Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1858-04-30


The statesniah out OF the woods and out
| NovVi '"0 ,'0"'0'
Tho Ohio Statesman, Of Tuesday, has
got tho facts and road the documents, and
itspurns the English dodge as heartily as
the Lecompton swindle, It's talk has the
old anti-Lecompton ring, and is in bold and
manly contrast with the whining and tongue
licking support the Post Office organ of the
Administration, now gives to the English
Kansas Bill" Don't fail to read tho $50
Der second thought" of tho Statesman on
tho conference Report. 1t says and with a
meaning emphasis:
"This report is now before us. II is not
what it was represented to be, in some par
ticulars. 1t lacks tho force clearness and
dircctness Of tho section we published
tolegraphcd to tho New York Tribune as
the first section Of tho bill. Tho report is
neither clear, forciblc nor direct. 1t is eva
sion from first to last, and admirably calcu-
lated to suit nobody who has positive prin-
ciplos Of any sort. We suppose that is
what il was adopted for. 1t is neither fish,
flesh, nor red herring. Practically, it will
enable the people of Kansas to reject tho
Lccompton Constitution; theoretically it
pretends that it only submits tho land ordi-
nance. Admire tho ostrch-liko sagacity of
this device
The Committee with immense gravity,
hides the head of Lecompton under tho sa-
cred mantle of the convention, and then
leaves it for the hunters to come up and
spear it through the heart 1t submits the
land ordinance and makes the Constitution
to depend uponits adoption. No ordinance,
no constitution---this is rot submitting the
latter--of course not Instead of this ar
rant tom-foolery, we should infinitely have
preferred plain Yes or No upon the con-
stitution. The people might then, perhaps
have adopted it. Wo think they will crush
it out now, by an overwhelming vote, be-
cause this report looks like sneaking at
tempt to avoid decision of the questions
must the constitution be the act and deed
Of the people? Has convention ''plenary
power to ordain, establish and put in force
q constitution without submission, when the
people want it submitted, and the power to
Withhold it has not been expressly delegated?
These questions will have to be answered
some time and those who answer "no" will
be ground between the upper and neither
millstones Of popular sovereignty.
Wo can assure Mr.. Stephens and his CO.
adjutors, that the subterfuge, or rather gross
talsehood, insinuated in tho preamble, is
repudiated beforehand. He will find the
popular sovereignty lion in the path, if the
Lecompton proceedings are ever initiated,
and the trihing pretences of this preamble
will neither break his teeth nor blunt his
claws. #, by any declarations, or provis-
ions in this report, the Lecompton mon
seek to set up Lecompton as precedent for
anything but discontinue and rejection, we
challenge them 10 the issue. Let them
mako it and they will be trodden under
foot in three-fourths of the States. We
want the South to understand this very
clearly. No Anti-Lecompton man does now,
or will hereafter, say that Lecompton was
a valid constitution without the ratification
Of it by the people. Mr.. Stephens, Mr..
English and Mr.. Green may indulge in any
amount of cobwob wcayings, but tho Dc
mocracy of the South must take notice that
the popular sovereignty question, agreed to
at Cincinnati by tho united Democracy of
tho Union, will be resolutoly adhered to by
the Democracy of the North; and whenev-
er such question again arises, the result
will bo the samo-the popular sovereignty
men may allow the disunioists and abo-
lltionists she'll apiece but they will keep
the oyster. 1t would be more straightfor-
ward and better, in every way, to vote
down the report; vote down the Lecompton
plan: and let Kansas abide until she has
tho proper population. We trust Congress
will now take this course.
An Army Contract.