Constitutions on the
plea that they can change it at pleasure.
Here are sold, paipab!e, immediate ad-
vantages profercl to tempt them to this
course, with corresponding penalties to be
incurred by standing OUT. Ifthey reject
Lecompton by rejecting the modified
Land Grant, they get no Lands at pres
ent. no provision for Railroads, nc five
per cent. on the Proceeds of the Lands
about to be sold; aud they are thrust
back into Territorial vaSsa!age Tor an in
definite period, with Denver for their
Governor, Lecompte and Cato for their
judges, and Buchanan fof' their Grand
Seignlor.
These arc long odds; but the People
of Kansas are too strong for them. They
will spurn the bribs; they will hold fast
their integrity; they will remain Terri
tory under mauy disadvantages rather
than dtop into the Union a slaveholding
: State. Two or three thousand OF them
may, perhaps, 60 in for Lecompton,
wealth aud infamy, swelling the Pro
> Slavery vote to Five Thousand; but this
will not reduce the Free-State vote below
Ten Thousand. \ full poll is the only
requisite; the popular WEAKNESS Of cleo
ton after election which settles nothing,
: accomplishes NOTHING, is the only danger.
The Federal Administration has most
unwsely decreed that Kansas shall still
be watchword in our National struggles
t rhe Crittenden-M Montgomery bill would
nave obviated this Congress would glad
! ly have passed that bill; but the Execu-
: tive was implacable BY Cabinet inhu-
: ence and Presidential patronage, the Kan
sas feud has been kept open; there will
be no more cessation till Kansas is fully
D in the Union the acknowledged Free
: State that all know her rlgntfully to be
We give her oppressors fair notice that
| the unjust disabilities imposed on her BY
the English bill are utterly secuted BY
!, earnest Free-State men; that thc popu-
lAtion which is confessedly Large enough
c for a Slave State Will b. held sufficient
4 Tor a Free State that il the foolish, use
less, cuipahle constitution Of an Election
a Board consisting OF three Federal officer:
: To two elected Dy her People, shall b(
made cloak for foul voting or false re
d -urns, those votes, those retqrns, will b,
t rendered Of no avail; aud that BY largo
{ majority of the People, all other Issue.
0 viii be postponed or suborlinated urti
: Kansas shall have been fully delivered
from her orpressors and added 10 ta'
e galaxy of Free States.
b So, Messrs. Lccomptonites, move on
The New EiquOT BILL.
The new Liquor License Bill, whicI
: mas passed both Houses, CONTAINS twenty