The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1858-05-07
THEENGLIsH LECOMPTON PASSED.

MISSION OF Kansas mas passed both houses
Of Congress. It passed the House ol
Representatives by vote Of l03 to ll3.
on the 3Oth inst.
Lecompton, in its naked deformity. was
not near so obnoxious as is this PROPOSE.
ton Of Mr.. English. II does not submit
the Constitution 10 vote Of the people ol
the territory, but simply an ordinance
granting lands to Kansas TO the amount
Of some y:6ve millions of dollars, and
it says to the people, il youwill adopt this
ordinance-if you will accept this mag
nifcen JriJs-your territory shall come
into this Union under the proclamation ol
the President as a Slave State; but II you
refuse to accept these terms, notwithstand'
ing you have population Of but thirty
thousand now, you shall have to wait un'
til you have acquired population Of ont
hundred thousand before you can gain ad'
mission into this glorious Union.
1t seems that Judge Hall, and other
Anti Lccompton Democrats, who had
manifested so much zeal and determine.
ton in their opposition to this measure,
were only waiting untlit had assumed
the very worst form that it was possible
for it to assume before they voted for it.
In the language Of FoRNEY, the gentlemen
who have swallowed the English bolus at
the last gasp have waited till the Lecomp-
ton compound assumed its most nause'
GUS and revolving shape. They rebelled
against the straight.out surrender con-
tanned in the first Senate bill, and they
rebelled with noise and confusion; and
from that time to the present, nothing
would suit them but the pure principle Of
popular sovereignty. These Owen Jon
eses Of the House took enormous credit to
themselves for Roman integrity, d to hear
them talk one would have supposed that
they would sooner give uptheir valuable
lives than their personal honor. But just
as the Lecompton.folly got to be most dis
gusting. when. like great ulcer, it often
ded all the senses of honest men, they
come forward and accept it, and accept it
too with thanks! Messrs. Hunter, Of the
Senate and Stephens, Of the House, both
southern men, )seem determined to test the
endurance Of their eleventh hour converts
from the North; and SO, after making the
English bill as objectional as they could.
they rose, each in his place, and declared
that it was not the purpose Of the bill that
the Constitution Of Kansas should 20 to
the people at all! 1t was hardly fair to
their new recruits; but, then, tie South
ern leaders kneao Meir men.
Thus it will be seen that Congress ap.
proaches the people Of Kansas with a
threat in one hand and briJe in the 9th.
er, and what determination the unfortu.
nate Inhabitants of that territory will
CON to, under the circumstances, we are
at loss TO conjecture. We sometimes
think, when we take into consideration the
influence Of the hundreds ofoffiee seekers
who are anxious to have the territory ad.
nitted as State as soon as possible, 10
rider that they may be provided for; and
when we reflect, too, upon the crowds Of
Railroad and land spectators who in
est that territory-we say when we re.
lect upon these things, we are almost
orced to believe that this infamous
chcme will be accepted by the people Of
Kansas, Notwithstanding our confidence
n the virtue Of the honest aud unsuspec.
ing portion Of the people.
We are sorry that Judge Hall has
pl lacedhimselfin SO unfortunate aposition,
md we believe that If he were before the
,eople Of this district to-day for a re.elec-
ion he would be beaten FIVE thousand
,otes. We have heard the most promi-
,ent Democrats in this county denounce
lis course and declare that they would
'ever support man who even expressed
,lmself in favor OF the measure. Wheth.
II these men can be driven from their
,onest convictions by party drill is yet to
Do determined.
A GENIUs.-A correspondent Of the
1reenbrier Era, at Braxton, G. H., gives
he following account ofa very remarka'
Die genius living in Braxton county:
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