New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-11-23
KANSAS.
A FREE-sTATE CONVENTION.

LAWRENCE, X. T., Nov. ~, 1857.
For some days the Free-Sia!e and Territorial Ex-
ecutive Committees have been in se,siOp to decide
what preliminary action should be taken. The
result, so far, is call for general delegate Con
month. suboin their call.
The object of the Convention in question is to
determine what action shall bs required to meet
this new contingency No Committee, Of course,
ia authorized to take any steps with regard to mat
ters so important. 1t would now seem that the
last struggle DO matter hos well managed has
secured to the Free State party no permanent ad
vantage. / regret to add that the county offices
have, 90 far, rather bad effect in engenderiDg i'll
feeling between members of the Free-State party
However the pressure of duly now before them
will smother up minor causes Of difference. II can
not be denied that the aspects of the case are most
serious. They are so felt here. Threats of fight
ing may again be heard, and / believe those who
took the most conservative position recently talk
most about fighting now
That the Administration have some completely in
this sw indie of pretended submission, is too evident
for the matter to be a joke feel persuaded that
ell the fuss about removing Walker for rejecting the
fraudulent Oxford returns is got up fOr effec.
While in LecomptOn, Just before the Convention ad
ICurHeO tuat tuS uihtlcl was oiSSeeoVu ~
secret caucus. The hue and cry about w lker, and
against the Oxford purgstion, are merely designed
as blinds to conceal this greater iniquity. From
what l have heard about this business expect
ttst there will be more noise about 1t, and 1t pos
sible that some Southern Senator'S may refuss to
concur in Walkers nomination. In the mean time,
rest assured that the whole of this scheme is per-
fectly understood by the parties. buchanan aud at
least three members of his Cabinet are privy to IT.
and several prominent Southern statesmen have
give il their acquiescence. For the sake OF appear
ances, they may pretend to be dissatisfied with 1t;
but it is scheme of their own cOncoctiDg and Of
fers the last chance for the Border Ruans and Fro
Slavery interest to carry their point here.
Walker has been expected here for two days, but
we have Just heard that he has started tor Washing
ton. He went over there last week. When the
fraudulent majority report was introduced into the
Constitutional CONVENTION several Free-State men
who had faith in his desire to do right, waited on
him and informed him what was the substance Of
this niquitou. plan. Gov. Walker prOfessed to be
biehy shocked at it, and declared to these men that
such a submission was no submission at all, that
was swindle and that he should not see it prac-
ticed on the people without doing all in his power to
prevent it; that, If necessary, he would call
special session OF the Territorial Legislature at an
early day. He told them that he would be ap2rised
Of what course the Convention took immediately
after its q .tion had been determined, and asked
them to wait, assuring them that he would imnedi
ately visit Lawrence, and il the majority report OF
anything like ii, was adopted it would meet with his
unqualified opposition. He said that he bad stsked
bis reputation on the fact that the Constitution
must be fairly submitted and be never could be sat
isfied with any thing short of it.
So much for so much. In the mean time, four
DAYS have elapsed since he was advised OF the policy
determined by the Convention and be is not her
vet. Wehad a runner last night that he had Left tn
Territory aud gone to Washington. Those VIII
Looked on Walker as q man who would do iar, ar
beginning TO look black, and TO suspect treachery.
Fer my OVID part, saw enough at Lecomptcn
last week to place Gov. Walkers comphcl'y " TINS
fraudulent pretended submission beyond perad-
venture His agents and tools we're lobbying Tor H.
and believe that secret service money carried III
through. know that on the Friday night oeiote
the Convention adjourned, and when IL was supposed
that the dodge submission plan bad been defeated,
q messenger was sent to the Executive once,
where Secretary StsntOn only was at the time, Tor
money to carry the scheme through kno"
the person who wrote TO him, and rhat he wrote,
and nhere be wrote it. i have not despaired oil
getting copy of the letter, but would have preferred
one written IN reply | Deed only add that the
needed funds were forthcoming. Hence the result.
FREE.sTArE DELEGATE CONVENTION.
Delegate Convention Of the Free-Slats patty will
he held al lawrence Wednesday, the ID day OF De
ccu,btr az 10 ,clcek a. n.
Two DELI gstes 10 each member Of the Safe Legs.
ls,ure.
The object If he meeting being 10 take in.o Gen.
liberation the pretent political position Of the Terri