The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1858-08-12
The People Of Kansas and the English
Rribe.

1 XII CApCCtoobS1 oAN
bribe as a sacred place Offering to Kan
sas, and making test upon all Demo
crats, a voice comes from that down.
trodden and distant Territory, J0', the
third time repudiqting the snSuh sought 10
be a6faed upon its intelligent people. The
English fnality is finally rejected; the
English bribe spurned with conte mpt; the
Lecompton constitution hurled into an
ignominious grave, under the very law
passed by those who attempted its resur-
rection. After bitter struggle Of more
than year under Mr. BUcHANAN's Ad-
ministration, during which time solemn
faith has been wickedly broken, honest
public servants betrayed, lofty character
debauched and lowered, corruption bold
ly introduced into Congress to stiae in
vestigaticp D, and to compel Representa-
tives, to become traitors or towards, and
failing in either, to 60 out of the demo.
cratic party branded as deserters and dis
organizers-after this struggle, so memo.
roble, and these scenes so disgraceful.
the people Of Kansas remain unbought
aud unseduced, and Kansas itself is still
Territory, though, two years ago, pro-
rised admission as State by the candi-
date of the American Democracy, when
ever majority of her people demanded
it. The last bait, falsely called meas
ure of peace. and arrogantly made a test
ofparty faith, is Indignantly spurned, and
the authors of the most stupeDdous de-
sertion of principle, again, and for q
third time overwhelmingly rebuked. 1t
is significant to See the arts and efforts
of the dispensers of Office so repeatedly
discarded. The English Bribe was the
favorite invention of the leaders in the
violation of the covenant of 1856. 1t was
carried through Congress by the most
profligste and scandalous corruption -
Nothing in this country since the passage
of the charter of the Bank of the United
States by the Legislature of Pennsylva-
MIA; nothing in the Old World since Gas.
TLEREAGH bribed through the Union bill
in the Irish parliament. has been equal to
it. After it was thus bullied and brought
into the shape of law; after it as made
the touchstoDe of Democracy-the very
gospel to the heather who have falsely
dreamed of the fatal heresy of Popular
Sovereignty; and was duly accepted By
our new leaders and our callow converts,
and by those timid heroes who got so ter
riied at the first honest act of their lives,
that they were ready to clutch at the first
dishonest chance to recover themselves
the next etep was to make the potion ac-
ceptible to Kansas. What transpired
we know only by rumor, (save that CAL
HoUN ended his career by an act of inge-
NOUS iniquity,) but it is indisputable that
new subsidies were sent forward to induce
Kansas to seal her shame by an act of
superior self. degradation. She has brave
ly refused the last insult, as she bravely
resented the first. And now, what nextl
What will our imperial masters do
nowl The web of deceit is not only wo-
ven out, it is worn out. The armory of
fraud is exhausted. Threats will intiui-
date no more, and there are a few more
Offices to buy the waiting parasites. Ex-
pedients will not do, gentlemen of the
and of the Executive Hall |
You must come to the choice Of plain al
ternatiyes, as follows:
Will you accept the judgment of the
people Of Kansas as final against Lecomp-
ION, and admit them as a State on your
pledged faith of 1856, according to the
doctrine of Popular Sovereign
y, and in honest ful6llmeDt of the Presi-
ieut's Letter of Acceptance, his Inaugu,
al Address, and the Cincinnati Platform!
Or aoiN you keep the issue open, by COM
,elling them to wait according to the new
est of faith, exclude them from the Uni
IN, probably, till after the Presidential
election, on the ground (Which you dare
lot deny) that because they would not
ome in as a slave state with IS, 900 of
population. they shall not come in as
rec State till they have population of
5000, or it may be 10000!
One of those alternatives you must &C.
ept Which shall it bel
Iftbe first, it is an acknowledgment of
he principle We have conteuded for.
If the second, it reopens aud keeps o. .
EN- the dissensioDs which an honest ad-
erence to the first would have forever
revented.
We wait events. Meanwhile, lie. US be
rateful that this last verdict against
,ithless public servants has been so o.
crwhelming. This verdict completely ,,
ustains the men who have refused to
i've way TO treacbery to principle, and it
them by the assurance that ,
hey have not vainly struggled. To the
allant spirits who are awaiting their
rial at the bar of public opinion, such a
oice as that from Kansas will be like a
oice from heaven. 1t will drown the
amor of official calum niators, and con- :
'und the plans of ambitious demagogues
Q those who are compelled to make their
anvass with the ignominy of votes for the !
nglish bribe on the record, and the last
ecree of the people of Kansas before the
ablic, We can only with such fate as
due to the men who preferred to obey :
andate of an official few, and to disre. '
ard the appeals of generous people $