Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1857-12-03
have a constitution of their own maxine.
and that pledge must be certainly redeem
From the Detroit Free Pee : |

From the Detroit Free Press
We do not hesitate to declare, that, if
the schedule we published yesterday. fur
nished by the Washington Un;on. is the
true schedule adopted by the Convention.
and if the Constitution described bv the
Washington Union is the real Constitu-
ton finally agreed upon by the Convention.
the result is not solution of the Kaneas
question in accordance with the Karsas
Nebraska Act.
The Constitution is not, in point offact,
submitted % the the peof lie at all. Notn-
ing but clause regarding slavery is sab
mitted to them. 1t is impossible for any
citizen of Kansas, by the terms of the sched-
ule as we have it from the Washington
Union, to express his opinion by his vote
If that opinion be against the aloption of
the constitution. If he vote at all. he
must vote for the Constitution. He NAV
vote for it with slavery, or hc may vote
for 1t without slavery, and this is the limit
of the expression of his opinion by hi.
vote. He cannot vote against the Consti
tuition.
The constitution may be offensive tc
many of the people of Kansas, and to {
majority of them, in more respects tha,
one. Slavery is not the only matcra
question to be settled in the formation O
the fundamental law of a State. There ar,
other questions quite as material as that t.
the prospesity and happiness ola political
community.
From the Toledo Commcrcial.l
We regard the action of the consttu
tional convention of Kansas. in refusing tc
submit the constitution, and attempting to
establish a government without the sane
ton of the people as an unwarantablc ant
indeicnsible usurpation.
From the Ottawa Free Trader
Without, however, going further int,
the details of the instrument it is Suflicien
torcmark that the up.hot olthe whole is tina
the Kansas Convention have made the at
tempt by jugglery dnd trickery, to defeat tn
manifestswill of the people by fastcnin;
slavery upon them when four filths of then
have declared at the polls that Kansas shal
be free State In no case can the see
tion they propose to let the people vot,
/
slavery question to a vote OF the people,
Assuming this to bc the state of the facts
we say without hesitation, with the Chicago
Times, the Detroit Free Press, Forncy'
Press-ani indeed every leading Dem
ocratic paper of the North and some in tin
South, that the New Kansas Constitution
should be placed on par with the Topek;
Constitution, and not regarded as worth til,
paper it was written upon.
From the Princeton (Ill) Democrat.
But. whether the people decide for o
against slavery, we trust Congress will re
ject this Constitution and insist upon it.
submission entire to the people. The Kan
sas- Nebraska bill organizing those Terri
tories, guarantees to the people thereof TIN
regulation of their own domestic affairs
and it would be preposterous and inconsis
/ tent for Congress to force upon the peo
Of Kansas a Constitution not known t,
meet their appreciation. We doubt not
Congress willieject the application. ifit ma,
bc made to admit Kansas into the Uniol
a> State under the Constitution withou
I its having been submitted to the people.