The Washington union., 1857-11-24
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new State whether the special clause referring that
subject should be adopted not that the constitution
after being adopted. could possibly be amended until
the expiration Of ten years and finally, that proyis
iona government, responsible TO one, was To super
sede that which recognised and to remain In force
until relieved by State organization We have doubted
these partisan statements, and given reasons for our
doubts At last ii appears beyond all cav that the
representations which have been called upon to cir
cuate wholly without foundation, and that from
end of the country to the other the readers OF the
associated newspapers have been shamefnlly misled
by false and purely partisan not TO say malicious reports
Below We publish authentic statement Of the man
in which the new constitution is TO be submitted to
the people il being the SCHEDULE adopted by the
venton and from this it win be that the people of
Kansas have 1t fully in their power to prohibit slavery
certainly and effectively by their votes upon the instru
ment submitted to them The assertion that slavery
must be tolerated in the State whether the special sa
very clause is adopted not is misrepresentation,
resting solely upon tortured and very unreasonable in
depreciation of the first and second sections Of the sched
ule These, t will be perceived simply provide, FIRST
that all rights, claims contracts &c, under the terri
oria organization, shall continue IL change had
taken place and secondly, that all laws in force in
the Territory shall continue in force until altered
or repealed by the State Legislature In other words,
the constitution is not to operate as an ex-poa
co law but the rights acquired under the organic act
to be recognised and the acts performed by the terri
toral legislature to be binding until the State organ
zaton is completed and they superseded annulled
according TO the forms of law Thus the corporation OF
which ''Governor' Robinson is member tand he is
member of one win remain corporation after the State
constitution adopted and be liable only to the condi
tons of existence which prescribed and contempa
ted or the right impose which were reserved by the
territorial legislature That the language of the schedule
nothing than this Is plain from the reason
which is given for adopting ito wit that no eonpe'-
may arise by reason Of change from teroriat 10 per-
naneR State government And the necessity of such pro-
vision is made still apparent by reference to the
third fourth fifth and sixth sections as they publish
ed below That the object not to pepetuate slavery
against the wishes OF the people, and that it cannot be
perpeuated in defiance of the popular wsh is shown by
the 18th section This section provides 1t will be seen
that the vote Of the people shall be taken, under ample
guarantees of fairness the 2st OF December that the
ballots cast shall be endorsed Constitution with slave
ny, and Constitution with slavery = that If
oty OF the ballots cast for the former then the
stuon including the slavery clause shall be Immediate
y transmitted to Congress but if majority for the
latter then sAe article propidag for SLAVERY
by the president of the
tion AND NO SLAVERY SHALL EXIST IN THE
STATE OF KANSAS, except that the right Of property in
slaves in this Territory shall in be inter
ered with This accomplishes all that any reasonable
person ask and ALL indeed that could be accomplish
ed by constitution amedby the most rabid abolition
list in the country.
The objection which has been raised against the consi
tuition account of the difficulties placed in the way of
amending supersedng 1t is altogether without founda
ton 1t Is provided that after the year 1864 the call for
a convention to amend the constitution shall require
vote of thirds of the members of each house. and
majority of the people, until that tme the fair inference
is as the New York Times remarks, that majority may
alter amend it as they fit And whether this is
is not the intent Of the provision 1T is very clear that
after admission State the majority of the people will
do they have mind to, without consulting deunct
convention Indeed Their right to alter the constitution
when and how they please is plainly admitted in the Bill
of Rights, which declares that
iAll political power inherent in the people, and all
free governments founded their authority and in
stituted for their benefit and therefore they have at all
times naienable and ndefeasbe right TO alter reform
or abolish their form OF government in such manner
they may think proper"
The provisional government bug bear over which
the telegraph reporters and newspaper correspondents have
groaned loudly knocked into something less sub
stantia than 'thn air. by the schedule herewith pub
lshed The whole story piece of moonshine. Tie
territorial government not disturbed interfered with
We copy the following from the New Lisbon
Ohio Patriot 4,
The Kansas constitutional convention has completed its
labors and adjourned The schedule the constitution
provides for election the 2Ist of December to raty
reject the constitution the voting to BIZ by ballot and
the votes cast to be endorsed constitution with slavery
and constitution without slavery also election to
be held the first Monday of January next for the cleo
tion of State and congressional tickets.
If the freeSate of Kansas do their duty there
will be difficulty in making Kansas free State 1t
is said the republicans of the States advising their
friends in Kansas NOT VOTE that the proslavery clause
may be adopted hoping thereby to make lackrepubli
capital Let them attempt this outrage. and they
will consign themselves to eternal nfamy. The people
have their eyes open and longer be deceived
by the rascality of black-republican leaders.
The Trenton (New Jersey Daily True American
says:
The democratic party have long since abandoned the
idea of pleasing the republicans the slavery any
other question They have apparently resolved not to
believe though should rise from the dead We should
be better satisfied if they would content themselves with
simple determination not to receive the truth under
any circumstances but they persist not only in rejecting
the TRUTH but also in msrepresenting the facts.
They declare that the constitution of Kansas If
adopted by majority Of the people the slavery
clause, still that instrument would be silent upon that
question and that slavery would still be recognised by
the federal constitution and enforced by the adminis-
tration. Now this is simply absurd, and
cept those bent upon misrepresentation could come
to any such conclusion The whole question of sla-
very slavery is left TO the electors, in compli-
with the provisions of the Kansas Nebraska bill In
proof of this position, refer to the schedule The
eleventh section of that instrument provides that the
2lst day of December next the vote of the people shall
be taken that the ballots cast at said election shall be
endorsed constitution with slavery and Constitution
with slavery - that if majority of the ballots
cast for the former then tho constitution shall be mme
diately transmitted to Congress but II it shall appear
that the majority is in favor Of the constitution with
slavery the article providing for slavery shall be strick
from the constitution by the president of this
STATE OF KANSAS except that the right of property in
slaves in this Territory shall in no be inter-
fered with
The Chillicothe (Ohio) Advertiser says
The constitution is to be submitted to vote Of the