Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1858 — The struggle Not Ended. [ARTICLE]

The struggle Not Ended.

The contest between freedom and slavery has not'been terminated by the rejection of the EnglislFbri.be by the people of Kansas. ■[-A dtfferjeiit im'prcss.iqn prevails very gcneral--1 ly throughout the oountry, we ktßivv; but that 1 inir.resdion is the result father of faith in > the declarations of the supporters of that measure, than ol’ a careful examination of ; the measure itself. : When the bill was be- • tore (. ojegress, it was asserted-by its advoj cates’ ti 1 i .tiie time that it was only a V.iftndj about wy.y of giving the people of Kansas an (opportunity to reject th-e Leconiptoit Constitution i:t they wanteal to, ami that the r-lec-tion of the lam! bribe would, be really .the aum illation o! the epnstit.atlonu.arnl the effect ot the popular vote recently taken has beep measured by these .declarations, while tii i Let i itself his n<4 been consulted !to see if the 'declaration# were true. Ii it had been, i it_wouhl have been seen that the vote upon the hind ordinance.' whim it might ’wept, the Leco-iti p|t; :i ( ’onstittil i- n. could not destroy it. t-Lxe -is the section ih tiie bill relating to that point. Read it: K " * phijuid a majority df the vot ! s c:i u 1 he for -pro-po-t jon rejected,' it.; shall lie' “*e med and lield tiiat iho peiaple of Kansas do n it tie .sire asitnms, /ri iu, o t.'i • Union with .-..k' cbnistilutc-ti under till condition- s/J for Ik in said/foposition. and in that .• •;;t tfte peopie lit suit! Territory are hereby authorized an ; tupovveia u to lorm lor luem'selves a aims'if e! i m urn! Staf e g« . rntn'Uif, by the iiante of. Kansas, according : > the federal Loiis.tiUitioii, '-may elect -giies for that ;. purpose w hen;-'ver, a.'uLnot be lore*, .it is nscer.Uiiiieii, Ly a censes duly an ! legally t-Ik- , eh, tii at t.h'e po'pula* ton ot’ sc id Territory, , equals o|- exceeds the.ratio of representation required tor t> member of the House of Representatives o! theUn ted Elutes; and when-, ev -r thereattcir such defi'gutcs shall assem- - bte in co;m t'n! ion, they shall first.determine by a vote wT‘th.:r it is the wish of the propn sed State to admitted into the Union at that 1 me; and. u so, shall proceed tej lorm a cons' itut fttn.-h, iTnd that all necessa- ; ry step.-- for the establish.sieut of a State ! government iu coim,-rmity with the Federal Constitution, -u'.j ‘Tt to~sut :i liruitfitions and ; restrictions as to the mode and manner of | it* approval or Vatiueatinn by the people of the proposed State as tliov n.r.y have pre--1 scribed by law;, an 1 snail be entitled' to ad- ! mission into the . Union as a State under j such constitution.” Ibis section establishes two important i points. First, it the proposition be rejected the Territory cannot be admitted! into the Union until a population of 93,000 be found :by a regular census in the territory. This ; refutes tiie bold falsehood of Mr. English and ; the New-Albany ledger, that the hill makes no distinction between a slave ; and frea con-titutidn. iSerond, it shows that the vote against the “proposition” shall be field onlv an expression :;g,rin--t the L-ecompton Con- ' stituiion as ajfect- il by Up? conditions attached ir> it, and Rut against the iiislr.nnroht itself, without regard to vmditions. Thy bill says that a majoaity “propositon rejected” “siiall he deemed; to declare that tlm people do not desire adinjisstoli wifii tiie said constitution under the conditions sot-Torlh''—that is,'thev have onjy said -that they have voted down the bribe, that | Mingy don't want the.Lecompton Constitution under those 'conditions;” but it does not'construe the vote to!say that '••ley won t have it on any conditions. The hi!!, therefore, lias done nothing more than tins-—l.O give the people 'a chance to come into the Union nu,w with the Lecompton Constitution and the conditions attached to it, or to wait two-, three, or five years, as it may happen, tit! they get enough population mr a free State; - and in the meanwhile, the people, having declared that they don’t want to.acoineluj with tiie - Lecompton Constitution “under tne conditions'’ presented to them, have nothing to do but wait aud see if the Administration won't give them that constitution with •nvio conditions, or with none at all. I he hill leaves it perioctly -in the power of t ongress to say to the people of Kansas—- “ Well, you have rejected the constitution -"'ith' the Conditions tva offered; well see now if you won't take it with other condition's..or with non-.'.” (’ongress can, acting in accordance ■with;-the int.-.mous swindle, du ter ti line llitt. as K•i: i >.'is (iocs nut want the const:union u.mior tiie eomii'i iuns firusonted, she. may take it without any, and force it

upon her in spite, of Hu- seven votes she lias given against it. R -ad the section carefully, an ! see.if this he hot; true. Ir leaves to the Government the power to impose new | conditions, and require the people to vote upon Hi--m, or require them to submit to the j constitution with mt any further voting. In : fact, it is so artfully constructed that it makes a vote of the people against the j ■•proposition”'exactly equiveh-nt t i leaving I thp question just, as it was u hen it was tirst presented to t ougress, Jhr conditions pro- ; posed being rejected, the "question now is, under tiie swindle, '-Shot! tin' I. ,-ompton Cdnstimtion he put in lorce with other c >u- | liitions, or u it! "® and that is just the quesr- : ty.ui that Jlr. Huchanan presented to Conj gress at thA outset. Kansas is left, hv her i vote agin t the English bill,exactly where she was while the I, 'com >t m C(institution was pending Indore Congress. YY ho can doubt that tins was purposely me, knowing that Ivans is would reject the fraudulent constitution, no m itu r what inducements were ottered 'her to accept it? and who doubts t hat, u hen t 'engross meets t he Southeni men will must mi all that, th* hill gives them, and require th - i’rfsi'deut,.whom they govern, and the party, to accept. t!ie Lecoinp”tou (.'oust it ni ipn. anyhow ! '[’he bill gives them the right, and no man doubts that they will claim all that is given them. Mr. Ray will, ha fotepd yet t i vote lor the Lecompton Const i tut ion, “pure and simple,’’ and the people who) vote tor him must do it withHint certainty full fn their eyesj-— State Jour.