Brookville American. [volume] (Brookville, Ind.) 1858-1861, 1858-04-30
The Kansas Swindle.

tho sleep that knows no waking The
anti -Lecompton men regarded con-
ference committee AZ mere form, from
which "no evil" would como. The i'm
portunitics of a corrupt embeciie and de-
Jeated administration triumphod, with
those pretending anti Lccompton Dom
ocrats, and q Committee Of Conference
was appointed on the part of the House,
with English Of our State as its Chair
man. We thought from the first though
under feiit Of courtesy towards the
Senate, that all might thereby DO lost.
It was just so with the Kansas Ncbrns-
ka bill repeating the Missouri Compro-
mise, aud we shudder now for the con-
sequences that may follow a similar mis-
take ii not corrupt movement.
Who in all our State, that has known
personally "Bill English" and his polit-
ical history, believed for moment that
hc was designated for the important post
for other than corrupt purposcs7 Tho
only man of the old line party who
dared to adhere to his prcavowcd senti.
monts favorable TO the repeal OF the
Missouri line, that was returned to Con.
gress from our State in 1851. The sub
tic tool of Jesse d. Bright, and by him
put forward to do the "dirty work" OF
their common masters. And we'll has il
been done. Such compromise, bcft-
ting its pusillanimous authors--"con-
coived in sim and brought forth in In.
iquity.' How long is tho country tobe
thus tried for its short comings7 And
how soon is to be demonstrated that the
Goods first make mad those whom they
would destroy2"
By virtue fthis free conference com.
mit.c compromise, or as it is called
"English's,' tho LAM ordinance nc.
companying tho "Lccompton Constitu-
ton" after being amended so as to
give to Kansas about 100000 acres of
land for internal improvement and
other purposes, is TO DO sub
mittcd TO a vote Of the people OF
Kansas, and IL adopted, the STATE to be
admitted by Proclamation OF tho Pres
ident. Ii tho ordinance is rejected,
Kansas is TO remain territory until by
an Official census sle contains at least
$4,000 inhabitants.
To what shifts will not this willing
administration resort? II first defraud-
ed, then threatened, then coased and
now would bribc the people of Kansas
10 accept and adopt slave constitution,
and yet they will not succomb.
English, this new born states
man-this free state tool Of tho slave
power. in imitation Of his great proto-
typo, holds cut before them almost n
kingdom Of the world" and promises
in the namc Of his masters that all this
land will they give unto them if they
will but fall down and worship their
slave idol, but truo to their instincts,
and common humanity, they answer in
thunder tones "get thee hence Satan
The South with their northern allies,
pretend they want pcacc--that they are
"tired of eternal agitation OF this
Kansas question" Why do they
refuse to submit this Lccompton
Constitution Nth Slarvry and the Ledren-
gorth Constitution rithom slavery to q
vote of tho people of that Territory
Why do they receive Minnesota and 9th.
er territories as States with less numbers
than the Federal quota for Rcprcscn-
tative to Congress, and refuse to receive
Kansas rs a State until she has that
population unless she will consent to
como in under Lecompton rs slave
statc7 Why in short, this utter aban-
donment of the newly inaugerated
theory Of "squatter sovereignty? II is
that under the popular namc of ODE
mocracy" they may SHIFT their position
on every question of the day as may
suit the wishes and dictates Of the South;
30 extend and perpetuate slavery at
whatever sacrifice, and give to the slave
power permanent control of the policy
and destiny Of this Union.
II is time the workingmcn of the
Country, the real, genuine Democracy,
look to these matters as the issue Is fast
Assuming that of Slare against free
labor. When they do, the lettering
thrones of Dcmagogues must tumble as
acob house before the overwhelming tide
of popular feeling. The issue is fairly
Joined, on one side of which is the Pres
idcnt Of the United States with his
hoard of Office holders and seekers,
allied to the slave olegarchy of the
South, and on the other, the great mass
of the working men, the true lovers of
the Union, the real Democracy of the
Country With this issue and these
parties who doubts the result and its
consequences 70 the whole Union?
In 1856 NO were told to repeal tho
Missouri Compromise line and let the
fpeople of tho several territories incr rpo-
rate, i'm or reject slavery from the organic