The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1858-05-08


Organized counties with less than hundred Repub
,ican voters will be entitled each to one delegate
s. J. KiRkWOOD, W. II. FARMER,
w. p. CLARK, II. PRICE, ....
II. O'CONNOR, G.. D. WOODEN,
Des Moincs, Jan. Goth, 1883. Committee.
LECOMPTON INIQUITY SUCCESSFUL:
Federal Blandi,hn,en,. too Potent for Congress
siOnal Virtue.
The report of the Committee Of Confer
ence, on the Kansas question, was adopted,
in the House, on the 3Oth of April, by vote
of liz to lO3. The Senate, on the same
day conccured in the report of the Conference
Committee. Lecompton hangs fire no lon
ger-the deed has been consummated, and
the traitors have their reward! Eire la
Buck and Free Kansas! Great is King
JAMES, the LIST, and long will his admins
tration be remembered for it's base betrayal,
Of the expectations and hopes of the confding
party which gave it existence-its pusillan-
unity and utter want of well defined char
acteristics beyond an instructive proclIvity to
corrupt and debauch through the seductive
appliances OF once.
The first act Of the drama is over, and the
curtain has fallen, therefore let US look be-
hind the scenes, and see what provision has
been made by the property-man, Mr.. Eng
IrsB, for the faithful Representation Of the
next act. Let as look at the act itself, and
consider all its disreputable and unjust con-
comitants. This we shall do, in the Ian
guage of the Detroit Advertiser. 1t is q
one-sided, unjust, dishonest AFFAIR." fraud
Of such uncouth face, that even some of the
Lecomptonites themselves shrink from its
embrace. We publish synopsis of the bill
itself, and by the exact phraseology of the
first section, it will be seen that the whole
constitutional instrument, the land ordin-
ance and the Constitution is to be submitted
to the people. 1t nominally submits the
Constitution to popular vote, giving how
ever, the control of the election to board
of whom majority are federal ofice-holders.
In case the Constitution is ratified, Kansas
comes into the Union at once, with coveted
share of the public lands and the assurance
Of all the desirable immunities Of q sover-
eign State. In case the Constitution is re-
jected, then Kansas is to remain Territory
till she has $4,000 inhabitants, us at present
prescribed, or in the neighborhood of l20,-
900, as the ratio of the next census may be.
A United States Marshal and Deputies, with
one-half the unfairness heretofore displayed
by government officials, can keep the figures
down to the territorial point for years. AS
one of the Administration letter-writers
says: "Take Lecomption or tarry at Jericho
that is the proposition of Mr.. English's
bill" Or, as Senator Wilson is reported to
have said in conversation: ssthe bill comes
with bride in one hand and threat in the
other"
The bill recognizes the right of the people
to vote upon the Constitution, and avoids
the injustice of forcing one upon them, to
which they are known to be opposed. But
there is very great fraud concealed behind
this, which MIR. English has attempted to
smuggle through under the cover of the
popular sovereignty doctrine. The ordi-
nance respecting public lands, is to be so
amended as to serve the purpose of strong
temptation to the people of Kansas to vote
for the Lecompton Constitution. Mr.. Eng
lish's proposition virtually says-"The Con-
stitution we know to be radically objectiona-
able to you, but with 1t We give you land
ordinance which appropriates to your use as
State, millions of acres for the purpose Of
internal improvements, &C." This is not
n fair and honorable mode of disposing of
the difficulty, and some of our contemporaries
who are opposed to the Lecomption Consti-
tuition denounce it in very strong language,
and seem to think that the temptation will
be too strong for the people of Kansas to
resist, and that under its influence not only
will the majority against the Lecompton be
diminished, but that it may very possibly be
changed into minority.
We do not entertain such fear. The
friends of freedom in Kansas have been
faithful to that cause through many trying
times and much contumely; they have re-
peatedly declared themselves prepared and
determined to maintain at every hazard and
at every cost and sacrifice. We do not
believe the Free State men of Kansas can
be induced to vote for pro-slavery Con-
stitution by any such considerations or in
ducements as are SO plausibly offered them
by Mr.. English. They will spurn the bribe.
There is not millions of acres enough in
Kansas to purchase Slavery Constitution
for her free people.
The following is Mr.. English's Kansas
bill:
SECTION l. That the State Of Kansas be
and is hereby admitted into the Union, on
IN equal footing with the original States,
and with the Constitution framed at Lecomp-
ton; and this admission of her into the Union
as State is here declared to be upon this
fundamental condition precedent, namely
that the said constitutional instrument shall
be first submitted to vote of the people of
Kansas and assented to by them, or ma
jority Of their votes at an election to be held
for the purpose. At the said election the
voting shall be by ballot, and indorsing on
his ballot, as each voter may please, ''For
proposition of Congress and admission or
"Against proposition of Congress and ad-
mission" The President of the United
States, as soon as the fact is made known
to him, shall announce the same by procla.
nation, and thereat, and without any fur
Their proceedings on the part of Congress,
the admission of the State of Kansas into
the Union on an equal footing with the
original States, in all respects whatever,
shall be complete and absolute, and said
State shall be entitled to one member in the
House of Representatives in the Congress
of the United States until the next census |
be taken by the Federal Government. But,
should majority of the votes cast be against
the proposition of Congress and admission,
it shall be deemed and held that the people |
of Kansas do not desire admission into the
Union with said Constitution, under the
conditions set forth in said proposition; and
in that event the people of said Territory
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