The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1858-05-06
Tha English Inid uity Successful.

The English Iniquity Successful.
In Saturdays Telegraph We chroni.
cled the passage of the English bills and
to-day We present full analysis OF the
vote by which this unjust and wicked
scheme has been foisted upon the people
Of K ansas and the whole country. This
is dark and fatal deed Of proHigate pol
iticians. and will stir the moral sense OF
the country to its profou Ddest Depths,
But the contc.tis not over, only now
to be transferred to Kansas, and to the
people of the Free States. A GREAT
WRoNG. AGREAT INEQUALITY,AG GREAT
| INJUcTIcE has been inflicted upon the
Free States, and they will never submit.
The WRONG is in briting the people OF
Kansas with 3, 500, 600 acres OF laud-to
have it il they accept Lecompton; and
not to have ii if they do not The me
QUALITY is in making 35,OCO or 40 ooo
population only necessary to Slave
State, and 100000 necessary Tor Free
State. The INJUSTICE is in keeping Kan
sas out of the Union, choosing to be Free,
and admitting, only on condition that she
be Slave. -- ree
The shameless Lecompton Constitution
was sent to Congress with an ordinance
claiming grant of %. 5000 acres Of
public lands. The Committee on Terri
tories, in their report iu favor of the ad-
mission of Kansas with the LccomptoD
Constitution, said:
"The Com mittec does not approve the
ordinance accompa uying the Constitution
and report against its allowance; but they
do not regard it as any part Of the Con,
stitution." e Isl
The English bill puts in the $500 900
acres which the Crittenden bill gave at
once to Kansas adopting any republican,
constitution but, if the people take the
land they must take the Lecompton Pro-
.Slaue7y Constitution. No "Lecompton. y
no land No land, no admission into the
Union! The Bribe. therefore, is the land
to take in Lecompton. MIR. Crittenden
gave the lands to Free State or Slave
State. Mr.. English gives the lands only
to Slave State.
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the next great outrage in the bill. The
English Bill admits Kansas with the lie.
compto (Slave) Constitution into the u
MON, with its present population of 81
600 or 40,000,-but forbids its coming
into The Union. if it persists in being a
Free State, until it has the usual repre-
sentative population, which is now 93, 900
and under the next census will be over
lOO, ,OCO-it may be l25,0o0.
Then the Judges of Electiou-that is
the Judges upon the acceptance Of the
Land Ordinance-iu Ensli>h'> Bill. are
simply the old Calhoun frauds and con.
trivances again. Under the Crittcnden.
Montgomery Bill, the Governor and Sec.
rotary Of the Territory, AMI the pri>idiug
officers Of the two branches Of the Terri
torial Legi>lature-Thc President Of tho
Council and the Speaker of the House o.
Representatives. made a board o.
commissioners to carry out the Act o.
Congress, to make the arrangements fol
voting upon the constitution, and to de.
termine and announce the result. Mr.
f Ecglish has quietly added to these off
GERS the United States District Attorney
placing in the board of COM u iSsioners {
majority of Federal oficers-creatures o.
the Administrstiou-wit full power tc
take any measures needed to secure no
: minal adoption of the Lecoml ton Con,ti
ton. When We recollcct the enornou:
frauds perpetrated in Kansas, is it no
clear almost that the Critteuden bill wa:
thus purposely changed to count out the
AYES on the Land Ordinance, without
Z any reference to the number of people so
ting in Kansa.. Indeed, what is the use
of elections, if there can be no fair count
or what better are they than the prima
ry box-stuffng elections in our cities
!. which have been the scorn and hiss of al
honest men!
!, But We have no rejoicing over com
mon 81 ame. We have no words Of con
graduation at an event which inflicts dis
grace upon our common country. The
!; more We deliberate upon the record o
the last fourteen months, the more do We
feel that how has been strnck at thu
very heart of our institutions, from which
We may never recover. The battle goeI
t now to Kansas, and to the Free State
We predict. it will r'turn to Washington
next winter, speetre-like, to gibter and
speak before. and to haunt the authors
of all this WRONG, this INEQUALITY. thi.
: INJUSTICE. this FRAUD!--Daily Iele
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"The Hnrrid Creatures