Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1858-08-13
rhs Knpsas Voc Agnip.t Admission.

The Washington Union gives it up. 1t hal
heard the rebuke of Kansas, and declares that
"the results of the elections in Kansas leave
no doubt of the refusal of the people to be ad
mitred into the Union on the terms proposed
IN the Conference Bill of the last session.
What does the Union, what does the Admins
tration, what does the Democratic party, pro
pose TO do about it - The Union thus plainly
foreshadows the answer;
This result we do not regret. There Is Nc
longer any reason for treating Kansas as eIcep
tional TO the general rule prevailing in reference
to the admission of new States into the Union.
Justice TO the people Of other Territories re-
quires that they shall have sufficient popula
ton before admission, to entitle them at least
t. one representative in Congress. About one
hundred thousand people is, and ought to be,
the lowest number entitled 10 such admission.
There are 10 well grounded grievances in re-
mining under territorial forms, and this seems
to be the judgment of the Kansas people. They
have decided thus to remain, and, as they have
at length come TO realize that peace Is better
than rebellion, We trust they will now wait till
their numbers cali fOr change Of government.
1t is resolved to this and nothing else. Kan
sas could have come in as Slave State under
the Lecompton Constitution with forty thou
sand people, but as a Free State, the organ of
the Administration and :he Democracy says
About one hundred thousand people is, and
ought TO be, the lowest number entitled TO such
admission :" a few months ago Mr.. Buchanan
and his Administration left no stone unturned
that power and patronage could move to bring
Kansas into the Union as 4 Slave State even
under a fraudulent Constitution. debating dis
honorable .erms which the people have with
united voice rejected, and now that rejection is
taken By the UaioR, the Administration, and
the Democracy, IS conclusive that the people
Of Kansas have deliberately decided to remain
& SlIve territory for years to come Such is
TO be tue next Democratic phase of the kansas
question.
Let Us see where the issue ends. The ratio
of population for Representative in Congress
is now 93.4sO, and alter 1860 it will doubtless
exceed 100 900. It is hardly probable that
Kansas will acquire 4 population of s3,4sO
prior to 1860, nor Of 100, 200 for sJne time
subsequent to that date. According to the
Union she must remain Territory three or
four years at least, perhaps longer. Bear in
mind that since the Dred Scott decision Presi-
dent Buchanan has declared in an official docu-
ment that Kansas is " as much Slave State as
Georgia or South Carolina, and then the true
friends of freedom to Kansas can fully aPPre-
eiate the danger to be apprehended in permit
ting the territory TO remain out of the Union
for an indefinite period as proposed by pro
slavery Ad uinistration and a pro slavery party,
for the express purpose Of giving the Slavery
propaganda every possible opportunity to fas-
ten the institution permanently upon her.
We trust the people of Kansas will take
proper steps, and at the proper time, to " regu-
late their own domestic Institutions in their
own way" and will bring the boasted principle
of " Popular Sovereignty" right into the face
of the Democratic Congress at its next session,
10 the shape of Free State Constitution, regu-
lar in mode, and Republican in form After
what has transpired in the Territory and the
overwhelming majority just given BY its cit
zens, we should ike TO see the Democratic
Representative from Free State who would
vote to reject Kansas from the Union under the
Ainsy PreteTt of lack Of population. Her num-
bers are steadily increasing, and there is no
possibility that it will ever be less than when
the whole party OF the South. and moiety Of
the North, voted SO persistently to make Kansas
the thirty-thirl State of the Federal Union.
The people of every Northern Congressional
district should demand of Democratic candidates
full eOmmittal for or against the new PROPOSE
tiOn-which substantially is, whether they will
vote for the admission of Kansas under new
Constitution, should she preseut one, vithou,
reference to the number of her population.