Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-06-26
AN ENGLISH VIEW OF LECOMPTON

The London Non -Coniormst notccs the passage
of the last Kansas comprise bill in Congress as
follows
KANSAS AND THE SLAVERY QUESTION.
The United States Congress have at length got
rid of the Kansas difficulty, by compromise as
novel as it is immoral, and furnishes striking
proof of the continued ascendancy and superior
tactics OF the pro'slavery party. TO have admit.
ted that territory into the Union as free state
would have turned the scale in Congress in favour
of Northern interests, and thus peried the 'dO'
mestic institution" On the other hand, even the
trimmers and secret abettors of Southern policy
representing free states, dared not TO sanction the
plan of imposing the pro.slavery Lecompton Con
sttutiou enacted by fraud and violence, upon the
population of state, the overwhelming majority
of whom are free settlers, and hostile to slavery
Congress at last found way out of the dilemma.
After the suggestion and rejection of various expe-
dents, and the'frequent collision of the two houses,
the measure proposed by Mr.. English was carried
in the House of Representatives by Ill to l02 votes
some twelve members of the anti-Lecompton
party having been induced to abstain from voting
by the unsparing use OF the influence and corrup.
ton of the Executive-adopted by the Senate, and
ratified by the President.
OF all the compromises which have from time
to tine been adopted to prevent prepOnderance
of the free-soil element in Congress, this is GER
tanly the most iniqmous and indeiensible.
What can be said of the reality of religious re.
vival i'll America, when a ma jority of her logis-
aors, not only refuse to recognise the rights OF n
population to adopt q constitution acceptable to
the majority but offer great material advantage
if they will allow the introduction of slavery and
threaten them with pains and penalties If they
will not? For cordially giving his assent to this
act Of infamy, and violation of the principles on
which the Republic has been founded, Mr., Bu-
chanan has been Serenaded at the capitol, and has
received the applause of large meeting in the
great commercial centre of the Union
But there is another and less promising aspect
of this crafty scheme Of Southern diplomacy.
Whatever be the decision of the people of Kansas,
the pro-slavery party obtain "A certain advantage.
If that territory be at once admitted into the
Union it can only be as slave state. If the Le-
compton Constitution be rejected, the admission
of Kansas is adjourned for two three years, and
the slaveocracy gains--time Two or three years
will bring new and important elements into the
strife OF contending parties. BY the time Kansas
can claim admission under Mr.. Enghshs bill as
a free state, slice OF Mexico, the province of
Arizona, lying between Texas and California,
will be organised a slave state; and there can
be no doubt that other new territories will, before
many years elapse, be demanding admission into
the Supreme Legislature. Present appearances in
dicae too clearly that the whole of North Ameri-
ca south of the States will. long, be absorbed
into the Federal union. Mexico is entirely disor-
ganized and disintegrated-a prey to opposing fac
tions a scene of chronic anarchy. For long
time it has had national government. Its fate is
already discounted so to speak; SO that q recent
proposal made by Mr.. Houston to establish a
United States protectorate over the miserable pop
alation of that country was set aside mainly as
anticipating what is inevitable. The CAtral Ameri.
can states cannot long escape absorption into the
Union; indeed Nicaragua, the most important of
them, has recently ratified convention which
practically established United States protectorate
over that state. San Salvador and Venezuela are
also threatened with immediate decay, and SINH
lar fate. This new prospect of extension of ter
rtory explains the strenuous efforts recently made
in Congress to abrogate the Clayton Bulwer treaty,
which stipulates that neither Great Britain nor
the United States shall occupy, fortify, or colonse
Nicaragua, any other port of Central America.
At present the attemptto condemn that conven'
ton has failed, but it would be folly to expect
ment, to stand in the way of new annexation Of
territory.
We fear, therefore that there is no chance that
the pro slavery party in the great Republic will
ever be outvoted in the Federal Legislature.
New slave states will counterbalance Kansas,
anI any additional free state. The course Of
evon,s SENS to forbid the expectation that slavery
will ave, be extnguished by any action OF the
Sunreme Go yernment, any more than by the NOR
nj sense of the Northern States. tits more prob
able that the union will at lepgth become SO weak
and unweldy by continuous extension MS TO split
into two ompires-the one excluding, the other
u,holding slavery. In this consumation alone
seems 10 rest the hope OF the hnal extinction OF
the unnatural and Gcmoralisiug domestic insli'
tuition"