Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1858-06-04
The LeCompton Cheat,

The Lecompton Cheat.
The folly, the shallowness of this mis-
cradle subterfuge, is patent to everybody
The manner of submission does not rise i
the dignity of deception, or of a respec
table trick. 1t can deceive no one. L
our Lecompton friends are satisfied witt
this kind of submission, We shau't OBJ
ject to it. We had as soon the PROPOSE
tion had been for or against any clause in
the Personal Liberty Bill--or even for oil
against our personal liberty-if to reject
the proposition was to reject the Constitu
ton. We should have our liberty, whe.
ther the Personal Liberty Bill was voted
up or down, and the people of Kansas will
have the public lands offered, whether thoy
vote to accept or reject; and in the at
tempt to make them think otherwise, con-
sists the beauty of this bill. This is the
cheat attempted, but which cheats nobody.
We have already by far the greater por.
ton of these lands secured to US by the
Organic Act. Besides, every new State,
when admitted, is allowed certain quan-
tity of public lands for schools and other
purposes and Kansas, when she comes in
under Constitution of her own choice,
will have the same appropriations.
The threat is also intended as cheat
i. is as deceptive as the bribe Congress
can not bind itself, in advance, not to re.
ceivc Kansas under any kind of Consti-
tuition, Republican in form, that her peo.
pie may present; and for her to do so
now, would be to make plain and palpa-
favor of Slavery. Suppose, now, that
Free State Constitution, regularly formed
and adopted by the people, should go up
to Congress for admission, what could be
tho argument against it? A desperate
attempt has been made-exhausting all
the resources of Administration-to force
Slave Constitution upon US, in order to
settle this controversy. With Free Con-
stitution, regularly formed by the peoples
chosen delegates and approved by their
votes, and broght legitimately before Con-
gress, the chances of admission are strong.
ly in its favor. At any rate, it would
give "Buck and Breck and Free Kansas"
Democrats chance to seal their doom,po-
litically, if they opposed (which they
could have no reason to do. We would
like to see the thing tried.
Freemen of Kansas! behold the BRlBE
for which you are expected to strike down
that Liberty in whose defence you have so
long and so gallantly fought. And yet it
is paltry, meagre, miserable ribe,which
proposes to buy US for just ffty-twO thou
sand four hundred and eighty acres of land,
exclusive of worthless salt spring appro-
priations. The school sections we arc en-.
titled to by the Organic Act, independent
of this bill. The bribe is in itself swim
die and cheat 1t is an insult to our in-
telligence, and foul aspcrsiou Of our
honor The thirty pieces of silver which
are offered to US to betray the highest and
holiest of causes, are bogus pieces. We
will spurn and spit upon this bribe. We
will say to James Buchanan, "Thy money
perish with thee ~
Why this unjust and invidious discrim-
ination in favor Of Sarery? If We are
Justly entitled to c1me into the Union as
.SlaUe State, now, why not as a Free
State? Why must we be kept under Fed
eral satraps, and under such ruffian Judges
as Cato and Lecompte, for several years to
come? Why must Kansas, clad in the
virgin robes Of Freedom, be spurned and
driven from the doors of Congress, when,
if she will prostitute herself and come
arrayed in the harlot attire of Slavery,she
shall find ready and joyous welcome !
Are the people of Kansas prepared to see
Liberty thus insulted, and Slavery thus
honored? Are the people of the country
at large ready to see it
Shall We, who for years have occupied
the most sublime moral position Of any
people in the world, now succumb and
prostitute ourselves to the service Of the
devil, alias the Buchanan dynasty? No,
We will not do it. No man, who is man,
will think of it for moment
Said a Missourian, formerly a pro sla-
very man, but converted to Free State
principles By Border RuHian outrages, 81
will lose every rod Of land possess in the
world rather than submit. to the Lccomp-
ton Constitution.