St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1858-08-05

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The English Kansas Hall,
So ask the csnaii i'll aitf ntion uf al our
readers to shes fstalo, IL i, tlset from theI
spaech of Senator sHassi !, On the bill
Which;twas paasad M ttssolS lifting
Kansas snto sthe Unias. i il. che will ac-l
tept the si.eeonlp Ct'ansti tuIsen. and re-
fussng her atl,,llssio under Any other.
We ask tie men If Minnesota tn settle
saadidly ii Their etsn minds the question.
Is it right To offer Kansas s GOO, 900 aol--.l
a:sss worth of the public lands rs abribe 4
for establishing slavery In their Sstase
I Would it be right to give her that much
more than Minnesota received; and to give
1t for the express purpose Of defeating the
will of a large luaiority OF the people OF
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Mr.. Crittentaen isa southern man and
his amendment to the Lecompton bill said
expressly that the Constitution should be
subjected to a direct vote Of the people of
. Kansas. IL majority were III favor of
1t, Kansas should be proclaimed one Of the
States, # q majority were opposed to It
they zaigAt, whenever they pleased, call .
Convention, make another consti sutton aud
come up Cor admission under. it, just as
Minnesota did, and in either case they
should receive their full amount Of the
paAblic lands. Was not that fair BIZ Was
It not democratic I? Was it, not Squat
ter sovcreignty? Why then did almost
every Southern man, and some y Northern
democrats vote against it, The Republi
cans every naan voted for it, and We think
did wrong in doing SO; for by that vote
they said they were willing TO admit Kan
sas as a slave State if the beople Of Kan.
sas desired it, but they knew that the peo-
pie Of Kansas wanted free labor, and so
they voted as they, did; ibat what about
the democrats who voted decidedly against
permitting the people Of State to choose
their own constitution IFS
Read Mr. Stewards remarks = zx.. :
have TO state in tn FIRST place, that the bill
aud 20 the country, fictitious or false issue
When say false, Imean a foreign or fictitious
question substituted for The true one. Tie true
2 issue before Congress and the country, is, the
question whether the people Of Kansas shall or.
shall not, as condition of coming into this
Onion. hare right to accept or reject the Lee
colnton Constitution. Now, be, ii understood,
; that Congress gives to every new State, when
it comes into the Union, dowry taken from
the public land within it's borders Every new
State receives it in every case. Upon the Civ
long OF such ! dowry, + upon the quantity or
extent of it, speaking practically, no question
is over raised in Congress The. Lecompton
Convention sent an application or a demand
for large dowry, one larger than is usally al
lowed. The Senate passed a bill putting aside,
thrusting out Of the way altogether, not only
the amount ofthe dowry, but the giving one at
all, postponing it until another day; and con-
tented itself with barely diselaiming, in the bill
FOR the admission Of Kansas which they passed
an assent to the. demand which the Lecompton
= Convention, speaking in the behalf Of Kansas,
had made. = a.. Ill. ., s.,:sssz @ss,ste5 ,SEsl33
The House If Representatives, in their III 81,
Off the admission Of Kansas, treated the matter
in the same way. They turned to the Minne5
sofa bill, and copied from it into their Kansas
hill, which they sent to the Senate, a provision
by which Kansas should receive dowry ex1
actly equal to that of Minnesota.
From the beginning ofthis debate to the end,
there was no discussion, no question raised
about the amount Of the dowry, or the giving
it, Or the withholding it, and it was never
heard Of s.* 4#
s Then the speaker goes on to show that
Mr. English makes this undisputed ques-1
tion Of dover take the: place Of the real
question at issue. is41 .3s sza
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I show the Senate next, . second false.
issue presented in this new bill, an issue raised
concerning the actual amount of population in
Kansas. The committee Of conference find that
there is Just population enough to make a slave
state. ana by no means enough, not one half
enough, to make free State There it lust
population enought to admit the State at once If
i will accept the Leeonpton constitution, and
net population ct oil enough 70 admit it under
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Mr.. President, ! have shown thai. this bill
gives to the people onlya show of choice be-
tween freedom and slavery. have next to
sho v .hatlt provides for overriding counter
:aeti ng, and defeating that very shadow d Of:
.choice il it shall be in favor Of freedom The
hili provides not that the people Of. Kansas, or
fhelr Legislature or their authorities shall ap-
point the commissioners under whom thc con-
temp lated election shall be held aud its results
asc ertained, but CONSTITUTES board to consist
fot I'VE persons; ind while it allows two to be
named BY the people of Kansas, II asks three
{. for the President Of the United States. Now,
SIR 1nere nave been i've agents appointed by
the President Of the United States to hold elec-E
tons, and return results in the Territory Of
Kansas already, and every one of them has
d been dlshonOred and disgraced for having
4 ssruggleq to prevent fraud, and to certify the
strlth nhouttk eses elections. I'll Il ,s #554
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rhat !: bin, thus shown