The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1860-04-20
40. e.
The AdmissIon ofIklnsn..

Mr.. Grow Of Pennsylvnnia, mas made
a very able report OH the admission Or
Kansas under the wyoudoi Constitution,
from which we take the following ex.
tract:
so the people Of TcrrItory. even IN
der the Kansas Nebraska bill, are invest.
edwith ouly the one third part Of the pow.
crs OF one Of the three departments of
/ their Government SO long, shen, as the
people continue under territorial srvan.
i2otion as now constituted, ihay arc
clothed with only ore-uinth part Of the
/ powers Of thcir Government the balance
being vested in the Government Of the
United States.
In the case or Kansas there can be no
doubt that there is az this tinss sufficient
l population end wealth TO maintain nrm
Government without excessive taxation
upon its people; 70 there can be no rua.
son on that account for continuing long
er the territorial organization.
The Government under which they
have been forced 90 live, began with a
despotism cruel and bloody, established
by armed usurpation, aud marked In ts
continuanoo by the revolving atrocities
which characterized savage warfare, en-
tnating directly from the territorial otgan.
ization, or supported and by those clothed
with lie authority.
Gov. Geary is quoted TO show the ma.
ture Of Territorial Government In Kan
sas, Geary says in "Scnote doc, frst ses-
sion ef thirty-filth Congress, No. II p.
9OO:"
i DcsolatiOn and ruin feigned on evsry
hundi homes and fresides were dcsertedi
the smoke Of burning dwellings darkened
the atmosphere; women and children,
driven from their Indications, wandered
over the prairios and among the wood.
lands or sought refuge and protection
even among the Indian tribes.
i The report concludes;
Such was the character Of the Govern
ment and the condition Of Tie people Of
Kansas as described by an eyewitness
in his official dispatches 10 the President
lof the United States, at the very time that
Congress, by reason of the disagreement
Of the Senate TO the House bill admitting
AANAAe"at ANlAo'u W AtuItas Aut wrongs OF
this people by supplauung their usurped
Territorial Government by ohe Of their
own formation.
The people of Kansas again apply for
, admission as u state into the Union, with
} a voting population exceeding that Of n
majority Of tho Congressional districts in
the old Stotes, and q representative pop
ulntion greater than that OF either Flori-
da or Oregon, and with an area Of s0,O0O
square miles of territory, and undevelop-
O ed muterial resources OF vast extentl
i For five years the lreemen Of tho ma
ton have watched the progress Of events
in Kansas, with an intensity Of feeling,
seldom il ever. equalled in the history u
the country. For there they bcheld, for
the first time during lis existence, an or
ganized effort Of the minority by fraud
and force and invasion, sustained by the
s General Government, 10 establish and
: Perpetuate Slavery against the will Of
= the majority.
In order TO give quiet to the whole
country on this subject, remove an elo-
B mcnt Of discord from the political arena,
. aud restore to the people Of Kansas their
rights Of self-goyernment, we recommend
their admission into the Union asa State
and herewith report bill.