Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-11-26
The Kansas Fraud.

The full extent of the last great frau'
perpetrated in Kansas by the Constitution
al Convention, cannot be known until In
details of that instrument are pubiisned
One thing is true, that that Constitution
with or without the clause upon which on
" the people sre to be permitted 70 vote
fsstens slavery in Kansas If ths Const:.
tnt;on should be silent on the subject, Kan
SOS would be Slave State. inasmuch, a:
the Supreme Court, in the Dred Scott cast
have proclaimed that slavery exists in the
territories; and President Buchanan in his
letter to the Connecticut gentlemen says
slavery does now exist in Kansas, and II
is matter of surprise that any one should
doubt that fact. Of course slavery now
being in Kansas, while a Territory, moth
ing save an express prohibition in The Con
stfution of Kansas, when it shall he State
can make it Free State. Thus it mat
tiers not how the people Of Kansas vote OF
the new Constitution. by that constitution
Kansas is doomed TO Slavery.
The telegraph from Washington says:
The administration has received sched
ule and outline of the Constitution in Kan
sas, and will sustain the action of the Con
vention with regard to the mode proposed
for its adoption, coneeiving that the people.
thus have an opportunity of deciding the
question in their own way.
If that dispatch was all the pretense Of
the Democratic party, to the effect that
the people of Kansas were to be secured
an honest vote for or against the Consti
tuition. What chain of sand are all the
beasted principles of that party, when
those principles, in the least, clash with the
interests of the Southern Slave Drivers
How the fraud was carried out to the drum.
ken end of the Convention doings, is given
by the Kansas correspondent of the St
Louis Democrat who says:
Only twenty-six voted in the affirmative
on the final adoption of the Constitution, and
the next day only thirty-two signatures
had been obtained to it, being one over
aquorum, and some of these are individu-
ais who had resigned their seats, perman-
emily, before the final adjournment They
were visited afterwards and prevailed on TO
sign the infamous document. One mem
Der was in town yesterday who said the
Constitution he had signed had clause in
itsubmitting it to vote upon "No Con-
stitution," and that he would not have
signed it without that clause. He was an
ignorant man and had doubtless been i'm
posed upon by showing him paper with
that clause attached for the purpose of
fraudulently getting him to sign it.
With this news from Washington, as to
the Administration sanction of this base
fraud, we are prepared TO believe to the
fullest extent what that same correspondent
of the Democrat alleges when he says:
The whole talent of the dominant ma
tional party has been callel into the ser
vice, and they have been paying us flying
visits for the last six months, and holding
counsel with Walker upon the surest way
TO success Whatever Walker may say
to ''our folks" and his public speeches and
his laxative proclamations, there is no ques-
tioning the fact that he came here with
sworn purpose which is being fast carried
out, and that he brought with him from
Washington the manuscript copy Of Kan
sas Constitution, prepared under the wings
of the Capitol, almost in9entical with the
one now adopted. Further, a sum of mo-
ney from Washington and another furnish
ed by the Southern extremists, has been
used as corruption fund in that Conven-
tion, and the Washington purse was lit
tie the longest, consequently they have the
best half in the bargain. Walker was un-
doubtedly priyy to all this, but towards the
close of the session he moved over to Leav-
enworth to appear out of the ring, but all
the while kept his runners upon the line of
communication. IL is believed that he full
ly approves of the Constitution, just as it
has passed, but he must try his hand at
buncomb again, and will very likely swear
and curse at certain times, when any Law
renee man, fexcept G.. w. Brown,) is in
hearing. He will talk of eonvening the
Legislature to contract their movements,
but he will disappoint our best Judges if
he ever does anything more than talk
All his friends appear juhilant at the re-
suit in the Convention, and every man ap-
pears TO understand just what comes next
in the programme, and what office will
turn up to their advantage by-and-by.
The correspondent of the St. Louis
Democrat writing from ! awrence says:
The schedule providesfhat the President
of the Convention shall declare ali election
on the 2lst day of December next, to vote
on the Constitution. John Calhoun Presi-
dent of the Convention, shall appoint three
Judges of the election at each precint, and
the vote shall be cast by ballot. The bal
lots are 10 be "Constitution with slavery"
"Constitut;on without slavery" There is
no provision for voting negatively, conse-
quently any one voting, casts a ballot in
favor of the Constitution, and endorses it
with or without slavery. "Constitution"
or "No Constitution" is not submitted to
the people al all. A committee has been
chosen to make the appointments consist
ing of the most ultra fire eating members
in the Convention, and the d;stricting is
said to be in such manner as to disfran-
chise more citizens than the one acted un-
der last October. John Calhoun is made
provisional Governor, end acts until the
election of State officers. He also is made