The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1858-03-11
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fraud, has improved apon this idea II
is sort of peripatttic ballot-box. II
has converted hmself into a trayenip
election. Disdaining the old node Q
/ suffrage, he first secures the votes Of Ger
I tain deluded men in Kansas, and the
proceeds to count and change these votes
with a facile rapidity that would ar,az
Herr Alexander, Signor Blitz, or evel
the celebrated Houton, who astonishet
European Kings and Commons. Cal
houu has removed his apparatus to Wa>h
ingtou city, and has been performing al
sorts of achievements of legerdem III
siuee his arrival there with his rare con
| sriVance. When be got to St. Louis, b,
| caused it to be announced that the prosla
very men had won the prize; but sine,
he has felt the public pulse, on bis way t
Washington, and while in that city, be
has given strong signs Of allowing th,
votes of the majority to control. At thi
indication all the Northern advocates o
the Lecompton Constitution gave grea
shout of JOY. They were full of exulta
tation at the bare idea of Calhoun doing
the fair thing. Now it must no. be un,
derstood that this concession was to be q
complete one. The hope thus held out
was only as to the Legislature. The Gov
ernor and other State officers were elec.
ted, as such, by the free State vote, but
it would not do to give all to the MAORI.
ty; so it was iutimate1 that the latter
should be given to the pro-slavery minor
ity, in order that the Legislature should
be able to pass no law over the Cover
nor's veto 10
But the joy Of the Northern advocates
of Lecomptou was shortlived. Calhoun
has given bis magic ballot-box another
examination. He has pronounced new
incarnation. He has consulted the ora.
cles for another declaration. The pro-
slavery men in Congress are discontented
at these Northern threats. They are de-
termined therefore, to keep all the cards
in their own hand aud so the arch ma
gician changes front again, and causes
it to be finally and emphatically announ-
ced that be will not decide who has got
the Legislature of Kansas uatI tie Le-
compton Constitution as accepted, andh hal,
sas compelled to tahe 10. This places, also,
two United States Senators at bis dispo-
sal. .asI ..e1.sg ea8 ss 1s5.-.s
All our late adyices are to this effect.
We have already given several, but the
following from the Washington letter in
Yesterdays Ledger is conclusive:
g The final decision of Mr.. Calhoun, in
regard to the result of the State elections
of the 4th Of January. as 10 be qrlthAeIa
until Kansas shall be admitted as q State
THIS as no douJc q sciSe decision, for acre
lie TO eare certificates Of election TO either
party at present, At acoatld necessarily en-
6arrasS tie action Of Congress If the GER
tifcates, overlooking the returns, were
given to the free State candidates. the
South would be dissatisfied even if they
were given to the pro-slavery party Con-
gress would not, without a severe strug-
gle bring in Kansas as State under the
Lecompton Constition.'
There is a complacency in this abso-
lutely refreshing. The oaths Of the two
Speakers of the two Houses of Kansas
Legislature given after a complete can
yass--the testimony of Gov. Denver him
self, and all the later investig cations, rrore
conclusirely that the free State men carried
Legislature, GOrernoT, and all
at tie election on tie 4th Of JannarY last.
Even Calhoun is asserted to have admit
ted as such on several occasions. And
yet, to refuse to give these people their
rights, is sagely pronounced "a wise de-
eision p And the man who assumes this
dangerous power-the author of this IA
tai wroDg--is held up as worthy of conf
denee aud belief, and those who resist
and protest against his monstrous usur
patton are excommuuicatcd in the official
organ as bels.9 % aeaiol
!. What would be the fate of,any official
in this State who would thus withhold
the returns Of an election, fairly conduct
ed. until another was decidedl The Buck
Shot War grew out ofa piece of conduct
wbieh bore moderate similarity to The.
But an outrage upon popular rights IKE
that of Calhoun, would produce an IN
slant resort to revolution. There can
now be no doubt that be designs giving
the whole machinery TO The pro-siavery
party in Kansas the moment Lecompton
is fastened upon the people,
Such an act would be in exact Keep
inc with all his late proceedings.
We challenge the records of crime for
a case paraiell to this prostitution ana
tamperiug with the ballot box. 1t STANDS
ont alone, and is in harmony only with
the imfamy aud injustice which have
mark ed the whole shameless crusade upon
the will of tbe majority in the distracted
Territory of Kansas The Press, kt6f't-
arg Is, ame se eW @oe
NAME CHANGEp.-The Pennsylvania
Senate has passed bill changing the
name of the Pittsburgh and Conpellsyille
Railroad Company TO that of the PITTS,
burgb, CoDnellsyille and Baltimore Aall'
road Company" m
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