Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1858-05-13

! ton growing out of slavery, in America, un-
til the whole controversy is settled upon u
solid basis of eternal right-uever, never
The Senator from Ohio Mr. PrcHl is ub-
sent and regret it lie undertook yester-
day to east odiGm Oh oar friends in Kansas, by
charging that they intended TO stuff the bal
lot-boXeS with negro yoteS.' A negro could
have voted to elect delegates to the Lccomp-
ton convention a negro could have voted on
the proposition that was submitted Il negro
can vote by that constitution, if he is ci:i.
zen of the United States The law for the
election Of delegates 10 The Lcavenworth con
vcntion was like the law for the election Of
delegates to the Lecompton convention. The
provisions of both declared that the bo7la fdc
citizens OF the United States should be allow
cd to vote The word "white was not in
either act. The provisions Of the Leayen-
worth constitution are exactly like the pro-
visions of the Lecompton constitution, in re-
gard to suffrage, in that respect The Lea
yenworh constitution allows foreigners who
have given notice OF an intention to become
citiz3us the right to vote Lecompton does
not
There is q provision in the Lecompton con-
stitutUn that is a disgrace 10 the American
name and that is that Il free negro shall not
live in Kansas Sr, the descendants of the
man who, on Bunker Hill shot down Major
Pitcairn, who fred upon our couutrymen ~
Lexington. if he has any, cannot live in Kan
Sas under this LecOmptOn constitution. The
descendants of two of the three men, If they
have left any, who were captured on board
the Chesapeake before the war of 1912, whom
Jefferson aud Madison called citizens, cannot
live there The descendants of the men who
fought with Andrew jackson before the blez-
ing lines of New Orleans, and whom Jackson
called his felow-citiZens, cannot live there |
say that proposition is a disgrace 10 the Amer
lean name. The Senator SAYS they are eXclud
ed from voting by the LecUmpt0u constitution.
because they cannot live in the State under il
Could they not have voted on the election or
delegates Could they not have voted on the
adoption OF the portion Of the constitution that
was submitted before they were excluded 10y
the adoption Of the constitution itself ! Ii
they are citizens of the United States they
would do so. There is q provision in tie Lea
yeuwOTth constitution that the first Legisls-
ture shall submit the question of universal suf-
frage to the people that is all there is in it
and q Senator calling himself a Democrat
comes into the Senate Of the United States,
and undertakes to prejudice great cause bv
charging its friends with attempting to stuff
the baliot-boXes with negro votes. That Sena-
tor well knows that thcr care not one hundred
free negroes in the Territory and this assault
upon the trainers Of the LeaTenworth consti-
tuition j. unju>t-grossy unjust
But Mr.. President, We shall vote against
this proposition and assure the Senator
from Georgia, who hints that we were in doubt
whether to accept it or not, that the cabal,"
as he is pleased to call Us, never had any doubts
as to what we would do in regard 10 this
scheme. Sir, We could not accept the bil for
your Lecompt0n constitution. We thought
that the embodiment Of gigantic fraud and
as we believe this scheme combines bribe
menace, and fraud, We spurn il, and We de-
nounce the men who originated it, and who
give it their support in and out Of Congress.