The Kansas herald of freedom., 1858-05-22

grants, never before dreamed or thought OF,
was raised to the dignity of the main ques-
ton, and the Lecompton Constitution tied
on to Land Ordinance, as a mere incl
dent. This Ordinance is submitted to the
popular vote: and, if adopted, the Con-
stitution is adopted; if rejected, the Con-
stitution' is rejected. See the trickery !!
Mr.. Hunter says the Constitution is not
submitted to the popular vote; and 80 all
his party, with the exception of Bonham
and Quitman, think they save their con-
sistency, and the great principle of Nom
Intervention by Congress. Mr. Cox says
the Constitution is submitted, and he and
his eight fallen brethren think they have
saved their consistency and the great prin-
ciple of Popular Sovereignty. What a
juggle! Let the people look closely.
Both sides are right, both wrong. The
Constitution is not submitted IN form or
directly Mr. Hunter is right to this ex-
tent. The Constitution is submitted, in
fact, and sasdirectly. Mr. Cox is right to
this extent. But neither the consistency
nor the principle of either has been main
tanned. Nom Intervention is sacrificed by
Mr.. Hunter; Popular Sovereignty is in
suited by Mr.. Cox. You, Mr.. Hunter, by
this act of Congress, do give to the people
of Kansas an opportunity to reject the
Lecompton Constitution, and you follow
up this act of intervention by prescribing
to them On what conditions they shall
vote, what shall be their qualifications,
and you give to the Federal Administra-
ton the control of the election. If this
be not plain. palpable Intervention, what
is !? And you, Mr.. Cox, while submitting
in fact and indirectly this Slave Constitu-
ton to the popular vote, do it in such a
way as to insult the people of Kansas and
the People of the Free States. You and
your associates say, we submit this Con-
stitution to you; reject or accept, as you
will. If you accept, you shall be clothed
with the dignity of State at once, and
receive several millions of acres of the
public domain but if you reject, we shall
promise you no lands at any time, nor
shall you come in as State until you have
ninety-three thousand population. You,
Mr.. Hunter, secure the form of non-sub-
mission you, Mr. Cox, secure the sub
stance of submission but both of you
unite in an act of Congressional tnteTUen-
tion against the majority of the people of
Kansas both of you are guilty of an in
suit to popular sovereignty, by attempting,
through bribe and threat, to constrain
that majority to accept Constitution
which they have twice repudiated.
But enough of the trickery of the Bill
The American people are not fools, and
nobody will be deceived by the juggle
who does not wish to be.
Another point concerns us more. We
can easily understand how such members
as Toombs, Stephens, and Keitt. should
vote for the measure, even at the expense
of their consistency. and of their professed
principle of Non-Intervention. 1t dis
eliminates against the free, and in favor ol
the slave Substantially assumes that
slavery should be encouraged and freedom
discouraged, that the multiplication oi
new slave States should be promoted,
that of new free States be retarded-sus-
tains Border Ruffian rule in Kansas, the
Lecompton Constitution, the offspring ot
that rule, and the Presidents entire policy
in regard to it. 1t is denial, not in terms,
but in effect. Of all the charges of fraud
and dishonesty against the Lecompton
Convention, an endorsement, not in terms
but in effect, of its proceedings. Do you
doubt it =? What does the bill propose
To give Kansas the usual land grants and
salt spring privileges, and make her State
at once, under the slaUe Constitution of Le-
compton !; but, if her people decline this
and determine on a Free State Constitu
ton, then she must wait for all these priv.
! ileges till she has population of ninety.
three thousand souls Forty-fve thous.
and, the present number, will entitle hel
to admission as a Slave State under the
| Slave Constitution of Leeompton; ninety
three thousand, or twice that number, il
required for her admission as Free State
under Free State Constitution, and a;
to the land grants, in that case, the bill
/ provides nothing. Messrs. Toombs, Ste.
phens, Keitt, and their associates, beliey
ing that slave labor is preferable to free
that slave institutions are the basis of !
higher civilization than free institutions
that Kansas ought to be slave State, tina
the Lecompton Convention was fairly
called. fairly represented the people o
Kansas, formed in perfectly honest way
Constitution eminently republican, ane
that the President has pursued the righ
policy respecting it, naturally support bill
which embodies all these ideas, and offer
peculiar privileges to the people of Kan
sas if they will sanction them. They cal
well afford to forego for the time the bar
rem abstraction of Non-Intervention, 70
the sake of this substantial advantage
They hold, too, that the bill, remandin:
the people to a Territorial condition
& should they refuse 20 come in under LIE
compton, leaves the Territory open +
. Slavery, by the decision of the Suprem
Court and the acts of the only Territoria
, Legislature they seem to recognize.
RI But, what shall we say of the Demo
cratic members from the free States
Why are they so ready to offer premium
, on the growth of slave States? Why ar
, they so ready to impose checks on tn
multiplication of free States? Why ar
/, they so ready to discriminate against the
own institutions IN favor of slavery? WI
5 are they so anxious to maintain slavery
Kansas, that they will submit to the pee
D | pie there no alternative but that of becon
ing a slave State, or remaining q slay
0 Territory To Messrs. English, Fole!
q Cox, Pendleton, Cockerill, Hall, Groe:
: beck, Lawrence and Jones. we put thes
Il questions, with this additional one-wh;
g | has occurred to induce you to vote for
], bill intended to constrain the people I
e | Kansas to adopt Constitution, which 20
: have all along contended was conceive
f in fraud, and was twice repudiated by Il
great majority of that people You woul
e not force the abhorred thing upon them
e oh, no--but you would bribe and threate
: them to adoptiti You would not sustai
II the Presidents policy, of utterly disri
garding the protestations of the people
q Kansas, bat yea would gently constrai
III them to Withdraw their protests and .
. quisscs in the Presidents Wishes, By