The Washington union., 1857-12-01

which they have expressed any uinerence OF opni" "
solictude with regard 10 it, dehnve settlement ~ the
organic law of the proposed State of Kansas. Why then
enbarrass this question by the introduction OF other
issues
3D. The urgent necessity for the immediate admission
of Kansas into the Union State goes far p pailate
the omission Of some of the usual formalitie which
though proper in ordinary cases, yet m he pres
ent instance might embaIrass and procnstnate the
speedy settlement Of question which all trn patriots
so ardently desire.
The constitution is 10 Dc Submitted all he rae male
ihabas Of e Territory very liberal provision for the
free-State people, thousands of whom were dprved OF
the privilege of voting at the last election, andmany OF
whom have but recently arrived in the Tenituy, The
Judges of the election to be appointed by commission
ers selected by the president of the constitutions eonyen
ton while the right examine the poll boois and
turns and to declare the result Of the baotngis vested
in the officer and two other members OF tr conSe
ton Gen Calhoun to whom this importan trust Is
mainly confded is native OF Boston, Massachusetts,
and removed from Springfield Illinois, TO Kanas, few
years since. He is gentleman OF admitted ability, and
in the late convention was the leader Oh te1renus Oh
submitting the question of slavery to the people oppos
on to the extreme pro-siavery and the ounty Is
perhaps indebted to his efforts IN this beaf than
to any other member He is also understood tobe iree-
State If, however, any frauds should ecape his
detection there is appeal to Congress- wlo would
upon due proof purge the ballot of frauS and, II
need be- refer the constitution back to the peop with all
the safeguards necessary TO secure fair ballot.
The provision for the amendment Of the constitution is
States This to be done by convention upo the rec
omnendaton of two-thirds of both branches ohc egs
laure if the people shall by vote choose to comply with
such recommendation
The reports industously circulated by tie republi
managers of the telegaphc wires that Fovisional
government had been established, with Mr. calhoun at
its head to supersede the territorial legislaue before
Kansas should be admitted into the Unior State
that both constitutions submitted to the peopc were pro-
slavery constitutions and that the constitution could not
be altered for twenty years. turn out TO be Utterly false
1t became necessary that the convention should pre-
scribe the mode in which the territorial government
should give place to the State government N arranging
for this state of transition the convention dopted sub
stantlly the identical method pursued for tie admission
of Ohio, Indiana Michigan and several othG States. In
deed to complain of its dongs in this particular is to
raign the conduct of majority of similar conventions
Although it would doubtless have been satisfc-
tory to the people of Kansas well thepeope of the
States if the question Of adopting rejecting the const
tuition whole had been submitted to the citizens of
the Territory yet the convention has furnished
close an approximation to this in presenting the main
great question to them, and this mole promises a
speedy settlement Of the difficulty hopethat all par
ties will participate in voting upon the conitution sub
mitted and thus put end to this controversy.
1t is fact that the slavery issue is most explicitly sub
mitted to vote of all the white male nhaants of the
Territory 1t is fact that the slavery Issue is the only
that has arisen throughout this wholeconroversy
1t is fact that all parties in Kansas have declared them
selves In favor of the immediate admission Kansas into
the Union sovereign member of the coliederacy 1t
is fact that the adoption of the proposed constitution
ch slapery will make Kansas free State. 1t is a
fact that it is in the power OF the reeShte people in
Kansas under the provisions adopted by th, convention
to make Kansas free State by overwhelming major
y and it is fact that if they do not exercise this power
to this end they will be left without any sufficient ustif
cation palliaon, for behaying the cause OF
freedom
We take the following from the Maine Free Press
What did the people demand should be submitted to a
c. - OI
QUESTION. This the great question and the only
one.
The constitution just formed in Kansas submits the
question to vote Of the people, about which the whole
territorial controversy has occurred.
The Kansas constitutional convention had legal right
to do they pleased about submitting their dongs to
the people. The precedents both ways; but they
have submitted THE question The other matters In the
constitution not at all Objectionable and the slavery
question be settled by vote Of the people is there
anything really very important to object toP The
stuton lately formed in Kansas contains the usual pro-
visions for alterations II is not carrying out the doc
trne of popular submission in every particular and if
is not Just what it could be expected by everybody
everybody cannot be gratifed 1t is substantially sur
rendering the slavery question by the southern in
Kansas if the freeState choose to votc ard
hesitatingy say the North should be satisfied and not
qubbe about what in this is not important Every
wise will submit to things faulty when he OBJ
tans by doing his paramount object The trainers of
constitution and all our patriotic fathers did so.
The Burlington Wermont Sentinel says:
After clearing away the fog which the back-republi-
presses have thrown round the closing proceedings of
the Kansas constitutional convention enabled to
ascertain the true state of things The telegraph
and the New York Tribune and its echoes still
repeating itthat even if the majority of the people
should for the constitution wao slavery, it would
then be simply silent the subject and slavery would
be recognised in the State by virtue of the federal
constitution, interpreted by the Supreme Court
careful persa of the schedule adopted by the convention
will show that this impression is not wellfounded, and
that the people of Kansas have it fully in their power
prohibit slavery by this vote if they fit Section IL
the schedule provides that the 21st day of Dccem
ber next the vote of the people shall be taken that
the ballots cast shall be endorsed constitution nth
slavery and constitution with slavery; and
that if majority Is in favor of the constitution
with no slavery, then, mark, 'Me article propiding
for SLAVERY shall be stricken from Tie constitution BY le presi-
dent Of he conpention, and NO SLAVERY SHALL EXIST
IN THE STATE OF KANSAS, except that the right OF
property in slaves in the Territory shall in
striking out the slavery clause will be to make Kansas
free State Such TO be the fair import of the lam
guage of the schedule. The only question: then, which
has distracted the people Of that Territory since its
ganzaon the question which has given life and vigor to
the black republican party throughout the North, and
which has kept it in the breath Of life to be
submitted to all the white male inhabitants 81 years
of age of Kansas, for approval disapproval" IT. as
is suggested in certain Gnarfers the free men
and Mey alone @ be responsible for the crseace Of SLAVERY 0e
No sireking OF dodgng, nor g technicaes, can re-
lease the free State men from this responsibility The
question s'savery slayery is fairly before them.
They must decide It,
Another report which the blackrepubcan presses