Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1859 — A False Step. [ARTICLE]

A False Step.

It appears by the synopsis of the Wyan- ; dotte Constitution for Kansas, just pubj fished, that the following provision is inI corporated into the proposed organic law of j the new State: ‘ A homest :ul to the extent of one hundred and sixty acres of farming land, or one acre within the limits of an incorporated town or city, to be exempted from forced sale under any process of law.” “The adoption ofgsuch a provision will injure Kansas more'than a little.— Chicago Times." The 7 imes hi singling out thfs clause in flu* Kansas Constitution, upon which to build an opposition to the adoption of that : instrument, hut olluwsa common instinct | of Democracy. It is hi the same spirit in which the Demjocracy have w on d upon Kansas a II through her history. War upon the free labor of that ill-starred territory lias been tin* chief end aimed at by the Democratic party. Failing to establish slavery there, and th*i cripple or destroy th‘* tree white labor oi Kansas, the homestead oi the laborer is selected as the next object of attack. , The wise and beneficent Homestead Bill of tiie last session ol Congress fell at the hands of the Democracy, and now it is seeking further triumph, by refusing to protect the laborer in the possession of his home after his toil and sweat have made him its lawful owner! __ For our part, next to the provision in ttie Kansas Constitution declaring that her soil shall be forever free, do we consider that, which protects the homes ol In r freemen. And we would have it, not only applied to Kansas, hut would lie glad to see Congress pass a Hemest >ad Bill lor till the Territories ol the Union. Free labor lias bo mi secured for Kansas despite opposition, and the protection of her tree homes will follow, even if her former enemies arise at the roll-call of the Times , and league together to prevent it.- Chi Jour. tCy-Hal; a cranberry put on a corn will kill it in n si ugh* night.