Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1858-05-28
RESPONSES from Kansas.

in reference to the act which lately passed
Congress for the admission Of that Terri
tory as State Of the Union. We copy
enough of the artis&e to indicate its spirit
LkCoMPToN OR No ADMIssION.-Since
our last issue We have read carefully the
substitute of Mr. English, which has now
become law, and are prepared to give
oar opinion Of that measure, as well as our
views of wha, should be done in this crisis.
We, as 4 people, are obliged t. pursue
one of two courses We must either swal-
low Lecompton, head and tail, Or vote to
remain out of the Union until We have
population which will entitle us to one
Representative in Congress. This is as
much as to say, "lf, after all your shriek-
ing and believing if, after all your op-
position to this 'swinde,' if you will now
sacrifice your principles, and say amen to
it, We give you for school purposes SO
much for the support of State Univer-
sity SO much for the completion of the
public buildings SO much all the salt
springs within the State not exceeding
twelve; also, five per cent. of all the pro-
cecds of the public lands for building roads,
internal improvements, &c; but if you
will not do this you will be obliged to stay
out Of the Union until your population
will ontitle you to one Representative"
Having found that threats alone are in
sufficient to curb the people Of kansas,ou
enemies have joined 4 threat and bribe,
and hope by these means to srcceed in
their purposes. We would inform them
that the Government does not own land
enough to buy up the people of Kansas
We would rather consign ourselves to eter
nal poverty, than be the instruments of
our own degradation. Who that mingles
with the people, hears their opinions, and
observes the spirit in which they are ex-
pressed, can doubt as to what will be the
result of that election? Our enemies
may consider us fools and knaves; but give
us a chance at the ballot box and we will
return the compliment. la the event Of
the rejection of that ordinance, and with
it the Constitution, what harm is there to
accrue from our remaining few years in
a territorial condition We can see noue,
unless it be that the huugerers for Office,
the wolves who hope to gorge themselves
on public plunder, will be for while, at
least, disappointed. Our population is at
present small ; the expense of establish
ing State Government, erecting public
buildings, &c, must necessarily be enor-
nous and, worse than that, Leavenworth
county will have nearly, if not quite, half
this expense to pay. What voter is there
who wishes to saddle himself with a bur-
densome taxation ? Let US retain our pre-
sent position until our population becomes
more numerous, our business expanded,
and our resources developed then We can
be admitted, with honor to ourselves,
noble member of the great family Of Re-
publics.
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Lecompton Is therefore passed provided
the people Of Kansas vote to accept q prof
fered landgrab otherwise we remain in a
territorial condition until we have 90, 600
inhabitants.
Of course we will remain territory
from the Lcavenworth Ledger, May Il
The Government does not own land
enough to buy up the people of Kansas.
The origiDators and abettors of the move
ment are boasting that the inhabitants of
this territory would barter their hopes in
this life and the next for grab at Uncle
Sans domain What pitiablc mistake
Irrom tho Leavcnworth Times, May g.
Our duty, as it appears to US, is plain
though it be painful. With that devotion
and magnanimity characteristic of the Free
State party, We should drop all thought of
existing State governments, GO, like one
man, into the election under the English
BILL vote the land bribc, with its Lecomp-
ton appendage, into eternity, and then
urge forward emigration, so that before
another year rolls around, we may count
a population guaranteeing our admission
into the confederation.
From the QuinIaro Chindow,n, May S.
For our part, We consider it most in
famous dodge-an internal swindle-a
piece of unmitigated scoundrelism. 1t is
mean, low-lived, ,villainous. 1t has its ori-
gin in injustice its chiefest feature is par.
tiali'y it is the latest mandate of the vi
lest despotism.
The fiat of the people is just as surely
pronounced as though it had been hcraldcd
by trumpet voices from every hilltop that
divcrsifes our beautiful prairies. Nonew
manifesto need be made. The unfair sub
mission Of the Lecompton Constitution
will not shield it the people will strike
through the ordinance to bury the lance
of their just Indignation deep in the heart
of the swindle.
At present the absorbing topic is the
probable fate of the Leavenworth consti.
tuition, which is legal instrument, framed
by convention duly elected under the
provisions of a statute passed by the terri
torial legislature. A popular vote is to be
taken as to its acceptance, and although
the pro-slavery party did not vote at all in
the election for delegates, they are now
alive to the necessity of voting on this
question. As there is some objection to
the constitution among the free State dem
ocrats, the pro-slavery- hope, by uni
ting with them, to be able to vote it down