The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1857-11-19
Kansas News.

The great fraud by which an alien and odous
Government i5 sought to be permanently i'm
posed on the People of Kansas, approaches its
finale. The bogus Constitutional Convention
closed lis labors en- Saturday, the 1th instant,
having completed its State Constitution, and
decided not TO submit ii to the People, There is
q pretence of submitting the question of Slavery
or No Slavery bv itself; but the Slavery clause
go submitted may be rejected by an overwhelm.
ing vote, vet Slavery will continue to exist in
Karsas, If this Constitution is her supreme law.
No provision is made in it for abolishing or ex-
pehng Slavery, and the bare rejection of the
committees article would not effect such ex.
puIsion. On the contrary, by expressly and
fully confirming and perpetuating the claws"
of the bogus Legislature, the Convention has
provided for the perpetuation of Slavery at all
events. The pretence of submission is fraud.
and the refusal to submit the Constitution itself
is an outrage, fifty perfecting the frauds where.
Of Kansas has been for three years the victim.
But the bogus Convention did not stop here.
1t actually constituted Provisional Gouern.
ment for Kansas, achereof ITS President, u s.
Surveyor General John Calhoun, is made Cor
erROr This bold move is intended to super
sede Governor Walker and Secretary Stanton
on the one hand and the new Territorial Legis
iature on the other. Thus the victory Just won
By the Free Safe men is to be nHliied, and
the power once more snatched from their hands
by usurpation, and vested in the master spirits
Of Border Rufianism. The calculation evil
IDENTIFY is, to rush this Constitution through our
new Democratic Congress forthwith, and thus
turn Mr.. Parrot out of his seat az Delegate,
and have State election under the auspices
OF the new Provisional Government, which will
provide the judges, superintend the polls, and
count the voteE. In that case, Oxford, Kicka
Pco and MCGEE county, may be relied on to
Guido all their past achievements, and to have
adniring competitors all along the Missouri
line.
Kansas never seemed in greater peril than
now, yet we do not doubt her ultimate triumph.
But there is doubtless to be rush made to
put this offspring of villsiny and nQurpation
through Congress at once, and it is indispensa,
bic that the People of the free States should
forthwith be made fully acquainted with its
origin, character, and purpose The chief dan.
ger lies IL the fact, that majority of the Jour.
nals, especially those of the great cities. habit
ually conceal the important occurrences from
day to day, transporting in Kansas, where they
cannot be distorted to the prejudice of the Free
state party Not one single Democratic or
National American paper issued throughout the
Tree States has regular correspondent in
hansas, or even pretends to give full accounts
Oh what takes place there. This Systematic
suppression is, even more than the simultaneous
9is'oruon, treason 10 the cause of Free Labor
reveais guilty consciousness that what is
caiieu democracy in this quarter is only to be
upneio oy smo'heriDg the ruth. And for this
we see no present remedy.-N. z. Tribune.