Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-04-04
KANSAS.

That Kansas is to be a slave State, is clear now
beyond all doubt and prendventure. True, accord
ING 10 a late decision Of the Supreme Court, in
which Mr.. Buchanan so periodically acquiescod in
advance, and whose example we presume will be
followed by his party aud all otLer national parties,
St makes no difference what the State Constitution
provides on tho subject Of slavery, Though it is
true now, and would be if a free State Constitu.
ton was adopted that slaves would be as much
property on one side Of the Missouri line as on the
other. yet as a matter Of historical interes st our
readers will desire to be informed Of the progress
Of the work of subjugation, We therefore give
them the important items of news Of the last week
or two.
AT Wsshin gton, Governor Geary has rendered
his resignation which has been received by the Pres
ident, and q successor appointed Robert. J.Walker'
formerly Senator from Mississippi, is Mr.. Blu
chsnan's Governor Of Kansas, who, it is reported
will not assume the dignitios of his office until
May. In the meantime Mr.. Frederick p. Stanton,
formerly a member Of Congress from Tennessee,
will oficiate in his stead as Secretary of the Terri
tory. Thus the Government is placed unmistaka-
bly, in slaveholding hands and beyond the iniu.
snce Of any such weakness MS characterized and
brought to m untimely end, the administration Of
Reader and Geary. There is to be no relenting Of
purpose and no sticking at border rufian meas
ures, however atrocious or bloody. Nor are Gov
srnors' Stanton and Walker to bs left unsupported
as were Reeder and Goary, as is evident from the
fact that orders have been issued from the War
department countermanding jefferson Davis in
struction for the removal of troops from tho Terri
terry. Law and Order" are to reign.
Governor Geary thinks there is no doubt that a
Constitution approving Slavery will be adopted by
the Convention which is to be elected in Kansas
CD the Third Monday of June next. This Ccnsti.
tuition is not to be submitted to the people Of the
Territory but at once presented to Congress, where
it will meet q welcome from the pro slavery ma
jority of both branches of that body.
In Kansas, the Topeka Free State Convention
was held on the lot ult. at was there determin-
I'd" says The LearentrorM Times, ITO be impOlitic
aud inoxpedieni for Free State men to vote at the
election to be held in June for delegates to the
Constitutions Convention provided for by the late
Territorial Legislature. The present Free State
organization will be maintained, and the State
Government inaugurated under the Topeka Consti-
tuition kept alive, unless circumstances which may
arise in the future should dictate some other line
of policy. Collision with the present authorities
in the Territory will he carefully avoided"
This action IT the Free State men is but q cor
roboration of Governor Geary's opinion that re-
~sistance is useless, that the pro-slavery men have
them securely in their tolls through the aid of the
President AID the ennctmonts of the bogus legis.
lsture.
The following statement Of affairs in the Terri
tory from the Washington Correspondent of the
Baltimore Sun, is corroborated by the statements
Of all who have recently arrived from the Terri
tory:
Intelligent men from Kansas, who arc now here.
say that immigration into the Territory is increns.
ing, Blu, that the present agitation has had the
effect TO arrest tho t~e ndency to extravagant specu-
lation in lands and town lots. Further, they say
that n civil war will probably break out in the
Territory within thirty days, though they them.
selves deprecate its effect upon their own interests
as property holders. Tho Northern people who
are hoeking Il to the Territory do not, generally,
carry arms with them at the present time.
In the mean time the work of enrolling voters
for tho pro slavery convention is going on. The
Pittsburgh Gazottes gives US little insight into
the manner in which tho work of enrolment is
conducted BY the OH iAls.
For the instruction Of our readers we copy the
article.