St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1858-08-05
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Nausas into thc Union, il sire will Az
uept the fLeoomptonA Constitution. aud IT.
tusing her admission under any other.
". asi tie uen ot Minnesota 10 settle
ssadidly in their oWu minds the question.
Is It right to offer Kansas 5000, 900 dol t
4ars wortls Of the public lands as bribe
for establishing slavery in tiiair State?
Would ii be ri ght to give her thas much
mere than Minnnesnta received; ana to Slve,
it Iur The express purpose. OF defeat tin. the
will Of q large majority OF the People OF !
Kansas, !
Mr. Crittentlen X u southern man and |
his amendment to the lecomptoli bill! said !
expressly tha; the Constitution should be
sub lcted 10 direct vote Of the people of
Kansas II majority were III favor of
It. Kansas should be proclaimed one Of the
States. II y majority were opposed to it
they :aigtt, whenever they pleased, call
Ionrcltioli, make another constitution and
''}l;,H up Cor admission under it, just as
,.i:nnesota did, AND in either case they
should rcuie7e their full amount Of the
:.;tyic lands Was not that fair? Was
It not democratic Was it not Squat
ae: Soverc;gnty? Why then did almost
vfec} Southern man, and some Northern
Democrats vote against it? The Repub}i~
cans every laan voted for it, and We think
did wrong in doing so; for hy that vote
:hey said they were willing to admit Han
as d: q slave State if the neople OF Kan
Se5 desired it, but they knew that the pco~
PIE Of Kansas wanted free labor, and so
the; voted as they did; put what about
Eht democrats who voted decidedly against
permitting the people of State to choose
their cwn constitution
Real Nr. Stewards remarks
lave 10 STATE in the first place, that the bill
makes up and nreseuts to the people Of Kansas,
4,.i u TIE coaotcy. fictitious OK false issue
Nhen say FALSE mean q foreign or fictitious
question substituted tos thetruc one. The true
ISSUE before Congress and the country, Is the
4u3st:on whether the people Of Kansas shall or
shall not, as condition al coming into this
Union. have right 10 accep: or rclec, the lie
cointon Constitution. Now, be IL understood,
s-a: congress gives to every State when
X comes into me t2inu, cowry taken from
tbs public land within it's borders Every new
>'tate receives il in every case. Upon the CIV
s,>ns OF such dowrs. = upon the quantity OF
extent Of it, speaking practically, no question
is ever raised in Congress Tho Lecompton
Convention sen, an application or Il demand
for g. large dovry, one larger than IS usally al
lowed. The Senate passed bill putting aside,
tErustng cut Of the way altogether, not only
the amount Of the do.ry, bur the giving one at
all, pos,poning it until another day: and eau
t,nted itself with barely diselaining, III the bill
10, The admission Of Kansas which they passed
an assent to the demand which the Lecompton
Convention, speaking in the behalf Of Kansas
bad made
IKE Uouse Il Representatives in their c c...
Off the admission Of Kansas, treated! the matter
in The Same way. They turned to the Mime
sofa bill, and copied from It into their Kansas
bill, which they sent to the Senate, provision
by which Kansas should receive dowry en-
actly equal to that of Minnesota.
From the beginning of this debate to the end
there was no discussion, question raised
shout the amount Of the dowry, or the giving
it, or the Withholding it, aud il was never
heard Of
Then the speaker goes on to show that
Ar. English makes this undisputed cues
ton Of dover take tie place Of the real
question at issue.
| show the Senate next, second false
issue presented in this new bill, an issue raised
Kansas. The committee Of conference find that
there is just population enough to make slave
state, ana hy 40 means enough, not one half
enough, 70 make free State There it lust
population enough 10 admit the State at once il
Il via accept the Leoo,npton constitution, and
not population ct all enough to admit il under
WY other.
Mr. President, I have shown that this bill
f{,n,
tween freedom and slavery. have next 10
sho that it provides for overriding, counter
1@'sl ng, and defeating that very shadow Of
>choicc II it shall be il favor Of freedom. The
hiii proTides not that the people Of Kansas or
their Legislature Or their authorities shall ap-
point the commissioners under whom the con
Temp lated election shall be held, and It's results
asHcrtained, but it constitutes board to consist
Of i've persons; and while it allows two to be
asned ny the. people Of Kansas il asks three
For Inc President Of the United States Now,
Sir, there have been Eve agents appointed bv
the i'resident of the United States to hold elec-
tons, and return results in the TERRITORY Of
Kansas already, and every Ole Of them has
been dishonored and dsgraced for having
struggled to prevent fraud, and to certify the
truth about these elections.
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=; Se:li:s ST. p pecen snus snSv to
vs.. :Sst j: f. rec0nasu:1eJ q. compromise.
IN: .sonor:,S :chai, 3ssp: telis JUS. thai when
shcfS's a'aasfas.s' '::'!r: saa i1e::er =: : set
tlement unless there is g compromises; the
House Of Representatives has given away
aoneth ing; the Senate have given away some
thing, though everybody, except ,ayself, has
failed IN finding out what there is given or got-
ten. still we are to accept it as 81 coinproni-
80 II u is compromise st nj, to be urged
On sns Il i-'ass be compromise that gives rae
soioaEialg o1 freedom in exchange for much Of
a4taYeFy. What do get for freedom in Kansas?
me privilege for that people to make consti-
.;ltion whensthcy shall have q population Of one
hundred thousand. and coming here and pre-