Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1858-05-01
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derng the new dodge under which the friends
OF Lecompton endeavor to accomplish these
designs, soys:
Reduced to plain English, the proposition
includes q bribe and n threat. Ii the people
of Kansas will accept the Lecompton mess
Of pottage, they are offered in compensation
Two selections of land in each township Tor
school purposes
Sevontytwo selections Of land for m uni
versity.
Ten selections of land for public buildings.
Twelve salt springs 10 the State, with six
sections of land adjoining each.
Five per centum on the amount Of sales of
public lands in the State, after its admission
with the Lecompton Constitution. The lands
thus offered are over twenty millions OF acres,
and their value is more than three millions Of
dollars
Such is the bribe.which is offered As an
additional sop, it is agreed that, although
Kansas may not at present have q population
sufficient TO entitle it to one member Of
Congress under the apportionment law, it
may nevertheless be admitted to full privile-
gcs us a State, and that want Of population
shall not prevent it from being represented
by one member Of the House Of Representa-
tiyes and two Senators But the people OF
Kansas are contumacious and reject the in
famous offer, they are to be puriShed for their
folly in asserting their rights. They are then
to rely upon the tender nerces of the Ad.
mnistration.
The details Of these elections nre to be
managed by the friends of Iecompton. The
Governor United States District Attorney
and Secretary Of the Territory-P Presidential
! ppointces-form the majority Of the Gem
missioners whilst the Speakers Of the Kan.
sas Senate and House of Representatives,
( elected r5S che people, are the minority.
/ heso commissioners, or the majority OF
/ them, are to designate place, for voting, and
/ appoint election officers; SO that the State
| will not only be gerrymandered as vey as
| it was by the Border Rulfiun Legislature, but
! all the election officers are to be Of the right
stripe. The delegates elected according to
this plan are to frame the Constitution OF
/ Kansas. Nothing whatever is said about
submitting that instrument 10 uote Of the
people. The organic law framed by the con.
veution thus constituted is TO be sanctioned
at once, inSO tacto and thus the pledges o
! the Cincinnati platform, and the Kansas Ne
braska Act, that the people Of Kansas should
be allowed to "reguluto their institutions il
their own way are to be most grossly dsre
gardcd.
IT. notwithstanding the brSc, the peoD,,
! OF Kansas refuse to submit to the Lecomptor
ewind!e, they are 10 be told" GU shall mo-
become State you shall not have the lane
grants! you shall not have schools vo,
shall net have railroads Sell out your birth
rights, and you may have all these adyanta
ges refuse to do SO, and you shall remain
vaSsals." And this is called Democracy
according to the last Interpretation Go,
save the Republic
ty' The following political obituary notic
contains some good hits that may be reishe,
; by members Of all parties for the points the
contain founlol, as they are, upon facts:
From the Correspondents IA. Potter Journal
AN OBITUARY NOTICE.
DIED, in Washington, On the 8th inst, q
2 o'clock, p n, the LGcoNrIoN CoNaTiru
T!0S, aged five months.
: In the Presidential campaign Of 1856 tn
friends Of James buchanan asserted that
was married TO the Constitution Of the Tn
ted States Her friends denied this, bu
when the deceased was born. his friends a.
serted that the child was. the offspring
+ that union We are opposed to nosing int
family affairs, and so we take it for granite,
on Democratic authority, that the child wa
legitimate.
a fathers love covered the most glarin
0 defects Of the child, ard its southern uncle
said it was sweet babe, and the very rctui
of its father-which last assertion We hay
always believed. But there was fuss
the family because several Of its norther
c relations said it was q monster, and lik
+ Richard III, born before its time, md ugl
/. according For this meddlinE, they weI
. turned out Of doors and denounced as lrai
' ors.
p The deceased has the exact opposite OF i
I supposed mother, and was sick from its Lir,
q The disease was inward putrefaction. D
: CandleboX Calhoun was the attending phys
= clan, but his skill was not adequate to Il
" case. 1t is limited that if lie ever returns
# Kansas, where the child is said to have bee
born, lie will be hung for nal practice.
consultation took place Mt Washington, Il
which place the child had been removed Il
change Of air. and DR.. Biglcr and Others vi
!. have had large and extensive practice in Il
n kering the health of the Union, assured Il
! anxious "parent" that the child was sure
:, live. Hope told AatterinF tale" as NJ
; Ilowitt observes in one Of her poems. II
= anxious father gave large fees to the Doctor
Q The last consultation took place on Thur
!. day, when Ill physicians said it would liz
70 and ll9 said it would die-and it died accor
ingly. The friends Of the mother are gli
Of it. The friends Of the father-amoi
whom We may mention the Mex can Dean
.s cyat and its Tioga Hamesake--are, or ouC'
s. to be. in sack.cIoth and ashes. Rcquicyc
S in pace.
- From the PaiadeirAia Evening Bulletin