M'arthur Democrat

The Kansas Question.

Is there to be no end to this Kansas squabble? How long must the public mind continue to be agitated with reports of fighting, assassinations, murders, and the commission of all the crimes the black catalogue contains? The people are tired, sick, disgusted with this everlasting talk about Kansas and long for any practicable plan for the settlement of this senseless agitation. Soon there will be a way open for the final disposition of the matter. When the Lecompton Constitution is presented before Congress why not as has been proposed, at once, without any more discussion, attach a proviso to the instrument which will send it back to the people of the Territory for a full and fair trial, and under such regulations as may be deemed expedient to secure a full expression of the popular voice?— There should be no difficulty in arranging the details of such a plan of settlement. If it is rendered certain or even probable, the Constitution will be rejected when so submitted. Let Douglas' enabling bill, as it is called, or some other measure receive the sanction of Congress immediately or the return of the Constitution to the people. So far as the fighting factions of Kansas are concerned we care little which worries the other most, but the people there, the permanent, bona fide inhabitants of the territory, have an immense interest in the establishment of a stable government, and their rights ought not to be overlooked or disregarded. If the question was out of the hands of the politicians and could be referred for arbitrament, to a half a dozen good honest men a settlement satisfactory to all would be had at once.—McConnelsville Eng.