Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-05-01
THE KANSAS QUESTION IN CONGRESS

The Committee of Conference reported their
expedient last week for settling the Kansas ques.
ton. This plan has been justly characterised as
more despicable than the Lecompton bill. 1t
does not submit the constitution to the vote Of the
people. Mr.. En- glish of Indiana who was trusted
by the Anti Lecompton men as one whe would for
no consideration sacrifice that feature of settle
ment, has played false and deserted it. This new
scheme proposes that the people Of Kansas should
vote for or against a proposition that the Federal
Governmentshall give them someFiveMillions acres
of land for the construction of Railroads through
their territory. II they vote Yes, then they are to
BIO held to have accepted the Lecompton C%onstitu.
ton, aud are to be treated rs in the Union under
that instrument. II they vote No Ito the Land.
grab, they are to be regarded as not in the Union
and not wanting to come in until an official census
shall have shown that Kansas has a Federal popu.
lation sufficient to entitle her to o member Of
Congress.
This plan is entirely acceptable to Toombs
Green and other ultra southerners though some Of
the more honorable among them repudiate it as q
base attempt at bribery.
Says the New York Tribune:
To say to q people so poor, so hsrassed as those
Of Kansas-so misgoverned and abused by Fede
raj satrap. as they have been- Submit to thu
Leoompton fraud, and you shall have self-govern
ment, Admission into the Union, millions Of acre,
of land wherewith to checker your whole area with
Railroads ; while. il you say No, you shall remain
a Federal province, with Denver for your Cover
nor, Lecompte and Cato for your Judges, AND
Marshals, &C., Oft the same pattern. for years
with no vote in Congress, no Lands, no Railroads
at least for some years"-is to put their virtue
and their devotion to Freedom to q severe trial.
But they are proof against all temptation to apos.
tacy and dishonor-so Mr.. English may push on
his bill so fast as he can. We shall regret its
passage only because it is calculated to protract
and embitter q controversy that should have been
ended long ago, and which can and will be so
long as the Democracy fulfil their Cincinnati
pledges to allow them to form and regulate their
institutions in their own way, subject only to the
Federal Constitution. The stupidest doughface
must realize that, il Kansas has population
enough to entitle her to admission as a Slave State.
it to suffice for a Free State as well, and that
Mr.. Englishs' telling her to take Lecompton
and his Land grab, or stay out in the cold, .
laudless dependant, for an indefinite period
is the most ~fagitious and Wholesale bribery. If it
is wrong to offer a poor man IS for his vote is it
larger bride to induce a majority of them to vote
as they VIGOROUSLY loathe to dot
Thus far. Mr.. English's success does not Justify
the vaunts of strength with which his project
was heraldedIo the public. After he had spoken
yesterday in exposition and commendation Of his
plan. asking that it be taken up at l O'Clock to day
for action. Mr.. Howard of Michigan obtained the
floor ia opposition, and moved is ba printed and
further action on 1t postponed to the second Mon
day in May, which prevailed by q vote OF los
to los. So the fret vote Of the House on Mr.. E's
proposition in q substantial defeat for its contri
vers /; and it would have been followed by harder
aud more decisive blows if the friends of the con
trivance had not insisted on dragging out it's often
sive carcass and getting the House adjourned Al
, the earliest possible moment. Two or three Soutt
Americans and several Fire. eaters refused to de
. scend to the level OF this trick, and. though Gen
4 Quitmsn had been induced 10 pair Of and keel