St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1861-02-07
The Admission Of Kansas.

| BON Houses vi OOupTeSS have
passed the bill admitting Kansas into
the Union. The bill, however, was
amended in the Senate by the addi-
tion Of clause making John Petit
U. S. District Judge for the new State,
and the House must concur in this
amendment, or the Senate rcccdc, be-
fore the bill can receive the signature
of the President and Kansas become
State. The impression is that the
House will reject the amendment, and
that the recent withdrawal of scccd-
ing Senators will enable the friends
of Kansas to pass the bill in its origi-
nal form.
When the admission shall have been
fully consummated, the State govern
ment will be assumed by the follow
ing officers, elected on the 9th Of De-
cembcr, 1859:
Governor, Chas. Robinson Licutcn-
ant Governor, J. P. Root Secretary
Of State, J. W. Robinson Treasurer,
William Tholcn Auditor, George
Hillycr Attorney General, b. +. Simp-
son Supt Public Instruction, W. Il.
Griffith Chief Justice, T,os. Ewing,
Jr.; Associate Judges, Sam A. King
man and l.. d. Bailey.
At the same election, Martin F. Con.
way was chosen to represent the State
in Congress. The Legislature elected
at the same time, consists of twenty.
five Senators and seventy.five Repre-
scntativcs, and is largely Republican
in both branches. The Governor is
instructed to convene the members as
soon as he receives notice Of the ad-
mission of the State, and their earliest
action will be to choose two members
of the United States Senate.
In alluding to the action Of Con-
gross on the bill admitting Kansas, af.
ter four years persecution, for her dc.
votion to Freedom, the Albany Journal
truthfully remarks
Her admission is an event Of more
Importance, and one that will awaken
a livclier interest. than usually at
taches to the entrance Of new State.
There is no parallel in our history to
the persecution which her people have
been subjected to for the offence Of
preferring freedom to slavery. Her
soil has been the battle-ground on
which those opposing elements have
struggled for mastery in the Terrific
rics, and not only her own people but
those of all the Free States have felt
that their own interests and welfare
were involved in the result.
Kansas might have been admitted
as Slave State two, three, or even
four years ago. 1t is only because
her people were determined for Free
dom, that she has been kept out till
now. They have been subjected to
long and varied suffering, but at last
they have achieved their purpose in
spite Of all the devices Of partisan
and official ingenuity.
1t is fortunate for Kansas and for
the Union that she did not consent to
come in, as she might have done. as
IL Slave State. In that case, she
might, like others, already have been
engaged in the work of subvcrting
the Union, and vocifcrating threats Of
Secession and War against the Gov
crnmcnt to which she owed her exis-
tcnce.
But thanks to her indomitablc dc.
votion to principle, Kansas now comes
into the Union to help maintain it.
She will never scccdc nor countc-
nance threats Of Secession in others
She will be loyal, and her loyalty.
contrastcd with the ingratitude of
Florida. Louisiana, Texas and Missis-
sippi, will he a warning example as
to the admittancc of future States
If only Territories erected into Free
States can be relied upon to stand by
the Union if those erected into Slave
States are liable at any moment to
separate from us, and to war with
us, then every additional Slave State
is only an additional source of weak,
ness. which we shall do wisely to
shun."