Litchfield enquirer., 1858-04-15

speeches as that from the Senator from South
 Carolina will be considered lesson to the la.
 borers of the nation.
 This Lecompton constitution will pass this
 toty. If it should pass the other House it will become a law. The South will rejoice at another triumph. Such triumphs constitute her defeat.
 Since this Lecompton constitution has been before the Senate, the Administration has seen proper to attempt to make it's acceptance a party test, and it's organs have sought to read out of the party all the democrats who have had the bo!dness to denounce the frauds by which it was created.
 Among the men thus sought to be ostracis- ed are great captains and generals of the par ty, who so gallant!y fought during the late Presidential contest, and without whose exer- tions this very Administration would have no existence.
 Let the Administration take heed that the pnrty does not read it out. l deny the right of the Administration to make party test ; it is power that exists only in the democrat ic masses. The d.ctaton of selfappointtd party leaders shall not be the test of my de- mocracy.
 S'eIooo1 da tuS CSCutuIlsC LII q Icc people, consent by any act of mine to cocrce the peol'le of Kansas to accept government they abhor. 1 have no fear that the people oi Kansas will permit this constitution to be en- forced in the event of its becoming law. If they do permit it to be enforced, they deserve to b. subjected to the most aLject slavery, and should be made to work under the lash of those who framed for them this constitution.
 Mir. President, in the views previously ex- pressed on the Executive message, said that the President of the United States should be held responsible for the difficulties in Kansas. This remark was considered startling at the time, and was the subject of much censure Recent developments have confirmed me in tine correctness of the position 1 then took, and from the expression of public opinion that has rearhed me, am satisfied that 8 majority os tie people of the country unite with me il holding him to this responsibility.
 Much has been said about not submitting the constitution of Kansas to the people, and a comparison has been drawn between it and the constitution of Minnesota. I agree with the friends of Lecompton that it is not an ob- jection that should be fatal to the admission of state into the Union, that such constitution has not been submitted to the people, if it be asesertaiHed that the people, as in the case Of Minnesota, favor the admission.
 Entertaining these views, would not op- pose the admission of a state with clause in its constitution toleratiug slavery if were satisfied that it was the expressed wish of d majority of the people.
 1t IS a conceded fact, not requiring discus sion or argument, that four ffths of the peo- pie of Kansas are opposed to the Lecompton constitution. It was fraud from its very in cepton. Every election in that territory, look ing to this constitution as a result, was found- ed ill fraud. Senators who have preceded me- have stated at length the history of these frauds, aud will now only refer to some of them, as the facts have not been disputed In one precinct of that territory (K;ckapoo) ,02o votes were poled on the alleged adop- tion of the Lecompton constitution, while the board of commissioners, appointed by the Le- gislatnre of Kansas to investigate the subject, s ate that there are not more than four hun dred legal voters in that district.
 At another pu cnct (Shawnee) there were returned, as hay n5 been boiled for the Le- compton constitution, 7J3 votes. The census of this place shows thirty houses and ll5 le- gal voters. When the poll-list left this town the record of ns mes covered four pages of pa per, when it reached MT. Calhoun it covered fifteen pages At still another precinct (Ox- for,D 1,266 votes are reported as havng been polled. The census shows 47 white iuhabi- tants.
 It is notorious that the people of neigh boring state were permitted to vote at this election, at such precincts, and as often as they desired. The names of people are recorded in the poll lists, as having voted, who had been dead for months. But why enumerate these disgusting details ? The facts are before the people. They are kno,rn to the President He continues to keep the men in office who are charged with the commission of these frauds The result of all their enormity is before us, in the shape of this Lecompton constitution, endorsed by him. HiN not tie morld belisre he imstigated the commission of hese frauds, as hc gares strength to tAose acho commilted then' This portion of my subject is painful for me to refer to. wish, sir for tue honor of my country, the story of these frauds could be plotted from existence. hope in mercy, sir, to the boasted intelligence of this age, the when writing history of these times, will ascribe this attempt of the Execu- tive to force this constitution upon an unwilling people, to the fading intellect, the petuIent passion, and trembling dotage of an old man on the verge of the grave.
 MR. SPURGEoNs IDEA OF HEAvEN.-Preach ing at Shipley, near Leeds Mir. Sturgeon al- luded to Dr. Dicks wish that he might spend an eternity in wandering from star to star. ss For neo eyclaimS Mr Cn,po.oo, ut% ;t h,