The Nevada journal., 1858-06-04
The Kansas Business.

ton. A brilliant victory indeed, it must
be, where the partialitics, even mean
ness, of the President ana his coadiutors
are so apparent. A synopsis of the
whole story IS this /! By fraud and vio-
lence sec of delegates met at Lecomp-
ton and got up, what is called, consti-
tuition for Kansas Knowing that they
we're not representatives of the people,
and did notrehect the popular sentiment,
these delegates knew the miserable in
strument they had concocted would be
voted down if submitted to the people.
Fraud and trickery was again resortcd
to for the purpose of forcing the hated
concern upon them. The people were
prohibited from voting against the Con-
stitution Notwithstanding the assurance
wes given them they should be allowed
the right By system of disgraceful
proceedings the Lecompton constitution
found its way to Congress. The Presi-
dent if not a party to all the rascaiity
previously perpetrated in Kansas, now
became a willing instrument to cloak it,
further it, and endeavor to make it re-
spectacle. The sovereign people of
Kansas had declared emphatically and
in manner leaving no room for cav H.
that the Lecompton abortion should not
rule over them. Yet the President de-
cided to the contrary and recommended
to Congress in his message that Kansas
be admitted into the Union undcra con-
stitution that four-ffths of the people
despised and, as he well knew, had re-
pudiated III the most decisive manner
-Four months of a session of Congress
have been FILTERED away in this most
damnable business of forcing upon a
people what they utterly hate and de-
test and that too by men who were call
ed to the administration Of the Govern
mcnt with the precepts upon their lips
that the people of Territory have a
right to form and regulate their Institu-
tions in their own way. Popular Sow
ereignty, that great cry word which be-
guiled the American people at the last
presidential election, has been at length
defined by its leading professors to mean
anything but the proper aceeptation of
the term.
The Lecompton Constitution was pre-
sented to Congress. After a deal of
wrangling very few Democrats were
found willing to adhere to their princi-
Piles. These, adding their strength to
the Republicans and Americans were
able to defeat the iniquitous Constitu-
ton. They held it in a strangling state
for few days when Federal power sue
ceeded in changing the front of about
one-half the rebellious Democrats. A
new proposition comes up, just suited to
ease off some Of the refractory from
their former position, and away they
went as might have been predicted
Party with a majority of leading Dem
ocrats has always been superior to prin-
ciple.
And what is the proposition ? That
Kansas is to come in under the Lecomp-
ton constitution. (By some this is de-
med, and it is not clear in the bill Of Mr.
EngIsh.) Should majority decide in
favor Of proposition Kansas comes in
by proclamation of the President. If
not, she is not to be admitted into tx
Union till she has population sufficient
to entitle her to a representative in Con-
gress. To induce the people of Kansas
to succumbto and accept the hated Con-
stitution, quantity of public lands is
to be granted for the erection of public
buildings, support cf schools, &C. and
FIVE per centum of the sales of public
lands paid overto Kansas. Salt Springs
are also to be granted. Ostenslbly these
inducements are held out to cause the
people of Kansas to relinquish a right
claimed in the Lecompton Constitution
to tax the lands of the United States in
common with private lands. But the
real object is plainly apparent. 1t is to
bribe the people to support an obnox-
ious proposition. The bribe is accom-
panied with threat. The people Of
Kansas are distinctly told, if they do not
accept the proffer of Congress, they
shall stay out of the Union for years to
come. They must yield to the Lecomp
ton constitution with all its iniquties or
remain without the pale of the Union.
The argument of the administration
when translated into truth telling plain
English amounts 20 just this and moth
| inc more. Thirty.tlousand sIayeocrats ts