Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1859-02-25

But Oregon, taIiiOrnla, luulana, ~. nave
one or more Representatives ia Congress
who vote with and lor Slavery on every
issue, and Senators Douglas of H., Bright
of Ind, aud perhaps others from the Free
States, are Shareholders. Were the R9naiaui
Free States all reai,y so,,hey would at once
suppress the aggressious Of the slave pow
er, which cause all oar agitoilou Of that
question.
1t was only by the votes Of .t,ur'een
Opposition Members of tie House, that
Oregon was aimt,ed-they being Messrs.
Wood and Foster of Me, Cragin of n. L.
Comius and Thaycr Of Mass, Kuukle of
Pa, Horton, Letter and Nichols Of O.,
COlfAx, Klgcre aud Petit Of Iud., Billing
hurst Of Wis, and Curtis Of Iowa.
The oij'-cttoas to the Oergon bill were
-:ha. the population, to be previously
ascertainsd BY census, require! Of Kan
sas, was not required Of Oregon; that
Oregon, as proved By recent census, had
but about 10 600 population, and, as proved
BIZ her votes, has one-third less voters than
Kansas that the Constitution of Oregon
was not Republican, but aristocratic and
barbarou-, in that it tramplcd upon hu-
manity and justice, and denied rights
guaranteed by the L. U.S.Constitution, in the
case of colorcd persons ani others not ua-
tive born; and that lis admission was He
gal and improper because uunailr4iized
foreigners, persons not properly vo.cTs,
had been allowed to participate in the
election The Delegate, Lane, replied
that he "believed' Oregon had s. ,Cy0
population Ii was also urged that be
cause Kansas was wronged WAS no reason
why Oregon should be wrGDgcd that her
Constitution, however infamous, was as
good as that of many other States /; that
irregular voting was 4 thing quite common,
in the organization Of new States, which
Congress have no right to look into; and
that the formation of Free States would
reduce Executive patronage and tend II
the long run to advance the cause OF Free
Soil.
And so fourteen men have admitted
two Senators who will doubtless vote
against them on every test question be-
tween them and the Administrator The
two will vote to continue schemes to keep
out Kansas, unless she will send Slave
bolders or Dough!dces TO represent her (;
they will vote against the Protective Tariff
required by Pennsylvania and the Free
A., ln, y,
Two Hundred Million Dollars for Cuba
and her tens of thousands of nrgrnes aud
stupid Catholics they will vote for iDva
ding the ballot box By uuuaturalrZed for
eigucrs and ballot ;-stufiers. These one or
two votes may carry the worst acts, or de-
feat the best . Such are The legitimate,
palpable, direct results flowing from this
act of gratuitous semi suicide 10y professed
Americans aud Republicans, who have thus
armed the deadly enemies o, all their dis.
Inactive principles. and helped them perpe
tuate and strengtEened-in the hands OF
that branch which can not be changed
in many years-the.r power to do all the
harm and prevent all the good they can
We have not yet seen an Opposition paper,
or heard man of the party, approve OF
this singular act Of the fourteen.
Gen. Joseph Lane, one of the Senators,
is North Carolinian, who went from In
diana into the Mexican war, aud from
thence to Oregon as Governor. His term
expires in lS6l......Tbc other Senator,
Deazon Smith Commonly called "Delu-
sion" Smith is native Of New Berlin,
Chenango Co., New York. His term cx-
pires March 1, lS59......L Lafayette Grover,
the Member in the House, was horn in
Oxford District, Maine, studied law, and
was admitted to the bar in Philadelphi III
1850, and removed the same year to Ore
gon.