Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1858-05-13
LNMOUTH, INDIANA, THURSDAY, MAY I3, IS5S.

article Of the Demo cratic faith. But now
AZ. English, in order to obtain the support
of the Seventy-six Southern Democrats in
the House, who lately voted to strike out
that provision, Deliberately erpunges Il from
tie nev progromnss, anil so iedces Lecon,pton
purefy anil simply prostaeery Constitu-
ton. istas ~
This plan is the Inauguration not only of
a new but a most dangerous principle. 1t
the Democratic party. oman who votes
| for it from free State can ever expect to
stand before the awful tribunal of popular
indignation and investigation. In 1893
the entire Democratic party voted for the
admission Of Kansas, when the number Of
| herpopulation was far bel ow what it is at
the present day. and in 1888 the Administr~-
tionplanted itsef upon the theory that the
Kansas Nebraska Bill was an enabling act
of itself, and nov, to cap the climax, we
have Mr. English coming forward with a
proposition to admit Kansas into the I'm
ion with a pro-slavery Constitution, in the
fa,e of the admission that the population
ofthe Territory is but $4,000 while, in the
same bill, he takes care to insert a
prohibition against her admission under
any other Constitution until she has at
! tanned new and increased ratio of popula-
| tionl
1t is not preteplel by the opponents of
! this new scheme that hereafter steady ra-
ito Shall not be applied to the new States
asking for admission into the Union, but
we protest against this sluffiing inconsis-
tency, and these dishonoring discri.nina-
tions against the people of Kansas, merely
to crafty false pride of power, and to
save those Southern gentlemen who have
placed themselves upon record as resolved
! to go out of the Union should Kansas not
be iorcel into it with the Lccompton brand
upon her brow.
The intelligent citizen viii perceive Mat
this con-. promise. 50 miscalied, propites hat
Konsos can only he almitted into tie Union
as a Siore State. r
Iregard this entire ! n ;lish programmes as
in the last degree Objectionable. 1t will
not be settlement, but continuation Of
dissention. Every National Democrat,
who has heretofore voted against Lecomp-
ton. AMI now votes for this programme,
hopclessly stultiics hims IF. He will 90 be-
fore his constituents with the brand upon
his brow, AMI vsill lose not only his self
respect but the confidence anil respect
of men of every other party. The Re-
publicans will fling into his teeth his vote in
favor Of tn, LEGO npton Constitution, which
| he has so often denounced, his endorsement
OF the odious distinction as toratio between
! a lave Con ,titution and on so that would be
free, and also his approval of the idea,
so Extensively set forth in the Calhoun
contrlvance, anil so ostentatiously aban-
doncd by the Administration organs, (6at
returned IN Me English 6itt), viz: the doc
trine that the people of Kansas may not
alter the Lccompton Constitution until
1868, and only then acc- riding to the strin-
gent provisions of the Constitution itself.
What man is ready to take this fearful
responsibility? What Democrat will
make himself odious by assuming it?
As for myself, really as l am to assist in
the aljustm mt OF this unfortunate dis
pute between the two sections of the Union,
Icannot give my humble sanction to this
new scheme. Ii it fairly submitted the
scAoie case to the people, in the spirit of
the Crittenlen- Montgomery amendment,
leaving them perfectly free to manage their
own affairs in their own way and allowing
them, in the event of the rejection of Lee
compton to frame another Constitution,
and to vote upon that, the whole strife
would have been closed, and Il would have
rejoiced inthc harmony It mustlaverc stored
to the Demo. r tlcpa t.. Ru.whenI see that
the new project is now simply 10 put Le-
compton upon the people, Of Kansas, or,
il they rcpu lia.e it, to give them over,
for an unlimited period, to the tender her-
cies of a pro-slavery organization, / pro-
/ test with all my. heart Another indica-
ton cannot fail to excite the indignation of
the country; and that is, the clear supposi-
tion that the project was intended to propi-
tsste those Southern States which have
precipitately resolved to go out Of the
Union, if Lecompton is. not put through.
Their no, is to be, saved at every haz-
ard, because it is now clear that any such
attempts would bury in utter oblivion all
who dared to undertake it. At all haz-
arls. sink or swim, come what may. put
THE Pass down against this English in
vcntion. j. w. L.