The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1858-05-08
Enxlish's Proposition Strongly Denounced
by Nj. FOrney.

all is serene in the city as usual.
Enxlish,s Proposition Strongly Denounced
by MI. FOrney.
Correspondence of the Philadelphia Press.
Washington, April 18th, 1853.
The town has been rife with rumors,
since Saturday morning, that serious
detection had taken place in the ranks OF
the National Democratic members who
have been steadily opposing the Leeomp-
ton fraud, and that on Monday the Eng
lish proposition, from the conference
committee, would be adopted. At this
moment am happy to inform the read
ers of the Press that the column which
stood firm on Friday and Saturday, still
stands firm. 1t is true that some dis
tinguished names are mentioned in con-
nection with this detection, and that the
hopes of the administration are consider
ably ela.ed at this hour Of writing; but
the more the English proposition is dis
cusscd the more odious it must become to
every intelligent citizen. The PROPOSE
ton of submission is adroitly presented;
but the fact which will strike the popular
heart everywhere, and which is signally
consistent with the whole trickery of this
entire Lecompton business, is this /: that
if the people of Kansas will vote for the
Lecompton constitution, then, and in
that case, they will be admitted into the
Union; but, If they reject it. they must
wait the time when they have reached a
population sufficient to entitle them to
representative, $4,000 at present, and
about 1900 under the apportionment
of 1862 which will keep them out for
four or five years longer, leaving them in
the meantime, under the control of the
same pro-slavery influence which has
oppressed them from the beginning.
In other words, Lecompton, with its
protection and perpetuation Of slavery,
shall be made the constitution of Kan
sas, with population, according to tho
accounts of the pro-slavery men them
selves, of not more than $4,000; while,
if the people reject it aud proceed to make
constitution of their own, they will be
kept knocking at the doors of Congress
until they have attained the requisite
ratio Of population! The English bill, in
order to secure the support of Southern
extremists, omits that portion Of the orig
inat Senate bill reported by Senator
Green upon eehteh so much stress nas laid
for the purpose Of capturing ,ceak Demo-
Gratis, that proclaimed the doctrine that
the people of Kansas could Immediately
proceed to alter the Lecomptoa constitution
outside Of the professions Of the constttu-
ton itselt. You will recollect that on
this theory powerful appeals have been
made to the people of the North to agree
to Lecompton. Mr. Buckalew, of our
State Senate, based his plausible yet an
sound report on it; while John Van Bu-
rem and others rung the changes upon it
until it was elevated into a new article of
Democratic faith But now Mr.. English,
in order to obtain the support of the sew
enty-six southern Southern democrats in
the House, who lately voted to strike GU,
that provision, Deliberately erpunyes /,
from the mew programme, and so teares
Lecompton purely and simp,ya pro-slare,
r.y constitution
This plan is an Inauguration not only
of new but most dangerous principle
It is flying in the face of the entire ac
ton of the Democratic party. For not a
man who votes for it from free State
can ever expect to stand before the awful
tribunal of popular indignation and in
vestigation. In 1855 the entire Demo
cratic party voted for the admission Of
Kansas, when the number of her popu
lation was far below what it is at tn,
, present day, and in 1858 the administra
ton planted itself upon the theory tina
| the Kansas Nebraska bill was an enablin.
} act of itself, and now, to cap the climax
/ we have Mr.. English coming forward
b. with proposition to admit Kansas int
; the Union with pro-slavery constitu
: ton, in the face of the admission tina
, the population Of the territory is bu
G $4,000; while, in the same bill, he take
, care to insert a prohibition against he
t admission under any other constitution
e until she has obtained new and increas
s ed ratio of population!
Q 1t is not pretended by the opponents O
h this new scheme that hereafter stead
: ratio shall not BIO applied to the ne,
y States asking admission into the Union
e but we protest against this shutting in
= consistency, and these dishonoring di,
ordinations against the people of kan
3 sas, merely to crafty a false pride {
n power, and to save those Southern gel
n tlemen who have placed themselves upo
!. record to go out of the Union shout
J. Kansas not be forced into it with til
r Lecompton brand upon her brow.
The intelligent citizen will perceiv
y that the compromise, SO called, provide
:. that Kansas can only be admitted IN,
the Union as aape State.
n regard this entire English program
10 me as in the last degree OBJECTIONABLE
,e It will not be a settlement, but cont,