Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1858-04-10

policy Of forcing hated Constitution upon Kansas
BY fire and sword, has been beaten BY the immedt'
ate Representatives Of the people. !,
'.1n view of the Imminent peril of civil Wal, and
the certain guilt Of q stupendous crime with when
this policy has threatened our beloved country, We
return devout thanks to Almighty God for this great
deliverance.n x - ass
The Albany Journal is scarcely less enthusiastic:
5 IS Freedom has trumphed at Washington! Inc Le-s
compton swindle is scotcbed IN the House us ca
reer was shortsliyed. At one o'clock it reared us
head from the Speakers table to strike venomous
blow at the liberties of Kansas. At hatpast three,
Il was on it's way out of the door and back 70 the
Senate Chamber with its fangs plucked out It's ven
ON rendered harmless.
&c n remains for the Senate to finish the drama
The hin as now amended secures the submission Of
the Constitution to vote of the people OF Kansas,
and when voted down.. as of course it would be,
grants them the right to form new one, establish
ing freedom in the Territory. OF course the Senate
will refuse to accept this amendment, to the BILL
Let the House then stand rm and listen to no pro-
position for concession or compromise, and Kansas
from this hour is FREE" ~
The New York Tribune closes q column of exul-
tation with this summary shout: champions OF
Freedom and Honest Rule let US rejoice and take
courage!"
The Courier and Enquirer is but a little more
moderate:
"The faithlessness of the Senate to the great
American principle OF popular sovereignty was ILLUS
rebuked by the featy of the House, and the Admin
>istraton ITSELF with its wrong of Lecompton. was
laid low at the feet of Kansas with its right of self
government And while we congratulate, we thank
in the name of freedom and right, the members of
all parties in the House of Representatives who have
thus nobly, by their votes upheld national princi.
pie and integrity, and sgnaly defeated an Admins.
tration which would deliberately violate both"
The New York Erening Post says:
From the telegraphic report of yesterday pro-
ceedings in Congress, it appears that the bill mas
been returned to the Senate for its action But the
probability is that it will not concur, and that fresh
efforts of Executive dctation will be made to in
duce the anti-Lecompton representatives to re-
cede from the position they have assumed
Such attempts, we apprehend, will be in vain. The
opponents Of haIeenmpton fraud stand upon inn
movable grounds they are backed by an unparalel-
spectability Of the American people. No matter
what may have been their past political af6nities,
they are sure if they remain faithful of an increas-
ed return Of popular favor and support and we can
not believe that an Administration which must by
this time have pledged the last Office to promote an
ing in its gift which, even to the most mercenary,
would make treachery desirable"
The Philadelphia Eeening Bulletin, although
Black Republican of the deepest dye. rejoces more
over the defeat of the Administration than the tri
umph of Freedom" -: " If any one had, in March,
1857. perdcted that in less than thirteen months,
JAMES BUCHANAN. with large Democratic majority
in both branches of Congress, and with the whole
patronage and power of the Government at his back
would have been defeated in the prime test measure
of his Administration, he would ha, e been laughed
at But SO it is and all faith in power and presump
ton is henceforth destroyed"
The New York Adrertiser discourses in the same
strain: /" The defeat of the Administration is most
signal and the rebuke of the Presidents determine
ton to force the measure through Congress by the
undue exercise of Executive power and patronage,
is most emphatic. It is in this view, that we hail
it with unalloyed satisfaction. Probably in no in
stance since the formation of the Union has there
been so bold and so persistent an attempt on the
part Of the Chief Magistrate to compel party sup
port by Executive influence, and by the power of
party support to augh public opinion and pop
ular rights and for the countrys sake we rejoice
that it has failed of success"
The Cincinnati Commercial INDUCES the following
burst of indignation against the Bill and the Presi-
dent: The Lecompton swindle is slaughtered now
and forever This news was yesterday received here
with general qualification. The Administration is
postrated not emily beaten, but dshonored Its pres
tige of power is gone and only the miserable horde
of Office beggars will do it reverence. The dirty
fellows who have sustained stealing forgery and per-
jury to beat factous majority, taking the Presi-
dents word that it all right probably dsap
pointed. As the Lecompton Constitution will not
answer, there will soon be another document from
the same Territory ready for presentation. Free
State Kansas Constitutional Convention is now in
session ISL al Leavenwo OIL: lily. .,:.:.. r..
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