Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1858 — The English Bill Illustrated. [ARTICLE]

The English Bill Illustrated.

Mr. J. W. Gordon, in a leeent speech at Danville in tiiis State, illustrated the operation of the’ English bill, and the “free choice” conferred by it, in the following humorous and capital style: “An old lady,” said Air. Gordon, “hud thir-ty-two daughters and a sable gentleman she called Cuffy. Cully and thirty-one ofthe daughters were in the house; and one of the daughters, the younger, a fair virgin, was out in the wilderness. A storm arose, and the young damsel directed her footsteps toward her mother’s house lor protection. Tiic thunder rolled above her head, and the sharp lightnings flashed across the heavens as she reached the door and demanded ad- i mittance. An old eunic’h, James, met her at the threshold and told her she should ex- ' ercise her own pleasure about coining in—she was perfectly free to do as she pleased 'but,’ says he, ‘if you come in now, you must deep with Cully; if you will not, you must remain out till you have grown older and stronger.’ The fair daughter spurned the degrading condition, and returned to the wilderness’again; and forthwth the old lady and her other daughters threw up their hands and shouted, ‘Hurrah for popular sov-ereignty—-the daughter has been allowed to I do us she pleased, and refused to come in!’ ■ “and yet,” said Mr G., “the old lady turned ' round ami bawled, ‘You’re in favor ot negro . equality—you want to associate with negroes, and make them your equals.’ ■ “And thus acts the Government toward | Kansas. The Administration was willing to allow Kansas to come in it she would agree to ‘sleep with Cully;’ if not, she must stay out till her population increases to 93,000.” . that the Administration is seeking to crush Douglas for no other reason than his opposition to the iiilamous Lecompton Constitution: and in this Administration Colonel Walker decl.yfies he has “unbounded”