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The Kansas Vote Againrt Ad-

The Kansas Vote Againrt Adj
mission.
Ihe Washington Union siVcs It up
II has heard the rsbuke Of Kansas and
declares hst "the results ofthe elections
IN Kansas. leave no doubt Of the refusal
OF the people TO be admitted into the Unio
on the terms proposed in the Conference
Bill Of the last session" Wha. does the
Union, what does the Administration,
what does the Democrats party, "pro-
rose 10 do about III" Tue Union thus
/ plainly fOreshadows the answer.
This result we do not regret. There
is 10 longer any reason for treating Kan
sss as exceptional to the general rule pre-
vailiug in reference TO the admission Of
new States into the Union. Justice to
the people Of other Territories requires
that they shall have a sufficient popula.
tion, before admission. TO entiIle them at
least TO one representative 10 Congress. -
About one hundred thousand people is,
and ought TO be, the lowest number en-
titled to such admission. There are no
well grounded grievances in remaining un-
der territorial forms, and this seems 10 be
the judgment OF the Kansas people. rhey
have decided thus TO remain, and, as they
have at length come 10 realize that peace
is better than rebellion, we trust they will
now wait I'LL their number call for 9
change OfgoverumeuL
It is resolved tc this and nothing else.
Kansas could have come in as a Slave
State under the Leeompton Constitution
with forty thousand people, but as a Free
State, the organ Of the Administration
and tie Democracy says-"AbOut one
hundred thousand people is, and ought to
be, the lowest number entitled to such ad-
missioDP A few months ago Mr.. Buchan.
an and bis Administration left no stone
uLturnsd that power and patronage could
move to bring Kansas into the Union as n
Slave State even under frauduant Con-
stitutiOn, debating dishonerabIe terms
wbish the people have with united voice
rejected, and now that rejection is taken
by the Union, the Administration, and
the Democracy, as conclusive that the
people Of Kansas have deliberately decided
TO remain a slave territory for years to
GOMEZ Such is TO be the next Democrat
ic phase Of the Kansas question.
Let us see where the issue ends. The
ratio Of population for Representative in
congress is now 90. 4S0, and after 1850 it
will doubtless exceed 100000. It is
hardly probable that Kansas will acquire
a population of 93,4sO prior to 1860, nor
Of 100000 for some time subsequent 10
that date. According TO the Union che
must remain territory three or four years
at least. perhaps longer. Bear in mind
that since the Dred Scott decision Prs.
dent Buchanan has declared 10 M official
document that Kansas is "as much slave
State as Georgia or South Carolina" and
then the true friends Of freedom to Kan
sas can fully appreciate the danger to be
in permitting the territory
TO remain out Of the Unicn for an indefi-
Dite period as proposed by prosIavery
Administration and a proslavery party, for
The express purpose Of giving the Slavery
propaganda every possible opportunity to
fasten the institgtion permanently upon
her.
We trust tho people CT Kansas will
take proper steps, and at the proper time,
to "regulate their own domestic institutions
in their own way" aud will bring the
boosted principle Of popular Sovereign.
ty" right into the face Of the Democratic
Congress at its next session, in the shape of
Free State Constitution, regular in mode
and Republican in form. After what has
transpired in the Territory and the over.
whelming majority just given by its citi
2eps. we should like to see the Democratic
Representative from a Free State who
would vote to reject Kansas from the Union
under the flimsy pretext Of lack Of popu-
lNtion. Her numbers are steadily increas-
ing, and there is no possibility that il will
ever be less than when the whole party Of
the South, and u moiety of the Moth, vo.
ted so persistensly to make Kansas the
thirty.third State Of the Federal Union.--
The people Of every Northern Congress
ional district should demand Of Democrat.
ic candidates a full commttal for or
against the new propositon--which sub.
stantally is, whether they will vote for the
admission uf Kansas under a new Consti-
tuition, should she present one, without
reference to the number Of her popula>
fiop