Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1858-05-13
IEcoMProN CONSTITUTION.
REMARKS OF
uON HENRY WILSON,
.ss Senate, Thursday, April 29, 1858
NJ MASSACHUSETTS,


--,,,ca the consideration of the Report of
saae of Conference on the disagreeing votes
b Houses on the bill for the admission of the
~ Il Kansas into the l nioh'
u WILSON Mr.. President, the Sena-
. y, h,m Georgia Mr. TooNBsl tells us that
! ,,- ~ Of examining the Lecompton Constitu-
y !: lawn the throats of the people of Kansas
~, end 1t is to 60 down by another
a., nov This measure is a conglomera-
W. 3 bribes of penalties, and of medtated
" " Terompton is not to be erammed down
~ -;,is 10 be bribed down, and to be cheated
y, and this proposition provides for both
Ibsss alternatives. 1t goes to the people of
r....s 90, with a bribe in Que hand and penal
:. NJ other and if, bribeS and threats
NOT win, you have provided that fraud
p,t the Senator from Georgia starts a new
..,.,,iop here to-day, one we shall all give
,ra3t Of originating and that is, that if
lad admitted Kansas into the Union uu-
:, Is Senate Lecomptcn bill, that we fought
:, :, lonr She would not have been in the
an a member of this Confederacv. be-
j Ne aid not agree to her proposition for
-r,sen million acres of the public lands
Il, rRy aid we not hear Of this when the
sim WAS before the Senate For more
+, t,r- mouths we have sat here habbling
this Lecompton constitution, and no man
10 Senate or the House Of Representatives
M public press Of the country, no public
ot the country 10 human being on Gods
\ nh ever dreamed, or ever uttered the dream
Eausas would not be a member Of this
N if the bill to admit her under the Le-
-r.on constitution should pass.
>r as We were about to take the last vote
Senate upon the bill for the admission
n Kansas called the attention of the Ssn-
/ 70 ibe certificate Of John Calhoun, ccrti-
,t.qt tie ordinance claiming these lands
] aicrted jy the people as a part of the
NJ .,ut.ga 4 brief debate Spraug up upou
/ aamt. The Senator from Ohio, Mr.
NJ vho Yesterday addressed the Senate
5 lsa-iy Two honrs upon matters pertaining
W . reuaa. affairs OF Kansas, said, on that
a,.l. that,
vi --- has scarcely ever been a new State admitted
il ,-.u t... 4.l not ig .i- alGln4ucc, claim more
M l,,. . Congress ever gave il. / never knew
IN --., il in any g:.-.. it i not part. II can
iii slg IaTt. %. the constitution. no matter nat
NM .. ..-..-e~ Tint does not effect IL legal force
n -..a The .ift ot the public lands. There /,
M rlas ;le admission ui Ohio To this day ia which
MI SIZE -.- Ly. asked more lands than Congress ha>
2 kr a
i. 9... ,t.t-iG.y fail
Tie Senator from Louisiana (Mr. BENJA.
ail that tLis proposition was only pro.
@ 70 for a bargain-a proposition made by
for bargain for public lands that
ii pretended right Of taxation had never
Welded by Congress, and never would be
Id He said
d .isa of one or the States of this Union taxing
ryriv of the Government of the United State
W & limit, Is one which has been frequently advanc
-eE States with view 10 eXtOrt from Congress
s-ialai grant Of land. il never yet has been con-
l-llt never will"
there was not man here in the Sen
''t one who claimed that If Kansas was
.,ed under the Lecompton constitution
E9ld have the seventeen million acres OF
Z; lands The Senator from Missouri
G2EEN offered an amendment, and il
adopted without division by the Senate
expressed the unanimous judgment OF
body and Of Congress
"a. l''ang in this act shall he construed as an A.
Hill lalSrrSs TO any or all OF the propositions oI
----ed IN the ordinance annexed 10 said con
1''s was special provision put into the
nat nothing in the act should be deem
aaen as au assent TO any OF the proyl-
q toe ordinance, and that provision pas
T! the unanimous voice of the Senate
Ma 'asa a population by the Senate of the
any right on the part of Kansas TO
# e public lands | declare here aud now
.lS pretense that Kansas would not be a
~ Of the Confederacy if the original Sc
I'D. had passed Congress, is an aftertho't.
Doctrine avowed here to-day for a spe-
.'PoSe, to have special effect in the
aud there is not a man in the Senate
: aited States, or the Congress Of the
= States, or on the soil of this Republic,
.a's'es there is anything in it. 1t is the
= Preteuse.
Proposition that comes to US from the
-,.se OF conference had its origin with
-9 IoF four months have sat in council
I'VE : mere in resisting this attempt of the
iM s|at!on TO force the Lecompton con
- through Congress. 1t comes from
~ were pledged 10y all chat binds homo
-sa 10 stand by the proposition made
NJ venerable Senator from Kentucky, to
'-sialn that proposition, TO resist a
-..ee Of conference, and to defeat the
-. .o' the admission of Kansas into the
--asr this Lecompton swindle Sir,
= holy Writ that the OK knoweth
- and Tie ass his masters crib" and
--4 these words Illustrated in this
,-5 asses have found their masters
- Tue oxen have recognized their own
IS report comes to US under q false
# teiense. Yes, sir, false and "
AN There is no controversy in re-
-s..- .-5 public lands between the Federal
aT .s,. '-' d and the Territory Of Kansas, none
--.... FROM the adoption Of the Leeomp-
~, .'..l,'on by the convention on the Tth
NJ. ~. last, uP to the framing Of this
.--Fv Was not mau in America