Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1858-05-06

too was owing to the change of the subject
matter left for debate.
1t commenced by consideration of the
high principles of State sovereignty. 1t has
gone into Conference and came out an artifce
"a trick of legislative legerdemain. Both
ends Of the capitol are engaged to-day in at
tempting to take to pieces and put together
this Legislative puzzle. He had little talent
and no taste for this sort of legislation. he
illustrated his position by reference to the
perpetual motion machine and automatcn
chess-player, which like the Conference. pro-
iect were gotten up for the purpose OF not
being explained by one side or the other. He
objected to the Conference because 1t presen-
ted false issue to the people-the true ques-
ton at issue is, the submission OF the Constl-
tuition direct to the people
The question of public lands has nothing to
do with that, inasmuch as the lands are the
dowry of all new States The land question
does not occupy one line Of the 1900 quarto
pages of the Kansas debate and is therefore
a feigned issue-a JAS. Jackson and John
Styles issue of the old black letter lawyers.
He (Mr. Seward) although of good natured
and kindly disposition, felt like the chlyalric
| Virgnian who wanted to challenge the James
jackson who was always disturbing and sx-
citing his neishbors. Besides, the question
! the conference. That Kansas has enough
population for slave State and just half
enough for free State.
Mr. Seward then replied severely to Mr..
Pugh, saving that he Mr.. Seward) in 1856
stood for the admission of Kansas as q free
State and stands there now. He cared not
for numbers, ten hundred or the hundred
thousand or if it ever reached the population
sf China, he would not aid by one vote her
admission as slave State. As to his esti
mate formerly made Of her gaining populous-
ness, he predicated it on the fact of her
being a free State. lie never promised rapid
progress for slave State. He never was SO
young that when he first saw Desdemona, the
gentle daughter of Senator of Venice, married
to Il Moor in the first act, not to know that
discord would follow in the second, and death
and dissolution in the last. Further, be objec-
ted to the bill because it bears equivocatiOn
on its face 1t purports 10 be q submission
Of her dowry, but it submits the Lecompton
Constitution 1t is 50 regarded by the Demo
cratic presses. lie quoted from New Iamp-
shire paper. In this he found a paradox as
irreeoncileable as free ,oW and fate, which
so puzzles the theologians.
Here he read from the speech Of Mr.. Cox,
of Ohio, that the sense of the people was to
be taken On the Lecempton measure, although
it was not directly submitted. 1t was like
voting by black and white balls in Masonic
ledges, without saying anything about the
candidate who is waiting. No State but Ohio
could have got at the outside, so lucid an ex-
PLANTATION Thus indirectness and equivoca
ton are on the bill. Moreover, he said, if you
make slave barrier across this latitude of 45o
you interpOse barrier to progress more in
surnountable than the Rocky mountains or
the Sierra Nevada. 1t amuses him when he
hears patriotic men talk of removing the
capital. If you contine slavery within its
legitimate limits, the capital Of this nation
may remain where it is, and the empire may
grasp the pole and the equator, but no such
destiny awaits it if you separate by a slave
barrier the Atlantic free from the Pacific free
Further-This bill is nothing but Lecompton.
Lecompton with i variation. You tess a coin
and bid Kansas cry Eagle or Liberty" If
Eagle" you give her slavery. If the efhgy
of Liberty" you give her slavery still.
| What thinks the senator from Pennsylvania,
representing the first free State? The senator
| from Rhode Island, Of Roger Williams? The
| senator from Iowa The senator from Cali
fornia, whose State was saved from slavery
by efforts other than his? The senator from
| Indiana? But they have another question to
settle with their people at home. What an
swer will they give to this proposal which
leaves only the semblance and not the choice
of liberty. My friend here asks, what says
the senator Of New Jersey? He would him
self answer, because the blood of the men who
hazarded life and means for her liberty flowed
through his veins. lie knew the blue hills
| Of New Jersey, and will answer that the votes
here given for Lecompton will be her last
| slave vote given for the next ten years
1 ~ ,(
the Election Board, he said the ghosts on the
Styx are not more thick and cloudy than are
the spirits Of the departed Governors Of Kansas
who attempted to give correct returns. He
had no confidence Ill the President as an ele-
ment of that board He has had experience
that some weuldcry "shame" if he disparaged
/ or DETAINED the President, but he would con
sole himself that once men in Virginia
cried shame" on Patrick Henry. Men were
not wanting in Rome to cry shame" on Ca
to, and they were no friends of liberty who
in Senates fear to oppose Kings or Presidents
The report was adopted in the Senate by
vote of 81 to %, and in the House by Il
to I03.
This Infamous bill proposes to give tc
Kansas Lands for Schools, Seminaries and
Railroads, worth several millions OF dollars
1t provides, however, that the People Of
Kansas must decide by vote whether they
will accept these lands. If they agree
to accept, they will have voted millions o.
t dollars into the Treasury. So far the pro
position, whether fair or not, is somewhat
8 intelligible-it is proposition to take
e vote Of the people-to allow the will of thc
majority to rule. True, standing alone, tn,
: question has but one side-there being NJ
reason why the People of Kansas should
rot o.nor+ Il d. II