Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1857-12-17
Kansas-the Message-&o. &C.

Kansas-the Message Sc, &C.
When, before Congress assembled, VIC heard
the rumors aud statements that the President
would support the Bogus Kansas Constitution,
and favoT those seeking to force it upon Kansas,
against the voice of her people, we had many
doubts of their authenticity. But it has proved
that Washington correspondents aud telcgra PHI
ers do know how matters Jog. And later, when
1t was affirmed that Douglas opposed the AID
ministration, and that there was split, we
doubted not bat plaster of Paris would fill
up the crevices and sel6shness Join the broken
fragments. But such is not the case fer, if
we may believe our own senses, Douglas does
oppose the Administration measures in regard
to Kansas and the Lecompton Convention, much
to the disafection Of the former harmony of
the party. He has given aOtico of a bill to en-
able the people of Kansas to form Constitu
ton and State Government preparatory to their
admission into the Union, and We shall await
with interest its appearance, and hope that its
provisions may be fair, and that it may pass,
knowing that under it the Topeka Constitution
will be adopted and presented, if the people Of
the territory left perfectly 6reeto fefh their
Constitution and regulate their domestic instr
buttons.
OF what Mr.. Buchanan says upon other sub
.jects than Kansas, We shall say but little at this
time. The people win form their own cenclu-
sions, aud substantially agree with his remarks
upon Utah, fHebustefing, &c. In short, there
is no considerable difference OF opinion between
the President and the mass of the people, save
upon the Slavery question which is the one
now at issue, and which the tendency of all
events will Prevent being lost sight Of until
Slavery is abolished, or the South forced to &c.
cede frotn the Union, an event which will cause
no fear and excite ne alarm.
The Presidents language in reference to Kan.
sas cannot be mistaken. 1t is frank, and worthy
the great Imp of Darkness in audacity Il
will surprise no one after his declaration to the
Connecticut Memorialists thar Slavery existed
and still exists in Kansas under the Consttu tior
of the United States" He recognizes the Bo
gus Territorial Legislature, which brought the
Lecompton Constitution into existence, anG
says that the submission OF the Consultation t.
the people gives them an opportunity to deter
mine whether they will or will not have Slave
ry Now Congress has ascertained and oficiall,
proclaimed the fact, that the territorial legis
iature which called the Convention, was tn,
base offspring of raffanism and fraud, and i,
no sense represented the popular voice, which
had no hearing whatever in its deliberations
and the adoption of the Lecompton Constitu tiol
whether with or without the Slavery clause
would be an adoption in terms of the laws 0
the so-caIled bogus Legislature, which perpetu
ateSlavery ia the territory just as unqualified,
as if it was a part Of the Constitution. Tn
submission Of the Slavery clause only to tn
people, therefore, is a mockery and a snare
and when the President says that the question
+'whether Kansas shall be free or slav
state, caa never be more clearly Or distinct.
presented to the people than it is at the presen
Moment he makes the Chief Magistrate o
this nation party to one of the basest an
most heavea-defying frauds ever practiced upo
civilized people.
We presume that every reader of the Fret
man will peruse the Message, especially tina
portion referring to Kansas, but we wish to ca
particlar attention to two or three sentences
which are as good definition of Administrative
democracy as need be given. They are the ont
referring to the schedule, and that the slave
now in the territory are there under the Const
tuition.