Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1858-05-19
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WARREN. WEDNESDAY. MAYls.
TIE Fpplish Rill.

The English Bill.
II proof were wanting of the corruP-
tion at Washington. the last Lecompton
contrivance, recently passed under the
name ofthe English Bill. would give de-
monstrative evidence that the present
administration governs by downright
bribery and asystem of purchasing con-
gressional votes. Indeed, the people
have become so used 10 seeing Congress
men bought lnat they scarcely feel any
surprise at it, and the moral degradation
of those who are 10 be bought is so com
plete that they seem to feel no shame at
dickering openly about their price.
The naked Lecomptou bill having been
defeated because the brides offered to
the INSCRIPTIONS mes had not been
quite large enough, it became necessary
to afford them a pretext for a change in
their votes by getting up a continuance
which would admit of a pretense that it
looked both ways.
When this was done by Mr.. English
for his price, and the other votes which
were in the market, had been properly
bid for, the thing went through as a mat
ter of course. The unbiushing and con
templibfe knavery of the trick was IN
masked when a Southern fire eater rose
in his seat and said, as he cast his vote
for the bill, that he did it because it did
not submit the Lecompton Constitution
to the Kansas people. and as he sat down
was followed by a backsliding Douglas
democrat from Ohio, who said he voted
for it because il did make the submits
sion.
The principles of this English bill
should be kept before The people. They
are these.
LIST. If the Kansas people will take the
Lecompton pill, they may come into the
Union at once, but if they will not take
it, their admission shall be postponed for
an uncertain period.
End. If they viii take that pill and
come in as a Slave State. forty thousand
inhabitants shall be enough 10 make a
State, but If they will be free, it shall
take one burdred thousand inhabitants
TO make a State of it.
81. If they will consent TO be a Slave
Stale. they shall have three millions of
of acres of public lands for internal i'm
provements, but ii they will be free, they
have no promise of any.
Our masters at the South now count
five of their chaltels as equalling three
of our freemen, and get extra votes ir
Congress thereby; they now propose to
extend the principle and count forty
thousand if they will be Shareholders,
elual to one hundred thousand freemeu
If they had the manliness to make their
demand openly and stand or fall by a
fair fight for an avowed policy, we
should at least feel that they were hen
est tyrants, so far as tyrants can be so;
but when they sneak around that which
they dare DO, openly face. anil steal in
the Clark what they have not strength TO
rob us Of in daylight. our hatred of their
tyrany and the vile tools they do their
work with is made more intense.
We have strong faith that the Kansas
men will give a iual quietus TO The Lee
compton swindle whenever they can get
at it. By poslponing the admission of
Kansas, the administration party have
been fools enough TO make it an issue
for the next presidential canvas, whether
Free States must have more than double
the population Of Slave States to be en-
titled to a place in the Union, with a
further discrimination against freedom
in the shape of a bri5e of millions for
for each Slave Constitution adob;ed.-
Since they have deliberately rendered
this issue we accept it. and say 50 be ii!
Let US have the people of The nation de
eide ii, and if it do not prove tha: This
English bill and its principles will
plague The inventions worse than any
miscbieyous invention ever made By
crafty men before we shall entirely miss
our guess.