Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-12-05
Tbe Anti- 5lausrp BuoIe.
From the New York Tribune
SUMMARY OF THE KANSAS OUTRAGES.

I. The Constitutional Convention, which has
just adjourned, was called BY the last Territorial
Legislature, which elected in October last year
10y light vote of the Pro;Slavery faction and
their Missouri allies alone-the Free-State m de-
nying the validity of the authority which ordered
that election, and refusing to take part in it.
III. This bogus Legislature, in the act calling
the Convention directed Census Of the Territory
to be taken, with Registry of the Legal Voters
said Census and Registry being committed entirely
TO Pro-Slavery officials appointed by the Legsla-
ture or the county officers created thereby.
III. Said Census was but partially taken, many
strong FreeState counties being utterly neglected
or omitted while the Registry was SO made as to
contain but few names beside those of known Pro.
slavery men, Even the Mayor of Leavenworth, Hen
ry j. Adams, of the oldest and best known
residents of Kansas, was not registered and hard
ly q pretense of registering in Lawrence Topeka
Osawatamic or any of the Free State strongholds
". The Law contained no provision by which
those who purposely or heedlessy omitted in
the registration could pei the registering ofhcere
to place their names on the list The original pur
pose of forming list of registered voters in
which q Pro.Slavery or National Democratic"
majority should be certain, was hardly disguised.
" The Census and Registry, such as they were,
being finished, and an Appointment of Delegates
made thereon which rendered Pro-Slavery tri-
umph certain, the Free-State mon adhered TO
their original resolve not to countenance the bogus
Legislature any of its fruits. and took no part
in the bogus election that followed. OF course,
the vote polled was very lght--hardly 5000 in
all-there being no inducement to bring over great
numbers from Missouri-and the . n itOnal Demo
Gratis" elected the whole sixty Delegates. This
election took place in June last, but the Conven
ton was not to meet till August; and, when it did
meet, it merely appurtoned its labors, appointed
Committees, and adourned over till the third week
an October.
VI Meantime, early in October, the regular
nl rrpI nd re
men were induced by the advice OF their friends
in the States and the fair promises and professions
of Gov Walker, to waive their Free State organ
izatOn and take part in this election. To accom-
plish this end, Coy. w. spoke from place tc place,
assuring the people that they should have fair
election and that, should any attempt be made to
force Constitution upon Kansas without submit
ting it to direct vot, of the People he would Sc
cure its rejection.
VII. This legislative election resulted III q de-
cded Free State triumph. the actual vote cas-!
standing more than two Free State to one ma
tional Democrats" BY it Marcus j. Parrott,
Free State, has unquestunably been chosen Dele
gate to Congress. But the National Democratic"
faction attempted to upset this result respects
the Legislature by returning over fifteen hundred
votes On the second day at tho little pre-
cnct of Oxferd, johnson County, where no poll at
all was held on that day, and votes then taken.
The Judges of Election at that poll took good care
not to be sworn, and do not appear even to have
Oxford, but in their Missouri homes, just across
the border. The names Of those bogus voters were
copied Sertdttm, from Cincinnati Directory, Gov.
Salmon p. Chase being one. These fifteen hund-
red votes, if counted, would have reversed the re-
suit in the great central district composed of Doug
las and Johnson Counties johnson having been
tackled on to Douglas for this very purpose,) and
thereby given National Democratic" majority
In either branch of the Legislature Like frauds
were committed in McGee, Marshall and other
Counties, but they did not effect the result
VIII. Gov. Walker having been formally appris,
ed OF this johnson fraud, went personally to Ok
ford, accom- panied by Sec Stanton, found the ey.
dence of Wholesale vllainy unmstakabe. and re-
jected the return, thereby insuring Free-State
majority in the new Legislature which is to meet
on the lst, of January next. He says in his Off
oal reasons that he does this, though it turns the
scale against sour party !" and he very active
and efficient in securing a "Natonal Democratic"
Missouri votes poled at Kickapoo.
q TX. Under these circums tances the Constitution
al Convention reconvened one month since at Le-
compton John Calhoun, U. S. Surveyor General
Tor Kansas was its President. Many members
hung back, and it was with difficulty that this
body, elected by a handful of votes in opposition
10 the known sentiment of Kansas, could obtain
and keep quorum. Yet that Convention pro-
cseded to frame State Constitution for Kansas,
and concluded its LAHORE Saturday, 7th inst
The Constitution 80 framed embodies the strong
est KIND OF o'SiaVery article, not only recog
nizng Slavery as legally existing in Kansas, but
denying to the Legislature or People power to
abolish it.
X. By Schedule" appended to the Constitu-
ton it is provided that the Constitution 80 framed
shall not be voted upon by the People, who (shoud
Congress accept it, as the President and Cabinet
have already done have no possible escape from or
power to modify this Constitution prior to 1861 il