Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1858-05-06

full endorsement of the "plensry power
of Convention to establish and put n
force a Constitution, in spite of their
pledges to submit it to the people. and in
the absence of any delegated authority to
Withhold it. 1t does not say, either in ex-
press terms, or by inference, that Consti-
tuition must be the act and deed of the
people. any further than the assertion is
made in the preamble which we have a.
ready quoted, and which is as palpable
falsehood as ever was uttered Every pop
ular sovereignty Democrat who endorses tho
English dodge is necessarily compelled to
abandon the position taken by the Indiana
Democratic State Conventions of the 9Th
OF January and 23d of February; by the
State Convention of Illinois on the 2lst of
April; by the Philadelphia, . Cincinnati.
Pittsburg, Columbus, and other anti-Le-
compton Conventions, all of which have
declared that it should be made funda-
mental principle that the Constitutions Of
all new States seeking admission into the
Union shall be submitted to a vote of the
people for ratification or rejection, as fur
nishing the only safe and positive evidence
that such Constitution is their act and
deed. Does any one suppose that Green,
Hunter, or Stephens would have so readily
caught at the bait offered to anti-Lecomp-
ton Democrats by the English bill, if they
had not seen clearly that it did not com
NIT them in any shape, to the principle of
submitting Constitutions to a vote of the
people? When Green was asked by one
of his colleagues in the Senate, If the
Committee were going to submit the Le-
compton Constitution to vote of the peo-
pie of Kansas. he replied, mo! would
rather see the whole thing sunk in hell,
than to submit to such condition" On
Wednesday last when Gilmer, of North
Carolina, asked Stephens of Georgia, if
by the English bill the Constitution is
submitted to a vote of the people, the latter
replied-"I state distinctly It is not" Mr..
English himself, on Thursday when press
ed by Marshall of Ky, denied that he had
maintained that his bill provided for a
submission of the Constitution and dared
not say openly, in presence of the House
that it did
But besides falsely asserting that the
Lecompton Constitution is the work of the
people of kansas-bcsides ignoring the
popular sovereignty principle of the Kan
sas- Nebraska act anil Cincinnati platform
the substitute of COMMITTEES is an act
of Congressional intervention of the most
corrupt ami most olious character. 1t
says to Kansas, ''if YOU will accept the or
'linam.c propose Won can come into the
Union with your ~, 900 populatian. Bat
if you reject it, you shall stay out till you
number $4,000. IL you will come in with
slavery, You may do SO. child as you are;
but if you insist on framing Constitu-
tion to suit your free State notions, you
shall 'tarry at Jericho till your beard is
grown" This, as Douglas truly says. is
Offering bounty ON one hand. and impo-
sing penalty on the other. to control the
result. 1t strike, at the freedom Of cleo
tions, as much as do those Hrolc, of bribe-
~ AMI corruption which 10y our State laws,
are made pcnitcntiary offence. We
have by no means gone through the entire
catalogue of objections which this miscr-
able. shuiiliag device of the Conference
Committee presents 10 our mind. We
have said enough, however for the pres
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