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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