Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1858-05-12

me q and man You make me an offer TO SCI
me piece OF land you say may have it 70
= $1,000 upon two years time. l say Ti
L give you that, but want five years. Yog re
4 leet the Eve years there is no dispute bstwee
= as about the price bat the whole contract falls
Kansas is treating with as as an equal contract
ing party she offers to come into the Union OF
certain terms and We accept a portion anS
= reject others. Then il she says, "a will no
2 come in under the modified terms" the whols
I contract falls, and that is the way the sonsti.
tuition falls. It is mode, fair and legiti.
! mate mode, an irresistible mode, a mode tba;
Z would exist whether you submitted Il or not.
because, say, when YOU varied the contract
even under the Lecompton bill as 1t went from
this House, It was the right Of Kansas to re-
Jet It, and II she had rejected it she would
have bses where this bin proposes to place her
in that contingency, in a territorial condition.
This objection comes from the opponents OF
this bill they are sorry that this is one Of the
results OF the proposed action. | am not. n
II be true that the people Of Kansas do not
ike this constitution If il be true that those
who are in rebellion may go to the polls and
vote It down, when we only submit a PROPOSE
tiOn for a change Of the lands the people asked
they may have what reasons for their vote they
please. do not object to it because they may
give vote upon a wrong reason. They might
nave done that under any bill, for yeu cannot
I force State into this Union, YOU cannot bring
/ her in except on terms to which she agrees, and
| say that naturally results in all treaties with
EQUALS, with soveTsigns, and with citizeas. II
you rake a contract and the other party makes
. substantial variation, unless that variation
is agreed to BY both it snnuls the whole. That
is the simple fact about this contract. The re-
lsction Of the constitution may be one Of the
consequences Of It, know, but il has no double
meaning it is not pretended BY any friend Of
the bill, North or South, that we submit the
constitution. We accept the LecOmptOn con-
stitution az the viii of the people Of Kansas,
and we accept part Of their other proposition
BY which their constitution is accompanied, to-
wit that she shall have the same quantity Of
lands that Minnesota had; but We reject that /
clause Of her proposition BY which she claims /
seventeen million acres.
Now we are told, by the Senator from IIi- /
nois, and other Senators, that here is bribe 1
and a threat. Oar bribs is, striking Of seven
teen million acres Of lands that she asked to 1
come in Our threat is, proposing to leave her,
II she rejects our proposition, just as she would
be il We had TO bill. That is d fair statement
Of the case. Our bribe, repeat, is, striking
out the seventeen million acres OF land that
she demanded, with Lscompton. II we had
given her the seventeen million acres o. land.
an unusual and extraordinary grant to a State
coming into the Union, which never had been
made before, you and know, and all the coun-
try, that a clsmor would have gone up from
here 70 Canada, throughout this broad land 10
the Pacific ocean, See, these slavedrivers
give these people seventeen millions Of acres
1f land, this extraordinary grant, to make
hem take slavery in their constitution - But
We strike 1t out F.; We put her precisely on the
lame basis with other States; and now. be-
,suse we tell her that IL she does Aot come az
his time, she shall not come until she has the {
equisite population, it Is attempted to be tor
ured into threat ! suppose this idea never {
you'd have occurred to the people in Kansas, {
II 10 anybody but parsons who were hunting 4
or objections. Everybody knows that when $
Kansas is admitted, 10 matter at what time, :
he viii get the same land that other States i
ave had. The bill does not prohibit it and. 5
suppose, it would never be Imagined bat By {
ONE politician who was seeking for pretexi, q
7hen be could not find reason.
The Senator from Illinois saws that he is !
7illing to agree to the principle Of not allow C
ig State 10 be admitted until she has ninety 5
lree thousand people, or a sufficient number 4
1r one member, according TO the ratio. He il
1ted for it and so did I and when, two wears q
90, / introduced bill 10 solve this difficulty o.
! bringing her into The Union then, declared, b
en- ny seat here, that il was violation Of L
-incipls This Is the general rule I sup G
lsed the then condition of the country made al
snsas an exceptional case; / was really de- Il
rous OF Paciicating the country 90 this ques- S
On. We have lsbOred to do t. The admin
.ration has labeFed to do il; the Democratic q
iTty has labored to DO it but a majority of
e people Of Kansas, it seems, or at least a al
rye portion Of them, taking their counsels Al
ON the oppOsllJr, have, even to the extent Of VI
tuslng to vote. used all the means IN their o.
,wer to prevent It. Well, what do We say eI
"? d" We accept your constitutiOn-it is ;
ur act; we give you the ordinary grant Of v
nd; but if you do not wish to come in, we b'
a. - 4 - NnF
BE- Senator from Illinois says that general OF
le is a right rule. and We ought never to de- TO
1T from It. IL is one from which Congress r
8 not usually departed, aud which never IA
GIT to be departed from, except under extra en-
iinaTy circumstances. As a general rule, it %
q sound one but there may be exceptions 70
al rules. VI
When l proposed to depart from it, / was be
ting for Kansas, endssyoring to pacifcate te
7, and also endeaVoring to take this question,
lich was disturbing and dangerous element, th
OF The politics of the United States. That pr
rs not agreed to; but Kansas, acting in the an
irit Of that proposition, has presented her u
Il for admission. / say to her that I will ia
cept the constitution sou have made; / will pr
's you the ordinary land grants bat 1 will sli
/ allow you to make constitutions every six VII
'nths- The conduct Of the population of
Irsas has been such az not at all to Increase is
estimate OF their capacity Tor self-gOvern- tol
mt. 1t would be sufficient for me, even after mi
wing voted for il, in 1856, to say now that re-
events of the last two years have convinced II
that she ought rot to be admitted Is a State. ha
pply this remark to all do not apply it to "a
: reeState men more thi to others. There a
We been wars, and tumults, and frauds. and es
satings, aud disposition manifested every ad
sre in that Territory totally to disregard ibe We
-. II ore party get a Legislature, they turn g'
srybOdy else out, no matter which party 1t is; ys
q a majority of one is IS good as unanl- tn
Ius vote There seems to be an incapacity
this population, thrown IN there, admit, IA
der the most unfortunate ciFcumstsnces, to II
vem themselves; aud am free TO acknowl- ex
se that / shall not regret If one consequence HI
this measure shall be to put them back in a th'
ritorial condition. me
IBen where is the concession by the North be
ne NeilheT the Senator from illinois, nor ne
y other person here, denies that the people Ri
ak finally through convention. The peo- ou
Of Kansas have done It. We accept the act pa
this convention; we accept portion Of her b.
)pOsitiOn for lands /; and We tell her that We gis
not accept the rest, and We submit to her a N
dihed proposition, in place OF her proposed to-
itTact in regard 20 lands. II, for any reason -
please, you refuse 10 take this modification
tie contract, whether it be because you DO q.
like the Leconpton constitution or not, we z
Re It that you do no. want to come into the n
ion now. II you refuse 20 take the PROPOSE
n which we submit to you, the contract falls, =
and all. 4
say, therefore, We do not submit the con
ution. One OF the necessary consequences
ihe modification Of the proposition, however, y
that # she votes against IL, she is in a terri
ial condition, and we require her 10 STAY 4
re exactly the time which il is conceded all =
und the Senate the general rule would re-
re. To this general rule | have heretofore III
fOrmlV adhered, aad declared nv convictions