The daily Butte record., 1858-05-31
The News.

tute for the Lecompton bill. II ap-
pears that Congress has amended Le-
compton, and that the amended pro.
vision is to be submitted to vote of
the people of that territory, and if ac-
ccpted, Kansas is 10 be admitted by
proclamation of the President with the
Lecompton constitution as amended by
Congress. This proposition, or amend
mcnt, or more properly still, Act of
Congress, offers to the people of that
Territory bribe to accept Of the Le-
compton constitution, and imposes a
penalty if they do not. The bribe to
induce the acceptance of Lecompton is
four millions of acres of land the pen
atty attached to its non acceptance is
to remain territory until their popu-
lation is sufficient to entitle them to
representative in Congress. In other
words the present administration and
Congress have determined to give land
sufficient to constructa Pacific railroad,
to secure an additional slave State, but
will not admit a State whose constitu-
tion does not tolerate that institution.
This Infamous act was passed by the
detection of several anti-Lecompton
Democrats, and has been approved by
the President Among those who
scorned this wicked and corrupt libel
upon the American government, were
Douglas, Crlttenden, Marshal, Stuart,
and Me,srs Broderick and McKibbcn,
of California.
This act of infamy has been perpe-
trated by Democratic administration
and Congress chosen upon the principle
popular sovereignty. This is not our
ilea o. that doctrine. 1t is not tho
Democratic understanding of it. 1t is
not in accordance with the Democratic
doctrine of Congressional non-intcr-
vention. 1t is continuation of the
trickery and fraud with which Lccomp-
ton was commenced. It's bribery and
treason Of a corrupt administration and
centralized power against agovern-
ment by the people, unscrupulously
urged by the Chief Magistrate of the
nation who, one year since in his inau-
gural, proclaimed that public liberty
depended upon public virtue.
) 1t will be difficult for those who have
urged the immediate admission o. Kan.
sas an excuse for their support of lie.
compton, to endorse this action Of Con.
gress. Should this infamous attempt o.
the administration and Congress to bribC
: the people be rejected, as it undoubt
o edly will be, Kansas cannot be admit
ted until she shall have population
equal to the number required for q
representative in Congress. This is an
/ indefinite postponcment of her admis
e sion, and il is strange that a Lecompton
e Senate should have consented to an ar
rangement that will undoubtedly COM
: pei Kansas 10 remain territory until
II after the Presidential campaign oil
i. 1860. They have passed over the
+, Critienden amendment, and over the
d constitution formed at Leavcnworth t
I keep Kansas out of the Union, and tt
l. keep up sectional agitation. That il
the food upon which Lecomptonisn
;, subsists.
ri The arrival of the Atlantic paper
g to-day will enable the public to form
: more definite idea of the action of Con
grcss, and the probable results tha
g will flow therefrom. From the advice
now before us, we denounce it as th
blackest, most disgraceful, corrupt AM
;. senseless act ever perpetrated by tn
representatives ofa free people. 1t i
an ignominious and contemplate farce
% aud fitting finale of flagrant attemp
IS to force an obnoxious government upo
9 an Independent people.
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II Gen. Allen.-.POadunk.
'ui That xataran ne tha California oarr,