San Andreas independent., 1858-06-05

ana restrictions as to the mode and manner 90
It's approval or ratification by the neonle of The
proposed State as they NAV have prescribed hr
Ia" ana shall be entitled to admission into
Tue Union as State under such constitution
lnus larry and legally made, with or without
slavery, as said constitution may prescibe."
And thus, the "ugly mug" is again
presented to the people of Kansas, in a
manner still more insulting to the major
lty OF her people than before. Then, it
was Constitution aoih slavery" or,
Constitution aoithout slavery" But
now. it is Constitution, slavery and all
else;" or, "No Constitution at all."-
That is, if the people of Kansas, in obe-
dience to the demands of the Cabinet at
Washington, will swallow Constitution
which they abhor, the bitter mouthful
Will be magnanimously sweetened BY the
price of 10000 acres of land, to make
1t go down well; but if they reject it,
they cannot come into the Union until
they have more than doubled or trebled
their present population. In other words,
the free States are insultingly told that
a slave Territory is fit to become State
with $4,000 inhabitants, or less; whilst
free Territory shall not be deemed fit
for admission, until it contains $4,000
inhabitants or more. In the language of
the bill itself-"in that event." Tmean-
ing in the event "Lecompton" is reject
ed,] "the people of the said Territory
are hereby authorized and empowered to
form themselves Constitution, and may
elect delegates forthat purpose, whenever,
and not before it is ascertained by cen
sus duly taken, that the population of
said Territory equal the ratio of represen-
tation required for a member of the
House of Representatives of the United
States" This ratio of representation is
$4,000; the present population of Kan
sas is but $4,000.
With these $4,000, Kansas is permit
ted to enter the Union, if she will con-
sent to slavery; but she cannot become a
State without slavery, until she numbers
$4,000 inhabitants. Consenting to this,
the free North must admit herself the
inferior of the South. Free labor, States
Rights, Popular Sovereignty, the Cincin-
natl platform, and every vestige of that
high renown achieved by the National
Democracy, are humiliated before the
arrogant demands of the College of
Southern Mobiles. A handsome tribute,
truly, is this, to those who sneeringly des-
ignate northern laborers "white slaves
the mud-sills of society"
Let us indulge in prophecy and trace
this child of fraud through the probable
adventures of another year: The Con-
stitution will 60 back to Kansas; the
people will Indignantly reject it, in def
ance of the threat which keeps them out
of the Union, and the land-bribe which
invites them in. After this will come the
State elections and the Congress of the
United States will be filed with Repre-
sentatiyes pledge to the admission of
Kansas at once, with or withom slavery,
as her people may elect. The Lecomp-
ton Constitution will die and go down to
an infamous grave. Kentucky, Mary
land, Delaware, with parts of Tennessee,
Virginia, Missouri and Louisiana, will
assist in the establishment of the
Douglas Interpretation of the /" Kansas
BILL" and the disputed Territory, will
come into the Union with a Constitution
repudiating slavery. All this will be ac-
complshed quietly; no State will 90 out
Of the Union because of it, and history
will record the event, as one of the no.
blest triumphs of the ballot-box. The
only hope of evading these results, lies
in the prospect of carrying the "English
bill " through Kansas by frauds similar
to those which introduced the +" Lecomp-
ton Constitution " into Congress. This
would involve the Territory in civil war,
the scope and end of which no man can
tell.