Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-05-13
The kansas DimcuIty settled.

The Kansas D~ificuIty Settled.
The Pennsylvania says: Tho Re-
port of the Committee of Conference on
the disagreement of the two Houses on,
the bill admitting Kansas into the
Union, was yesterday adopted in both
branches of tho National Legislature,
and thus the Kansas controversy has
been brought to a close so far as Con
gross is concerned. Yhc
of the fact, so gratifying to the true
friends of the American Union, caused
the most intense feeling among all class
es of the community. Men shock each
other by the hand as they did during
the war of 1912, when they were r%ejoic-
ing at the news of Victory gained over
the forces of the ancient enemy of the
nation andits liberties. Old and young
politicians and those who do not minele
in active movements of political char
acter, all Joined in the general JOY which
filed the public mind on the happy ter,
mination of a struggle which at one time
was full of t~hreatenings for the future,
and mcnaced the Republic with consc-
quenecs: that mustb be fatal to that union
and harmony upon which the p1ospcri-
ty Of its people alone depends.
But the m~achinations of the enemies
of the Union have been defea+ ed, and
the people of Kansas can now enter the
Union under a Constitution of their own
making, and on a petfectequality with
the citizens of the other States of the
Union. They have net been insulted
by the adoption of conditions precedent
to their admission, nor has the Congress
Eof the United States been degraded by
ia formal proposition to sanction a Con-
stitutien, by the express terms of which
negroes are put on an equolity with white
men, and allowed political franchises
equal to the whites. All this has been
avoided by the adoption of the Report
of the Committee of Conference, which
in fact is a full endorsement Of the SEN
ate bill for the admission Of kansas un-
der the Lecompton Constitution. Ev-
cry point has been gained for which the
Democratic party c~ontended. The le-
gality of the Lecompton Convention
has been officially acknowledged by the
Senate and House of Representatives,
and the same bodies have put upon re-
cord their attestation to the lawfulness
Of the Constitution formed by the Lee
compton Convention, as well as their
assent to the doctrine that Congress has
10 right to dictate to people in what
particular way their Constitution shall
receive the sanction ola popular endorse
mcnt. All these cardinal doctrines of
the Democratic party have been fully
endorsed by the action of Congress in
accepting the Report of the Committee
Of Conference, aud hence the result is Of
the highest Importance, as furnishing
the pillar of cloud by day, and the pillar
of fire by night, which is to guide the
party in all future contests ss a like
character. -as ...
The vote upon the adoption of this
Report is most interesting to every
Democrat. 1t shows that the National
| Democracy arc once more united; that
the organization of the party is safe from
the danger of being either corrupted
by Kansas r. broken down by bold,
desperate men; that the principles of the
party, and the policy of the venerable
and patriotic Chief Magistrate of Ma
ton, have received a full measure of APP
probation and support from the true
men of the Democratic faith, and the
Sectionalism and Anti-Slavery agitation.
though for a time embarrassing, must
in the end yield to the steady advances
u truth, reason and enlightened patri,
otismr. Never before, even in the DAYS
of its brightest triumphs, had the true
men ofthe party more reason to be proud
of the old organization which has come
out of this contest, like a giant with his
sword hacked, his shield bruised and
dinted, and his colors soiled with the
dust of the conflict, but still a conquer
or-still able to conquer, in the cause Of
truth. the people and the right
s-We see by the proceedings OF
Congress, of a late date, that it is in con
temptation to grant TO the soldiers of the
war of 1912, and of the several Indian
wars, pensions for their services. This
is an act of justice which ought to have