Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1858-09-22
Extracts from the Speech of
SENATOR BIGLER,

Dol,rcrei at Clarion, Pl. S.pt. IN, 1858.
Bat some one near me wants to hear
about Kansas; ana shall speak of it as
briefly As possible, for regard that qucs-
( ton as settled finally and forever. mean
that il can never again become the subject
Of contention in Congress. | venture to
predict now, that Kansas will be admitted
into the Union under the first constitution
she may form, by an almost united North
ern and Southern Democratic vote How
ever we might view the terms Of the Eng
!ish hill, rs to the ratio Of the population
to cntitle State, to admission into the
Union, it must be obvious that before an
other constitution Tcan be prepared and
presented to Congress, the population will
equal, or be so near the ratio of one men,
Der of Congress, that no serious objection
can be made to the admission, even on
cannot be less than 10000, and 10y the
winter or spring of 1860, it will certainly
reach 10000 or 100000. No application
can be made at the next Session, for tho
reason, that il the people were disposed to
do so, and the indications are clear that
they are not. there would not be sufficient
time, between the meeting of the Terrific
rial Legislature and the adjournment Of
Congress, to prepare and present another
constitution. The Legislature assemblies
about the Ttll of January. AMI Congress
adiourns on the lth OF March, leaving less
than 60 days time, to do a work that
should occupy the time of five or six
months. Ills Is bad .news for the mis-
clief-makers who have been endeavoringI
to get up new excitement. But they are
bound to iail-and they ought to fail. | !
voted for the admission OF Kansas at the |
last Session, because believed her appli- |
cation to be legal and proper, expect to
favor her next application on ;he same
principle, and no other. Applause. i
| know my friend Judge Gillis, concurs !
in my views on this point. Applause. |
Whatever difference of opinion rs TO the |
admission, no well founded |
objection can be made to what was finally |
done. In accepting their form of govern
ment as they had presented it, VIC extend |
to them an opportunity of deciding at the |
polls, whether they would become a State |
or not. They have decided that they /
would not, and all arc satisfied. Surely |
the most fastidious friend Unpopular rights !
cannot complain of this. A clamor was
raised that we offered TO bribe the people
to bccome a slave State, by giving them a
certain portion of land. If this was bri-
bing, the opposition begun it. Under the
Crittenden amendment the people were to
have precisely the same section Of land, in
c lse they accepted the Lecompton Con-
stitution. il it was bribing in one case it
must be 80 in the other; hut there was no
bribing in either case. They had asked
for twenty millions OF acres and we offer
ed them five millions, and this is bribery II
II it was bribery in the case Of Kansas, it
was so in the case OF Minnesota, for Con-
yress offered precisely the same proportion
Of land in each case. II the Democrats
ARE TO be charged with attempting to bribe
a slave State into the Union, they must
llso be charged with having attempted
he same influence on q free State, but ,
his view Of the subject was only intended I
o mislead the ignorant, and it is huniia- T,
ing to.scc men Of high position resort to