New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-10-13

The legislative Election in Kansas being over,
whatever its result the bogus Convention (elected
BY some fifteen hundred Pro.Slavery voters under
a partisan Registry which excluded the great body
of the Prostate me-. from the polls, and 90 con-
strained the whole party to stay away from them)
will reassemble next Monday to frame State Con-
st;tuton. This Convention is wholly Pro-SAvery,
and makes no secret Of its purpose to frame q
Slave Constitution. The only interest in its pro-
ceedirgs attaches TO this question; own this
Constitution be submitted for approval or rejection
to the People, and if so, to rhdt People," mat
there is a party in the Convention opposed to any
submission is well known, but it has been supposed
that a msjority are in favor of some sort Of sub
mission. A recent letter from one of the Southern
ultras to The Charleston Mercury, dated johnson
County, Kansas, Sept. 81 says:
"Look at the position Of the Constitutional Con-
vention. am member Of that body, and speak
only what know, when cay that the Convention ,cW
adopt unanimously, a Constitution recognising and
projecting Sldrery, and that, If the Consttution %
snbmutted for ratification at az, r,H oe rafveea;
There are sixty members in the Convention, and
though there are some differences of opinion as to the
policy of submitting the Constitution to the people
am happy to cay that on the question OF Slavery,
there Is perfect unannty, and that there twenty
five of US who will never consent TO submit it at ALL
The Convention adjourned until the Sd Monday IN
October, and when we meet again, confidently be-
ieve that the twenty who are opposed to subms-
sion will be joined bys large majority OF the whole
number. go
"Does this look, Messrs. Editors like giving up the
fghti No. AL we wish is the countenance and sup
port Of the South less National Democracy and fewer
conservative papers in the Territory. may here re-
~ hat buf one radical
in the Territory, within my knowledge, and that Is
The Tecuinseh Notebook, s. G. Reid, editor. The
other papers, though protesting to be with u.s. are too
National to suit the crisis, and too much afraid OF In
juripg the National Democracy to do US any good.
"1he fate of Kansas lie, eren now, in the hands OF
the South. If we lose, the South only blame her
who have, in the darkest hour never despaired.
"Very respectfully, your obi. servt D."
This, there is no doubt, is fair statement OF
the views and purpose Of the twenty-five out of sixty
members of the Convention for whom d. is author
lied to speak, but we have yet to see that their
ranks will be sweed so as 10 constitute their party
ga large majority of the whole number" We do
not ct believe that John Calhoun and the North
ern Dougastes in that Convention dare take the
responsibility of forcing PrOSlavery Constitution
on Kansas without something that can be called
submission; but that any fair submission to the
whole People Of Kansas-Or even OF Kansas and
Western Missouri together-win be accorded, We
do not believe
And this brings TO fresh development on this
side of the Ohio:
The Hon. j. Clancy Jones, Representative in
Congress of the Berks District has been making
speech at Bloomsbury, Penn, in advocacy OF Blu
chanans Administration. He of course glori6es
the Nebraska bill (Which he supported thrOughout),
but says it failed in being ambiguous with regard to
Squatter Sovereignty, and in not frankly and fully
recognizing the right Of any STAKEHOLDER to migrate
with his slaves to the Territories, and there hold
those slaves in bondage in defiance Of any law which
Congress or the Territorial Legislature might
enact! Mr.. Jones, having thus gone tho whole
length Of the bred Scott decision and Mr. Bu-
chanan's Sillman letter, that Slavery was planted
in Kansas by the Federal Constitution, and there.
fore can only be eradicated by an organic act of
State Sovereignty, proceeds as follows:
"The construction now given to the Nebraska bill
is being put to the test in Kansas, and firmly be-
eve it will work itself out to the entire satisfaction
of the country. Convention composed Of delegates
elected by the people for that express purpose has
assembled to frame Constitution. preparatory to the
admission OF the State into the Union. Either this
Convention is clothed with sovereign power it is
nullty- the former, then it falls exclusively within
its jurisdiction not only 10 make the Constitution, but
to sead back to the people for ratification not, as
they may determne and they should submit il to the
people, it is equally exclusively their province to say
rho are qualified 10 rote on Il. Interference at any
time by any functionary Of the General Government
within the lines of this jurisdiction would, in my
opinion be violation n the very letter Of the Ne
b1aska bill We may take 1t for granted they will SUBJ
NIT it to the people, but is for them, and them Alone
to decide"
The meaning Of this is very clear to those who
are familiar with the origin and character Of that
bogus Convention. Mr. Jones may be expected to
support in the next House any measure of usurpa.
ton and outrage which that Sham Convention may
perpetrate. We shall watch the dongs of that !
Convention, and the action Of Congress thereupon,
with the profoundest interest.
Dir. Stephen A. Douglas is very Ulysses Of pro- |
dence. Not long ago, he wreathed himself in the |
pleasant chains of Hymen; and If we may credit |