St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-10-27
The Admission of Kansas.

Kansas is ready for another apph-
cation for admission into the Union.
The Wyandottc Constitution has been
submitted to the popular vote, and,
according to the telegraph, has been
approved by very large majority OF
the people. At the opening of Con-
grcss, therefore, we may expect her
application to be renewed and, as
any discussion of the subject will be
wholly unnecessary, the President
will, probably, make it the most con-
spicuous topic Of his message.
There are two points upon which,
if he is so disposed, Mr.. Buchanan can
base opposition to the the State. She
has not complied with the require
ment of the English bill, that she
should take a census and ascertain
that she has go, 900 inhabitants and
there will be a conflict of authority i'll
the returns of the recent vote. The
Convention required the returns to be
made to the President, while the Gov
ernor has issued a proclamation that
they be returned to him. This dis
crepancy will, probably, lead to some
dispute as to the result of the vote s.
but it may be that the vote was SC
unanimous that both the officers will
make the same return. The other OBJ
lection is more serious. Congress de-
cided, by the English bill, that Kan
sas should not be admitted until il
should be shown by census that she
had $4,000 inhabitants. The Prcsi
dent may urge the rejection of her ap
plication upon the ground that she
has failed to comply with this require
mcnt. We doubt whether Congress
even the Democratic Senate, will re
ccive the suggestion with favor. Kan
sas has given the party quite trouble
enough already. The Presidents ad
vocacy of the Lccompton Constitution
has seriously divided the Democrat,
of the country; and it is still doubt
ful whether the party can possibly
maintain itself on the ground upor
which the President has seen fit t.
| force it.
But any further resistance to the
admissio , of Kansas would complete
the work of disorganization so wei
begun. The Administration urgct
its admission as Stare State wheI
it had but 1000 inhabitants lit will
not answer to resist its admission as {
Free State now, when it certainly has
at least three times that number. As
a party movement nothing could more
admirably meet the views and adj
vance the interests of the Republicans
than such a rejection. Those Of the
Democrats who are eager for another
contest upon the Slavery issuc-and
especially those at the South who aim
at disunion by means of Republican
triumph-will unqucstionably advo
cate this policy.
1t will be objected by the Soutl
that Kansas will come in as an Anti
Slavery State. So she will And tho
South has herself to thank for such Il
result. We have repeatedly warned
the Southern States that the direct
tendency of the crusade they were
waging was to make Kansas the most
ultra, Jealous and effective Abolition
State in the Union. Still they pcrsc
vcrcd, and they must now expect tc
reap the harvest. They have planted
upon the Western borders of Missouri,
and ut the gate Of the new territories
of the West, a community OF Anti
Slavery zcalots, and have goaded
them, by all the means i'll their power,
into state of fanatical enthusiasm
upon this subject. But they will gain
nothing by excluding them longer.
Their admission cannot be delayed
beyond year or two more, and the
longer it is postponed, the iiercer and
more rcsentful will bc the temper of
the people. If the Democrats in Con
gross are wise, they will make no op-
position to the immediate admission
of Kansas.