Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1858-04-29

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ConaBEMosaL The House, ON THURSDAY. r..a.d
Morrl's land Bill, granting 6s40OoO acres il land
the several States for the endowment Of COLLEGES
specially devoted 70 Agriculture and the Mechanic
Arts Each State is to receive 20 900 acres each
Senator and Representative in Congress: and he
moneys derived from the sales are to be soinvesfs
as to constitute perpetual fund. the interest q
which shall be appropriated for the support "A al
least one College in the State, in such manner as
the Legislature may direct. The bill has NOT vel
passed the Senate. Il
On Friday, Mr.. Englis presented the Report of The
Committee of Conference on the tsagrering sote Of
the two Houses ON the Lecompton Constitution. and
moved that It be taken up on the next day at o.
o'clock. Mr. Howard spoke in favor Of postpepinp for
Two weeks, and motion to postpone to the second
Monday in May was carried by a vote Of 108 to 1e5
The Lecomptonites were confident of carving Mr..
Englsh's bill through at once and were thunder..
struck at their defeat The substance of Mr. f.,
nr'ject is to give the people of Kansas five million
acres Of land on condition shat they will accent the
Lccompton swindle, and threat that if thew do
not sanction it, they shall remain Territory indef
nitely. The proposition is infamous that General
Quitman and several other high-minded southern
members denounced it as frard. Nevertheless we
presume the Administration will finally secure
strength enough to pass it.
On saturday. the House voted (105 to Iol) to re-
fconsider the vete postpcnng Englishs Kansas Bill
to the I'd Monday in May, and to lay that motion
ion the table. The motion to postpone having, how
ever, been made by Mr. Hill of Georgia. as an a.
F-nendnent to Mr. H'w rd's motion the question re-
CURED upon Mr.. Towards motion, as amended. and
Ipending decision upon this point the House adj
iourned. The Senate passed the Deficiency Bill
LATER. - On Monday. the House took the back
track. and agreed by vote of l04 to 100 to- take ur
Engsh's Kansas Bill this day Wednesday,. So we.
may expect to see semi-triumph of the Admins
tration in the adoption of this diluted Lecompton
project as the Tribune calls it. Nine of the anti
Iecnmpton democrats have surrendered under the
pressure which has been brought to bear upon them
by the President and Cabinet.
The Tribune says. Mr. English's project may br
forced through the House. Int the Kansas question
will not thereby be brought one whit nearer con-
clusion If anything like an honest vote is allowed
in Kansas on any question involving approval or,
condemnation Of the Lecompton fraud, the people
will vote down that fraud and all that pertains TO
if such opportunity be not afforded, then the whole
proceeding will come to naught. All that will re-
main Of it will be the recorded fact that the Lecomp-
tonitesn both Houses have voted that Kansasssmay
come into the Union a Slave State with only
10000 inhabitants but. if she insists on being
Free State she shall be kept cut till she shall have
at least 90 000have voted to give her Five Millions
of acres of Public Lands if she in Slave
state, but proer her none at all in case she chooses
to stay out till she legally come in Free State
and have refused to hold election of their own
contriving under the auspices of fair, impartial
Board, but insist on having decidedly Pro-sav.
very. These truths will remain after Lecomnton4
shall have been consigned to general execration-
They will meet the sham advocates of g Non Inter
vention" on the stump and at the polls.
GAS to the attempt to tie up the hands of Con.
gress for the future by prescribing that Kansas shall
come in at once under the Lecompton Constitution,
slall till she shall have more than deuble
ther present iopnla Il should
lone, for It Eswholiy invalid. Kansas will present
herself before this Congress under very differ
ent Constitution from the Lccompten, framed by her
chosen delegates and ratified by free vote of her
people This Constitution will be presented to the
House by her regular Delegate. and will be known
to embody her will. Can the majority afford to let
this application lie the tables of the two Houses
nnacted on? Can any member from Free State
safely present himself for re election saying yp-
ted to admit Kansas upon application never made
by her, under Constitution she never recognized
or ratified yet voted no. TO admit her under a
fresher Constitution. PROFESSIONALLY authorizedand
ratified by her people when sha had larger pop,la
ton and was every way ripper for Self-Government
the radical difference being that the former
thorized and perpctuated slavery, while the Latter
expelled itF If the sham democracy want the next
Congress elected issue TINS made up to them
our side should not object And yet. we should
much prefer that all factions and sectional opposiop
should be Withdrawn, and Kansas allowed to come
promptly into the Union the Free State she. right
fully is Who is to gain by further s.ayng ed OF
this righteous and inevitable eonsummation :! II
es"The Supreme Court Of Errors is now in session
here-all the Judges present. The case.at Nicholas
Masters VS. The Town of Warren. ably argued On
Tuesday by Mcss,s Buel and Hubbard for town, and
Graves and Hollister for Masters. No decision.
The Superior Court has been engaged the past five
days in the trial of exciting divorce case Atwood
against Atwood, from Watertown. The Arguments
are yet 10 bemaGe.
az The National Nagozins for May has been re- |
ceived. 1t is rich number. Burton has an article
in it entitled Picturesque Views in Connecticut"
which contains views Of Dolphin Pond the source |
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Plymouth Hollow /