Locomotive, Volume 44, Number 11, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 May 1858 — Page 1

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A BIDE ON THE C- .PIKE. ,,, : BY MISS MAKY E. THORP. . We were about to have a good time at our house, for a few friends -were going to "happen in" in the evening, and surprise us with their pleasant company. Frank Foster (good, considerate fellow that ho is,) having got wind of the affair, had looked in at noon, on his way to the office, to give us a hint, so that we might not be altogether behind the light-house. The gentlemen of our family, "on business care9 intent," laughingly assured us that they were entirely too much occupied just then, to think of enlisting in the service of such trifles as young ladies. Any of us could have a horse( vehicle, and last, but not least, a purse, to go to the neighboring town, to get "good cheer," but not their invaluable elves, for at least five hours ahead. That would be too late; so, declaring for independence, ' I volunteered to go myself, and my little brother, Eddie; not yet in his teens, begged to be my Jehu. We were soon all ready, and seated in the vehicle, our gentle, but spirited and beautiful gray curving his proud neck, and pawing all impatience, while I was receiving commission alter commission, when. another candidate for accompaniment appeared, in the shape of a little, four year old child, riding round the house at full gallop, on a stick, a chicken feather jauntily drooping in his cap, and hallooing at the top of his lungs, M(Jh, let mo go; do, please, sister, let me go with you," pleaded the little importunate the instant he saw us, dropping his stick, and running eagerly to the carriage steps. It was impossible to resist the bewitching face and imploring eyes of the little cavalier, so he was hoisted in, and we started. ..- It was a superb day. and as we rolled away from the bridge, and swept out on to the pike, level and broad, and clean, I just leaned back m my seat, and gave myself up to enjoyment The curtains were up, and the scenery was beautiful. There had been a rain the day before, and every thing was glowing in the magnificent freshness of June. Lisht clouds, like snow drifts, were sailing across the sky, and shadowing the fields, green and beautiful, through which the pike wound its long, white way. The neat substantial farmhouses of our neighbors were everywhere dotting the pleasant land." ' A slight breeze was bending the pink and white clover, blossoms, toying with the green plumes of the young corn, and whispering to the leaves of the groves where the birds were singing, and afar off, the bright blue river was shining. Yes, it was a splendid day, one that we feel to be so; and the soft, home-like landscape never, looked more lovely, and never did I enjoy the scenery of our peaceful, beautiful land more exquisitely. Even our youngest felt its divine influence, for he turned to me, after some quiet cogitating, and exclaimed, "Isn't this a nice day ? isn't this a prettiy road ? Look at those great, tall trees ; and look, sister, oh, do look, there's a sciuirrel 1 a dear. little squirrel I . Whew, how it runs 1 Look at its little brown coat, isn t it pretty r ,, ,., We soon reached the town, seven miles distant, but we were a long time before we could get our orders filled up, and the sun was slowly sinking in the western sky when we set out to return. , I became rather anxious when I found it was so late, for I did not like to be found but with two children after dark, especially as there had been much talk in the neighborhood recently about robbers. Some of our excellent neighbors quietly and inoffensively returninp- from market had been .'waylaid, maltreated, and robbed. I told Ji.ddie to drive fast, and we were proceeding at a rapid rate, about a mile out of town, when a woman, closely veiled, accosted me, and telling me she had to walk to P., eleven miles above, on the pike, and that she was very tired already, and somewhat fearful, as there were supposed to be robbers about, asked me if I would please to let her in. I knew we had quite enough of a load as it was, to get on with any kind of Speed, but I had not the heart to refuse. I made a motion to lift Charlie back beside me, but, before I could accomplish it, she stepped in past the child and seatea nerseu in tne vacant seat at my side. There was something in the energy, rapidity, and independence of her movements, that struck me as man-like;1 and a sudden fear went like a knife to my heart.' For the moment I was frightened so that I could not speak, but I soon rallied and tried to combat my fears, thinking it might be only imagination after all. Fortunately my veil Was down, and my manner did not betray me, for I was still and impassive as stone. The woman now began to talk, and the sound of her voice; which seemed changed, was little calculated to reassure me in my present frame of mind. In a harsh dry tone she asked: .. ' ' ' ' "Where do you Bre V " '' I answered, "on the other side of the river." "Far from here ?" ' ' ' 1 . "Not quite six miles distant." ' ' "What's your name ?" Y :; ' ' "My friend, you are curious." ' ! - "Yes, I possess an inquiring mind, you see, that's the way to learn, hey ?" and she laughed a harsh laugh rit sounded like a croak to me. ; At this moment my hand lightly touched something hard at my side, and glancing down, horror of horrors, I beheld the butt end of a pistol protruding from her pocket Sudden terror -makes me : motionless.' I did not stir, no sound escaped my. lips, but, oh, the agonized prayer that went up to God from the depths of my heart I I soon grew calm, and, oh, how my heart yearned over those innocent children talking away so unsuspectingly in front, all unconscious of the danger impending. I could not leave our little darling in front of the dreaded creature at my side. But I wanted a pretext for getting him on my lap and I had to wait for it. "Drive on, Eddie, drive fast, dear, it is so late, and we are far from home." Eddie obeyed, and I sat still devising some plan of escape, with senses sharpened by suffering. If only a carriage would come, but the pike was not much traveled. I now remembered that I had seen some men working on the pike, about half way from the town, and oh if I could only reach them before they quit work for the night. . How I prayed that I might, but the sun was already setting. - 1 ' Drive as fast as ever you can, dear." ' ' " "Well, sister, I am," and, indeed, the child was driving recklessly, but not fast enough for one who felt, with shuddering apprehension, that our lives, perhaps, hung upon a few moments of time. ' " Are you cold, " asked the grating voice at my side, "because if you are sit closer, that's the way to keep warm." . ; '"Not at all," I replied, shrinking back, "but this child is getting sleepy, I will take him on my lap." ' " Let me hold him, I'll keep the youngster in order." ' ' ' ' ". "No, thank you, he does not need any restriction," and I gathered the little one, who now looked wonderingly and indignantly up at the strange face, close to my heart ' : "You have more room now, Eddie, hold the lines firmly and urge him on." "Why do you drive like the d 1, what are you hurrying him on at this rate for?" abruptly demanded the ruffian voice. I could scarcely command mine sufficiently to say, "that we expected company at home that evening, and, in any case, I was afraid to be out long after dark." "Look at me, I'm big enough and strong enough, ain't I ?" and the veil was torn off, revealing a hard, ill-favored, bearded face, such as never belonged to any woman. "I'll take care of you, if you behave yourself, mit)d,f you behave yourself," and he leered at me diabolically. The blood curdled in my veins. I grew cold to my finger ends, and again I prayed prayed as if it was the last moment of my life. We

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were ascending a hill.' ' On the top'l strained my eyes and looked as far as I 'could see ahead. ' Was there not something dark tnovirig ftn'the pike ? Yes, surely. I lifted my veil." ' Thank God 1 there were the workmen. We' were safe f Thank God forever 1 I could have shouted for" joy.' Ionly yept'sileritly such thankful, happy tears. ' . "What makes you So quiet," broke in the gruff voice, again.. I was at est now, we Were nearing1 the1 men rapidly. I could answer with tOmposuro. ; 'You talked so strangely, one would think I was the obliged person." ' ' He laughed, "I did, did I?' Toohl that's nothing, you aint afraid of me, are you ?" and I felt with an indignant thrill that his anu was en'.ircling' my waist. A scream escaped Wie In spite of 'myself, another and another, the horse dashed on;' the men were a stone's throw distant. "Be quiet, of I'll kill yoif," ' he hissed into my ear, and caught at the lines. ' ' "Stop! oh, for mercy's sakd,'st6p the horse!" A huge hand was placed on my nfomh, but it was too late; already; stout hands were holding the "bridle, and honest eyes were looking, 'inquiringly, within: "Take this person out. It's a man; see, here's a pistol in his pocket" AVith a scowl at me, and a muttered "I'll remember you for this," he sprang out, with the evident intention to escape; buty -after a- desperate struggle, was taken into custody. At this moment, a horseman rode quickly up. I recojrnizod the horse, I knew the rider. It was my own dear brother! .Feeling uneasy at our protracted stay,. he had set out to meet us. I beckoned him in, for, now that the danger was over I felt the reaction, and grew weak almost to fainting.' Dismounting, and tying his horse-behind, he was soon amongst us, and, under his safe and loving protection, we reached home just as Venus had hung her one large diamond in the vaulted blue, The fright and suffering were soon obliterated in the genial sunshine of the friendly hearts around, but I shall never, to my dying day, forget my ride on the C . Piker , . .MAY-DAY.REMTNISCENCES. ' ' Looking back from this May-day over the year what changes and ehances what good and ill fortune shall we not see 1 Life is, doubtless, always about the same. Birth and death, and joy and sorrow, the birds in spring and the blight in winter, are the substance of every year's tale. But sometimes there is a prominence given to these events ; sometimes among the dead there is a great man or woman; sometimes among the living there is a poet or a hero ; sometimes, among all the constant victories and defeats that go on daily in every circle and in every individual experience, there is some Marathon or Waterloo some Sara gossa or Bunker Hill, which rivets peculiar attention ; sometimes, amidst the ceaseless ravages of disease, there is some desolating pcstilence; amidst general prosperity, a signal good-fortune or, amidst the incessant flue; tuations of trade, there is a universal disaster. During the last year, for instance, the Indian war of ilingland, the more deo-radmc despotism m b ranee, and the universal panic in the world of trade, with our own intense interest in political affairs and the great revi val, are subjects that will always occupy thrilling pages of kistoryi .;;', ; t..i ..-(....- -, . .., -. The most natural fruit of all the financial excitement was the revival. . AVhen men who have been slipping along a smooth and swift current, getting all they wish ed finding daring to be the only condition of success buildingsplendidly, living extravagantly, speculating on every thing and turning stones to gold, are sudden ly stopped short by a rock reef or a snag, and, m the very moment of drowsy delusion, lulled by the swift lapse of waters, find their boats breaking, waves roar ing, winds whistfmg, and pecuniary destruction trium phant, they are forced to remember, as they welter and Bee each other go down, that there is something else than successful speculation in life that riches have wings and that if they have bmtt their houses upon the sand the ruin will be terrible, . I -i . ' . It is no wonder that the country became " serious.? It is no wonder that every body asked Solomon Gun ny bags himself leading the chorus "Is it true that there are two kinds of treasure ? Is there any thing in this story of moth and rust ? Is there a treasure that thieves can not steal ? And if so, where? Where have we heard the story ? Who told it to us ? Let us co and inquire into it further." Certainly the spectacle which the streets of New York, and the churches, showed in November and in March were marvelously different. In the autumn croups of men with gloomy brows stood at the corners and sat in counting-rooms, listening for the crashes of mercantile credit that rang all around them, iromthe steps of granite banks perplexed presidents and dis turbed directors stated their hopes and their beliefs which sunset brought to -shame. Fathers of families came home with aching hearts gnawed by doubts, and could not force the smile they did not feel. .Young husbands saw with dismay their glittering castles of the future, in which they had bespoken such pleasant apartments, full of sun, toppling to the ground. ' Young wooers, with hands outstretched to lead beautiful brides . to the altar, paused, affrighted, and let fall those fairy , fingers. Amusements were deserted ; Lyceums aban doned thoir lectures ; workmen stood starving m the streets ; poor women who had kept hunger and death at bay with the point of their needles, were suddenly summoned to elect between sin and starvation ; the prosperity of the most flourishing nation in the world seemed to be a dreary delusion, and no merchant or i bank director, no Congressman or President, could give any better account of the catastrophe than that " we had all been too extravagant. - But God disposes.' The winter that was to complete the misery that was to starve those without work, and extort crime from compulsory idleness whose snow and ice were to be the bitter visible symbols of the sud den winter that had invaded our summer thoughtless ness came so eently that no one knew it was here Thanksgiving-day, and Christmas-day, and New Year's, were days of spring sweetness and softness. In Jan uary grass was green and buds starting ; bays were free from ice ; travel uninterrupted ; fuel not dear ; the air itself was tender and reluctant ; and i! ebruary ended like April. Meanwhile private generosity conspired with the charity of Nature. Even Fashion held its hand from extravagance, and taxed its own follies. Society danced, and sang, and played, and worked, for charity.;; Orators, artists, singers, sweetened their tri umphs with care foil the suffering; and every man opened his pockets more readily from knowing the empty pockets around him. And when, in early March, there came a week of rigorous winter weather, not only was the worst of the financial pressure passed, but the whole world had talten heart and hope again, and answered smiling April with a smile. ' What was the great revival but the softened heart of the country softened first by misfortune, then by sympathy and charity confessing God recognizing other and higher duties than the service of Mammon, and resolving to devote itself to purer aims and a bet ter life ? The historian of this epoch must record that with the reviving year faith in the invisible was revived in men's hearts; that in the heart of the city, at high noon, for the first time in the experience of younger men,

the churches, usually closed throughout the week in sullen gloom, were daily open and thronged ; that, as in Mohammedan lands, where at mid-day the muezzin from his airy turret calls " To prayer 1 to prayer !" so from the lofty spires the Christian bells rang musically out, " To prayer ! to prayer !" He must record that men and women, young and old,swarmed to the churchI

es, to the vestry-rooms, aud to convenient halLi that for an hour they prayed, and sang, and exhorted, and wept; that the old invited and warned the young; that the young held each other by the hand ; that wives prayed for their husbands, and parents for their children ; that a theatre was opened and daily crowdedechoing no longer the jests of Momus, but full of the murmur of confessing faults and passionate, entreaty; that sectarian limits were partly broken down; and that for the first time, in the eyes of most of those who beheld the spectacle, New York, on week days, looked like a city of Christians as much as on Sundays, i . AU this must the historian record, with a thousand details of personal experience. ' . , ' ' , ,, It will be for him also to Say for we can not know it to what result the waters were moved. Doubtless he must confess that while, with many, it was a mere excitement and shallow emotion, wth many also it was, in good faith, " an awakening" to the sense of a higher life; that it made them better sons and fathers, husbands and brothers; that they were more truthful, and

faithful, and sincere ; that they followed the aims of this life with less exclusive ardor, and while their feet walked upon the earth, their heads moved among the stars, ; F or nothing is so various in its appearance as spiritual life. The wildest enthusiasm can not iustly rail at the calmest contemplation, and the phenomena which are ludicrous to one good man may be the expression of sincerest devotion in another, i That the historian will find much to censure and deplore that he will laugh sometimes and sometimes frown, as he describes, who can doubt ? 1 That many thing? were not done that should have been ; that sectarian lines wore . not as entirely destroyed as in a Christian 'land they ought to be ; that too often the Father was forgotten in the Judge ; that the sense of duty was confused ; that the lives were not so clean as the words, upon the lips to say that, what is it but to say that- they were men ., . . ...... , .. ,rr The day has gone when even so good a man as Syd ney Smith can sneer at " consecrated cobblers." The rosy canon of St Paul's launching a bright bonnet at the dinner-table of Holland House, might have thought with edification of John Bunyan in ' Bedford jail, and have spared his fellow-Christians a foolish taunt, Harder 9 Monthly jor May. , . . 1 ' TERRIBLE DESTITUTION IN IRELAND. The Dublin Evening Post,oi the 16th ult, has a letter from a special reporter, who was a short period previous, sent into the county of Donegal, Ireland, in duced to it by an appeal from the Catholic clergy of the county, m behalf of the suffering peasantry, whose distresses had been described as awtul in .the extreme, The reporter of the Post says in his letter: , , . t , Gweedore and Cloughaniely,the districtsin question, embrace a territory of mountain and bog, with an oc casional strip of arable land, lying on the north-west of .Donegal. Die weather at the time of the visit was very severe, and the ground covered with snow. On reaching the scene of destitution, says the reporter, "l perceived perhaps one hundred and htty persons, male and female, waiting with their petitions and me morials in hand, to be presented fos relief. Of these the majority were matrons,, barefooted and without stockings, and some of those who possessed the luxury of stockings had not shoes or brogues. The bare limbs of these-women appeared to be- swollen and covered with chilblains." .. --,! , . ; j ',-.'. ' Jr. ?.,, He visited some of their houses if houses they can be called. Here is a discrintion : "I entered one on all-fours, through a hole in the wall, and there I found an aged matron, i ather Woherty preceded and led the way, or I dare say I should have been denied ad-' mittance to that abode of misery and destitution. She . was seated before a fire on the, hearth, the turf of which had been dug by the male members of - the family. There was no window or aperture to admit the light of day, save the hole by which I entered. There, and elsewhere, there was no time to be lost. -The inquiry was proceeded with by Father. Doherty, who showed me the, bed on which some of the family lay; and here is a true description : the head of the bed was in the corner, a few sods of earth at head and foot to support it; a board for the side, with a few sticks thrown across; one end inserted in the wall, and the other end supported by stones and turf. There was no bed-tick; no clothing, with the exception of a woolen rag, which could not bear the name of a blanket, nor was it sufficient in size for a single grown adult cortainly not fit to cover a person of full growth. Here, in this hovel, unfit for the habitation of a single human creature, there were seven persons I think the number was seven." ' V -' Of their food he says : "In another house we asked what their food was, and they exhibited a metal pot which contained the meal for the family. . This was chopped or pounded potatoes in a pulp, and with this pulp reheated, and with some sea-weed which they exhibited in a wooden vessel, called a noggin, they made up their dinner and supper in one meal. 1 This system of regimen certainly cannot present the idea of isaron jrennetathers 'opulence. ; ; The two following pictures of distress, he says apply to hundreds of cases : "The .day was awfully severe, and all who could remain inside doors without the pressing necessity of going abroad were huddled about the fire. In one of these domiciles there was a female, and she was one of many in the fifteen, or twenty houses I explored in this part of Gweedore. She was about sixteen, and when called upon by Father Doher ty to come forward, she advanced with an air of confidence, perfectly unconscious of the gracefulness and beauty of her form. This poor, helpless child was not clad, unless you could call a shapefess garment, thrown over without inner covering, clothing. But in this house there was another female, older than the one whom I have iust now introduced. ' ' This girl was about twenty, or thereabouts. , This poor creature had nei-' ther shoe nor stocking, and avoiding the presence of strangers she shrunk away back into the obscure corner in the dark, from which she had been reluctantly drawn by the priest she revered." ' f .- r THE SOUTHERN FLOOD.' V v : ; The amount of suffering entailed and damage done by the overflow is immense. ,The latest intelligence we have is by the steamer Diana. She reports the levee broke at the late John L. Martin's place and on the opposite side. Also, at the Central Landing and at various other points. 'On the Mississipi side the river was over the levee,": At Napoleon some twentythree deer were killed in one day inside of the town, which had been driven in by the flood. A great deal of property was destroyed. The officers of the Diana saw at one place below Nanoleon horses standino- in the porch of a private dwelling, and any number of cattle standing in water up to their sides. Hogs were standing about in the woods on logs. The town of Prentiss was in the same condition as Napoleon.' The levee below Napolean, on the Arkansas side, and below Greenville, on the Mississippi side, have given way, and the whole country, on both sides, was submerged. At Mt Level plantation the river was within a few in ches of the highest water ever known. . In the height of your prosperity, expect .adversity, but fear it not; if it come not you are the more sweetly possessed of the happiness you have, and the more strongly confirmed; if it come, you are the more gently disposed, and the more firmly prepared. . .' At the trials of some pirates in a neighboring State the Judge acquitted them for want of a comma in the law. "So," exclaimed Judge P . "for want of a comma, the offenses of these rascals will never be brought to a period .

NO 11,

, : THE ENGLISH KANSAS BILL. , ..... .(' The following is the bill for the admission of Eansag into the Union, reported by Mr. English from the Committee of free Conference, of both Houses of Congre:. i i ' : ' ' ' - , , i Whereas, The People of Kansas did, by a Convention of Delegates assembled at LecomptOn on the 7th . day of November, 1857, for that purpose form for then eolves a Constitution and Stato Government, which Constitution is republican ; and ; i : - . . Whereas", At the same time and place, said Convention did adopt an ordinance which asserts that Kansas when admitted as a State, will have an undoubted right to tax the lands within her limits belonging to the United States, and proposed to relinquish said asgerted right if certain conditions act forth in said ordinance be accepted and agreed to by the Congress of the United States ; and ,. . ; , , ;.-.;.!. : v . Whereas, Said Constitution and ordinance hava been presented to Congress by order of said Convention, and the admission of said Territory into the Union thereon as a State requested ; and whereas, said ordinance is not acceptable to Congress, and it is desirable to ascertain whether the people of Kansas concur in the changes in said ordinance hereafter stated, and desire admission into the Union as a State as herein proposed ; therefore , ,;'.. ., i.-i i' ' ....Beit enacted, frc, That the State of Kansas be and is hereby admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the original States in all respects whatever, but upon this fundamental condition precedent, namely f That the question of admission with the following proposition, in lieu of the ordinance framed at Lecompton, shall bo submitted to the vote of the people of Kansas, and assented to by them, or the majority of the voters voting at an election to be held for that purpose, namely: That the following propositions be and the same are hereby offered to said people of Kansas for their free acceptation, &c. . , .;-;? ' And be it further enacted, That the following propositions be, aud the same are hereby, offered to the said people of Kansas for their free acceptance or rejection, which, if accepted, shall be obligatory upon the United States and upon the said State of , Kansas, to wit: , ' .. , ,. . , -1 i :'. : . First, That sections numbered sixteen and thirtysix in every township of public lands in said State, and where either of paid sections, or any part thereof has been sold or otherwise disposed of, other lands equivalent thereto, and as contiguous as may be, shall be grantr ed to the said State for the use of schools. . ' -i Second :t That seventy-two sections of land shall be 6et apart and reserved for the use and support of ; a State University, to be selected by the Governor of said State, subject to the approval of the Commissioner of the General Land Oflice, and to be appropriated and applied in such manner as the Legislature of thg said State may prescribe for the purpose aforesaid, but for no other purpose. , . . . , . Third s That ten entire sections of land, to be se lected by the Governor of said State, in legal subdivisions, shall be granted to said State for the purpose" of completing the public buildings, or for the erection of others at the seat of Government, under the direction of the Legislature thereof, .,; .'.'. : ..-( , Fourth:, That all the salt springs within the said State, not exceeding -twelve in number,, with, six sec tions of land adjoining, or as contiguous as may. be to each, shall be granted to said State lor its use, the same to be selected by the Governor thereof, within one

year after the admission of said State, and when so selected to be used or disposed of on such terms, condi tions and regulations as the Legislature shall direct j Provided, That no salt spring, or land, the right whereof is now vested.in any, individual or -individuals, or which may be hereafter confirmed or adjudged to any individual or indiduals, shall by this article be granted to said State. . . : . , . " i . Fifth : That five per centum of the proceeds of the sales of all public lands lying within the said State, which shall be sold by Congress after, the admission of said State into the Union, after deducting all the expenses incident to the same, shall be paid to said State,; for the purpose of making public road and internal improvements, as the Legislature shall direct, Provided:. that the foregoing, propositions herein offered to the State of Kansas shall never interfere with the primary disposal of the land, of the United States, or with any. regulations Congress may find necessary for securing title in said soil to bona fide purchasers thereof, and that no tax shall be imposed on land belonging to the United States, and that in no case shall non-resident, proprietors be taxed higher than resident. . , , , ..Sixth : And that said State shall never tax the lands or property of the United States. '; (Section 1. . That the State of. Kansas be, and is hereby admitted into the , Union, on an equal footing with the original States, with the Constitution framed, ' at Lecompton, and tliis admission of her into the Union as a State is here declared to be upon this fundamental condition precedent, namely : That the said Constitu-. tional instrument shall be first submitted to vote -of the people of Kansas, and assented to by them, or a majority of the voters, at an election to be held for the; Eurpose. At the said election, the voting shall be by allot and by indorsing on his ballot, as each voter may please, " For proposition of Congress and admission," or " Against proposition of Congress and admission." The President of the United States, as soon as the fact is duly made known to him, shall announce the same by proclamation,, and thereafter, and without .any; further proceedings, on the part of Congress, the admission of the State of Kansas into the Union on an .

i equal footing with the original States ; in all respects ' whatever, shall, be complete and absolute ; and said

j btate shall be entitled to one Member m the House, of ; Representatives in the Congress of the United States , until the next census be taken by the Federal Govern-' ment. But, should the majority of the votes be, cast, for " Proposition Rejected" it shall be deemed and held that the people of Kansas do not desire admission into , , the Union with said Constitution, under" the conditions set forth in said proposition ; and in that event the people of said Territory are hereby authorized and empowered to form for themselves a Constitution and State Government by the name of the State of Kansas, . according to the Federal Constitution, and may elect Delegates for that purpose whenever, and not before, i it is ascertained, by a census only and legally taken, that the population of said Territory equals the ratio of representation required for a Member of the House; , of Representatives of the United States ; and whenever threafter such Delegates shall assemble in convention, they shall first determine by a vote whether it is the wish of the people of the proposed State to be admitted ; into the Union at that time, and, if so, shall proceed to , form a Constitution, and take all necessary steps- for ; the establishmet of a State Government, in conformity . with the Federal Constitution,,subject to such limitations and restrictions as to the mode and manner of its approval or ratification by the people of the proposed . State, as they may have prescribed by- law, and shall , be entitled to admission into the Union- as a State un-' 1 der such Constitutien, thus fairly and legally made," with or without Slavery, as said Constitution may pre- . scribe," " .'. , i ... ; ..i..i . Sec. 2. jlnd be it further enacted That for the pur-: pose of insuring, as far as possible, that the elections . authorized by this act may be fair and free, the Gov-, ernor, United States District Attorney and Secretary of the Territory of Kansas, and the presiding officers of the two branches of its Legislature, namely, the ' President of the Council and Speaker of the House of ' Representatives, are hereby constituted a Board of ' Commissioners to carry into effect the provisions of : this act, and to use all the means necessary and proper " ; .;. if - i KM, t '' -'1' ' . .1