Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1858 — EECOMPTON PASSED. [ARTICLE]

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.