Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1858-05-13

eminent that we represent here stands
We have no right 10 diminish, no right TO
incuDber it. 1t is their right, and YOU have
no right 10 annex penalties or conditions to
the exercise Of it. Although have no idea
that il is the intention Of Congress 10 with
hold from them, at any time hereafter, these
lands: yet read this bill, and see if that is
not the impression il may make. Al any
rate, this is great bonus offered TO them
for immediate admission. This is calculated
10 lake away from the submission the com
plexion of fairness and equality; it is oalcu-
lated 10 take away from it the face Of JUS
tice.
More than that: not ouly is this reward
10 accompany one vote that they may give,
bit there is another consequence. This
measure says to the people OF Kansas: All
you choose t. take this Lecamp,on constitu-
lion with all IFS imperiections on lis head; if
you choose to silence all the complaints and
all the denunciations which you have made
against il; il you choose TO humiliate your
selves as freemen, by confession Of as much
baseness as that would imply, then, no mat
Ter what your numbers are, we shall make
no inquiry, but come into the Union al once,
with all the dowry Of land which We give
our newly admitted and infan, states; you
shall come in Of once 10 the great family Of
sovereign states; you shall come into the
House of Representatives; and yen shall sit
side by side with those great and mighty
states which achieved the revolution, anu
achieved the liberties which we here enjoy
come in and share with us the crown and
the sceptre; accept these grants, with this
constitution, and you shall do it instantly.
Only accept this constitution, and all these
things are yours; but reject it, ano yeu shall
not only not come in now as q sovereign state,
but we will enquire into your numbers, and
you shall not come in now under any form
Of constitution, until your population shall
amount TO that number which is fixed by
general law as the ratio Of representation
throug bout the country.
Here, sir, are the benefits, and here are
the penalties that are to attend upon the vote
10 be given in Kansas. Is this fair sub
mission? Is il for us-guardians, if nothing
else, of the political morality of the country
10 put such a temptation in the ways o.
the people, those who are subject to our
laws, and must follow our bidding? If these
!. are unfair membranes upon the rights o.
. suffrage, is it not wrong in US to place thi.
-, great free principle under such tranmel'
and membranes as we are now doing?-
|, So it seems to me; and, in my opiniou, thOs.
! who consider it candidly will come to thu
!. same conclusion.
y If my friends, who have been in favor o
the Lecompton constitution, and especially
those who have been opposed to its submits
sion 10 the people, shall look candidly at it
they will see, not only that the submission
!, which they oppose has been granted, Blu
u see that that submission, and the vol,
which is TO be given under it, are incum
bered by conditions, by trammels. and b.
;, temptations which ought not to be present
: ed by US TO any portion Of our people,
- Must not that be their conclusion
Mr.. President, anxious as am TO Sc
e this subject entirely settled, and this Kan
r sa. volcano extinguished, closed up. file
up forever, would rather that these meas
ures would all fail, and Kansas be left jus
. where you found her. than where this bill
, would place her. To do nothing woul
place her where this bill would; but
!. would place her there without this injurl
7 Gus and unjust legislation on our part
This bill, if she refuses to accept The LIE
n compton constitution, RENTS her 10 terri
:, torial condition. She is now in terrific
;. rial condition. She will remain in it, if n
legislation be adopted by Congress.
What good, then, is this TO effect? /
!. not every gentleman here morally certain
:. that all these temptations will fail, and tha
;. this constitution will be rejected? an
:. perfectly certain that it will be rejected
r. she will be territory. then, under the fore
, of this legislation. She is a territory now
!. and she will continue TO be a territory
/, this bill passes, and she rejects the consti
tuition. Then what have we gained by it
4 Nothing; not straw; not the dust in tn
E balance in which the peace of the cOuntr,
is weighed.
= Another and further distinction betwee
n the House bill and this bill is, that IN
e House bill provided. in ease of the rejection
e Of the Lecompton constitution, an inmedi
n ate remedy for .hst, BY calling another con
= ven,ion, which convention, before the mex
r session Of Congress, the bill supposed
would have formed a constitution, whic
q would have been acted upon, and we shOul
e CON, e here finding Kansas state in III
union-st any rate, the question put out O
I our hands; 10. if they rejected this, we pro
r,ded the means s. thcir making another.
IF This bill says. il tSey reject this, Their
( is ne means Of their making another, an
e they shall not have another; /; shat: be post
e poned indefinitely, and we here autSorIz
If them, when they have obtained csrta'
!; amount of population, but not till then, {
!, make a constitution, thus leaving this vexe'
;, and vexstious question open. 10 out pou
g further troubles on The land.
!; 1t >bandons, then-and that is all it doe
9 in concurrence with my ideas Of the pro
Y per course on this supject-the LeomptO
u constitution, BY agreeing TO submit it TO III
II people. 1t does no more than the Hous
n bill did on that point. In all the rest it is
II poor, manned imitation of the bill Of III