Bedford Inquirer

MORE FABRICATIONS.

"At the present session of Congress, bills have been passed directly admitting two new free States-Minnesota and Oregon-and providing for the addition of the third (Kansas) to the northern side of the Ledger. Here then are three new free States, and without the offset of a single new slave State."

We copy the above from the Gazette of last week, where it purports to have been taken from that pink of democracy, the New York Herald. Look at the miserable subterfuges and fabrications to which sham democracy is driven. Before the election it was "Buchanan and Free Kansas." and now, since the President and Congress have exhausted all their efforts, and wasted nearly a whole session to force slavery on Kansas, their followers insult the people they have betrayed by flouting in their faces such wholesale lies as the above.- "Three new free States" admitted into the Union at the last session of Congress, were they? Let us see. Of the whole three named, Minnesota alone was admitted as a free State. The bill to admit Oregon as a free State passed one House of Congress, but not the other. She had prepared a free State constitution, and fitted herself in every way for admission, as the one branch admitted by passing the bill, and there was and could be no substantial reason urged against her admission. Why then was she not admitted? For two reasons; first, because she wanted to be a free State, and, secondly, to use the language of the Gazette, "there was a Democratic majority in both Houses of Congress" Another reason may be that they had not time. This democratic Congress, which could spend four months out of the five in attempting to fasten slavery on Kansas in defiance of her popular vote, had not time even to consider the claims of a free State against which there was and could be no objection, except that she was a free State.-- Oregon, therefore, is not a State yet, and it remains for some other than a democratic Congress to admit her. And then Kansas. She is another of the three free States, is she?-- Why, it is notorious that she is not admitted at all, and will not be, and cannot be, unless upon compliance with certain terms. The main conditions are that if she will vote to accept some three millions of acres of public lands she may then come into the Union as a State under the Lecompton pro-slavery Constitution. That is if she will agree to come in as a slave state she may come, and she may have the three millions of acres of land for railroads, schools &c, for so doing, but if she refuses to come in under the Lecompton Constitution with her thirty thousand inhabitants, then she can not come in or have any land, but must remain out of the Union by the express provisions of the bill until she has at least ninety three thousand inhabitants. It seems to be good sound democratic doctrine now that thirty thousand population is sufficient for a slave state, whilst it requires ninety-three thousand for a free state. Under the late law of Congress therefore Kansas must come into the Union as a slave state, or stay out until other provision is made for her. Such is the legislation of that Congress which was "Democratic in both branches." But the "three new free states" are nowhere, save in the fabrications of those who for partisan purposes, and in utter disregard of the truth endeavor to prop up the falling fortunes of President Buchanan and his fellow conspirators against the rights of freedom.