M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1858-09-30
3lpIititaI 31latttrs.
KEEP III BEFORE the PEOPLE,

That the Democratic principle O.!
popular sovereignty has triumphed,
and is acknowledged by all parties to
be correct.
Keep it Before the People,
That the Republican party has nev-
er fulfilled pledge made by that par
ty to the people.
Keep it Before the People,
That the Republican party pledged
themselves to the restoration of the
Missouri Compromise.
Keep it Before the People,
That the Republican party pledged
themselves to the repeal Of the Fugi-
tive Slave Law.
Keep it Before the People,
That the Republican party pledged
themselves to the abolition Of Slavery
in the District of Columbia.
Keep it Before the People,
That the Republican party pledged
themselves TO the prohibition in the
inter.slave trade.
Keep it Before the People,
That this same Republican party
never redeemed one single one of
these pledges, and never intended to
from the beginning.
Keep it Before the People,
That the Republican members of
Congress have voted to admit slave
States into the Union, and refused to
vote to admit free States because they
supposed thereby they could keep up
the slavery agitation.
Keep it Before the People,
That tie Republican party espoused
the cause Of polygamy in Utah, after
they had denounced 1t in their plat.
form.
Keep it Before the People,
That the present Republican party
is the only party that ever had its
members expelled from the halls OF
Congress for corruption.
Keep it Before the People,
That there is no doubt but that
Kansas will be admitted into the I'm,
ion under the English bill as Free
State.
Keep it Before the People,
That the opposition "shriek for
freedom" but do nothing to secure it
that every one of the nine free State
admitted into the Union within thC
last fifty six years were admitted b,
Democratic Congresses, and all bu
one California under Fi!lmore) unde
Democratic Presidents.
Keep il Before the People,
That when the Republicans charge
that the English bill contains a lane
/ bribe, or that it proposes to gran
more land than that usually granted
to new States, or more than was pro
posed to be granted by the Crittender
Montgomery bill, they charge wha
is not true.
Keep il Before the People,
That when Kansas comes to form {
constitution and apply for admission
into the Union, she will be entitled tt
admission, under the English bill
with the same amount of population
for a free as for slave State, an(
that all assertions of the Republican,
that it will, in that case, require
greater amount of population for
free State than it would for a slave
State, is WtterlyfalSe and unf6unded
Keepit Before the People,
That Kansas, by means of the Eng
lish compromise bill, is now at peac,
that the returns of the late election
! and other information conclusivel,
show that her population will be sui
ticient to entitle her to admission I'M
der that bill, whenever hereafter sh,
may properly apply; and that wheI
she does apply, with constitution
). properly adopted and republican il
form, she will be admitted by Demo
cratic votes and with or without sia
; very, as her own people may deter
: mine"
Keep it Before the People,
\, That there is not one word Of trut
y in the assertion, made Onty by hypo
u critics and demagogues, that the cen
sus referred to in the bill is the Gecen
nial census to be taken in 1860 an
1870. The bill shows directly to tn
contrary en- its face, and besides a
II persons the least familiar with the lee
islation of the country know that tn
It census in such cases is usually takel
IT under the territorial authorities an
II whenever they choose.
G Coop REToRT.-HON. ALE1
|. STEPHENS, of Georgia, was once rur
a ming for Congress with an opponer
of unusually large stature, and on tn
stump one day the discussion becam
exree3inUlv warm Whereunon tl