The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1858-09-23
Keep II Before the People.

Thstthe English Compromise Bill refer
red the LecomptOn Constitution to the Peo.
pie; of Kansas, which they rejected, and
keep it before the people, that the English
Compromise bill is based on correct princi.
pies, and has been productive Of much good
TO the country.
Keep il before the people, that its tenden
cy he's been 70 allay sectional agitation and
remove all cause of hard feeling between
different portions of the Union.
Keep it before the people, that it has
hsuled the wounds OF "bleeding Kansas
and secured to her people the privilege oI
regulating their domestic affairs in their
cwn way, subject only to the Constitution oil
the United States"
Keep it before the people, that it has uni
ted the Democratic party and brought all
national and conservative men into afili-
alton with that political organization.
Keep ii before the people, that it has re.
lieved Congress from complicated and dan
gerous question, and prevented further in-
terruption to the transaction of the public
business.
Keep il before the people, that it stulti-
fed and demoralized the Republican party.
causing members of that party to exhibit
duplicity and hypocrisy before before the face
of the country, in pretending to favor a
measure (the Crittenden Montgomery bilD
under which Kansas could come into the
Union as slave State, and with only forty
thousand inhabitants, contrary 10 their pro-
fessions in their national platform and other
wise.
Keep it before the people, that Kansas,
by means OF the English Compromise bill, is
now at peace-that the returns of the late
election and other information conclusively
show thu. her population will be sufficient
to entitle her to admission under that bill,
whenever hereafter she may properly apply;
and that when she does apply with consti-
tuition properly adopted and republican in
form, she will be admitted by Democratic
votes, and "with or without slavery, as her
own people may determine"
Keep it before the people, that there is no
doubt but Kansas will be admitted as q
FREE STATE.
Keep ii before the people, that the oppo-
sition "shriek for freedom," but do nothing
to secure IT.; that every one Of the nine free
States admitted into the Union within the
last fit,y-six years were admitted by Demo
cratic Congresses, and all but one (Califor'
mia under Fillmore) under Democratic Presi
dents.
Keep It before the people, that when the
Republicans charge that the English bill
contains land bribe or that it proposes tc
grant more land than is usually granted to
new States, or more than was proposed TO be
granted by the Crittenden Montgomery bill
they charge what is not true.
Keep it before the people, that wher
Kansas comes to form a constitution and
apply for admission into the Union, she will
be entitled to admission under the English
bill, with the same amount of population for
free as a slave State; and that all asser.
tions Of the Republicans that it will, in that
case, require greater amount of population
for free State than it would for a slave
State are utterly false and unfounded.
Keep it before the people, that there is
not one word OF truth In the assertion, nude
only by hypocrites and demagogueS, that the
census referred to in the bill is the decen-
nial census to be taken in 1860 and l870.--
The bill shows directly to the contrary on
its face, and besides all persons the least fa-
miliar with the legislation Of the country
known that the census in such cases is u.s.
ually taken under the Territorial authorities
and whenever they choose.
Keep it before the people, that what the
Republicans really want is sectional agita
ton, Office and spoils.