The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1857-1858, 1857-12-23
As. IRON the 81. Louis Democrat, l1thl
Alterations ~ the Kans0s CODssts9'

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Il SCENE that General Calhoun and big Com
mittee. Who have in keeping the bogus Consti-
tuition, have not beenidle since the adjoufnmens
Of the Convention, but have changed thas in
strumens q will 70 suit their oGn views. Every
change, too has made the body Of II more radi-
cally pro-slavery. Our correspondence from
Kansas to day sl!udes to these alterations, and
We may % well point some Of them out. They
occur chiefly in the schedule, and the most i'm
portant Of the additions are in the eigth and
fourteenth sections Thus, they have inserted
in the eigth section the words 'ss Be condacted
a. the electioa provided fer IN the seventh sec
eioa Of this article and this 10 done to take the
control Of that election out Of the hands OF the
Territorial Assembly, and invest Calhoun with
the power Of appointing judges, selecting pre-
cincts falsifying returns, and recognising the
members Of the future State Legislature. This
language wss not in the original draft 81 the
schedule, either Is printed in the Territory, or
q printed from an official transcript sent to the
Washington Union, and it has been inserted
since the adjournment TO answer the end desig-
mated. The next alteration ID In the fourteenth
section, and amounts to the perpetuation OF sla-
very in Kansas for all time TO come. IL 10 10
regard to the calling Of new convention after
the year 1864, to revise the Constitution, and
the sentence surreptitious!y put in 10 q follows
"BM no alterations shall Be made to affect the
rights Of properly in the ovnership cf slascs. :"
This clause was not in the first publication OF
the instrument, and il palpable interlineation.
Now, when We remember that the same Con.
stitution peescribes - q rule for Judicial decs-
ion that s'the right Of an owner Of . saye TO
such slave and it's increase is the same and 90
inviolable as the right ofthe owner Of any pro-
perty whatever" il will be readily seen thAtthe
effect Of the clandes,ine addition 10 to make
Kansas irrevocably slave State in the future.
The last change that We shall notice IL IN the
seventh section, where the following words are
substituted: and to establisA Precincts for 70.
ting, aud to cause polls to Be opened at such ptd
ces az they may deem proper in their respecttre
counter" This in an enlargement Of the power
Of the commissioners to be appointed by CAL
hOun to control the election, and its object is
too manifest 70 be dwelt upon. Several other
minor substitutions We might mark, but Us they
are unimportant, they need not be specified
How many more phases the constitution will un-
dergo before the 2lst, 10 purely conjectural, but
a. the people are not to be permitted 10 vote on
the instrument, we suppose Gen. Calhoun, in
his character Of dictator will consider himself
perfectly o. liberty to amend, change or strike
out at pleasure, until the appointed time, when
his work shall have been fulfilled, and Kansas
shall have been made slave State. Any one
wishing to verify the foregoing facts, can do so
BY comparing the first publication of the sche-
dule in the Washington Union Of the 9Th, with
the publication Just made in the same paper.