Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1858 — Page 2

THE RENSSELAER GAZETTE.

RENSSELAER, IND.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 5, 1858.

REPUBLICAN STATE TICKET.

Attorney Genera', WILLIAM T. OTTO, of Floyd. of State. JOHN H. HARPER, of St. Joseph. Auditor of State, ALBERT LANGE, of Vigo. Secretary of State, WILLIAM PEELE, of Randolph. * Superintendent of Public Instruction, JOHN YOUNG, • - of Marion. For Supreme Judges. FIRST DISTRICT. HORACE P. BIDDLE, of Cjasß. v.> ■ SECOND DtSjftllCT, ABRAM W. HENDRICKS, ■ of Jefferson. THIRD DISTRICT. SIMON YANDES, -< 7 of Marion. FOURTH DISTRICT, WM. D. GRISWOLD, . • ®f Vigo.

(£rThe Court of Common Pleas adjourned last Friday night t® meet again on Tuesday, the 18th inst.

attention is invited to the advertisement of Rp, H. Milroy, headed, “To all whom it may concern.’ 1

of our last year’s subscribers who do not desire the Gazette for the coming year, will please return this number, or let us know in any other manner.

corporation election, which was to have come off last Monday, proved a fizzle. Many thought the charter had been forfeited, and the polls wore not opened.

(gjyMessrs. Madison McKeever and David Hanger, two of the jurymen in the case of the State against Richards, tried in the Common Pleas Court last week, request us to say that they* both in favor of the acquital of

(O’* We have been requested to sugge»t the time for holding the Senatorial nominating convention; but, upon reflection, have concluded not to do so, leaving the matter to Porter and Lake counties. We belifve our citizens would prefer a late day, say July or August. • j .'

CttrW e have fa ©ur possession a copy of the People’s Constitution of Kansas, which is' to be voted upon on the 3d Tuesday of this month. The efiargq that negroes can vote under it is entirely false. None can vote but citizens of the United States and foreigners who have declared their intentions of becoming sucli.ij;

0O“Our young?folks had quite an interesting and pleasant time on Mayday night, in spite of the wdather. They elected a beautiful young Wy for Queen —at least the numerous gay and dashing gallants who had the opportunity of tasting the nectar of her ( royal lips, and bgskfhg in the sunshine of her royal smiles,, say so—and the happy throng chose for King one well qualified for that high station, having served as apprentice to his Satanic Majesty in the capacity of Printer’s Devil. We are told that the King, on receiving the crown, delivered a happy and patriotic speech. Long live the King and Queen of May! “ J ’ W: ' - - . 1

A FAIR PROPOSITION.

The court-house is, generally, the most conspicuous building in a village, and, next to the hotel, the best-index of the character of its inhabitants... It is the first object that greets the gaze ofthe traveler, and the last one that he parts with; and as the court house stands in his estimation, so stands the village. But its range goes out beyond the - streets and lanes df the town: it stretches out its arm and its finger points to every termer in the county; it is a mirror wherein the townsman and_tbe plowman can see his likeness—nay, which blazons his virtues on his deformities, whether he will or not. Moreover, it is an object in which all have a common interest—the great link in the social chain which-binds the rural districts and the metropolis. ,l God made the country, man made the town,” is aa old saying, hut that the people made the court house, is equally true. It was built by all, for all, and should be the pride of all. Fine halls of justjce—we do not mean an extravagant building paraded before the people as an object on which men hang Aheir purses, but a court house comfortably and tastily arranged—which seem, with becoming modesty, to withdraw from public gaze, properly inclosed, shaded by stately trees and decked with lawns and graveled walks, bespeak a town whose citizens possess liberal hands and cultivated taster whose farm-

ers are honest, intelligent and Tefined, and a people among whom the laws are respected and easily administered. Justice, although blinded to every thing elee, is awake to the beautiful, nay, she is herself the beautiful; for justice is the ideal of beauty. We are aware that, to many persons, all this sounds well in speech, but is a Subject only fit for women to talk about; yet we say, in all sincerity, that the man who has no sympathy with nature was never more than half made. God made the world and endowed it and he gave man a soul to enjoy it. We make these remarks in order to pave the way to a proposition which we wish to offer to the commissioners of the county and the citizens of the village. It is this: that the commissioners furnish the lumber to inclose the court house square, and that the people of the village turn out and put up the fence, and not only so, but that each one pledge himself to set out a certain number of trees therein, and to do his share in laying out walks and beautifying the grounds. We think the Commissioners will be willing to provide the materials, for they are men who are alive to the interest of the county; and, surely, the people of Rensselaer will not hesitate to do their part. We trust the simple suggestion is all that is needed. The court house squafe is the nucleus around which centers every improvement made in town. ' That beautified, and we shall have better walks, better streets, better doOr-yards and a far better spirit. Indeed, it is a large angle which measures the arc of its influence; but if it goes on from better to worse, there is no telling what will become of Rensselaer. Public spirit must go one Way or the other, and if it keeps the path which it has had for the last few years, we may expect that travelers will pour out their blessings on our heads in the words; of the old Scottish song: ■' “Men of hard hearts, ye, 7' May the foul fiend drive ye, And a’ to pieces rive ye, For building sib a town; Where there’s neither man’s meat nor horse's meat, Nor a chair to sit down.”

EECOMPTON PASSED.

English’s substitute passed through Congress last Friday—in the Senate by a vote of 31 to 22, and in the House by 112 to 103. English’s bill will be found; in another column. It will be seen that it does not submit the Constitutson at all, but only the proposition that, should the people of Kansas accept the obnoxious instrument, thep the government will donate an immense amount of public lands to Kansas—thus io bribe the people into dishonorable submission to the Southern Oligarchy when i’ is ascertained that they cannot be driven by force of arms. English’s bill also holds out the threat that unless the freemen of Kansas bow their neck and submit to the yoke of Lecompton, the State shall not be admitted under any other Cqnstitution until her population reaches 93,000; and should Kansas not have that population by the year 1860, (when a new apportionment for members of the House of Representativeswill be made,) she will, perhaps, require a population of 120,000 inhabitants. In passing this bill the Democratic members of Congress have utterly repudiated the doctrine of the President, and indorsed by the Democratic press of the country, that the Lecompton Constitution should! be accepted in order to localize the question of slavery anfftake it out of the halls of Congress. But now, finding that this scheme would not work, the former doctrine is utterly repudiated, and the slavery question is-to be kept open and agitated for an indefinite period longer; and the people of Kansas are yet to be dragooned and harrassed, at the mercy of a corrupt and Slavery-extension, Administration. When St. John was on the Island of Patmos, nearly eighteen hundred years ago, gazing down the stream of time with a prophetic eye, perhaps he witnessed the scenes of carnage, of burning houses, of murdered men, of starving children and idiotic mothers on the plains of Kansas, when he recorded the following:

“And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge oiir blood on then) that dwell on the earth! And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.” But what shall we say of this new disgrace heaped unon our State! Did not gus Bright and Fitch drag down the reputatation of Indiana low enough for English an original Anti-Lecompton man, that he, too, should step forward and aid in Covering us with still further shame? Let Indiana cast him off forever, and let his name be a h,ii>s and a by-word in every hamlet in the State. John W. Forney, writing fromfWashington to his paper, the Philadelphia Press, concludes his letter as follows:

“Tha intelligent citizen will perceive that this compromise, so miscalled, provides that Kansas can oniy be admitted into the Union a.s a slave Slate. “When J see that the new project is now simply to put Lecompton upon the people of Kansas, or, if they repudiate it, to give them oyer, for an unlimited period, to the tender mercies of a Pro-slavery organizuiiation, I protest with all my heart. Another indication cannot fail to excite the indignation of the Country, and that is the clear supposition t[iat the project was intended to propitiate thorfj Southern States

which have precipitately resolved to go out of the Union if Lecompton is not put through. Their honor is to be saved at every hazard, because it is now clear that any such attempt would bury in utter oblivion all who dared to undertake it. At all hazards, sink or swim, come what may, put the Press down against this English invention.” Plain talk that for the man who did more than any other one man to elevate James Buchanan to the Presidency.

LAFAYETTE CORRESPONDENCE.

Lafayette, May 2, 1858. Mr. Editor: The Star City still continues to “scintillate” notwithstanding the continual croakiug of the old fogies to the conitrary. True it is not making giant strides to greatness like some of its Western sisters, but it is progressing slowly and surely. Preparations are being made to build some fine business houses here this summer, and neat little cottages, and more ostentatious dwellings are beginning to rear their heads in all parts of the city. Notwithstanding the hard times there is more confidence among business men, and more evidence of improvement here now than a year ago. All look forward, confidently, to “a good time coming” at no very distant day; and.consequently feel less fear with regard to the investing of money—as an evidence of this, buyers are freely offering twenty-five cents for corn in the crib. By the way, speaking of business, reminds us of noticing in the Gazette the cards of the business firms, Purdue Brown & Co., and; Jas. B. Falley. We had—while in the city—the pleasure of looking through the immense dry goods establishment of the first, and iron store of the second, and a more complete assortment of either it has not been our good fortune to be shown over by any house west of the mountains. They are doing a large business with central Illinois, and Northern Indiana, and we can assure our merchants that they could not do better than to give them a call.

The Books have been opened—and the stock is being taken rapidly—for a railroad to connect with the L. &. I. R. R. and run west to LaSalle. Should it be built it will cross the river at the foot of Main street. The knowing ones think it is a sure thing; but one thing is sure—the financier that can concoct, and build a railroad these hard times deserve a brazen monument. If completed it will run through Oxford. The political horizon is calm ns yet, as there are no opposing elements to brew a storm. It is here, somewhat like it is in Tnrpnr. juot nifi tha T onrimptonitoc to form a guard for the President’s corporal. Apropos of politics, we notice that our old friend, W. K. Rochester, is out for the State Senate—long may he wave. The ladies’, (God bless them) of the Star City have ceased to be mere imitative animals—following the iootsteps of Eugenie—■nd have commenced originating fashions; that are better adapted to the want! of the Western ladies than are those which grace the Boulevards and Champ Elysees. The last fashion displays an amount of original genius than the matter-of-fact, practical Western people have ever received credit for. It is simply to shave the front part of the head, causing the forehead to seem much higher than it really is, and giving the appearance of having more sense thanT.be law (of nature) has allowed them. Of course, should the fashion take, female barber-shops will have to be started, which will give employment to a great many young lediec that are now idle,'and, as men have almost ceased to shave, a striped pole will soon indicate a place where ladies’ heads are shaved instead of mens’faces. All honor to the “female wimrnen!” they are a great institution, and have redeemed the West from the charge of possessing no original genius.

But railroads, p ditics, fashions and every other subject of minor importance sinks into insignificance when the Artesian Well is spoken of; ’T4s hard to get a man to converse five consecutive minutes upon any other subject—"tis the veritable “Fountain of Youth”—for which the Spaniard searched so dilligently, but so unsuccessfully—it cures everything—from the most confirmed case of consumption, down througn all, the grades ol disease to which human nature is heir, to the most obdurate, and want-to-be-scratchable case of itch or Wabash-scratch-es. It is reported—though we do not vouch for the authenticity of the story —that a gentleman and lady in the State of Boone—aged 72 and 75 respectively—used of the water until they were only 17 and.2o, when they quit using it—justly fearing that they would soon return to babyhood and swaddling clothes. But to lay aside jesting and speak of it in the terms of praise it deserves, *it-js fcertaiqly far superior to any mineral spring fn the United States. Dr. Wetherell, of this city, has just completed an analysis of the water, and says that it contains more medicinal properties than the famous Blue Lick Springs. Did you ever tuple the water! * Of course you didn’t. Did you ever taste a combination of tar-.water, blue ink, asafetfda and rotten eggs! of course you didn’t, nnd consequently can form no adequate idea—no just conception of the nauseating feelings of the want-to-puke-ative-pess that comes over a fellow after taking the first drink; though I have been informed that after drinking it a short time one prefers it to pure Water. It is proving a powerful auxiliary in the tompeance cause,

■nd a greater enemy to the grog-shopa than all the Maine Laws ever passed. It reforms drunkards by purifying the system, satisfying that unsatisfiable spirit that is constantly crying for more drink to quench th® ungovernable fire that rages and burns in the breast of every drunkard, burning up —consuming every noble aspiration—everything that is good, and pure, and enobling; and causing the man to lose the divine likeness which his Creator engraved ’ upon his heart, and become a mere brute. ’God grant that it may go on until its influences are felt all over the State. Some cases of sore eyes, that had baffled the skill of lhe best oculists, have been cf- ! fectually cured; and, as it effects cure by purifying the whole system —thus removing the cause of disease— safely premise that its cures will be permanent. Various projects are on the for the better application of.the water for medicinal purposes. One gentleman hjjs offered eight hundred dollars per year ffewhat water will waste after all the thirsty are satisfied; but this attempt at speculating,off’ one of Nature’s free and benificent g£|ts, is pretty genreally frowned upon—the general feeling seeming to be in favor of the City Council publishing Dr. analysis, in pamphlet form, for distribution, and then let it run as freely as God gives it. There is at the well three dippers and two places of drinking, and yet there constantly waiting their turns, while the “jug line” reminds one of the good oldday when there were “Bucket Fire Compass.” Jtnne Homme.

The Two Johnson Co. Fremonters.

We expressed the other diy an anxiety to have a personal acquaintance) with the 'wo men in Johnson county wKo voted for Fremont as against the* l.HMfor Bucharan. We have some further information of them from a reliable source. O;ic of them was a German. Long may he live, and when he dies, as the best men must, die above proof of his love of freedom should be mentioned in the epitaph. The other Was a schoolmaster. The day after the election the whole school district met ip a body and turned him out, declaring, unanimouly that no such dangerous man should teach their children.— Galena Advertiser. Both the Johnson county Fremont voters were school-masters. Th'eif'names are 11. M. Ridenhower and M. Spence. The latter has removed from the count/, but Mr. Ridenhower still remains, and is Still engaged in teaching. He is from one,of the Southern States, where, he says, life “learned to hate the institution in its midst" — and he “emigrated to Illinois for ihe express purpose of enjoying freedom.” He is an ardent ■nd active Republican. Hie fig not. alone in the county now. Several Republicans from the north have moved in. Yankee schoolmasters” and others, and shine of the natives are “on the fence.” The Democrats down there are all Douglas men, and are just now “shrieking for freedom” and in the most approved style. We have been handed a Wter from Mr. Ridenhower to a Springfield friend of ours, from which we have gathered some of these facts in regard to Mr. Ridenhower and his colleague.— Bloomingtoi Pantograph.

State Senator.

We notice in the last Grawn Point Register that our admirable friend, Dr. Cameron, of the Valparaiso Republican is talked of as a candidate for State Senhtjof, to represent the Senatorial district composed of Lake, Porter, and Jasper count ies v We don’t know how strong the feelings may dxist in favor of the Dr., but this one thipg we do know, that district can’t do a better thing for itself than to put the Drrthrough.' He is a man of decided abilities—a thorough sjid consistent Republican, without any “variation or turning" whatever. He is emphatically the man •or the times and cannot help but make a very popjlar canvass. On the stump, few; if any in Northern Indiani will be acknowledged his superior. We tFfettliat lhe good Republicans there will be to their own interest and place Dr. Cameron in nomination, and he Will “go it” right through the campaign with ease, and satisfaction to his friends.— Westville Herald.

Explosion or Shells in Sebastopol.—A correspondent of the Boston Transcript, writing from Sebastopol, says that the bombshells strewn a bout the city, are still doing their work of destruction. "Within the last year no less than eight deaths have occurred from this cause. The shells are provided with a lock in-the shape of an equilateral cross, with a capsule at each point, and four-little hammers held by a human hair. A sudden jar bruaks-tUu-Ajair, causing the hammer to strike she <<ap, which explodes. A short time previous-td* the date of the letter, two English seamen picked up a shell near the Redan, but finding it rather heavy let it drop, when it exploded, killing one of them and wounding the othefo

The Great Earthquake at Naples.— The Official Journal of the Tiro Scicilies publishes a complete list of alt the; victims of the earthquake at Naples of December 16, 1857. The total number of dead amounts to 9,350, and the wounded to 1,359. It appears that the number of dead has greatly exceeded that of the persons more or less seriously injured.

, Large Fees. The Hamilton county Treasurer’s fees for the taxes oh 1857, his percentage on the amount received for forfeited lands sold, for redemption, and the collection of special school taxes, amount to the pnug sum of $15,002,15. Cincinnati- Commercial.

o^7“From a recent census, ii appears, thut Leavenworth City, although put little over three years old, contains an actual resident population of over eight thousand souls.

o^7*James W. Mitchell, a bey of eighteen, has been appointed United States Mail Route Agent, on the St. Louis, Alton and Chicago Railroad. ?'

The Democratic Record.

Plain Truths in Short Speeches. [From the Kansas Nebraska Bill,] “It being the intent and meaning of this bill not to legislate slavery into any Territory.or State nor exclude it therefrom, but to leave the paople thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject to the Constitution of the United States.” [Resolution of the Cin. Dem. Convention.] “Resolved, That we recognize the right of the people of all the Territories, including Kansas ai d Nebraska, acting through the legally and fairly expressed will of a majority of actual residents, and whenever the number of their inhabitants justifies it, to form a Constitution, with or without domestic slavery, and be admitted into lhe Union Upon terms of perfect equality with the other States.”

[From President Buchanan’s Inaugural.] “What a conception, then, was it for Congress to apply this simple rule— that the will of the majority shall govern— to the settlement of the question of domestic slavery in the Territories! “But be this as it may, it is the imperative and indispensable duty of the government of the United States to secure to everj’ resident inhabitant tne free ahd independent expression of his opinion by his vote. This sacred right of each individual must be preserved!”

[From Governor Walker’s Jjetter to the President accepting hi* Appointment.] “I understand that you and your cabinet Concur in the opinion expressed by me, that the actual bona fide residents of the Territory of Kansas, by a fair and regular vote, unaffected by fraud oT violence, must be permitted, in adopting their State Constityjuon, to decide for themselves what shall be their social institutions. This is the great fundamental principle of the act of Congress organizing that Territory, affirmed by the Su preme Court of the United States, and is in accordance with the views uniformly expressed by me throughout my public career. I contemplate a peaceful solution of this question by an appeal to the intelligence and patrotism of the people of Kansas, who should all participate freely and fully it this decision, and by a majority of whose votes the decision rpust be made, as the only and Constitutional mode of adjustment. “I will go* and endeavor to adjust these difficulties, in the full confidence,as strongly expressed by you, that I will be sustained by all your own high authority, with the cordial co-operation of your cabinet.”

[lnstructions to Governor Walker.] “There are two great objects connected with the present excitement, growing out of the affairs of Kansas, and the attainment of which will bring it to a speedy teiminatibn. These were clearly and succinctly stilted in the President’s inaugural address, and I embody the paragraphs in the communication, asking your special attention to them. It is declared in that instrument. to bo the imperative and indispensable duty of the government of the United States to secure to every resident inhabitant the free and independent expression of his opinion by his vote. This sacred right of each individual must be preserved; and that being accoinpllished, nothing can be fairer than to leave the people of a Territory free from all foreign interference, to decide their own destiny for themselves, subject only to the U nite'-, Sta t e s. “Updii these great rights of individual action-and'of public decision rests the foundation of American institutions; and if they are faithfully secured to the people of Kanpolitical condition of the country will soon become quiet and. satisfactory. The institutions of Kansas should be established by the vote of the people of Kansas, unawed and uninterrupted by force or fraud. And foreign votes must be excluded, come whence they may, and every attempt to overawe or interrupt the free exorcise of the right of voting must be promptly repelled and punished. Freedom and safety for the legal voter, and exclu»ion and punishment for the illegal one—these should be the great principles of your administration.”

[From Walker’s Inaugural Address, approved by the whole Cabinet.] “Unless the Convention submit the C » nstition to a vote of all the actual resident settlers of Kansas, and the election be fairly .and justly, conducted, the Constitution will be and ought to be rejected by Congress.”

[From Gov. Walker’s Topeka Speech.] “I tvill say then to you, gentlemen, that if they do not appoint a fair and impartial mode by which the majority of the actual bona fide resident settlers of Kansas shall vote, through the instrumentalities of impartial judges, I will join you in all lawful opposition to their doings, und the President and Congress will reject the Constitution,. “I say to you, that unless a full opportunity is given to the people of Kansas to decide for themselves what shall be their form of government, including the sectional question which has so long divided you—undoss, I repeat, they grant you such an opportunity, I have one power of which no man or set of men can deprive me, and to which I shall unhesitatingly resort, and that is, to jpin you in lawful opposition to their acts.”

[From the Washington Union, July 7,’57.] “There can be no such a thing as ascertaining clearly and without doubt the will of the people of Kansas in any way, except by their own expression of it at the polls. A Constitution not subjected to that test, no matter what it contains, will never be acknowledged by its opponents to be anything but a fraud.”

[From the St. Louis Rep., June 16, ’57.] “It would be the greatest politica 1 absurd-, ity ever ehacted for Congress to be called upon to receive into the Union a State with a Constitution which, beforehand, it is proclaimed both North and South, the people of that State do not approve.”

. Houses of Congress have resolved to adjourn oh the 7th of Junei

English’s Kansas bill.kvai Kill.

The report read as follows: Whereas, The people of Kansas did, by a Convention of Delegates assembled at Lecompton on the 7th day of NoVetnbef, 1857/ for that purpose, form for themselves a constitution and State Government, which Cort' stitution is republican; and Whereas, At the same time .»nd place, said convention did adopt an ordinance which asserts .that Kansas, when admitted as a State, will have an undoubted right to tax the land* within her limits, belonging to the United States, and proposed to relinquish said asserted right, if certain conditions set forth in said ordinance be accepted and agreed by the Congress of the United States; and Whereas, Said constitution and ordinance have been presented to Congress by order of said convention, and the admission of said Territory into the Union as a State thereon requested; and

Whereas, Said ordinance is not acceptable tp Congress, and it is desirable to ascertain whether the people of Kansas concur in the changes in said ordinance hereinafter stated, and desire admission into the Union a» a State as herein proposed; therefore Be it enacted, dj-c., 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: That lhe question of admission with the following proposition in lieu of the ordinance framed at Lecompton, shall be submitted U> the neople of Kansas, and assented to by them, or the majority of the voters voting at the 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 acception, &c. And be it further enacted, That the following propositions be and 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:

First, That sections numbered sixteen and inJjvery township of public land* in spfd State, and where either of said sections or anW part thereof has been sold or otherwise disposed of, other lands equivalent thereto, ahd as contiguous as may be, shall be granted to said State for the use of schools. Second, That seventy-two section# of land shall be set 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 Office, and to be appropriated and applied in such a manner as the Legislature of the said State nuu,' prescribe for the purpose afo: esaid, but for no other purpose.

Third, That ten entire sections of land, to be selected by the Governor of;said Statb, in legal subdivisions, shall be grafted to said State for thq 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, not exceeding twelve in number, with six sections of land adjoining or as contiguous' ns maybe to each, shall be granted to said State f< r its use, the same to be selected fiy the Governor thereof, one year after the admission of said State, and when so selected, to be used or disposed of on such terms, conditions and regulations as the Legislature shall direct; Provided, That no salt spring or land, the right whereof is now vested in any individual or individuals, or which may bo hereafter confirmed cr adjudged to any ’indbT vidual or individuals, shall by this article be granted to said State.

Fifth, That five per centum of the proceeds of the sales of all public lands lying within the said State, which shall be sold byCongress after the admission of the said State into the Union, after deducting all the expenses incident to the same, shall be paid to the said State for the purpose of making public roads and internal improvements, as the Legislature may direct: Provided, That the foregoing propositions herein offered to the State ot Kansas* shall never interfere with the primary disposal of the land of the. United States, or with any r gulalions Congress may find necessary lor 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 binds and property of the United States. Sec. 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, andthis admission of her into the Union is here declared to be upon this fundamental condition precedent, namely: That the said constitutional instrument shall be first submitted to a vote of the people of Kansas and assented to by them or a majority of the voters, at an election to be held for tnat purpose. At the said election the voting shall be by ballot and by indorsing cn 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 known to him, shall announce the same by proclamation, and thereafter and without any further proceedings on the prijt of Congress, the admission of the State of Kansas into the

Union on an equal fooling with the original States, in all respects whatever, shall be complete and absolute; and said State shall be entitled to one member in the House of Representatives in the Congress of the United States, until the next census shall be taken by the Federal Government. But should a majority of the votes be cast for “proposition rejected,” it shall be deemed and held that the people do not desire admission into the Union with said Constitu-

tion, 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 ot the State of Kansas, according to the Federal Constitution, and may elect delegates for that purpose whenever and not before it is ascertained! by a census duly and legally taken, thnt the population of said Territory equal* the ratio of representation required for a member of the House of Representatives of the United States; and whenever thereafter such delegates shall assemble’in cenvention, they shall first determine