Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-10-07
Keep it Before the People.

Compromise lipe, on the ground that it
favored slavery; and that since 1854:
the obohshiing of the said Compromise
has been equally as vi~tuperously oppos-
ed by them, for the same reason. In
l94S they voted against adopting and
extending it, as a final settlement of the
slavery question in the Territories; and
in 1854, when that line was superseded,
and the principles Unpopular souereign-
y adopted, by the Democrats, they call
ed it sacrilege.
Keep it before the people, that they
cry out that the question of Constitu-
tionality shall be submitted to the Su-
preme Court; and when decided by that
Court, they say the decision is aorong,
heap unmeasured abuse on the Court
and want TO Mrow It back again into
Congress.
Keep it before the people, that in their
Fremont platform, they claimed for
Congress the right to control the CUES
slavery in Kansas5@and no,c
shrek loudly that some of the inha1i-
tants have not enjoyed the right they
desired in that platform to delegate to
C1agrcss.
Keep it before the people, that in
1854 they denounced the democratic
party" for adopting the principles ofthe
Kansas law, and now they assail the
party more than ever, if possible, for
Carrying out these same Psinciples.
Keep it before the people, that they
attempted to force Kansas into the
Union in the proceedings Of mass meet
ing held at Topeka in 1855, said pro-
ceedings being in utter defiance Of lac,
and afiergards raved loudly and shed
crocodile tears about the intorn,atities
and lack of legal authority IN the Le-
compton Generation; they banished free
negroes from the Territory and tolerated
slauery by the Topeka Convention, and
abused the Lecomptonites for following
their example.
Keep it before the people, that in
June 1857, they were inrited to make
Kansas q free or Stare Stute, and they
would not act; they put no tickets in
the field, but allowed the pro-shave,3
men to be elected without opposition.
be,ause, as they said, the h'cs aoerc DO.
gus, and the Registry act had never been
flirly administered.
Keep it before thc..people, that in the
following September, JQ95D there wa:
another election, not about syaccry, bur
for a Delegate 10 Congress, and for |co
officers, under the s,tnee Mtcs "bogus'
too, as they in June before called them
then they rushed to the polls, and sen
"PaTrott" to Congress, and elected al
the officers and secured tie ~enlolamcnts
the question not being as to slovcry, they
voted under the laws they in June be.
fore r~cpu3intc1 as bogus.
Keep it before the people, that on the
21st OF December, 1857, the vote was
to be taken as to whether "Kansas'
should be a free or stare State, and agait
they remained at home and allowed
slarcry to triumph at this election; ant
when sEare,y was the question they
would not vote.
Keep it before the people. that on the
4th of january, 1858, (ffteen days af
terwards.) there was another election.
and that election was for oDicers, and not
upon sLuUcry; then again they rushed to
the polls and carried all the officers pro
vided for in the Lecon.pton Constitution.
which they had before repudiated as
bogus" When slaUe,y was the ques,
ton they cried out "dogas H'es,' and
would not vote; but when Offices and
en,oluments were to be secured, the laws
were legitimate enough for them, and
they voted. Is there anything plain
er, than that they cared nothing about
sIarery.
Keep it before the people, that the
Free State Representatives in Congress
last session, after they had f + months
denounced the Lecompton Constitution
as a suindte. and the very embodiment
of corruption. voted to make Kansas a
State under it. They declared nine
tenths of the people were against slau-
err, and then voted to admit her as a
stare State. Under the "Crittenden
amendment" they attempted to ow-
hori=e the people Of Kansas to make a
Constitution and State Government,
adopt it, and put it into the Union,
,cilheHt ercn bringing it before Con-
gress.
Keep it before the people, that they
proposed, under the "Crittenden amend
ment," to give the people certain Sec
tons of land, and then when the Dem
ocrats did precisely the same thing un-
der the "EnJtisA GiW," they call Hbri-
berry.
Keep it before the people, that they
were clamerous against accepting the
Lecompton Constitution aottho"t the
consent Of the people,; and when the