The Tiffin tribune. [volume] (Tiffin, Ohio) 1848-1859, 1858-04-16
The Orittenden Amendment as II
Passed the House.


The amendments Of Mt Criltenden TO
the Kansas bin, offered In the Senate,
differs essentially from that which subse.
quently passed The House, 1, provided for
the admission Of Kansas into the Union,
temporarily, under hs Lscompton const'
futon. aud Afterwards for submission
Of said constitution to the people, This
the Republicans and somo Of tho Anti
Lecompton Democrats In the House could
nos endorse, without a sacrifice Of prin-
oiplo. Believing that tho Locompton
Constitution was fraud. from begin
ming to end, they could no. consent to
make Il the organic law Of the state, even
for single hour. Hence the substitute,
ss reported in the House by Mr., Mont.
gomery Of Pa, is amended, so as to OBJ.
viato this objection. II provides for the
admission Of Kansas into the Union, as
state, Dthom reference to any costitu.
fion, sud then goes Oh to state, that in
Asmuch as il is greatly disputed, whether
the Constitution, formed at Locompton
and non pending before Congress, was
fairly mado or expresses tho will Of the
people, (. shall be submitted TO vote
DO. The following is the principal
section Of the bill as Il stands amsnde by
the House:
Be Il enacted, De-, That the State o.
Kansas beand is hereby admitted into the
Union on an equal footing with the origi.
enal States in all respects whatever. but.
inasmuch as is greatly disputed whoth.
or the Constitution formed at LecomDion
and ao0 pending 6ctoro Congress, was
fairly made, or expresses tho will Of the
people of Kansas, this admission Of her
into the Union as a State is here declared
20 be upon this fundamental condition
precedent, namely that tho said consti-
tutional instrumeu. shall be first submit
ed TO vote Of tho people Of Kansas, aud
sssented TO by them, or a majority of the
voters, at an election to be held for the
purposes aud, rs soon as such assent shall
be given and duly mado known TO the
President Of the United States, he shall
announce the same by proclamation, aud
thereafter, and without any further pro.
Oeedings on the part of Congress, the
admission OF tho said State of Kansas
into the Union on an eqnal footing with
the origiena, States, in all respects what.
ever, shall be complete and absolute. At
che said election the voting shall be by
ballot, and by indorsing on his ballot, as
oach yoIor may please, ''for tho Constiu
sion" or against the Constitution. -
Should tho said Constitution be rejected
al the said election by majority OF votes
being cast against Il, then, and in that
ovent, the inhabitants Of sale Territory
are hereby authorized and empowered to
form for themselves a Constitution and
State Government by the.na Of the State
Of Kansas, preparatory to its admission
into the Union, according to tho Federal
Constitution, aud to that end may elect
delegates to convention as hereinafter
provided.
This, II seems to us, is fair and hon
orablo way Of settling this 'yexed quos
tion' and no honest Anti-Lecomptou man,
Of any party, can object to it, Those
Democrats a. the North, who stand on
the record against this amendment, will
have settlement 10 make with their con
sIituents.