Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1857-05-15
Kansas Affairs.

GThe Lawrence Herald Of Freedom Of
the 18th, has come 10 bssd. Ia an edi-
torial, it admits that pro,slavery consti.
tuition will be adopted for Kansas; but
declares that slavery will never exist
there. That adopting q pro-.lavery con-
stitution will be the death ,knell to South
ern politicians. In regard to the Convsn-
ton to form constitution, it says j
"To show how much voice the people
are to have in the convention, We will
state fact, that in johnson county, en-
braciug the Shawnee reservation, which
is not open to settlement BY the whites,
and in which fifty bona file settlers do
not reside, some three thousand names
are registered. These names are the
members Of secret lodge in Missouri
who have banded together for fraudulent
purposes, and who have pretended to take
claims on the Shawnee reservation, con-
tinuing their actual residence all the time
in Missouri, and are carrying on business
there as if they never had been in Kansas,
as nine -tenths of them never have, save
when here on their plundering or voting
expeditions. These non-residents form
the basis Of representation in the Consti
tutional convention, and are entitled to
one delegate in that body for each sixty
registered voters The 5000 names will
entitle them to fifty representatives. With
the view of silencing the Lawrence dis
trict, it is said We were detached from
Douglas County on the eve Of the session
of the bogus Legislature, and attached to
johnson County, of which the reserve is
composed, with the design Of neutraliziug
our votes BY non residents from Missouri"
1.-THE Lecompton correspondent Of the
St Lo uis Democrat, writing under date of
Apri. 18th, says:
"Great efforts are being made, to buy up
a few selfish Free State men to vote and
legalize the bogus election. Several Of
these have been promised Office in this
and one or two other counties, if they
will thus join. The pro.slavery party
boasts that there are three parties in Kan
sas, and trying to corrupt ali the office.
seekers amongst the Free State men,
to form this so-called third party, and
thus ruin the Free State cause. The
third party is 90 small that it is just no
party ------
The census lists are not published yet,
and it is not supposed that they will be.
The county court was to have been in
session, so that fraudulent lists could be
contested, but it is not. There is no in
tention to make, or allow to be made, any
change in the lists. ~There are only
eight hundred votes eurollted for this
county, according to the statements of
proslavery msr. There can not be less
than three times that many Free State vo-
tiers.
The new Governor will not be here uu-
til it is too late to see the census list cor
rected. Unless be comes here on some
other mission than to get the people OF
Kansas to vote under the bogus officers,
he need not come ut all do not think
be will deem it safe to attempt it, and he
need not unless he intends to provoke
civil war.
1t will be the same with the collection
of the bogus taxes. 1t will cost ten times ,
more than all that will be collected to |
coerce payment of them, and will cause
serious difficulty should Walker attempt
to back up these bogus unsurpations with
active force it will result in civil war,
and be and the territorial government will /
be driven out Of Kansas by the outraged
people"
CoMPLIMENT.-It is something to be q
citizen of this republic, after all. Lord
John Russell the other day, in pleading /
with his constituents for q reelection,
among other foe things which be profess
ed, with q politicians readiness to prom
ise, declared that be would take the ''best
and ablest men in the United States for
bis example," Or, if he did not put the
pledge in precisely these words, " be look
ed at the diffusion of education as the Sc.
curity for the national institutions, As the
hast .nI shlo.t man in tho Tlnifed States