Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1858-08-12


OF dissolution (now grown fiat and stale,
10 be sure, came grumbIing up from the
South. Alsboma bad resolved 10 go ont If
Lecompion did not come in; and one Of iier
representatives. Zone Mr.. Shorter) pro-
claimed in the House, that she would be-
come the nucleus OF a great Southern Con-
federation ] The President and the Le-
eompton Senators were in a strait, and like
ly 10 be convinced Of false prophesy at
least, Il not false principles; for it was now
plain that they could not force Kansas in,
en their fret plan, and still the Union re-
fused TO be dissolved. and in spite Of Mr..
Shorter, bid fair 10 live longer than the
youngest cfihe Lecompton politicians.
Sill, some thing mus, be done 10 save the
President and his party, il possible, from
The appearance Of an open defeat, or at least
10 cover their retreat from false and dam
gerous position, so unwisely assumed. Il
did not admit OF remedy; but they had not
The nagnaniinity 10 own il nor the courage
10 meet IFS consequences. Some trick, some
artifce, some dodge, must he invented To
save appearances, and nothing better could
be found out but The miserable subteriuge
Of the English bill. The Green bill had
the merit, at least, Of claiming 10 be based
on principle, but the English bill has not
even the merit ola decent lypocracy. II
makes To attempt 10 conceal lis dupiciiy
Besides being very clumsy and awkward
as composiion,i if afiirms contradictory facts
and advances opposite principles, in flat an
tagonism TO each other. 1t declares Kan.
sas TO be both State and Territory; and
IN both capacities it assumes absolute con-
troll over its people, in regard 10 the election
required to be held, by appointing board
OF commissioners, with powers dangerously
great, majority Of whom are the Presi-
dents subordinaies, holding their offices at
his pleasure. No vote is proposed 10 be
taken directly upon the existence ofthe
Constitution or OF the esraie, but cniy upon
The proposition Of grant Of land, in lieu Of
the right Of taxation, as claimed by the or
dinance, which ordinance, Mr.. Green's re-
port assures us is NJ part OF the Cnnstitu-
ton, and, whether approved or disapproved
by Congress, cannot affect the Constitution.
Ii that election on the land gran, go in one
way, then Kansas is a Stale and a member
OF The Union not made BY the convention
at Lecompton, but by the vote taken before
Mr.. BUcnANAEs commissioners. II il go
in the other way, then the Nafs OF Kansas
is converted into Territory. The Cuns'i-
futon and the State itself are both annihi-
lated. And then the Territory (msde such
by the people Of the STATE rejecting the Land
Grant) may proceed 10 form new con,iiu-
lion and State government, but not until it
has population sufficient TO elect member
Of Congress, according 10 the existing legal
Tn.io.
When the Green bill was pending in the
Senate, it was well understood that The pop.
ula,Ion Of Kansas was under forty thousand,
yet, MIR. Gresn in his Report expressly
comedies ''the sufficiency Of the population =
10 warrant the formation Of State and IFS
admission into the Union. And Senator
Polk. in his speech in favor Of the bill
(Which Senator BEyJAAIs says exhausted
the subject, )speaks thus einpha,icalIy-
care there any good reasons why we should
not rdmi. her? II SO, what are they? Has |
she not The requisite population? No one raises |
an objection on that ground" And so il |
seems &c be established point in The Sen !
aie, that population Of thirty five or forty
thousand will do for slave Slate, but the
whelo legal ratio about nipety-fnur thou
sand is necessary 10 constitute free Satsi
And the men who say and do this, still hold
up their heads and talk about law, princi-
pie and equality! The honesty Of The thing
may be judged Of by this further fact--tbe
Green bill was rushed through the Senate
as rapidly as disputed measure could be
hurried on, and for the osiensIb!e reason,
Ofton urged, Of saving The country from vi
olence ard blOodshed, aud Tie Union itself
from disruption. But when the bill actually
failed in the House, these timid patriots
were OF q very different way of thinking
Fhey perceived Of once that the Union was
in no danger at all and that Kansas could
we'll afford to wait an indefinite number OF
years, until she had moro than doubled her
population. And everybody else could see
plainly enough, tia. il was mol the Union
which was in Danger, but the popularity
Of the Presiden, and The power Of his party. :
How any man who had voted for the
Green bill, npon the notion that il wn> +,
based upon law and principle, could after I,
wards, stoop 10 vote Tor the English bill, |
was unable 10 understand, until saw in
newspaper reason said 10 have been as.
Iigned by Mr.. Anderson, in late speech
.t.Fulton. Heis repirted 10 have said tina, l
10 had, at first, resolved TO vote againsi C
he bill, but changed his mind On being in- a
ormcd that three or four Southern State, v
lad determined 10 Withdraw from the Union &
fthe measure failed, and therefore, without e
hanging his opinion Of The bad character Of II
he bill, he voted for it.. Perhaps lie had P
card Mr.. Shorter's speech, and was S
cared. Fear is no! the most respectable I
,otive in Congressman, but it is better ]
ban fraud. .Ths one is only a pitiable o
weakness. the other crime. II those who p
assad this despicable bill, submitted 10 the $
hame, under the duress Of fear, perhap, O
ley ought to be pitied and forgiven this c
ace, but the ''case ought to be o caution" o
, the people, to choose hereafter for their II
men Of somewhat frmer m