Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1858-05-07
The Ikanan. IlllI-.Its rrnctIcal Effcct.

The bill just passed by Congress leaves
the Kansas question at ns loose ends as cy-
or, and merely transfers tho struggle for
period from Washington to Kansas and the
people Of the Union. With Washburno in
tho House, the North declares "tbe battle
is not over and we will fight il 10 the end
Of timcp II was we'll said by Senator
Seward when the result Of the vote in the
other branch was announced, that il "caused
him no Encouragement 1t was little mat
ter, practically, whether it was the last de-
feat or tho first victory" So say tho reso-
lutte and determined friends Of FREQ labor
and FREQ Soil everywhere. Tho Executive
and the Cabinet, in defiance of tho popular
will, and by nm exercise Of influence and
patronage unexampled in the history of
the government, have chosen to keep the
Kansas feud open. The People will accept
the issue, and thero will be no cessation of
the battle between Freedom and Slavery
until Kansas is honestly admitted as free
and sovereign State. 1t is only question
of time, and fiercer will wax the fight until
Freedom again becomes National and Sla-
very Sectional.
The New York Times clearly states the
case and predicts the future as follows:
GAS a practical measure Of legislation it
will amount to nothing. 1t simply post
pones the final issue on the Kansas question.
The land bribe will have no effect, for it
gives the people nothing that they will not
have in any event. Whenever, apd under
whatever constitution, the State comes in,
she will have public lands given her for her
schools, university and public buildings
This is never refused to any new state, and
will not be refused to Kansas. This pro-
vision, therefore, is empty and worthless.
1t will not influence hundred votes in
Kansas. Nor will the threat Of excluding
tho State for several years, if they do not
vote for Lecompton prove whit more avail
ing. 1t is mere 6rutun, fulmen, which
binds nobody and will alarm nobody
What will the next Congress care for such
prohibition What will the people of
Kansas care foritG They have never asked
or desired m enabling act from Congress
nor will disabling act affect thom one
whit the moro seriously. A new people are
not so easily discouraged in making Consti-
tutions. 1t is q sort of amusement which
they will not lightly forogo. The people
of Kansas have new one already on haad
and they will mako them n good doal
faster than Congress can reject them
Apart from its meanness, no feature Of
this bill is moro conspicuous than the polt-
cal blindness and stolidity of its authors
They have denounced the Republicans in
Kansas and in Congress, for seeking to pro-
long this contest, and make political capital
out of it. And they have given them
means and opportunities of doing SO, Which
neither chance nor their own ingenuity
could ever have furnished. The struggle
now goes to Kansas. The Lecompton Con
stitutfon will there be rejected. A new ono
will be Immediately sent to Congress, and
fresh application will be made for admission
Here is another chance to wake up the is.
sue at Washington an through the country
Admission cannot be resisted upon any
grounds which will not stimulate Northern
feeling, and keep alive tho agitation which
the friends of this bill profess to deplore.-
And every man with half an eye, can see
that every successive struggle gives occasion
for new victory of tho North.
The political effect of passing this bill
therefore, will inevitably be to damage it
authors and abcttors and to build up its op
ponents. The Republicans, and they alone
will reap solid and substantial benefits from
its enactment. The Southern men VIII,
have pushed and passed it, will meet tn,
charge at home of having abandoned thei
original ground and consented to tho sub
mission Of the Lecompton No-Slavery Con
stitution to the vote of tho people of Kan
sas. The Northern Democrats who op
posed them at tho outset, and then los
standing with tho Administration party a
home, have alienated their new friends b.
their retreat, and will find themselves ovei
board and helpless. The administration ha
all tho odium of attempting a bad measur
without the ability to carry it, and they vii
all find the subject thrown back upon then
just when will be the most unwilling t,
meet it. This is very much like all th'
victories Of this most extraordinary Admin
istration; every new ono is worse than
fresh disaster. If the Republicans do no
reap positive and marked advantages from
the passage of this bill, it will be bccaus
they lack the ability to use their opportuni
ties Alright.