The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1857-09-03
OPINION OF A MEMBER.

member Of the Constitutional Convention
in Kansas writes as follows to the Richmond
South:
Let me tell you, sir as a member Of the
Constitutional Convention, member of the
last Legislature, one of the committee that re
ported the present Democratic platform, upon
which We act, and as invariably a member OF
all the political Conventions held in Kansas.
that the members ofte Constitutional Conren.
ton are all right. # I hal TO select from the
achole South, / do not kno1c that could improre
upon them. ! have conversed with most of them
they are strenuously opposed to reference, and
you may be assured that whatever We do will
be done directly to effect the all-importan,
making of Kansas a Southern State-Mr. Blu
chanan, Mr.. Walker, or Mr.. Any bod -else, to the
contrary. We can neither be inundated bv
fear nor seduced by favor. Gov. Walker is In
a miserable plight; he is backing down very
sensibly, and, were the opportunity presented,
would back down altogether He is treated
with contempt by the Black Republicans. and.
to a great extent, he has lost the confidence OF
our party.
SPEAKING Our. Inc Cincinnati Enquirer
is the leading Administration journal in Ohio.
Il does not incline to keep still in reference TO
the Fort Smelling fraud, but speaks out in the
following bold language
We trust that the honest ard firm Secretary
of the Interior will satisfy the people that the
Government has not been s*ir died in the re-
cent sale of the Fort Smelling reservation.
The affair requires explanation. The Admin
istration cannot be too prudent ard yigilant in
watching the manpuvres OF certain spectators
who, in the mask of Demcc-acy. are in fac,
'ravenipg depreda,ors aud spe culators. There
are men, who stand high at Washington. who
entertain graudy, and succeed in deludiug some
of our high fuuc;ionaries, aud vet who. in fact,
are openly employing political position suG
place to enrich themselves at the expense Of
the people, by various devices of peculation and
swinding. Minnesota has been fAvorite area
for these spectators. To the schemes of one
or two OF such depredators, the Democratic
party owes Its defeat in that State. Like ell
righteous causes, the name of our party will
sometimes be borrowed and assumed By scoun.
drels, to cover up their rsscay designs Oar
duty is to be vigilant and wsichful, to dete ct
and tearlessly expose such populations"
This is honest and manly writing, and we
wish there were more of it in the leading polit-
zeal journals Of the country.
There Is at present a prospect that the Know
NothiDgs of New York will nominate separate
State ticket. This is done, unquestionably, TO
defeat the Republicans, not that they have the
slightest hope of triumph themselves. This
game has been repeatedly played before, but
will, we hope, not succeed this time.
The Know Nothings of Pennsylvania are
doing the same thing, having nominated Isaac
Hazlehurst for Governor, with the hope of get
ting few thousand votes for him, and thus de.
feating Mr.. Wilmot. We have chronic an
tipathy" to such humbuggery.
Colonel Hunter, the Democratic candidate
for State Treasurer of Louisiana, contends that
certain free negroes in Rapides have the right
to vote. These same negroes have repeatedly
voted, and, as they have voted to suit the slave.
owners, it is now claimed that they may do so
again. 1t is little singular that Democrats
are found 10 a slave State ready to oppose the
bred Scott decision
Putnam S Magazine has been combined with
Emerson's, and the two will be issued hence.
forth as one, commencing with the October
number.