Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-06-09

The recent hcuOn'0t tne Denucfhtl2goen-
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idkntial election, to please the South and OBJ,
ia n;Bdtty 9allt6g . SaaAa 4 &rIAA lebAA-
'Edno4t lFPS dPAiRgrG Feaah'OSt SNfdE ERq
Ejeft as follows:
We had lEth6d.hha thhl AiheSicdnfPeopl
hdd done with Kansas as a political topic. II
s ceraldIg ES a 'tihlsI The nSttsH AsCSebd
! talked out, fought out, voted out. Two sue
'teksive uPederaP Administrations iItye 'dsne
their best to make her a Slave State, cooper
ating with all W tern u II Rand Alvsla,
vain. Kansas ipiH not be SSlHye ISmie ieaA'.lIe
party within her borders that did its best 10
make her one unites with everybody Ri5eqlnn
saying so-and lDiH be Free State. That is
the upshot. The Republicans say she ought
to be Free State. The Cincinnati Platform
says that when she comes to form State
Constitution, she shall do as she pleasesi
though not before. Even Mr.. Buchanan IS
committed TO this position. The South has
a hundred times conceded its justice. What,
then, is the sense, the use, Of making further
trouble about III Can the mere sitting OF
the voice of One Hundred Thousand Ameri-
can Freemen in the choice Of our next Presl-
dent beworth to the Democracy the newt
able cost2 We certainly think not. We in
sist on the present Admission Of Kansas, not
because we apprehend loss to the Republican
cause from her further exclusion-for we do
I not-but because the topic is threadbare, and
we wish to move on. We would not tightan
old battle over again, even though certain Of
/ victory. But if those who have lost insist
on temporarily pOc1eting the stakes and hold
ing them so long as they may, let them al
least do their mean act in way not meanei
than the act itself. The Slave Democracy
1 are able to beat the Kansas bill in the Sen
/ ate-let them beat il, if they cannot be per
suaded to pass it, and take the responsibility
We have no choice but submission, pending
the verdict of the People.
But the low, pettifogging trick Of chang
ing the boundaries of the embryo State, so a!
TO make her stretch like q tape-Worm owe
tens of thousands of square miles of wood
less, waterless desert, whereOn there Is NJ
habitable house, no field Of grain, no forest
no suggestion of mill--a region Wherefro n
a few scanty bands of the basest Of savage
derive but scanty and precariouS subsist
ence-a region consecrated by eternal fines
as well as immemorial use to the lean wolf
the prairie-dog, and the rattlesnake-this is
dodge at once atrOcious and coRtemptible.-
| The People of Kansas have unanimously re
iected this hundred thousand square miles o
| naked, worthless waste-Why make feint o
| forcing it upon them2 Is this your "POpula
Sovereignty p Beyond these deserts, tn
Pixies Peal1ers, scattered through and neste,
at the foot of the Rocky Mountains, hav,
Just one sentiment in common-that Of earn
est vehement repugnance to being linke,
with or subjected to the State of Kansas
They are separated from her by hundreds o
miles of bleak plain which cannot be settle
for ages-it would be fearful Inconvenience
and annoyance to them to be welded to he
by act of Congress, sending them to her Leg
islatures for laws adapted to their peculiar
anomalous position, and to her Courts for Jus
tice-and they are practically further from
her than we are from Cuba or Nova ScOti'
Will any one in the wide world be duped b
this iuggle2 VIII one fail to see that what
really desired is not to change the bOundarie
of Kansas, but to keep her out Of the Unio
altogether What can be the use Of so film
sy, so transparent a thimble-rig? Gentle
men of the Senatorial majority be base
you must; but do not proclaim to all II
world your perfect consciousness of your Ow
baseness-your cowardice blended with il
sensibilty to shame