Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1858-04-15

EE The following article was intended
for last weeks paper but was crowded out
after being put in type:
Lecompton not Dead. Tic Mkt n yc--
SIua'tsr Sovereignty Laid Que.
Our contemporaries fail into gross errors
Lecompton is not dead. Despite the sub
stitntion of Mr.. CRIrrExDEx's hill for the
original iniquity, AMI its adoption by the
House. the danger Of the final triumph ai'
the traud was never greater than il is this
day. The bill will now go to the Senate
and the amen lmcnt will be amended. pol
ably Ivy the inro ~poratiOn therein Of all the
odions portions of the cd scoun lreli,m
clad IN other words, and. accompanied hv
some notifications which amount to moth
ing in reality, but w'icl, like the s,mmr,
speech in the belly Of the Nebraska BILL
will serve to delu lie and cheat, will be 5 mt
down to the House again; anl then this
fight will be renewed with all the a Ivan
taSe In favor of the usurpcrs. THIN En-
ecutive Establishment AMI bribery. aud all
the tactics which have lately gown into
favor with the Slave Democra will Lc
put into full pay; and the cause of Free
dom will be lucky indeed If it does not
suffer the deseriion of enough of those who
voted for the CRIrrENDES substitute. to en-
sure the passage of the old frand in It's new
shape. The whole force Of the Executive
Is yet to be overcome; and we fear that
there are those who, having satisfied their
constituents that they are opposcd to
Lccompton, will yiel,l to the influences
which will be brought to bear upon them.
and that before the adjournment we shall
see the fraud triumphant Watch for the
development of the trick! as e..e .its,f
But whatever the result Of any future
contest, the morale of the victory is Will,
the Republicans. The principle which has
heretofore been common to all parties--the
principle of State Soveregnty-which
Republicanism. since the detection of the
Democracy has assidiously guar,le,l, is yet
in the ascendant; and the administration is
inglorionsly beaten. The other principle
to which the other Fathers of the Repub-
lie held. and upon which justified the gnar-
dianship over the Territories--is also up
held. The squatter sovereignty dogma by
the very terms of the amen lment is re-
pudiatcl, and through it the House of Rep
rcsentativrs has indicated its intention to
resume the exercise of the powers and
privileges which the Kansas Nebraska bill
nominally denied it, We are going back
and gladly do we chronicle the fact--to
the old time policy which was universally
accepted by the people until the necessities
of the slavery propagandi>ts forced the
growth and secured the temporary tri- !
umph of the dogmas of CALHOUN and the
kindred absurslties of Mr.. DOUGLAS. The |
specification of the Commissioners who are
to act. in the conduct of the election upon
the Constitution ordered by the amend
mcnt. independently Of the people or the
Legislators of Kansas. and upon the war
rant of Congress alone. and the other pro-
visions which Mr.. CRIrrESpEx anil the Re-
publicans insisted npon, are broader asser-
tons Of Congressional authority than we
had reason to believe would be recognized
by the House constituted as II is. We
feared that the anti-Lccompton Democrats,
who have vaunted their devotion to the
policy Of on-intcrvcntion, would av the
track when this amendment. was made a,
sine qna non. But they have periodically
we think. abandoned what they must be.
is untcnablc, and by their yotes
demonstrated their readiness to return to
their allegiance to tha.creed of the party
to which they once belonged. BY their
act, Squattcr Sovereignty, as they have
preached it. is effectually and finally laid
out. This is one of the most gratifying
roe,,1fa of The ,r;rfor,s ~.no.: nv
power Of Congress over the Territories is
again affirmed by Congress itself! Cz;ea-
go Tribune 49, f.