Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1857-11-25
Affairs in Kansas.

Affairs in Kansas.
The Kansas Constitutional Convention adjourned
on the 7th instant, having prepared Constitution
for the State and also adopted the following sections
the subject Of slavery, which to be submit.
ted separately to the people for their approval
rejection These sections, sanctionng slavery,
adopted in Convention by vote of forty to taco,
thus showing strong pro-slavery feeling If we
may judge of the opinions Of the people by this
tion Of their delegates. may safely assume that
the sections referred to will be approved at the polls
1t is also state,. that provisional government for
the Territory had been formed. with Gen. Calhoun
at its head. Some of the papers insist that this is
So and that the object of this provisional govern
ment is supersede Gov. Walker while the Wash
ington Star maintains that snch government has
been formed but that Gen. Calhoun has been ap-
pointed with others, by the Convention, to discharge
certain duties connected with submitting the slavery
sections the people, and laying the Constitution
of the State before Congress. .....
The Constitution it seems, is not to be submitted
to the people, but only the sections slavery. 1t
is no easy matter at any time to gather the facts
about affairs in Kansas and there may be mis-
take in this respect The sections referred as
follows
PREAMBLE-The right Of property is before and
higher than any constitutional sanction and the right
of the owners Of slave to such slave and its in
is the and as invIolable as the right of
the owners of any property whatever.
SEC. l. The Legislature shall have no power to
pass laws for the emancipation of slaves without the
consent of their owners, or without paying their
owners, previous to their emancipatien full equiv
alent in money for the slaves emancipated. They
shall have power to prevent emigrants to the
State from bringing with them such persons
deemed slaves by the laws of any of the United
States or Territories, long any person Of tn.
same age description shall be continued in slave
ry by the laws of this State; provided that such
person or slave be the bona tde property of such
emigrant and provided also that laws may be pass
ed to prohibit the introduction into this State of
slaves who have committed high crimes in other
States or Territories. They shall have power to
pass laws permit the owners of slaves to emaRci-
pate them, saving the rights of creditors and pre-
venting them from becoming public charge. They
shall have power to obige the owners Of slaves to
treat them with humanity, to provide for them
essary food and clothing, to abstain from all injuries
Ito them) extending life limb; and in OF
their neglect refusal to comply with the direction
of such laws. to have such slave slaves sold Tor
the benefit Of the owner owners
SEC g. In the prosecution of slaves for crimes of
higher grade than petit larceny, the Legislature shall
have power to deprive them of an impartial trial
by petit jury.
SEC ANY person who shall malicionsly dis
member or deprive slave of life shall suffer such
punishment as would be inflicted in the like
offence had been committed on free white person,
and on the like proof except in case of nsurrecton
of such slave.
If this preamble and these sections should be rat
flied by the people OF Kansas all that Southern men
have asked, and more than many of them expected
will hsve been obtained.
The latest news from Washington, By telegraph
to the Petersburg papers, is as follows: The Admin
istration received the schedule and outline OF the
Constitution of Kansas and will sustain the action
of the Convention" ....
Gov. Walker, of Kansas, was expected to reach
Washington on Saturday Monday last. He wat
on his way there
The New York Tribune is furious on Kansas af
fairs as the following from that paper of Tuesday
last will show:
"KANsAs-The great fraud by which an alien anc
odious government is sought to be permanently i'm
posed on the People of Kansas, approaches its finale
The bogus Constitutional Convention closed its Ia
bors on Saturday, the 7th inst, having completed
its State Constitution and decided not to submit 1t
the PeopLe There is pretense of submitting th'
question of Slavery or No Slavery by itself; but th'
Slavery clause so submitted may be rejected by al
overwhelming vote yet Slavery continue to exist il
Kansas if this Constitution is her supren'' law. NJ
provision is made in it for aboshing or expeiint
Slavery and. the bare rejection of the COMMITTEE
article would not effect such expulsion On tn
contrary by expressly and fully confirming and per
petuatins the " laws Of the bogus Legislature th'
Convention has provided for the perpe uation OF Sav
cry at all events. The pretense Of snb;ssion is
fraud and the refusalto sHonit the Constitution IT.
self is outrage fifty perfscng the fiauds whereo
- Kansas has been for three years Tie victim
l. But the bogus Convention did not stop here. 4
actually eonsti,uted frori.ionnt Government ion
Kansas whereof its President u. s. .,utreyo'' Gcn
eral John Calhonn, is npatie Gorernor. This bold
move is intended to supersede Gov. Walker and
Scretarv Stanton on the one hand and the new
Territorial islature on the other Thus the victory