The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-07-09
BILL" ENGLISH AND THE
ENGLISH BILL

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10 conciliatc through him, the Bourbon
wing of that organization. The claims
nf Mr. English to tie favor of his party
dates back 10 the adoption. in congress-
ia 1858, Of what Is known ns the Eng
lIsh bill" and Is matter of special in
tcresi To the people OF Kansas.
On The ia of March, the senate passed
IL bill admitting Kansas into the Union
under the Lecompion constitution, which
slavery in the slaic, after
the ordinance attached To that
On the LIST of April the
house passed measure known as the
substitute, which provided
for the submission to me bona tiele voters
of Kansas of the Lesnmptsn constilu-
ton, and THAT The admission of the
state should be dependent ON the APP
prevail or rejection of that instrument at
a free and fair election therein provided
for If the constitution should be re-
jecicd the voters were then authorized
To form for themselves new constItu-
ton and state government, and the state
should De admitted within twenty days
after the adoption of the constitution by
the people. Ii also rejected the ordi,
nance attached To the LecompiOn cOnsti-
tuuOn. The substitute prevailed by n
majority OF eight votes The senate,
however, disagreed to the substitute, and
AS the house stubbornly maintained its
position on the amendment which
emasculaled the Lecompton pro-slavery
scheme, the senate with IL view To re-
moving the deadlock, and allowing the
Infamous program Ol saddling slavery
upon Kansas 10 have free course and
be glorified. asked for u committee ol
conference upon the disagrceing votes oil
the Two branches of congress. At this
critical moment temporiZers came upon
the scene, and Mr.. English, inspired by
MIR. Alexander IL. Stephens, who was
the most sagacious of the pro-slavery
leaders, moved that the house agree "a
the conference asked by the senate
which was agreed to 10y the casting vote
of the speaker, Mr.. James l., Orr, OF
South Carolina.
This committee, on the 2:Id day oi
April, reported, as the result of their
conference, the English BILL" which
Mr. Alexander ii. Stephens now claims
was his suggestion. This bill proposed
To admit Kansas into the Union upon
this fundamental condition precedent
namely: That the question of admis
"sion with the following proposition, in
Lieu of the ordinance framed At Lecomp
'ton, be submitted to IA vote of the people
"of Kansas and assented to 10y them or ;
majority of the voters voting mt an elec
''tion to be held for that purpose, name
'ly: That the following propositions
"be and the same are hereby offered Il
''the people of Kansas for acceptance
cor rejection, which, if accepted, shall b'
obligatory ON the United States ant
"the said state of Kansas"
These conditions were:
FirSt-Thai two sections of land il
every township shall bc granted fo
schools.
lSecOAd--That sevcnty-two sections
should he granted for u state university
Third-That ten sections should b
applied TO public buildings.
FOurM-Salt springs, not exceeding
twelve. shall be granted tn the state TO
| its use.
FIGh-Five per cent of the net pro
ceeds al the sales of public lands, afte
admission, shall he paid for public road
and internal Improvements.
If these propositions were accepted
the state was TO be at once admitted.
rejected, it should not be admitted, an
the people of the territory should not 1
permitted t0 frame "a state constitutIO
and apply for admission until it was IL
certained 10y II census legally taken th;
the population of the territory equalo
the ratio of representation required for
member of the house of representative
One week after The submission of u
report il was adopted in the house by
majority of nine, the affirmative porto
of the vote being made up of southeI
Democrats and such northern dougl
faces as English, Hughes and Niblac
of Indiana; Pendletnn, Cox and GrOc
bach, of Ohio, and others of that su
scrvient ilk of Democratic politician
ID was resisted unanimously by the II
. publican party, aided by some of Il
more loyal Democrats, who had not y
} been converted to the belief that Ill
United States had 40 rights which
solid south was bound 10 respect.
Our readers know with what righteo
Indignation and lofty scorn the stru
Cling freemen of bleeding Kansas
scented this infamous attempt 10 brl
the citizens of the territory 10 rIvet d
curse of human bondage upon the infa
I, commonwealth, within whose b,
= ders the pioneers of emancipation fl
kindlcd the fire whose flames spre;
: and lighted the whole earth, as tn
swept from the fairest domain on i,
A hovah's foot stool the dark sin viii
!. demeaned to the level of the beasts of I
Il field 100000 temples of the ljvi
, God.
# The gigantic fraud failed. The |
n triOts of Kansas, who had left frien
= and home To battle for liberty on the v
# gin soil which is now covered with pc
/ ulous cities and traversed 10y the mig
r, lest carrying thoroughfares in the wOr
o resented the temptation 10 covenant
If a price with sin and enter into an unhC
d compact with the price of darkness, a
g in the fall of 1853, the people of the Fl
@ north rebuked the Indiana tool of sou
4. ern fire eaters 10y clecting an anti-Lecom
q ton congress. This, then, is the histo
n of the most notable public act of a m
whom the Democratic party On the hi
nOon-tide of the nineteenth century
7 yoked with Union soldier, who foug
- TO subdue the rebellion, which his c
II league ON the ticket has, at all times a
&c under all circumstances, sought 10 |
Is and comfort The intelligence of {
IA American people is equal to the app
u heRsiOn, in its entire length and bread
le of such monstrous example of te
Al PORTING audacity.
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he The boorish and outrageous treatm
,e extended by the Kansas City auihoril
in to Gov. 81. John on the occasion of
IL Grant reception, would seem to indie
e that while Kansas imparts to the To
~ all of the life and business energy VIII
=. IL Possesses. Missouri fortunately
M | covers her aVera1a nv imnPessin1 M