Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1858-05-07
English's Bill Carried.

ker Hill triumph. After encountering
two or three severe repulses in the House
of Representatives, they have changed
their tactics, mined extensively, brought
their heaviest patronage to bear, and in
both branches of Congress have finally
carried the day. 1t is only day. The
contest which they think to have settled
is really postponed, and transferred to
fields where the President and his forces
are comparatively powerless, and where
this preliminary skirmish will work to
their utter disadvantage. The sacrifice
of principle and the evidences of cor
ruption which so manifestly attach to the
momentary success, will turn to virus in
the long run, and eat out whatever of
heart yet remains to the pro-slavery
cause. Already the popular instinct
singles out the victims of the struggle.
While reverses and ultimate defeat i'm
pend over the general Lecompton ranks,
instant political mortality is the doom of
those whose Fdid run well for a season."
but fell away in the trying hour. They
are shot through their backbones; and
the places that now know them will, as
soon as their constituents. can remove
them from the field, know them no more
forever.
AS to Kansas, the ordeal presented by
English's bill will, undoubtedly, be a
very trying one. In their territorial
condition the people suffer under every
species of tyranny which the forms of a
republican government will suffer the
Executive to WELD. A miserable set of
officers, placed above their reach, vex
and worry them. The land sales are
ordered at times which seem expressly
selected for the disadvantage Of the re-
sidents. By these means emigration is
checked, and the worst elements of the
population kept in a state prejudicial to
the security Of property ard life. 1t is
no wonder, therefore, that the people Of
Kansas, as body, are extremely desi-
"ous to throw off their pupilage as quick
ly as possible and assume their own gov
eminent. But, for all this, we do not
believe that they will accept the Lecomp-
ton Constitution, already emphatically
condemned and now rendered with the
most degrading Accomplishments. No,
the people of Kansas themselves have
taught US better than to harbor such a
suspicion at this time.
But while the injuries of this measure
are to be deeply regretted, no opponent
can be insensible to the sure presages of
ultimate victory of the right which have
illumined the whole progress of the re-
cent struggle in both branches of Con-
gress. When Senators like Seward and
Wilson can meet upon common ground
with Douglas and Stuart of the North
west, with Broderick, the exponent of
the young nation on the Pacific coast,
and with Crittenden and Bell, the re-
representatives. Of the conservative feeling
OF the South, we may be assured they
have the panoply of nationality and the
guaranty Of success, as well as the at
tributes Of justice, on their side. The
same assurance is given in the House
by the union of Harris and of Hum
phrey Marshall, and their political asso-
clates, with the Republican forces. The
people will respond to and extend this
union Of those who will not submit to the
unjust aggressions of slavery, regardless
OF old party ties, of minor questions, or
sectional prejudices. The example has
been set, it has worked well, and now no
power can stop it from gathering COM
pass and momentum, until victory, full
and complete, perches upon the banners
OF the opposition.-Boston Journal
WASHINGTON MATrERs.-The cor
respondent of the New York Tribune
says:
Gov. Walker, Secretary Stanton
and Mr., PARROT, with all other Free
State Kansas men now here, confidently
expect that the people of Kansas will
vote down the English proposition by an
overwhelming majority
The Union publishes a letter from
Governor Walker to Mr.. Cox, express