Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-11-15
TUESDAY MORNING, NOV. 10, 1855.
Kansas.

neld at Topeka. on the 23d ult., for the pur-
pose Of adopting free Constitution on which
he Territory might apply for admission into
the Union as State.
Although we have not had as much 20 say
On this subject as some Of our Abolition CO.
temporaries, who could neither live, nor move,
have their being, were it not for the dis
russon Of the Slavery question, yet no
one who reads the Sentinel and tells the truth
will say that We have not been as ready al
ways to censure the aggressive acts Of the
'1orier rugilrs" aud Of their leader and Arch
traitor, ATcHIsoN, ms has been any other pa
per in the country.
To crafty the fastidious, even now, we will
not change our course, but will 60 on a We
have gone, saying roLat We please, and doing
as we please, no matter whose toes are Grip
pied or whose corns are cultivated. And, in
this connection, We may as well add, that we
admire the course pursued by Col. JANIS II.
LAEE IN Kansas As an honest man should
have done, be voted lor TIA Nebraska meas
IRE while in Congress; most free citizens
Of Kansas Territory will DO, be now alvo-
Gates the adoption Of Constitution denying
Slavery an existence within is borders. As
a member Of Congress, Col LANE had no
right to say Slavery should not 60 into Kan
sas; as citizen Of that Territory, he has a
perfect right to say that the institution shall
not be introduced, and, II the majority Of bis
fellows arc with him IN sentiment, then
that sentiment viii ultimately prevail As
law. The ~Lorzler f-6ians7 may usuTp the
rights Of the settlers for time, bat yOu
might as well tell US that truth Is noG mighty
and acil not prevail, as to say that the viii Of
the people, in the end, will not triumph
The Nebraska bill was passed in vindication
Of the principle that the voice Of the people
of the Territories must decide the character
of their domestic institutions. As the Dem
ocracy declared at the time, the prepondera-
ting legitimate emigration to any of our Ter
ritories would be from the free States, COM
polling, rs a consequence, wherever that EN-
igration may locate, the establishment of free
institutions. The Journals quotation from
the Springfield Republican, which states hat
'there is no pro-slavcry party in Kansas
that ''the pro slavery party cannot poll ACC
votes in that Territory" only goes to prove
all our past assertions and substantiate oul
arguments.
Col. LANE and his compeers are acting OF
the principle of the Nebraska Bill. Al
the Journals notice of their Convention doe
not displease us, we copy it as an item o.
nelgs
The Freeman, of the 10Th, contains the
proceedings of the Constitutional Convention
held by Free State Delegates, at Topeka
Its sessions began on the 23d. The Conyen.
ton that met at Topeka on the 18th of Sep.
TENDER, resolved to make a Free Constitu.
ton and secure its acceptance 10y Congress
| and to this end ordered the Convention in
question. ia. Wakefield, the first candi-
7 date on the Free side against Whitfield, be-
ing the oldest member present, called the
/ Convention to order, and the following gen.
I tlemen answered to their names:
G. w. Smith, j. Ii. Lane, j. h. Goodin
c. Robinson, S. S. Emery, NJ. Hunt, j. A.
Wakefield, A. Curtis, j. NJ. luton, III. Bur
i son, w. Y. Roberts, p. c.. Schuyler, J. NJ
Arthur, Richard Knight, G. A. Cutler, John
Lands, c. w. Stewart, II. III. Crosby, Caleb
May, Sanford McDaniels, James l.. Sayle
There being no quorum, the Convention
] adjourned till next day, when it met again
Col. j. H. Lane formerly Nebraska Con-
gressmen from Lawrenceburgh, in this State
was elected President. Upon taking the
chair, he made a pretty fair sort of a speech
from which we extract so much as relates tc
the slavery question. After adverting to the
mode in which the Atchison and Pierce bull
lies had set the law aside, in the territorial
elections, he says:
"Your first business will be to guard the
T ballot box in such manner rs to prevent
repetition of this the greatest crime that car
be perpetrated in representative government
like ours 1t is suggested that you appoint
the Judges Cor the elections to be held pre-
vious to the meeting of the first Legislature
pure and good men; and authorize them &c
i remove the polls i'm case they are invaded
: from without.
When the Kansas Nebraska bill was be-
fore Congress, no one Of its supporters claim
ed that Kansas could become slave State
all, from the highest to the lowest discarded
the idea that slavery could ever be extended
within her borders. Our Southern friend.
were among the most prominent in pressing
this position before the country.
The idea of forcing slavery into Kansas
was an afterthought, for sinister purposes
personal ACKNOWLEDGEMENT 1t is now the vel
received opinion. that if Senatorial cleo.
ton had not been pending in an adjoining
State, the ridiculous and abortive effort tC
force slavery upon the people Of Kansa.
would not have been made.