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ire validity Of the authority which ordered that
election and refusing TO take part in it,

70 be taken, win hegusJ vi INC AosA
yoteu-ssid Census and Resi,try being COM
mtted entirely to Pro Slavery officials appointed BY
the Legislature or the county officers created
thereby.
III. Said Genius was bat partially taken, many
strong Free State counties being utterly neglected
or omitted; while the Regiitry was so made as 70
contain but few names beside those Of known Pro-
Slavery men. Even the Mayor Of Leaveuworth
Henry j. Adams, one OF the Oldest and beH
known residents of Kansas, was not regl'tered
and hardly pretense Of registering IN Lawrence
Topeka. Osawstamie or any Of the Free-Stsse
stronghold
". The law contained no provision by which
those who were purposey or heedlessly omitted in
the registration could compel the registering officers
TO place their names On the list. The original pur
pose of forming list Of registered voters in which
Pro Slavery or National Democratic" msjority
should be certain, was hardly disguised.
Y. The Census and Registry, such as they were,
being finished, and an Apportienmert Of Delegates
n ade thereon which rendered Pro Slavery tri-
umph certain, the Fsee-Slate men adhered to their
original resolve not to countenauce the bogus Legis
lature nor any of its fruits, and took part in the
bogus Election that followed. OF course, the
vote pollsd was very lieht-hardy 5000 ia all
there being no induoement to bring over great num-
bers from Missouri-snd the "National Demo-
Gratis" elected the whole sixty Delegates. This
election took place in June last but the Conven
ton was rot to meet till August; and, when it did
90 meet it merely apportioael its labors, appointed
Committees, and adjourned over till the third week
in October.
vi. Meantime, early in October, the regular
Territorial Election REQUIRED, aud the Free-Ssate
men were induced, by the advice of their friends
in the States and the fair promises and professions
of Gov. Walker, to waive their Free-State organ
ization and take part in this election. To accom-.
plish this end Gov. w. spoke from pl,ce to place,
assuring the people that they should have fair cleo.
ton, and THAI should any attempt be made to force
Constitution upon Kansas without submitting it
to direct vote of the People, he would secure it's
rejection.
VII. This Legislative election resulted in de-
cided Free State triumph, the actual vote cast
standing more than two Free State to one "Na
tional Democratic By it, Marcus j. Parrott
Free. State, has upquestionably been chosen Dele
gate to Congress But the National Democratic
faction attempted to upset this result as respects
the Legislature by returning over fifteen hundred
votes as cast on the second day at the little precinct
of Oxford, johnson County, where no poll at all
wss held on that day. and no votes then taken. The
Judges of Election at that poll took good care not
to be sworn, and do not appear even to have writ
ten down the names of the pretended voters at
Oxford, but in their Missouri homes, just across
the border. The names of those bogus voters were
copied, seriatim, from Cincinnati Directory, Gov.
Salmon =. Chase being one. These fifteen hundred
votes, if counted, would have reversed the result
in the great central district composed of Douglas
and johnson Counties johnson having been tackled
on to Douglas for this very purpose), and thereby
given "NatiOnal Democratic majority ia sithe
b; ZACH Of the Legislature Like frauds were com.
mitted in McGee, Marshall ard other Counties, but
they did not affect the result.
VIII. Gov. Walker, having been formally ap-
prised of this johnson fraud, went personally to
Oxford, accompanied by Sec. Stanton, found the
evidence Of wholesale vilainy unmistakable, and
rejected the return, thereby insuriug Free State
majority in the pew Legislature, which is to NEE
on the LIST of January next He says in his official
reasons that he does this though it turns the scale
against our party" and he was very active and
efficient in securing "National Democratic" tri.
umph in Leavenworth County, by means Of Mis-
souri, votes polled at KickapOo.
TX. Under these circumstances the Constitu-
toDal Convention reconvened one month since at
Lecompton. John Calhoun U. 8. Sarveyor.Gen-
r. 81 .ka-.
hung back, and it was with difficulty that thi, body
elected by handful of votes in opposition t, the
known sentiment Of Kansas, could obtain and keep
s'quorum. Yet that Convention proceeded to fra ne
State Constitution for Kansas, aud concluded its
aboIs OH Saturday, the 9TH inst. The Constitu-
ton so framed embcdies the strongest kind Of a
Pro-Slavery article not only recognizing Slavery
as legally existing in Kansas, but denying to the
Legislature or People power ever to abolish it.
y. BY Schedule appended to the COnsti-
tuition, il is provided that the Constitution 90 framed
shall not be voted upon by the People, who (should
Congress accept it, as the President aud Cabinet
have already done have no possible escape from or
power to modify this Constitution prior to 1864;
nor thereafter unless two thirds of the members of
both Hou,es of the Legislature shall agree to sub
NIT the call Of a Convention to the People; nor
even then unless ga majority Of all the citizens
oft State" (pot merely majority Of all who &C.
tually vote) shall ratify the call. Practically,
therefore no change can ever be made in this Con-
sttution so long as any portion Of the inhabitants
desire to have il remain as now fixed.
ri. A Constitutional Election is to be held on
the 2lst of next month, but not to determine
whether the people approve or disapproye this