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WILL KANSAS BE ADMITTED

Kansas has ut length formed and ratified a
State Constitution, which is approved by itarge
majority of her people, and viii, Immediately
on the meeting of Congress, demand ADHESION
into the Union. Win she be admitted? Under
ordinary circumstances, there could L no
question about the matter; but the Slab De-
moeracy, which had control of both brnches
of the last Congress, in a moment of spknetic
disappointment at the failure of the Lecdhpton
fraud, declared that, if Kansas would nd come
into the Union with Constitution RECOGNISING
Slavery itshould not come in until itspopbation
reached ninety,three thousand. And thu ques-
ton now arises, Will the President and Denate
adhere to that partial and disgracefnl toviso
which they annexed to the English bill Are
they willing to consummate the unjust dkcrim.
ination in favor of Slavery, and againsI Free,
dom, or viii they ingloriously retreal from
position which has largely contribked to
their defeat in the recent electionsY
The dilemma in which the Slave Democracy
is placed by this question is truly pitiabls They
voted for the admission of Kansas withh Pro-
Slavery Constitution framed by frah and
usurpation, when her population was third
less than it is at present, and then proc ded to
declare, that unless majority of heTpeople
should receive and endorse the fraud, theI should
be kept in Territorial condition until al actual
census should exhibit population fninety-
three thousand. But the people have treated
this insulting condition with the eonempt it
merited. Instead of taking the census is pre-
iminary to the formation of a Contituton,
they have framed Constitution, rati6A it, will
elect Legislature, State officers, and members
of Congress, in utter disregard of the humilia-
ting terms dictated by the arrogant Slavery
Propagandists, and will demand admission into
the Union as free Republican Statd There
is therefore no escaping the issue. The alter
natives are, to go on in career of Insult and
defiance of the people, by making an flious dis
elimination in favor of Slavery, or humilia-
ting retreat. The Anti Lecompton DE mocracy,
including Mr.. Douglas, viii act with the Re-
publicans in utterly disregarding the ninety
three thousand proviso. Even the Washington
States, Mr.. Douglass organ, which is as thor
oughly Pro-Slavery as the Charleston Mercury,
advises this course, from conviction of the
folly and madness of contrary policy. But
what will the President and the fre-eaars, with
Senators Hunter and Mason, do Car no one
tell?
If the Sham Democracy back out from the
proUiso, they will do SO at the peril Of deeply
offending the South, and of satisfying the saga.
cious friends of Slavery that its adoption was
mere trick, designed to amuse them for the mo-
ment; and if they adhere to it, they viii only
deepen the insult which they offered to the
North by its passage.
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RICHMOND, VIRGINIA.

The Richmond Enquirer estimates thepopu.
lation of that city and suburbs at 45, of
which $4,000 are slaves. The real and brson.
al estate, including slaves, are estimatedto no
worth 81, 802,7ls. This estimate does lot in.
ciuoe various manufacturing establishments,
owned and managed in Richmond, bat heated
on the south side of the river, and up tbecanaI
beyond the suburbs, nor, says the Ehqaiirer,
does it include several millions of dollars in.
vested by citizens of Richmond in Western
lands, cotton and sugar plantatiopd "a .ha
South, tobacco factories in the West. a5 IN Va
rious ways out of the city. The Ea6A;rer 70.
capitulates the employments of the uolulat;on
as follows:
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viz: free labor, and recognise Slavery as their
evil genius, which has dwarfed their industry,
and doomed their city to inferiority, the better
for them. In point of natural advantages for
manufacturing, there are few cities in the Union
equal to Richmond. But healthy climate,
fine water power, and mines of coal, are nothing
without the spirit of Freedom and free labor to
use them. In vain will the noble James river,
as it falls over the rocks above the city, invite
the investment of manufacturing capital; and
in vain will the same stream, es it moves in
deep and even current from the foot of the falls
to the ocean, invite capital to invest in COM
mercial enterprise, while that capital only en-
ploys slave labor, or gives to slave labor the
preference over Free
We are grati6ed to see recently disposi-
ton on the part of the Virginia press to en-
courage the Introduction of free white labor.
They see Slavery receding, and they recognise
an absolute necessity for the substitution of
white labor and while they still harp upon the
old strings, and make the same Pro-Slayery
music, they are in fact now laboring for the
cause of Freedom and free white labor. They
must abandon all industrial enterprises in Vir-
ginia, or rely upon white freemen to carry them
on; and as the first horn of the dilemma is
equivalent to social and peeuniary ruin, they
are forced on the second, distasteful as it may
be. From this position of the Virginia press,
Of advocating the introduction of white labor
to supply the place of slave labor, which loss
they yet affect to deplore, the step is easy and
natural to that occupied by the Emancipation
White Labor party in Missouri and we shall
be disappointed if three years pass away before
the change of policy is openly avowed, by one
or both parties in Virginia. The interests of
the State SO obviously point in that direction,
that there will be no resisting the tendency of
events
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ST. LOUIS rs. CHIcAGo.-The Missouri; Demo.
crat is becoming alarmed for the Commercial
interests of st. Louis. In their issue of Thurs
day. the editors of that paper published table
whose hgnres are calculated to furnish food for
grave reflection, to not only the merchants. but
the entire population of the Mound Civ. II
was tabular statement Of the receipts of pro.
duce by river and rail in St. Louis for the cur
rent and preceding years. In the article OF
flour, there IS, It appears falling off this year.
compared with last year up TO the same date,
(Oct Al of more than 200, barrels Tbe
decrease In wheat exceeds 400. 600 bpsbaIs
and in oats nearly the same enormous diminn'
ton is experienced. Still, COMPARING both
years for the same period, we find a falling off
IN hemp to the extent of 6,5I0 bales, and in
whisky of $1,000 barrels. The decrease in
the receipts of iron and lead is perhaps of still
more serious significance. Notwithstanding
that the Iron Mountain railroad has been in
operation during the past year, the St. Louis
toundrles have worked up two thousand tons
less OF iron than during the previous twelve
months.
In striking contrast to this state of affairs in
st. Louis, we find marvellous augmentation
in the receipts of produce in Chicago this
year--or, more correctly speaking, of the arti
Gle which is the great staple in that city-com
pared with last year. The quantity of wheat
and -four received there last month was little
less than double the quantity received in the
same month of the preceding year, and ex
ceeded by 100000 bushels depressing the
Hour in wheat measure) the quantity received
in September, l657-a year which was distin
gulshed by abundant harvests, and in which
unprecedented quantities of grain sought the
Chicago mart. We might safely infer from
this one fact-we mean the increased receipts
in Chicago-that the yield of wheat this wear il
the West is far greater than it was last wear
though the receipts in the St. Louis markei
would indicate precisely the reverse.
Seeking for the cause of this lamentable de.
crease in their commerce in something besides
the ightness of the crops, the Democrat sounds
the alarm of a conspiracy among Eastern CAM.
talists to divert the trade of northern Missouri;
Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, and Wisconsin, from
St. Louis to Chicago and the East, which effort
the Democrat fears is proving successful, and il
sees dark future in the commercial horizon,
unless the St Louisans awake to life and energy
in the use of counteracting agencies and infu.
enees,-Alt0R Courier.
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THE oALIFoRNIAtp uEL.

We announced last week that Senator Brod
erick, of California, had been killed in due
near San Francisco, by David s. Terry, former
ly Judge of the Supreme Court in that State
We this week give up considerable space to the
sad and bloody history of the affair, and the
causes which led to it. We areI grati6ed to
see it stated blythe Alta California that Mr..
Broderick, "before the fight, expressed his
firm determination not TO shoot at Terry above
the hips, as he did not consider he had any
quarrel with him." This relieves the memory
of Mr.. Bsoderick from the imputation Of seek
ing the life of his fellow-man, and shows only
the infrmity which sprung from an honorable
impulse. He felt called upon to expose his
own life to the murderous shot of his enemy, in
Difference to diabolical public sentiment,
which imputes cowardice to the man who re-
fuses to fight duel. This was foolish, and
even wicked, but it falls infinitely short of the
fell spirit of murder which actuated his adver-
sary. nt
When viii the public understand that, ac-
cording to strict law, the killing man in a
duel is murder in the arst degree; and when
shall we have an example made of distin-
guished and honorable murderer2 Men may
moralize till doomsday upon the wickedness of
duelling, and the folly of the public opinion
which sustains the brutal and bloody code but
SO long as the crime is permitted to go unpan-
ished, and the criminals to stalk through our
Legislative halls, and even to wear the ermine,
like men of superior mould, who owe no al
legiance to the laws Of God or man, the prac-
tice viii continue. What the times demand is
the hanging of some honorable" and distin-
gushed duellist by the neck hntil he is dead
And if the august ceremonial should come off
within full view of the unfinished dome of the
Capitol, the lesson it would teach would be all
the more impressive. There should be regu-
lar conspiracy among Governors, Judges, Sher-
ifs, Marshals, and other legal functionaries, to
catch the first pair of distinguished duellists
who shall dare to outrage the laws by their
honorable |" achievements and judges and
solicitors, before whom such cases come, should
be held to a rigid accountability for their efforts
in enforcing the law. There is no necessity
for making the laws more stringent. To Kill
in duel is to murder in cold blood, and the
murderer should simply fare like any common
murderer There is, or rather there should be-
no aristocracy among homicides. If two hod-
carriers or laborers, white or black, make an
agreement to fight tomorrow with paving
stones or picks, and one is killed, the survivor
would be convicted by any intelligent jury OF
having murdered his adversary in cold blood,
with malice aforethought and he would be SEN
fenced, even by Judge Terry, to be hanged at
the end of three weeks. Then, why, in this
country of republican equality, should men in
high positions, or of easy fortune, be permitted
to kill with pistols almost without molestation
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ENERAL REHABILITATION OF THE ttrp, ov


ry, and real estate So4 OIL as2 - .
fo'ai amount Of business in IL months 9722 Seo
We presume that the important brhch of
commerce for which Richmond is famoss, viz /:
the slave trade, comes under the head OF Auc,
tioneers and that at least half of the s. Bs,o42
set down as the amount of auction sales INSISTS
in slaves sold to the Southern buyers.
But apart from this disgusting feature of the
trade of Richmond, there can be no doubt that
the city has the elements of great mhufac-
turing industry, which is destined to REDEEM it
from the curse of Slavery. There is no |eason
why Richmond should not follow in thesareer
OF Baltimore and Philadelphia. Slavery hith-
erto the milestone about its neck, whih has
Kept it down, Is receding, slowly but cefhinly,.
Just as it receded from Philadelphia and BALI
more; and the sooner the people come y IN.
derstand the true element Of their prosIerity.
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Mr.. DOUGLAS ABANDONS HIS
FRIENDS.

Mr. Douglas is man of brave words, but in
action he shows hesitation and timidity. In his
speeches and essays upon "popular soyer-
eighty" he seems to defy the power of Slavery,
and of the Administration which that power has
inaugurated, and then turns round and advises
his friends in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Cali
fornia, to vote the regular Administration
tickets, which stand upon platforms which
reprobate his doctrines as pestilent her.
esy. His organs in Illinois, the Chicago
Times and the Springfield Register, together
with the st. Louis Republican, are in ecstasies
Of Joy at the Administration triumph over
Frederick and his Anti-Lecompton friends
And they will no doubt put on their mourning
weeds in consequence of the triumph of Mr.
Forney and his Anti-Lecompton hosts in Penn
sylvania, in conjunction with the Republicans
and Americans.
This treachery on the part of the great leader
of the Anti-Leeompton party cannot fail to ava
ken disgust and Indignation in the minds of the
true men who have hitherto regarded him as
worthy to bear aloh their banner. They will
stake no step backward" whatever he may do
and we shall be much surprised if they con-
tinue to recognise as their leader the man who
arrayed himself on the side of the Administra
ton, and against Broderick, Forney, and
Hickman.
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THE ADMINISTRATIONS APPEAL TO
THE OLD LINE WINGS.

A man must have heart of stone who can
not feel touch of pity in reading the appeals
of the Administration through its organ, the
Constitution, to the Old Line Wings, for help
The genuine Democracy are daily DESERVING
the President, and if the Old Line Wings will
not come to the rescue, who in the name Of
mercy will? He can expect nothing from the
Republicans, of course, and as little from hon
est Americans and oppositonists /" SO that
il. the Old Line Wings, of the school of Everett
and Winthrop, whose nervous organization i;
too delicate to admit of their fraternizing with
the Republicans, will not for a consideration
come up to the support of the Administration
aRp siaaHsrK tRaE qas Is II ne
position worth the attention of these distin.
guished relics of Whiggery? Or, is it more
desirable to enlist the Old Line Wings of New
York? Massachusetts, may as well be aban-
doned to the Republicans without an effort,
and the prospects of the Administration in New
York are anything but fattering but still the
case is not SO hopeless as in the old Bay State.
But, in truth, there can be no doubt that,
under the convenient title of Old Line Wings,
the real objects of the afectionate solicitude of
the Administration is that portion Of the Amer
lean party which, from its Pro-Slavery procliv.
tiles, will not unite with the Republicans. This
" American" Pro-Slavery faction is now in
limbo, which, according to Milton, we believe
is a synonym for nowhere; and we doubt not
that its leaders are in condition to listen to
the arguments of the Administration. The or
gan is not particularly fattering in withholding
the name by which the faction styles itself, but
it would never do for the Administration to
court "Americanism," or now-Nothng-
ism" openly. Such course would disgust all
Ireland and the rest of mankind, who happen
to be born outside of America !; and hence
the employment of the nearly obsolete phrase,
g Old Line Wings"
In this connection we are gratiied to be able
to state that large, and perhaps the largest
portion of the politicians and newspapers which
took part in the movement for an independ-
ent American ticket in New York have drop
ped the enterprise as piece of impracticable
folly, and are now cordially cooperating with
the Republicans. This course on their part
removes all doubt as to the success of the Re-
publican ticket, in that great State and hence
the affectionate appeals of the Constitution TO
"Old Line Wings" come too late.
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written before and during his Presidential term
read very much ike they were intended for the
present times. They are prophetic:
WASHINGTON, Dec. IA, 1900.
DEAR SIR: Though our information
of the votes of the several States be not official
yet they are stated on such evidence as to satisfy
both parties that the Republican cOte has been
successful The Constitution, to which we are
all attached, was meant to be Republican, and
we believe it to be Republican, according TO
eUery candid Interpretation. Yet, we have seen
it so interpreted and administered as to be truly
what the French have called it, monQrchte
H,aSqUe. Yet so long has the vine run on this
way, and been trimmed to it, that to put her on
her Republican track will require all the skill,
the frmness, and the zeal, of her ablest and
best friends 1t is a crisis which calls on them
to sacrifice all other objects, and repair to her
aid In this momentous operation. Not only
their skill is wanting, but their names also
1t is essential to assemble, in the outset per-
sons to compose our Administration, whose
talents, integrity, and revolutionary name and
principles, may inspire the nation at once with
unbounded confidence, and imEsee an apfitl
silence on the naGligners Of Republication as
may suppress in embryo the purpose avowed
by one Of their most daring and effective chiefs,
of beating down the Administration. n
This as a common cause my dear SIR, common
to all Republicans. Come forward,
then, my dear sir, and give us the aid of your
talents and the weight of your character to-
wards the nel0 establishment Of Repu6licanisna !;
l say for its new establishment; for hitherto
we have seen only its tracestie. \
THOMAS JEFFERSON.
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nation that the Democracy intend to take cara
OF the spoils themselves, while the Old Lin,
Wings are expected to work for nothing And
find themselves. =
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To Join Dickinson.

What Mr., Jefferson says above of Federal.
ism retiring into tie Judiciary as its strong
hold and from that battery beating douOa all
tie l1orks Of RepublicGniSns," could not more
forcibly describe the present position and aims
OF modern Democracy, which relies wholly on
the Judiciary to uphold all its fragrant us1rpa-
tons, and all its outrages upon the interests of
free labor and free Institutions.
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To Robert r. Lioingston.
WASHINGTON. Oct. 3. lsO6
WASHINGTON, Dec. IA, /

DEAR SIR: The state of political
opinisn continues to return steadily towards
ROp9blicanisDl. To judge from opposition
papefs,. stranger would suppose that a con:
tam removals OF pubic officers. But this is
not the case. All Offices were in the hands OF
the Federalists. The injustice of having total
ly excluded Republicans was acknowledged
by every man. To have removed onehalf, and
to have placed Republicans in their stead,
would have been vigorously just, when it was
known that these composed very great ma.
iority of the nation.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
70 HlLinLn ,Shnrf
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 10, 1901.

DEAR SIR; My great anxiety at present is
to avail ourselves of our ascendeRcy to estab.
lish good principles and good practices; to for
tify Repubticdnism behind as many barriers as
possible, that the outworks may give time to
rally and save the citadel, should that be again
in danger. On their part, they haze retired
into the Judiciary, as stronghold. There
the remains Of Federalism are to be preserved
and fed from the Treasury, and from that bat
terry all the Soorks Of Republicanism are to be
beaten dozen and erased. By fraudulent use
of the Constitution, which has made Judges
irremovable, they have multiplied useless Judges
merely to strengthen their phalanx. =
THOMAS JEFFERSON.
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To ADVERTISERS Business will find il greatly 70
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The PRoPosED BARGAIN NOT SArIsFAcro.
RY.-The National Lnteligencer seems indis.
posed to accept the invitation extended by the
official organ to the Old Line Wings II
shows from the columns of the Constitution,
newspaper that one wing of the Democracy
denounees the other as no better than |" Sew
srdism;" and yet it insists that these differ
ences are to be harmonized before the battle
for the Presidency comes on. The Old Line
Wings, the hntelligencT surmises, viii wait
until the terms of the settlement between the
opposing factions are made known, before
committing themselves to its fortunes. What
if the terms should be the endorsement Of pop
ular sovereignty In that event, the Old Line
Wings, if they follow the advice of the Presi-
dents organ, win have to join the Repubi-
cans, in order to defeat the worse heresy of
Douglas. The Bsseligencer also suspects some
thing sinister in the compliment of the ,Consti-
tsaioa to the Old Line Wings, that they are
fighting for principles, and not for the spoils."
The old Wing Journal regards this % an init
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ANOTHER LOUISIANA VIGILANCE CoxMIrTIR Z.
Nesc Orleans, Oct l4.+-A Vigilance Comm il
tee has been formed at Marksville, La, to aid
the police in arresting dangerous characters.
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We commence to-day on our first page new
story by Edward Spencer. Our readers viii
find it not only fun of dramatic interest in the
unfolding, but invested with peculiar charm
from its delineation of Italian scenes and char
acter at the present day.
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WASHINGTON, DC.
THURSDAY. OCTOBER 30. 1859.

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