Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1858-08-24

/ nously 10 remain in a Territorial condition
until it has population Of 93, ago. TIM
oeing clear and deliberate expression 81
he wish Of the people, We hope to hear ne
tlore charges against the Democracy or
hisscore Ly the Black Republicans. The
question, do you prefer to remain Ter
itory until you have population of 93,
l9O, was fairly and distinctly presented
70 item, and they have voted Yes with
such an emphatic majority that. even Alb
'lition Denagogues will hardly dare tC
mouth the name Of Kansas for years tc
Iome."
The above is the latest dodge Of the l.
compton party. 1t is the last dcsper'f
effort to deceive the people aud cheat them
.ut Of their votes. Can it bepossible that
one single being in the shape of a man can
he gulled by such transparent dodge?
fhe people of Kansas have voted to remain
u Territory for years, have they?
Every intelligent person in tho County
Anows that the people Of Kansas earnestly
desire to he admitted into the Union as a
State, and thereby be relieved OF ihe pres
"nce OF Calhoun and Lecompte, and the
owa!m Of miserable villains that Buchanan
has foiAted on them a. their rulers. 10
This end they formed the Topeka Consti-
luton, which was submitted TO vote Of
the people, and adopted by more than ten
10 one of the popular vote. This Consti-
tuition WAS presented to Congress and ad-
mission asked under it. But the Consti-
tuition prohibited slavery, and Democracy,
IF course, refused the request. The House
passed the bill for their admission but the
Democratic Senate refused.
Then WAS concocted that Internal scheme
Of fraud, perjury. forgery and force, which
resulted in the formation of an intensely
pro-slavery Constitution, in the framing OF
which tie people had no band and were
expressly prohibited from voting against.
This nonslrouH com pound Of violence and
villainy was sent up 20 Congress. and Blu
c'anHn, IN message IN the House, thai
must forever cas- blot on the name of
de country, urged Congress to force this
hated instrument upon the people against
their united will and protes. The out
rage was consummated SO far rs the SEN
ate was concerned, wthstanding the al
most super human efforts of Douglas and
Two other Democratic and all the Rapub.
iIcan Senator's to prevent it. But it
failed to pass in the House; whereupon.
the English swindle. proposition mieaner,
baSer and more insulting than Lecompton
itself, was passed-overy Democratic
member from Ohio finally voting for it.
BY this scheme, brlbe of many millions
Of dollars, III laid, was offered to the peo-
pie, if they would accept the Lecompton
swndle and come into the Union as slave
State. But determined to rebuke the in
suit thus offered To them, the Legislature
of the Territory called another Conven-
ton. which met at Leavenworth and
framed another Constitution with all the
legal forms, which was submitted to the |
people and adopted. and is now ready to
be presented TO Congress on its meeting !
in December. Thus, with their applica
lion still pending for admission under the
Leavenworth Constitution, they have al
most unanimously spurncd the Lecompton
Swindle, and the Democratic, papers IN
order to dupe their party followers now in
1.-THE popular intelligence by the miserable
that the people of Kansas, by
in their indignation on the prof
fered bribe Of the English Bill, have voted !
70 remain Territory until they have IA
population of 83, ,42O! Can brazen etfront-
cry go beyond this? This subterfuge may
10 for the present campaign; but the meet
ng OF Congress will show the tri.ksters
what the people Of Kansas voted for, and |
hat an outrage so unparalleled. must, III
accordance with the moral Government Of |
God, meet its deserved punishment. The
md is not yet.