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-, ,ha members If tho CONSTITUTIONAL NV"'o"'
- .n..s. which, L true, proves ,"'" u"Wo''"!
'',.,, a. honorable men, and "So"g"' 10 use
1"' ,.r,c.cn,sti,c NJ that people, ana the Irs''
Al ,hsi Convention, as "n ''"o''', VI '"'
w'. ,rs,si rmrhsticslE deny ever having gwen
800, N,ueas. ~ e any other person even
- M authority fcr making any such statement
-, conversation had with that Senstor since
rival in this city, was in presence OF Judge
~, ef The Supreme Bench Of Kansas, now IN Ohio,
"a A, A,u,. kr DC, sion. submi, this question OF ve'
r.,,,y wah confidence In the rcsnlt.
n /. imr<shlc f., my tongue TO remain silent with
-, N,ss fNe 60 my constituents and TO the cause OF
~ ir,l No, believe that the Constitution of the
,,,d states ~ the rules Of the Senate require such
-. n,,m an American citizen. 1t will be remem
1,rcA NAT have been rgularly elected to seat in
- .,r, biy OF which the senator from Illinois is
vcsahcr. by constituency as intelligent as that which
n, rrrs,cnts my election and The Endorsement of my
a. Nv nv constituents bong much moro recent than
tAcec SlthSi Senator
I, defense cG the delegates 10 the Constitutional
Csyca,S,a snd the people of Kansas, and IN vindca
a 81 the truth Of history, do brand the charge, as
,,rc~s,d In the extract above quoted, as untrde,
riiAou, shadow ot foundation, and will demonstrate
Z.
llt piNNNNlihA> .lNRNuth "a NV NNh'NHNV"" W
rAcA rvGer. aud the proclamations, pledge myself
10 prircc and publish at early day; they are now
Il KsnsAs. and have sent for them.
Al the Convention held at Big Spring, at which
Gov, Rcc,ic4 was nominated as a Delegate to Con-
rrSSs, the friends and the opponents of the Black
Law inst made their views manifest. Before the
'Ccuni,,ee on Platform lengthy and heated de-
hate an,sc One portion of the Committee, composed
Of Jnacr Collins. jafte,ward butchered by our Pro-
Slavery rro,ec,ors,l Dr. Still, w Y. Roberts and my
sell insisting upon inserting Black Law provision
in the platform. Another portion Judge Conway and
others opposing it.
The discussion was prolonged for seven hours. AT a
time when a separation without agreement seemed in
evi,sbe, compromise was proposed by Judge Collins
and Dr. Still. expressing opinion in favor OF the
exclusion Of free blacks but not insisting upon il as
test Of political orthodoxy in the Free-State party.
The compgcmise was adopted by the Committee and
coocurred in by the Convention by acolamation-hey
receiving it with nine hearty cheers. The question
continued to agitate the public mind and was dis
cussed before the people throughout the territory
the "Black law advocates insisting upon inserting
the provision in the Constitution; its opponents, re-
spectabe as to ability and character insisting that no
sctoh should be taken upon 1.-THE opponents OF the
FreeSste party prophesyng that this question would
preveRt uniting.
To secure that solidarity which has characterized to
sn eminent degree the Free State party of Kansas,
which trust will ever be maintained, at the Con-
ventOn held at Lawrence to nominate candidates for
Delegates to the Topeka Convention TO frame the Con-
sttutop. submitted the following resolution in sub
stance:
Rs.rcS That the Delegates this day nominated be and
thew se hereby their exerons to
vent Black Law clause being inserted In the Constitu
% bat s, s, %s SS 10 sTe that 0
H',ed 10 the people as sePsIa'e 70
The resolution unanimously adopted, ana all
the delegates there nominated were elected, myself
among the number, upon the compromise expressed in
the resolution.
At the Constitutional Convention brought forward
tie same resolution as information to the Convention
of the compromise which had been made in the First
District and submitted the following resolution:
Re,ed That the Committee Miscellaneous Matters be
Instructed report to this plan for subnas 70
the People the question Of excluding Free their decision
10 operste as Instructions 10 the first Legislature"
The frst resolution was received and ordered to De
spread upon the journals and the second was unani-
mously adopted In obedience thereto, the said Com
mttee, by DIR. Cutler, their Chairman, reported, in
substance, as follows: That the Chairman OF the
Executive Committee be instructed to issue his proc
lamatou inviting the people, upon the day the ConstI
tuition is submitted to them, to express their opinion
for or against the exclusion of free blacks from the
State as follows Those in favor casting ballot upon
which is written or printed exclusion, those against,
no exclusion the said vote to act as instruction to
the first Legislature report was adopted. After
the adjournment of the Convention, as Chairman OF
the Executive Committee drafted, published AID cir
culated the Proclamation My recollection nowis, that
three distinct propositions were submitted; hrst, the
Constitution, second the Free Banking Law sections
submitted as an independent propositions if adopted,
to become part of the Constitution itself. 10 the
second, the Black Law question was submitted as
separate proposition, to act merely as instructions 10
members of the FIST Legislature, having In no wise
any connection with or relation to the Constitution
As member of the BLACK Law" portion OF the
Free. State party, aided in making the compromise
referred to- the whole object of which was to keep
out of the Constitution within the reach of the peo-
pie so that when majority should be in favor OF re-
pealing or adopting it, they could do so without
amending the Constitution conflicting Herewith.
The Constitution presented to the Senate by Gen.
Cass 10 which the Senator from Ilnes refers IN the
annexed extract, f the copy forwarded for that pur
pose which have no doubt it isl is correct copy OF
that instrument, as framed by the Convention aud
ratified by the people it is not true but fabrication
manufactured from whole CLOTH that any portion Of It
has been suppressed. D. H. LANE
wo.hirstor City, Apr, H. 1886
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