Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-11-21
KANSAS.
Yours for Freedom and Equality.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

The game OF the slavery propaganda %rufians
OF this country, is aLoat played out in Kansas
And slhyery is triumphant over all opposition
The Free State Men with their majority of thous
ands, their newly elected Legislature and Congress
sional Delegate, are bound hand and foot and as
helpless slaves, given over to the slaveholding mi
.nority: and the Union with the whole force of its
arms, will see to it that their submission is perfect,
There is q pretence of submitting, not the Con.
Dtitution, but the slavery clause of it, to the vote
of the people; yet this clause, so submitted may
be voted down and yet slavery exist in Kansas
II does this by perpetuating the laws of the Bogus
Legislature.
But the bogus Convention did not stop here. II
actually constituted a Provisional Government for
Kansas, whereof its President, United States Sur
veyor-General John Calhoun, is made Governor,
with the power of n Roman dictator. The inten-
tion is to rush this Constitution through the Demo
cratic Congress and have a State Election under
the auspices of the new Provisional Government,
which will provide the judges, superintend the
polls, and count the votes.
90 That our readers may fully understand the will
Amy of this movement, we copy from o Kansas
correspondent of the Tribune.
LEcoMProN, X. T., Nov. 5, 1857.
A commercial crisis has just swept over the
business world. We stand upon the threshold of
q political crisis for Kansas. On the very heels
Of an election, in which they and their allies were
routed, the minions of Slavery grid up their loins
for the great final struggle. U~ndismayed by the
past, shrinking from none OF the fearful RESPONSE
bility they. assume, q scheme Of the boldest and
most INSCRIPTIONS character stands fully unfolded
TO the civilized world. Ii amounts to this: "Heads,
/ win; tails, you lose" Nothing is hazarded.-
The people are Knocked and insulted, where they
thought they had O peaceable triumph. The reins Of
power they had legitimately taken are rudely siez'
ed from their grasp. The offspring of the Territor'
ial Legislature, while hardly out Of the swaddling
cloths of its political birth, tuvns round like o hun
CRY ogre to deyour its parent. Its birth is not to
be a long deferred contingency, waiting like a du-
tiful s%nppliant the action of Congress but a bold
defiant power, which recognizes no authority out
side of itself to limit or deny its existence. With
measured step. it defines its powers and character.
} Ii tells the world, not what it would be. but what
il is. 1t claims the right to exist as a Government
independent of the action of the people, in def
snce of their expression of their wishes through
the ballot-box. 1t declares in plain terms that
henceforth the Territorial Legislature is null and
Z void-that it is dead. 1t iegalizes all the past acts
Of the so.called Territorial Legislature-the bogus
Legislature. BY that means, it establishes Slavery
by the Constitution, for those laws in any cOntin-
agency are part OF the Government. IL provides
that the Federal Governor and other Federal ofic-
aers, are to cease to be what they are after the 2lst
OF December next, or after this mockery of a sub
mission, in which the people are to BIO allowed to
decide that certain provisions preventing the action
OF subsequent Legislatures shall not be q part of
this Constitution. But .here is not one provision
OF the Constitution that prevents or excludesSlave-
ry or the introduction ofSlavery. 1t was established
by Territorial law. The past territorial law is
formally included in the Constitution. The bill of
-. a. l.-- 1911 - tnl N =,
no slavery or involuntary servi,ude in this State
bu. for crimes" All the rights arc guaranteed to
.freemen" and to "%frremen" alone. The word
white does not even distinguish who are freemen