St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1858-06-03
Kansas.

The opposition 10 the Lecompton
Constitution is fierce and general.
Illness gross frauds arc pcrpetrated,
it is safe to predict that the hateful
instrument (Which the Administration
prints speak of as " the will Of the
people " will not receive thousand
votes, all told, in the whole Territory !
In order to show the first impress.
sion made on the Free State men of
Kansas by the Conference bill, We
make the following cxtracta from Kan
sas papers, containing references to
the new measure:
From the Lawrence Republican, May 9Th
As we go to press, We learn that
the Lecompton BILL as reported 10y
English from the Committee of Con-
ference, has passed both branches of
Congress-thc House by nine majority.
Lecompton is therefore passcd--pro-
vided the people of Kansas vote to
accept a proflercd land grab other
wise we remain in territorial CON
dition until we have $4,000 inhabi-
tants. OF course we will remain
territory !"
From the Inavcawocth Times. May 9Th
"Our duty, as it appears to lis, is
plain though it be painful. With that
devotion and magnanimity character
istic of the Free State party, we
should drop all thought of existing
state governments (; go, like one man,
into the election under the English
bill, vote the land bride, with its lie
compton appcndaGc, into eternity, and
then urge forward emigration, so that
before another year rolls around we
may count upon Il population guaran-
tccing our admission into the conlcd-
Grafton, even under the high-handed
terms of the English bill. These are
our views upon the matter, but we
think it highly important that Il CON
vcntion of the people should soon be
called, and that, as Il party. we should
resolve upon some definite policy
adapted TO the present condition of
things"
From the IrnvcrwortI Griscr. May It'll.
Having found that threats alone
are insufficient to curb the people of
Kansas, our enemies have joined a
threat and bride, and hope by this
means to succeed in their ncfarious
purposes. We would inform the adj
ADMINISTRATION and its minions that the
government does not own land enough
to buy up the people of Kansas
The originators and abcttors of the
movement arc boasting that the in
habitants of this territory would bar
ter their hopes in this life and the
next for a grab at Uncle Sans do
main. What a pitiablc mistake !!
We would rather consign ourselves
to eternal poverty, than be the instru-
ments of our own degradation. Who
that minSlcs with the people, hears
their opinions and observes the spirit
IN which they are expressed, can
doubt as to what will be the result of
that election 2 Our enemies may CON
slider us fools and knavcs but give
| us Il cnanCc AT inc Dttilrt-DDX ana we
will return the complimcnt'
From the Qdniaro Chnaovan, May sth
The unfair submission of the Lc-
compton Constitution will not shield
it; the people will strike through the
ordinance to bury the lance of their
Just Indignation deep in the heart of
the swindlc. This dodge has two
features, Il bride and threat. The
bride is nothing more than other new
States have received, and which, in
justice, will be given to Kansas by
some future Congress, when the Ma
tional Legislature shall have been
purgcd, as it most surely will be, and
that right early. The threat is that
Kansas must remain Territory for
an indefinite period unless Lecomp-
ton is accepted. But this is of piece
with the bride. Until the right of pc
ton is revoked, the people of Kansas
will retain the prcrogrativc to send
up an application for admission into
the Union as a State, and the day is
not far distat when a National Con
gross vii. override the dictum of an
imbecllc executive, and invest free
Kansas with all the dignity and every
immunity of a sovereign State