Marshall County Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1855-1859, 1858-05-13
The Kansas Bill.

L TOm the DuudlO SOuIleT
The passage ofthe Cancellation bill meets
with general approval. The first effect of the
measure is seen in the restoration to unity
of the democratic party. Prominent organs
ofpublic opinion in the North west-the
Detroit Free Press, in Michigan, the Cleve-
land Plaindealer and Columbus Statesman,
in Ohio speaking in behalf of the mpor-
tant districts of country of which they re-
fleet the public sentiment, accept the bill
just passed as satisfactory modification of
the original project. The action of those
members of Congress who, formerly voting
for the Montgomery substitute, have now
supported and secured the passage Of the
conference committees measure, will be
sustained by their constituents, and APP
plauded generally as unselfsh and patri-
otto.
The effect of the measure is to leave it to
the people Of Kansas to determine whether
TO come into the Union with the Lecomp-
ton constitution, or to commence proceed
inSs anew to prepare for their admission as
a State
The great principles of popular sover
eighty, sustained by universal acceptance
throughout the country, is the prevailing
feature of the settlement achieved. This
it is that assures the triumph of u parry
by whose actions it was brought ,out.--
The Cancellation actwas passed by the dem
ocralic votes, against the solid republican
phalanx in both houses of Congress. is
approved by the democratic adminsra-
ton. We make no doubt it will be accep-
table to the great body of the people in ev
cry section of the country
From the N. Y. Journal of Commerce
The bill which has passed the House of
Representatives has been stgmatizei in
some quarters as a bride to the people of
Kansas. in asmuch as it provides for the
transfer to the State, on its organization. of
certain lands. for school purposes, the
erection Of public buildings, &c, making
such transfer, of course. dependent upon
the acceptance of the act. There is no
ground for such an impatation upon the
bill, for the amount Of land donated to Kan
sas, under its provisions. is less than one
fourth .he quantity claimed by the Le-
compton ordinance.--less, if we remember
correctly, than the Topekaitss asked for,--
and no more than the Minnesota and Ore
gon admission bills provide for giving to
those Territories. on their admission into
the. Union as State. 1t is the settled pol
icy, on the admission of new States, to grant
them lands. to a certain extent. for school
and otker purposes, generally regulated by
grant of certain number of sections in each
township; and the provisions in the bill un-
der considerations are the same as other
States have received, and all new States
will receive, on occasion of their admission
into the Union. When Kansas comes in
as state, whether it be under the provis-
IONS of the act which has just passed the
House. or at some future period, the usual
share of the public lands will ensure TO her
citizens for the usual purposes, agreebly to
the provisions of the present bill.
From the Washington States.
Kansas is now dismissed from Congress
henceforward slavery agitation is as dead
for all political uses, as high protective
tariffs and u S. Banks. Demagogues may
think otherwise. and slight galvanic con-
vulsions may be wrought up inside of some
of the most distempered States; but there
is 10 more capital to be made out ofthe sur
gerry of bleeding Kansas. The wounds
have been thoroughly probed, and the ulcer
cut away, and the saving art of prevention
has been we'll learned in this slow and pain
full process of cure.