IviJILAS PER ANNUM INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. : IP** morning, <*S 18S8. ka VSAS-lecqmfton constitution. REMARKS OF HON'. HENRY WILSON, ** OF MASSACHUSETTS, . senate, Thursday, April 29,1858. reamed the consideration of tlie Report of * ~,.uee of ( iinfereuoe ou the di-agreeing votes '■* h,,11*- on the bill for the admission of the v WILSON' : Mr. President, the Sena- Wn-orgia [Mr.TooMiH] tells us that * : r ; of cramming the Lecoiupton Constitn i'.iri the throats of the people of Kansas tia end It is to go down by another t" . now This measure is a conplomera bribes, of penalties, and of meditated *7' j is not to be eramiued down "7- it is to he bribed down, and to be cheated * ' an( j this proposition provides for both Jqkw alternatives. It goes to the people of 7 with a bribe in one hand and a pt.nal- JTtbe other ; and if, bribes and threats v 10 . w in, you have provided that fraud fel Bat the Senator from Georgia starts a new r Kition here to-duv, one we shall all give c red.tof originating : and that is, that if ~ id admitted Kansas into the L nion uu- J -he Seuate Lecomptcn bill, that we fought - - long -he would not bave been in the i j> a member of this Confederacy, be - Mve did uot agree to her proposition for Uteen million acres of the pnblic lands.— 11 ::vdid we not hear of this when the . a was before the Senate ? For more * •• yr: i "nth- we have >at here babbling -this L.ccompton con.-titution, and 110 man . ; Repi \ - public press of the country, no public t. : the country, i o human being on God's r.: i ever dreamed, or ever uttered the dream k Kaosa? would not be a member of this [ oif the bill to admit her under the Le r.rtoc constitution should |>ass. vr aj we were about to tike the last vote i >.;.,<• ui : the bill for the mi: r. U Ir Kindts. 1 called the attention of the S • il ea le ofJoba CaUmo, ccrti ■ e :ui -1- claiming th- -e laii i- B.- ptu! ly the people as a part of t!ie B t tuuui A brief debate sprang up upou B int. T; e Senator from Oliio, Mr. B w! oi < stusiay addressed the Siinte B riv to hour-upon matters pertain ug B sre ra! affairs ol Kansas, said, on that B~ li.it, I ' scarcely ever Imi a new Slate Bilwitfld H B I ■si lit auv - it i- not i put. it cau- I g'i: I B - n: :■:.. —:,>: i~i Obi •to Ibis day, in which I B '. a 11 t • tnaki a sir in.taiu out of tLi- B . la;':,!} fail." I - : from Louisiana (Mr. Bf.nua ■ • : that this proposition was only a pro- B for a bargain—a proposition made by B • a bargain for public lauds; that I • vetemled right of taxation had never v t'detl 1 v Congress, and never would be B>d" He "said f 'ic i.f thr States of this I'ninn tasing "i f the lluvcrument <f tlie United States ■ • i- - ic which has been frequent)) atlvanc - > su; - with a view to extort Iruin Uuiigre-s i .--ant la ml. It nerer yet has beeu eon- J ttcrr will." ■ " there was not a man here in the Sen- B -t one who claimed that if Kansas was V under the Lecompton constitution, • d have the seventeen miliiou acres of B v - ands. The Senator from Missouri B~' 'ir.FEv offered an amendment, aud it y -"-'Aed without division by the Senate : r Aipre?sd the unaniruons judgment of B --ly and of Congress : B "(t in this act .-hail tw construed a an *s- B -"••• . c* .ill (,t the ptufiiMHiolM mr -Uiiied in the ordinance annexed to said vou "f was a sfieeial provision put into the " nothing in ibe act should be deera- B ven us au assent to any of the provi ' : he ordinance, and that provision pas- B ; "'.e unanimous voice of the Senate ; ; repudiation by tho Senate of the B rigitt on the part of Kansas to ■* poliic lands. I declare here and now ■7 r / f the Confederacy if the original Se pa>sed C'ougress, is an afterlho't. l' cX'thne avowed here to-day for a spc- B •nwse.to have a sjvecial effect in the B r : ;!iere is not a man in the Senate : Med States, or the Congress of the B* State-, or on the soil of this Republic, •* vie- there is anything in it. It is the K."- tense. proposition that cotues to us from the e of conference had its origiu with " f| >r four months have sat in council •' :tr e in resisting this attempt of the -ration to foree the Lecompton con thr .ugh Congress. It comes from ■ a, ; 'c pledged by a!! that binds houo ~ 3 to-tand by the proposition made : rat,!e Senator from Kentucky, to that proposition, to resist a Hl CoQ fvretice, and to defeat the ■ : '-L uiimis-ion of Kansas into the || th > Leeouipton swindle. Sir, ' 'y \Yrit that " the ox knowetli H the a-.- i. : < master's crib." and H. . --Ad these words illustrated in this loses have found their master's ■ 'Sen have recognized their owu ■ ' eotnes to us under a false ■ - Fete: -e. Yes, sir, a false and ly • -. There is uo controversy in re ■ " pohitc lands between the Federal |S . ' , a: * Territory of Kansas, none -rn the adoption of the Lecomp .on I,v the convention on the 7th up to the framing of this - rv not a tn.ui in Am-'rica THE BRADFORD REPORTER. who behaved that there was anything in this ordinance bnt a mere proposition for a bar gain. Nobody believed the Congress of the United States would accept it, and if Congress rejected it, there was an end of it, for Con gress has never pnt, an til this proposition was made, the question in controversy of the right of the States to tax the public lands of the United States. It has been settled by the decisions of the Supreme Conrt of the United States, that the States have uo right to tax the property of the United States. That principle is almost tus old as this Government, and yet this well defined and settled principle is now to be submitted 10 the decision of the people of Kansas ; a doubt for the first time is raised, aud this is the basis on which you have trumped up this proposition ! I have said that this is a proposition to bribe the people of Kansas. The Senator from Georgia tells us that it is no bribe.— Now, I say to the Senator that it offers a pos itive and direct bribe of hundreds of thousands of dollars to tlie poople of Kansas, to come in to the Uuion now under the Lecompton con stitution. There are eighty millions acres of land in the Territory of Kausas. We have sold none of those lands, or next to none of them. Hundreds of thousands of acres of these lands have been takeu up by actual set tlers. Your Government has advertised huu dreds of thousands of acres to '>e sold in July next. The best ot the lands of the Territory of Kansas have been Liken up under your preemption laws, but they have not yet been paid for. Now, this scheme offers to Kansas, if it comes into the Union under ttie Lecompton constitution, five per cent, of the proceeds of all the lands that may be -old. If she comes into the Union between now and the Ist day of July next, she has live |H?r cent, on tie pro ceeds of the immense quantities of the public lands to be sold in that Territory. That will amonnt, 1 think, to millious of dollars ; and that poor Territory, without money, without means, is offered five per cent on tlie sales of all the public lands if she will come into the Union with the LecOO] tm eon-titution ; and if not, she is to stay out, these lands are to be sold, und she is to have no five per cent, of their proceeds. Here is a p< sltivo, direct bribe offered, amounting to hundreds of thou -and- of dollars, for Kansas to come in'o the Union at once, before her public lands are brought into the maiket, and sold at all ; and yet the Senator from Georgia recklessly as serts here in tlie face of this fact, before the S> nate and the country, that there is no bribe offered to the people of Kansas to take this abhorred constitution. That is not all. You are offering this peo ple something like four million five hundred thousand acres of land to come into this L"n ion under this constitution. In answer to ihat, we are told that the honorable Senator from Kentucky (Mr. CRITTENDEN) made the >aine pro}>osition. lie did, but his proposi tion did not stand in the form of a bribe. It applied to the Lecompton constitution, if they took that; it applied to the new constitution to b<* made, if they took that. It was a fair, honest proposition, and could have had uo ef fect whatever on the decLiou of the people.— 'lt was a proposition that came from an hon est man, and was supported by honest men, and met the approbation of honest men.— This a proposition put in the form of a bribe, for it is, " have this laud if you take Lecomp ton ;" and if they do not take Lecompton, it does not say a word about what they shall have when they make another constitution.— It is a temptatiou to the public men of that Territory to come in now and have the con trol of thtse public lands, and everybody knows how anxious men iu this country, especially in the new States, are to obtain control over iiu meu-e tracts of public lands. Consider, now, sir, the penalties yon pro pose to inflict upon these jieople. Every mem ber of the Senate who has studied the affiirs of Kansas, knows that there is a sentiment in that Territory, approaching unanimity, in fa vor of coming into tlie Uuion at once. The sentiment of all the people of that Territory is, to cotne into the Union now, to be a mem ber of this Confederacy. Their interests, all they have and thev hoi>e to be, prompt them to come info the Union now to share its bles sings and its benefits. Rut what do you pro pose here ? Y->u give them five per cent, on the sales of their lauds, if they will come iu now. If they stay out, they lose five percent, on all their lands sold uutil they do come in, and if they stay out oue or two years millions of acres of the very best lands will be sold, and they got no benefit from the<a!es. Then yon offer them four and a half million acre-; of land. This proposition addresses ite!f with immense force to tle governing men of that Territory, and to tiie people, for they are lor pi blic schools. These lauds may, and will be, given at some future time when they do come in ; bnt the o]ierating foree ot this proposition presses upon them now. You hold up tin bribe in their faces now, and appeal to tiicrn to accept it ; but if they do uot come in now, thev arc to be kept out. They want to be in the Union : you keep them out unless they will come in under the Lecompton constitu tion, that they have condemned by tea thou sand popular majority. You puuish them by putting this penalty upon them. Well, Mr. President, I believe the people of Kansas will vote down this Lecompton con stitutiou bv an overwhelming majority. I do not believe yon can buy that people with thi- Gve per cent, on their public lauds, or by four a:ul a half millions of her eighty mill.on aero of lands. You have tried to force them—you have failed. Now you propose to bribe them I have the fullest confidence that you will ig uominiously fail in that. \ou believed it. — The tnau who framed this measure believed the people woold reject it, and he prepared this measure to oarrv it through by fr.uri, and be intended that. Yes, sir. I charge it direct ly that the getters-up of this proposition ex pected the people of Kansas to defeat it, and they intended to put it in the jiowcr of the Ijccomptonites to carry it by fraud If cor ruption will not win fraud is to win PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY AT TO WANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., BY E. O'MEARA GOODRICH. " REGARDLESS OF DENUNCIATION FROM ANY QUARTER." Mr. President, the veteran Senator from Ketueky proposed a measure to which we give our ready support. We Republicans believe in the power and duty of this Government to prohibit slavery in all the Territories of the United States. We believed the Lecompton constitution was not the sentiment, the will, of the people of Kansas. If we had possessed the power we would have voted it down and crushed it under our feet : we would then have given an enabling act to the people of Kansas and said to them, " frame a constitution, sub* mit it to the popular vote, and then come here and ask for admission into the Union." Rut, sir, we were in a minority in this body and in the other House ; we were utterly powerless. We believed that the people were opposed to the Lecompton constitution; we had no doubt of that. We believed that if they could have fair vote, they wonld t vote it down. Tlie Senator from Kentucky made a speech condemning in burning language this Lecompton fraud. He made a speech that has been read with tearful eyes by tens of thousnuds of men all over this country—men who differ from him in sentiment and opiniou—a speech that has won their love and their confidence. Wtiile living he will their affectionate regards, and when he sleeps beneath the soil of his own Kentucky he will live in their memory. lie made a fair prop osition; that proposition was, to submit the Leconiptou constitution to a direct, fair, and honest vote of the people. If they wan ted it they would take it. and tlicy were in the Union. If they did not want Lecompton, they were authorized to make, at once, another constitution, and 0:1 proclamation of the Presi dent, they were come into tlie Union. Could we, as liberty-loving men—the friends of making Kansas a free State —hesitate to ac cept this proposition made in good faith by the Senator iroin lveutticky ' I admit, -dr. that we subjected ourselves to the risk of letting a slaveholdiug constitution the creature of fraud, coine into the Union but we had the best evidence that the people of Kansas were against it, and that if they had a fair opportunity they would vote it down by a crushing majority. Our friends iu that Ter ritory have the county officers. We have the sheriffs ; we have the ballot-boxes ; they are all in the hands of the free-State men. The Senator frcm Kentucky knowing that we did not desire to avail ourselves of this advantage of having the territorial officers made this pro position—and a fairer proposition could not be made—that the Governor and Secretary, appointed by the President and rem -ruble ut his will, and the President of the council, aud the Speaker of the House of Representatives representing the popular will of the Territory, should be appointed a board of Commissioners and that three of this board thus constituted shall form a quorum. We knew that the ap pointees of tlie President could not control that board : we kuew that the men who had defrauded the poople of Kansas could not con trol it ; we knew that the board could not be organized for dishonest purposes. We believed that a board thus constituted would promptly appoint a proper time, aud fix upon proper places to hold tlie election, aud that proper men would be selected to conduct tlie election. We knew that under a board thus constituted vour Hendersons, your Diefendorffs, your McLcuus, your Calhouns ; the men who chea ted us at Kickepoo, at the Delaware Crossing at Oxford, aud at Shawnee ; that tlie nun who took the returns over into Missouri and added names by hundreds to tiie returns ; the men who have spent many of the winter months under the shadow of the Capitol, away from the bitter condemnation of the jieople whom they have betrayed and defrauded ; we knew that these corrupt creatures who have defrau ded the people at the ballot box. and taken false oaths in regard to election returns ; who bave buried returns by night in candle boxes, under a wood-pile aud under the ground, and then swore that they had sent them out of tlie Territory, we knew that those corrupt and venal creatures who, during the last few months, have taken .-belter herein the capital, where rascals have recently so much congre gated, would not be appointed by the board constituted by the Senator from Kentucky.— We believed that the board appointed under that pr ijiosition would choose as el etion offi cer- to preside over the baliot-boxe-, men of all parties in whom the people would have con fidence. and that the frauds which have been so often committed during the last ten month at Oxford Shawnee, Kiekapoo, Delaware Cros sing, and other precincts, would not !>e repea ted and that we should have a fair ami hon est expression of the popular will. I avow here today, that a fairer proposition was uevvr in ide than was by the Senator from Kentucky mid which was adopted substantially by the House of Representatives, under the lead of Mr. M >.vr<;< Mttr.Y, of Pennsylvania. Here is a soil of feeble imitation of thr.t proposition. Senators tell tis that doe- not submit the Lecompton constitution to the p-o --ple of Kansas, that it only snbm i- certain proposition.- in regard to the public lauds. L submits the inducements to come into ihc Union, it holds out the glitter.i:g biioe in the one hand and the threat in the oih r, and as if this would not accomplish their purpose they have added the district attorney to tiie bard of Cotuinis-ioners. They offer to Un people of Kansas five per cent, of the proceeds of all the lands to be sold, they offer them four aud a half million acres ; and then unless that people take Lecompton they propose to keep them out of the Union under any con stitution, without tfiese lands until they have ninety-four thousand inhabitants, and they constitute a board of commissioners to have charge of the elections a majority of whom are to fe appointed by the President of the United States, mere executive instruments men who can be removed at any time it his will. Why is this change made t Answer, if you can. The Senator from Ohio Mr Waiif.; asked, the other day. why it was made aud the Senator from Missouri Mr. GREEN J gave what Major Jack Downicg was woul to call a sharp knowing look, as though he would ar.-wt r —he gave two very sigmfvanl nods that he would answer in bis owu time He followed the Senator from Ohio, but he did not conde-1 scend to allude to this very |ertinent question put by the Senator from Ohio. Sir, the other i Senator from Ohio [Mr. PCGH] yesterday in d'-rlook to explain the reason why ; and the reason is this : that the board made of four 1 | men, Governor, Secretary, President of the j I Council, and Sneaker of the House of Repres entatives, could not do business, und it was , necessary to make a partisan majority on that ! board. Then why did you not give it to the ; : people ? I will tell you why you have put that board iu the hands of the President of the United States. The President of the United States, Inst May, sent Governor Walker to Kansas Territory with a solemn pledge that tlie people should have an opportunity to vote on their constitution on its adoption or re jection. I went up Missouri river with Gover nor Walker, and he everywhere proclaimed it. I heard his speech to the people assembled at Lawrence. He told them that they should have a fair opportunity to vote, lie pledged him self to tlie people of that Territory that, if tlie constitution was not fairly submitted, lie him self would resist the constitution before Con gress. He gave tlie people to un ler.-taud that he was backed in this by the President of the United States : that he represented the President and his Cabinet : that he spoke for the Government. Sir, these assurances had their weight. Men -aid, " we .-hull be cheated if we go to vote under tlie partial enrollment; they will give us a chance to vote ou tlie con stitution, and then we will vote down the cor rupt and dishonest thing and make a constiu- Lon which shall reflect the popular wiil." You will remember, Mr. President, that when tlie October election came, tlie little town of Oxford, which had about forty-two legal voters, gave over one thousand six liuu tlied votes. Governor \\ aiker went down there, examined the case, aud threw out tlie vote. McGee county, that had hardly any inhabitants at r.l!, gave one thousand three hundred votes; Governor Walker threw them out ; and for acts a Lowl went up from the States ; now threatening to dissolve the Union if you do admit Kansas under the Le compton constitution. They denied that Gov ernor Walker had the right to throw ut these votes, and he was denounced from correcting these frauds although the correction uf the frauds was vital to the just expression of the public sentiment ; for these frauds gave tiie L urislature to the minority ol the Territory. While these thr ; *ats were borne on southern breezes to the White House, Governor Wise . came to Washington, saw the President, told the President that he would write a letter .-u-- taiuiug his policy and draw this fire upon him self. He did so ; and a day or two after that very letter was written, the President deser- f ted the Governor and left him to besho f down. : He deserted Walker. The moment Walker corrected those frauds the demand went forth i that he should be sacrificed, and the President was the wiiliug tool to sacrifice a man for cor recting a gigantic fraud upon the people That is not all. sir. Mr. Dennis who was appointed inurshall of the Territ rv by Mr. Buchanan, attended the polls at Oxford, this very precinct that gave sixteen hundred votes at one olectiou, thirteen hundred at another, j seven or eight hundred at another. He was summoned before tlie investigating committee of the Territorial L gi-lature and he te t lied that there were less than one lnindre 1 and fifty voters in the precinct, and that not over two hundred and fifty votes were given there on that day, when they counted out nearly thirteen hundred votes. He gave this testi mony, exposed these frauds before the investi i gating committee, and the President of the United States removed him. Yes, -ir, .Mr. Dennis was sacrificed for exposing tin frauds of the friends of Lecompton by a willing Ex ecutive who has shown that lie is but au iustru men of the slave propagandists While Walker and Stanton and Dennis were stricken down for expo-dug these frauds ■ upon the people of Kansas, by your President, Dieffen lorff remains a clerk in your land uffi -e. Jack Henderson, who took the vote at Dela ware Crossing, and who was implieati i in that stupendous fraud, is yet in the public service. McLeau who hid the returns iu a candle-box at night under a wood-pile, two feet under ground —this man who then went before the commission aud gave a solemn oath that he had sent the returns out of tlie Territory, and then had to escajie from the Territory to escape from a charge of perjury, and lias loit ered around this Capitol fur tiie la*t three months—this creature i> yet in the eontidei. e of the Administration, and 1 have met him and his compeers in the executiv- man-ion.— Yes. -ir. he is in office : and Calhoun, tlie or ganize of frauds, \et has the Prc.-iden;*s con fidence, and i- to be sent up into Nebraska.per haps L> p!:iy tin- same game in that Territory. Now, with these lights before us I have a rigiit to siv that this change in the board of i •mmi-s •uers could be made for no honest purpose. These three uun may be removed, if tkii removal be necessary to nfieet tbnmr pose of the men who have sustained the Mis souri invasion, sustained tlie violence in Kan sas, sustained this l.ccompton fraud, sustained whole policy that ha- disgraced our country for more than three years. If thev demand it, ho will iviuove th so men. lie has given pledges, guarantees; all there is of him, aud ail he hopes to be. lie lias staked upon them. He is in their hands. He is their instrument and if they demand it. he will see to it that the three uien he app ints who have toe control of tills board of commissioners, w ho can fix tbe day of election as far off as they please to {ire side over tho ballot-boxes, who can count in the Oxford, Kiekapoo. aud Shawnee frauds, t who can decide this whole question—he can remove them at his will, and they are but his tools and his iimtrument, and he i ihe tool aud instrument of the slave propagandas and disunionists. They must obey him, and he will obey the imperioas men who rule him I for their own purposes. Do you believe, Mr. rre-ident, that tlie men ; who sustained, iu Congrets and out of Con j gres?. the inrasioo of March ; who sos- , ; lamed the sat king ol Law rcu*.€ m>f , \ {'-♦>.' j who justified the bloody scenes of the summer und autumn of ISofl ; who have denounced ; Wulker ami Stanton and Dennis for exposing i the frauds of October, of December, and of January last—do you believe the men who | have incurred all the odium of sustaining these acts, which have brought disgrace and dis honor upon our common country, for the pur pose of making Kan.-as a slave State—do you believe they will yield it up now, when they ; have their final gripe upon tlie people, when they have three commissioners who can count Kansas in under the Lecoiupton constitution ? Sir, the public judgment of the country, awa kened to this proposition aud to this condition of affairs, may make even these men act with common honesty. Nothing else will baffle them. I say to the people of Kansas, of the United States, if this measure pa-sts, as I suppose it is to pas.- - , for we st-e the potent in line ices of executive power all around us aud about us, nothing can save Kansas from being 1 counted into the Union by fraudulent votes, but the vigilance of the people of Kansas and the public judgment of the people of tlie Uni ted States. I have no faith in this Adtniuis tration; none iu the President; for i know they want Kansas to come into the Uuion as a slave State. Failing iu a!i efforts to force her in the Union, you now propose to bribe her in by reward.-, by penalties ; and if these will not do, you have got the power iu this scheme to bring her iu by fraud. I tell you frankly, this bill will not make peace uules- you mean to use fraud. That will close it. U-e fraud, gentlemen, and you have the power to close it ; and that alone will close this controvei-y ; for the people will spurn your bribe, they will will vote down your con stitution, and they wil' not come in under it, unless you count them in by counting fraudu lent votes. Suppose you are not able to do that, and Kansas rejects your Lecompton con stitution : do you think the people of Kansas or the people of this country will regard as of any force your declaration that she shall not make a constitution, and come into the Uuion, until she has ninety-four thousand inhabitants? No, sir ; I think tlie intelligent people of Kan sas will vote down your constitution ; they will not accept it, unless you count them in by counting fraudulent votes ; and if they do reject it, they will make anotner constitution, and a free constitution. You have settled it that Kansas has inhabitants enough to come iinas a sluve State. Yes, northern men, rep resenting Rhode UlanJ, New Jersey, Penn sylvania, Indiana, Ohio, lowa—these men, in this House and iu the other, ure voting here that Kansas may come in under the Lecomp ton constitution, which forbids any future Le gislature ever to abolish slavery ; that she may i cotne in under that slave constitution with her present population, be they few or many ; but she cannot nome iu until she has ninety-four thousand if she w ill uot come in under this constitution. Sir, we will charge this upon these men in every school district of the free States ; we will hold them up to the indignant judgment of a betrayed people—yes, sir, a be trayed people ; we will hunt them down, und dance on their political graves. Let the jieo ple of Kausas make a constitution ; submit i*. to the popular w ill ; bring it here as a free State. You have voted that she has inhabi tants enough to come in as a slave State ; and let us see these men keep her out as a free S'ate, if they dare. Yes, sir, we give you no tice now that you cannot close this question under your new scheme, except by stupendou aml gigantic fraud- You can do it that way; but you cannot do it honestly. The poople of Kansas will spurn your bribe. They w ill make a constitution ; they will come h re asking ad mission. You can keep them out if you < !ioe>?i to do so : but you keep them out at your peril. If the proposition made by the Senator from Kentucky had been adopted, this whole ques tion would have Iwen settled to-uny. The peo • pie would have taken a fair vote under men npjioiiited by the concurrence of both par: - We should have had a f.. r vote on the Le compton constitution. It would have been voted down uuqnestiombfy by an overwhelm ing majority. Then the people would have made a new constitution aud adopted it, and the President would have made his proclama tion, and Kans is won! 1 hive been a sister of ' tlie Confederacy. That proposition, made by • e Senator from Kentucky, and acvvpiul by u- in both Houses promptly, would have clos •_d this whole Kansas controversy and have ■ eb'-edit forever. 1 tell the Senator from Vir ginia Mr HUNTER" who talks of a truce, that tlii- is no truce, lie could not draw a bill, with all his ingenuity, that would have less of peace in it. Every man who knows the con dition of affairs in Kausas, knows that the people now want to come into the Union, that they will never accept your Ij^comj-ton consti tution unless yau count them in fraudulently ; that they will make a constitution and coine lure and n-k admission. If you admit them } u may then close it. bnt you do not close it bv th s scheme, for yon say they shall not be ado. Led until they bave a certain number of inhabitants. Yon may admit them in spite of tlii- restriction and close the controver-y ; but if you mean to adhere to tiie provisions of this act, you have on hand an ojk-ii controversy, running through months—perhaps year-. Now yon will adopt tlii* measure, I think ; but you will hare to pay the penalties for it, depend upon that. It is a proposition you cannot defend lure—you cannot defend it auy where. 1 listened to the Senator from Vir ginia the other day ; and if any man can de fend this measure he cau do it : I listened to the Senator from Missouri ; I listened yester day to the sjjeech of the Senator from Ohio, Mr. PCGH ;] I have listened today to the Senator from Mississippi, Mr BROWN. j and the Senator from Georgia. Mr. TOOMBS.J I have uot yet heard within these wails, or be fore the people, meu of talent, of capacity, la bor as they have labored, and come to such impotent a:.d illogical conclusions. Sir, th-.re is no peace iu this scheme. You talk about peace in regard to Kansa Deal fairly and honestly, and you can have it There will He ' no jcave ou Thr question, or any other que*- VOL. XV 1 I L. -N O. 4U. I tiou growing out of slavery, iu America, uu -1 til the whole controversy is settled upon a solid basis of eternal right—never, never I The Senator from Ohio ; Mr. I'l OH is ÜB s°nt ; ami 1 regret it lie undertook yester -1 day to cast odinm on onr friends in Knnsa-, by j charging that they intended '* to stuff tin* bnl lot-boxes with negro votes.*' A negro could linve votel to elect delegate-' to the Lecoinp ton convention : a negro could have voted on the proposition that w,:s submitted : negro can vote by that constitution, if he is u citi zen of the United States. The law for the election of delegates to the Leavenworth con vention was like the law for the election of delegates to the Lecompton convention. The provisions of both declared that tlie l<na Jidt citizens of the United States should be allow ed to vote. The word " white " was not in either net. The provisions of the Leaven worth constitution ore exactly like the pro visions of the Lecompton constitution, in re gard to suffrage, in that respect. The le-a vcnworth constitution allows foreigners who have given notice of an intention to become citiz.-us the right to vole ; Lecompton does uot. There is a provision in the Lecompton con stitution that is a disgrace to the American name : and that is that a free negro shall not live in Kansas. Sir, the descendants of tht* man who, on Hunker Hill shot down Major I'itcairn, who fired upon onr rountryuien ut Lexington, if he has any, cannot live in Kan sas umler this Lecompton constitution. Tire descendants of two of the three men, if they have left any, who were captured on board i the Chesapeake before the war of I*l2, whom Jefferson and Madison called citizens, cannot ! live there. The descendants of the men who . fought with Andrew Jackson before the blaz ing lines of New Orleans, and whom Jack-ou j called his fellow-citizens, cannot live there, f j say that proposition is a disgrace to the Atner- J ican name. The Senator says they are exclud ed from voting by the Lecompton constitution, because they cannot live in the State under it Could they not have voted on the election of delegates ! Could they not have voted on the adoption of the portion of < he constitution that | was submitted before they were excluded by i the adoption of the constitution itself t if | they are citizens of the Uuited States they j would do so. There is a provision in the L-a- I veuworth constitution that the first Legisla ; ture shall submit the question of universal suf frage to the people— that is all there is in it • and a Senator calling himself a Democrat comes into the Senate of the United States, and undertakes to prejudice a great cause by charging it.- friends with attempting to stuff the ballot-boxes with negro votes. That Sena tor well knows that ther tare not one hundred free negroes iu the Territory ; and this assault upon the frameis of the Lr-avenworth consti tution i- uiijc-t—grossly unjust. But. Mr President, we shall rote against this proposition : and I assure the Senator from Georgia, who hints that we were iu doubt whether to accept it or not, that the "cabal," a- he is pleased to call us,never had any doubts as to what we would do iu regartt to this scheme, f 'r, we could not accept the bill for your Lecompton constitution. We thought that the embodiment of a gigantic fraud ; and as we be! eve this scheme combines bribe, j menace, and fraud, we spurn it, and w- de j nounce the men who originated it, and who ; give it their snpj ort, iu and out of Congress. TUF. TitSßiiOMrrKr.—Besides the ordinary use of the thermometer, fur determining thu temperature of the atmosphere (heat and cold) ; it has become an instrument, not only of great utility, but of absolute necessity iu the arts. — HI . le its adaptio vaud application to agricul tural uuJ domestic purjrfjscs, ha- rendered it almost as indl-pet:sable a- a clock or u watch. In the unr.-cry or sick room, also. it is of the utmost value and import a ice. The tempera ture in winter, where a jxirsoa is at rc-t or without exercise, which is the most comforta ble and co abiiive to liealtl:, is 70 to 7,7, and the more u librm t!ie temperature tlio Ic.— lis ble to ui- uses, consequent u;o:i a sudden change f. ?n in doors to out. Winn miik is set for raising cream, it should be kept at 62, as the nearer that tcmjierature, tliegreat ti the quantity and fi u-r the fiivor of the but ter. Tfse temperature at which cream should be kept, before and during the agitation, and not break the -:nn!l particles of globe!-'-, of which butter composed, while undergoing the mechanical process, is found to be 62 de gree- ; if too high or warm, the globules will break and give the butter an o !y appearance. The proper temperature of mlik heated f.r the purpo-e of converting into curd for clicks is 98 degrees, or " Blood Heat." M!k heat ed to this temp rat we before applying tha rennet is found to produce cheese not too soft to bear transportation, an 1 wiiil.- it imparls a superior richness it does not detract from tha weight, thereby giving a better article, in tl>. greatest quantity and uniformity of t ie whola diary, lloijbig water will always clean the instrument, if applied immediately after dip ping in the cream without any danger of break ing : where the scalp runs op to 212 degrees, "water l>oi!s." I"-r scalding h-gs or fowß, IbO degree- i- the proper temj>erature. It i* l<o very useful in ascertaining t!ie temp ra furc of the cellar or iqrirtioc it where vegeta bles are kept, which arc liable to fx* frozen in exircuie cold weather.— Lift Ilbrlra'^d. ' t C-if- It may be said generally of liu-'rands, as the woman -aid of lurs, who had abused, her, 'o an old maid who reproached ht-r for marrying liim, " To be sure lie's not so good a husband as he inigut be, but he L- a jmweiful sight better than none." A young lady on licing asked if she intended wearing that &nger-r:ng to church, said she d;du't intend to war anything el-e f-ST Somebody says a wife should be !.&• a roasted huub—teuder and nicely dressed - Somebody ebe d'y aid. "aal sau-e." 1
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