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THE NATIONAL ERA: WASHINGTON, D. c. DECEMBER

tary vote for delegates to the Convention. This
result was superinduced by the fact, that the
Territorial Legislature appointed all the sher.
ifs and probate judges in all these counties. to
whom was assigned the duty by law of making
this census and registry. These officers were
political partisans, dissenting from the views
and opinions of the people of these counties. as
proved BY the election in October last These
officers, from want of funds, as they alleee.
neglected or refused to take any census or make
any registry in these counties, ard therefore
they were entirely disfranchised, and could not
and did not give single vote at the election
of delegates to the Constitutional Convention.
Nor could
it be said these counties acquiesced; fer wherey-
er they endeavored by subsequent census or
registry of their own to supply this defect, occa-
stoned by the previous neglect of the Terrific.
rial officers, the delegates thus chosen were
rejected by the Convention.
repeat, in nineteen counties out of thirty
four there was no census. In fifteen counties
out of thirty-four there was no registry, and not
solitary vote was given or could be given for
delegates to the Convention in any one of these
counties. Surely, then, it cannot be said that
such Convention, chosen by scarcely more
than one-tenth of the present voters of Kansas,
represented the people of that Territory, and
could rightfuly impose Constitution upon
them without their consent. These nineteen
counties in which there was no census consti.
tuted a majority of the counties of the Terri
tory, and these fifteen counties in which there
was no registry gave a much larger vote at the
October election, even with the six months
qualification, than the whole vote given to the
delegates who signed the Lecompton Constitu.
ton on the It'll November last"
Shame on An Administration which, in the
teeth of facts like these, is indecent enough TO
make itself the partisan of 30 mean and detest.
able an usurpation
In the cloee of his letter, Governor Walker
has word for his Southern opponents, who so
fippantly condemn him, as a Federal officer,
for interfering with the People of Kansas in the
settlement of their affaire. 1t seems, he says,
as if everybody had right of interference in
Kansas, but its Governor. Anxious to. estab-
lish peace, to assuage excitement, to lead the
People of Kansas to settle their difficulties
without conflict, he had made speeches embody-
ing the views of the Administration as to the
policy that ought to be pursued, and presenting
certain opinions in relation to the effects of eli
mate on Slavery, which had often been pro-
mulged by eminent Southern statesmen, such
as John G. Calhoun and Jefferson Davis-and
for this he is denounced as violating the policy
of Non-Interventon while Federal ofice-hold-
ers in Kansas, including the Surveyor General,
Mr.. Calhoun, instigated by these same censors
of his acts, have been guilty of the most extra
ordinary acts of intervention to defeat the will
of the People.
This thing of Non-Intervention by the Fed
eral Administration is miserable mockery.
The Administration interrenes whenever it
pleases, in both States and Territories. 1t has
interfered against the People of Kansas, by dis
tributing its patronage to presses and agents,
the advocates or instruments of violence against
them, and BY keeping in Office as Surveyor
General man who has been doing all in his
power to subjugate the majority to the rule of
a minority; while it turns Stanton out of Office,
and compels Walker to reign, although both
Southern men, because they stand up for the
rights of the majority
And who was it interviewed in the domestic
concerns ofNew York city, by taking vengeance
On the head of prominent Democratic office
holder, because he spoke and voted against
Mayor Wood, whom Mr.. Buchanan was pleased
to regard as the regular Democratic candidate
So far from the Wood and Buchanan Democ
racy of New York censuring this indecent in
PREVENTION in their domestic affairs, they call
upon the President for little more!
Tn closing hio Lett NJ ---"'Hoi eAPressee
his high esteem for James Buchanan, and his
great pleasure in being able to sustain his
Democratic Administration in general matters.
So disappears from the stage, and is lost in
the crowd supporting this Administration,
Robert J. Walker.