American union. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1855-1859, 1858-05-14
THE PASSAGE OF THE KANSAS
COMPROMISE BILL,

THE PASSAGE OF THE KANSAS
COMPROMISE BILL.
The news Of the final passage of the
Kansas bill, through both Houses of
Congress, has, so far as VIC have OBJ
served. been received with very gen
crai satisfaction by moderate and con-
scrvetiyo men Of all parties, who had
become tired Of its protracted discus
sion, and almost Disguised with The de.
lay it caused to the more important
and pressing business before the Ma
tional Legislature. The National In.
teIligcncer thus announces the end of
the controversy:
We arc sure that al Of our readers
will learn with a pleasure as heartfelt
as our own is IN announcing thc fact
that the prOtractcd, angry, miSchcvous,
and as regards sectional interests, un.
duly exaggerated Kansas contest in
Congress, has at last been terminated,
and terminated, as all Of our sectional
differences have been from the forma-
ton OF the government to the present
time, by some surrender ofimpractica-
bic ground on both sides, and by an
acknowledged compromise of extreme
position in the adoption Of a middle
course.
The Union also says:
Thus has terminated, the most OK
traordinary and alarming political diff
ticulty which has ever disturbed the
politics Of this country. Its origin is
TO be found in the passage Of the fatal
Missouri compromise and its close
was appropriately effected on the an,
9nivcrsary Of the Inauguration ofGcorgc
Washington as president Of the United
States under the federal constitution.
The iIlustrious Father of his Country.
on the accession to the presidency says:
Every step by which they have ad.
ranced' Speaking of the States Ito
the character of an independent nation
seems to have been distinguished by
some providential agency" We sub
NIT that this grateful acknowledgement
of Divine interposton in behalf Of the
republic is most appropriately repeat,
ed on the present occasion.
The New York Journal of commerce
remarks
The bill which has passed has been
stigmatized, in some quarters, as IL
tribe to the people Of Kansas mas
much as it provides for the transfer to
the Stat, on its organization Of GER
tain land, for school purposes, the G..
rections of public buildings, &c, ma
king such transfer Of course dependent
upon the acceptance of the act. There
IS no ground for such an imputation
upon the bill, for the amount of land
donated to Kansas, under its provisions,
IS less than one fourth the quantity
claimed by the Lecompton ordinance
less If We remember correctly, than
the Topekaitcs asked for~-and no
more than the Minnesota and Oregon
admission bills provide for giving to
those territories on their admission in.
to the Union as States. 1t is the set
tied policy on the admission Of new
States, to grant them lands, to n Ger.
tain extent, for school and other pur-
poses, generally regulated by grant
Of certain numbered sections in each
township; and the provisions in the
bill under consideration are the Same
- other States have received, and all
now States have received, and all new
states will receive on occasion Of thcir
admission into the Union. When Kan
fas comes in as State, whether it be
under the provisions Of the act which
has just passed the House, or at some
Iu:aro period, tho usual share Of the
public lands will cnuro to her citizons
for the usual purposes, agrceably to
the provisions of the present bill.
The settlement of this question will
lave an important influence upon 20.
ltcal affairs. 1t is u matter for con.
GratuIation even among those who have
no party obligations to fulfil, that 50
many of tho members Of Congress, who
separated from their associates on tho
Senate bill, have been enabled, in con-
sidering, the proposition Of the confer
chce committee, to concur with the ad.
ministratioD, and to cast their votes in
accordance with their previous habits,
against the party which has made Kan.
Fas shrioking, if not u profession. at
leosi a constant practice, for &c cfal