The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1856-06-28

/ Jones then left the Free State Judge, VIII
saw there was no use in staying any longer
and left the polls for home. sa7 80 -s..
They. then appointed their own judges, an,
east three hundred and forty-two votes NOR
than there were voters on the census list.
| This will suffice, though they are no
the worst that could be mentioned for tn,
elections at the Lawrence, Fort Scott ant
Donaphin' precincts arg even worse than the
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The squatters wholive in tents and wag
ons left next day.
In this manner the Legislators and Coun
cilmen who were to frame code of laws t.
govern the people of Kansas, were elected
In this manner the citizens of the territory
were left PERFECTLY fee to regulate tleir
own domestic institutions in their own way
In this manner the beauties of the repeal OF
the Missouri Compromise, the workings oil
popular sovereignty, squatters' rights, and
the " will of the people" began to be
made manifest.
After the election was over, committee
of about fifty men, appointed by the secret
Blue Lodges in Missouri, waited upon Gov
ernor Reeder, asking him to give certificates
Of election to their members elect. This the
Governor would not do until four days had
expired then if none of the elections were
protested, he could not do otherwise than
give them certificates. They told him they
would haye them at any rate-that if he did
not give them they woa.d hang him up.
The elections were protested in few pre-
cincts, and set aside. Yet that made no
difference when other members were
elected, they were expelled and the original
members restored.
The Legislature met, adjourned to Shaw
nee Mission, and there passed the code Of
laws which suppresses the freedom of speech,
the liberties of the press, and compels them
to pay one dollar for the rights of suffrage !?
Should they obey, and be ensavcd Could
we forget the inalienable rights taught usby
the trainers of the constitution SO soon ? l
pray God there is not man in the North
who will say we should conform to such
code Of laws, made by such men.
Then, what remained to be done by the
three thousand Free State citizens in Kan
sas? Ave! they take the constitution of
tie United States, aad the organic act of the
Territory, and find that the object of the
Kansas Bill, is to leave the people of the
Territories perfectly free to regulate their
own domestic Institutions in their own way,
subject only to the con titution of the United
States. The people Of Kansas had no will
in electing the members of the Legislature
that had framed the code of Laws that would
disgrace any country where the freedom of
speech was tolerated. Yet the people are to
be left perfectly free, &c.
They then issue call, signed by several
men, for meeting of the citizens from every
portion of tn, Territory, to meet at Big
Springs, the fifth of September, to take in
to consideration the expedency of nominat-
ing members of a constitutional Convention,
and Delegate to Congress, to be elected by
the people on day which would be then and
there set apart. About two hundred men,
of the citizens f ON every portion of the Ter
ritory settled, met at that Convention and
discussed the propriety; (!et every reader
consider, for moment, the first meeting OF
the trainers of the constitution of the United
States,) and unanimously agreeing upon
nominating members of constitutional Con-
vention and delegate to Congress- to be
elected by the people the ninth day Of Oc-
tober. Over forty Delegates were CHOSEN
and an Executive Committee appointed to do
any business that might afterward come be-
fore them. The Executive Committee ap-
pointed the Judges of the Election, and
places of holding them; prescribing an oath
for the Judges, and an oath by which a man
may qualify himself a voter if challenged,
etc. No freeman would be so base as to buy
his vote at one dollar, Of men appointed to
Office for four and six years, by Baronial
Legislature, elected by an armed and drunken
mob from foreign State.
Well, on the ninth of October the people
came together, and like freemen cast over
three thousand votes for the members of the
constitutional Convention, and nearly the
same number for Delegate to Congress-
1t was nearly the whole voice of the people !;
it was the will of the people. Popular Sow
ereignty I! Those Delegates assemble in con-
vention at Topeka, AID therewe find twenty
two States represented, North, South, East
and West; and all agree to frame consti-
tuition, and ask Congress to admit us into
the Union as a free State, if they find the
people adopt it. The Constitution was franz
ed, and one clause, exclusion Of free Negroes
or Mulattoes, yes or no, to be decided by
the people, The Executive Committee set
apart the fifteenth 0; December as an Elec-
ton day, for the adoption of the Constitution
by the people, and their opinions Of making
Kansas free white State. The majority Of
the voters say, FREE auhite State, all agree in
adopting the Constitution. Where are the
"Negro Worshippers" of Kansas, that they
would exclude free Negro or Mulatto from
living in their State2 How do they expect
to open system of Negro Stealing" from
Missouri? How are they warning upon the
rio. IS Of flo Co,,tb 4" Avel that great