The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1860-01-05
ADMISSION OF KANSAS.

Kansas is ready for admission into the Union.
She has more population by fifty per cent than
Oregon, and probably as much as the regular
apportionment requires. She has formed a
Constitution, aud sent three copies of it to
Washington, directed to the President, to the
President of the Senate, and to the Speaker of
the House of Representatives. We are informed
by Mr.. Army, the bearer ofthe Constitution, that
he has performed the duty assigned him by the
Convention in delivering to the President the
copy addressed to him, but that high dignitary
has not condescended to notice the fact in his
message.
The people of Kansas have thought proper
to defeat all the Presidents schemes of forcing
Slavery upon them under a Constitution con-
oeived in fraud and corruption, and he resents
the assertion of popular rights as an insult, and
treats their petition for admission into the Union
with silent contempt.
The excuse for this insult to the people Of
Kansas is, that they were required to take a
census, and show population of $4,000, be-
fore being admitted into the Union, by the Eng
lish bill. They have disregarded this require
ment which was not made of Oregon, and
which is entirely unprecedented in the history
of the admission of new States. 1t was imposed
upon Kansas because she was not only free,
but Republican in politics and not imposed
upon Oregon, with far less population, be-
cause she was believed to be welded to the
support of the Administration.
| 1t is stated that the Black Democracy Of the
Senate will treat the application of Kansas
With the same spirit of sectional arrogance and
Ielfshness which the President, who is the
mere creature of the slave oligarchy, has dis
played. We confess that we are disposed to
doubt This statement, notwithstanding the large
tnsjority which the party has in that body. We
tioubt if the Northern members of the party,
who have already ceased to represent their con-
Istituents, will be ambitious of widening the
breach any farther. They must be conscious
that the whole people of the free States would
condemn such palpable submission to the rule
of the 'slaveholding class as the rejection of
Kansas would imply; and that single act would
seal their fate and that of their Presidential
candidate.
| By the rejection of Kansas from the sister
rood of States, they may keep three votes out
Pf the electoral colleges, which they are aware
would be cast against them; but what they
would gain by that act of mean subserviency to
he slave power, they would lose ten times over
| the other free States.
| If NO could so far lose sight of the interests
| d the people of Kansas as to sacrifice them tn
La party triumph, We could ask nothing better
than the rejection of the application of Kansas
fol- admission into the Union. But we have
meier acted on such principles, and shall urge
upon Congress contrary course, by every mo-
tive Of duty and patriotism. The interests and
homo, Of Kansas alone should govern the action
If Congress and the President and we presume
that no man of candor will deny that she is
eniDently entitled to come into the Union un-
der he Constitution which she has recently
fopied and ratified by popular vote, the Eng
liA bill to the contrary Notwithstanding. The
clase of that bill which requires her to take a
ceikus, and exhibit population of SO, 900, is a
solamn enactment into the form of law of the
indignant spite and meanness, and the disap-
podted ambition, which dictated the whole Sc
riet of measures OF the Black Democracy for
thd enSlavement of Kansas. On this very ac
cont, we wish to see the State come into the
u bn in the face of that iniquitous statute we
viii to see the men who voted for it now con-
fe5 their unworthy motives by voting to ever
rid it. At any rate, the poisoned chalce will
bep ut to their liae and they must choose be-
TWEEN qualification and certain defeat in the
Prudential contest in every free State.
re incline to believe that they will eat their
wtH with the best grace they can summon,
ami that no open and direct opposition will be
m de to the admission of Kansas into the Union.