The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1858-10-01
FINDLAY, OHIO, FRIDAY, OCTOBER l. 1883

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lers for technicalities, late so will.
ing and anxious to drag a protesting
people into the Union, refuse tt
grant the prayers OF an assentinc
people? lfthey dare to take the po.
sition that, while they are willing to
admit q slave state, they are unwill.
ing to admit free state, every
Northern Senator who votes with
them will sink deeper into the polit.
ical ocean than plummct ever sound
ed.
Yet the English bill, which de
mands from its votarics the endorse
ment OF all these absurrltcs. is de-
creed to be tinality TO which every
man must bow, under penalty Of ex.
commuDication from the Democrats
ic party. The men who siultified
Themselves by saying that it was the
imperative duty Of Congress to adm {
formed a Constitution With the pro 70,
per legal observances, even against
the desire of its inhabitants, and
then stnltifipd themselves bv ignor.
ing that pretext, and granting an
unfair submission, must still further
stultiiy themselves by keeping out n
territory, Notwithstanding the legal
formation of a Constitution in ac.
cordance with the popular will; and
those whose minds are not sufficient
ly plastic to rush from one extreme
to another, are to be expelled from
the organization which owes a large
portion ofits strength to their visor-
ous exertions!
While the l.ecomptonites have
gone on laundering through their in
sincere and sophistical line of arcu-
ment, devouring in each new month
their mental offspring of the previ.
ous one, they have reaped nothing
but disgrace ind defeat. They fail.
ed to carry Lecompton through Con.
gress. and failed TO seducc the peo-
pie OF hansas to support it. while
they have left on their hands tho
"te't' policy, which dooms them to
eternal overthrow, by its rank Unjust
ice, If they attempt to enforce IT.
Their laundering effort to "localize"
the difficulty las resulted in nation
alizing it more Thoroughly than ever.
They have inflicted a deeper injury
upon the Democratic party, and done
more to sink it in the estimation Of
the country. and to weaken its or
ganiz,'ion, than its deadliost foes
could ever have Accomplished
Thrv have outraged the almost
unanimous sentiment of tho North.
as II never was outraged before. and
they have weakened tAc cauaa OF tho
Sontt hv strengthening her enemies
and frustrating her friends. They
have 50 emh'ttcred the people of
Kansas that the once frir prnsnect
tha, she might enter the Union IA n
National 'mnrratic state ia DESTROY
ed. and il il ur"blhle she will be as
thor0nrhlv Rrruhican "a Vermont
or Massachusetts. for years ia come.
B'underinT measures an1 hlrnlcr-
ing Arguments have rroducch hlnn-
derirg results. Error and injustice
have been punished BY disaster and
dcfra'.
Like flo struggle ~ a giant in n
morass, each onward s.er of the I.c-
comnianites only plungea thom deep
er an | d"epe into the mire. There
ia bnt ono course they can safely pur-
sue. and that is. TO retreat back to
the firm ground of rowlar sovo-
rrigntv from which thev s'ravpd ~
their first moments of ha'lurination
by the ign's fatuus Of Lecompton
to ignore the in'am0ns test thev hav
, established, and in spite Of thni
foolish and uniust English bill. 4
admit Kansas into the Union undo
!; the fairly ratified Constitution whic'
will, no doubt, shortly be presented
> and thus, in the language OF the Gin
|, cinnati platform, recognize the rigl
oF the people Of Kansas. "actin
through the leq0lly and FATRL'
I ezpressedrW Ithe majoyity Of ~
4 ual residents, to form a Constitutio
with or without domestic slavery
and 70 Re admitted into the Unio
:, upon terms Of perfect equality wit
J, the other states"
u = F6ynfys Press.