The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-12-26

w NC accounted IOr
Hon. j. j. Farnsworth, the Chicago
member Of Congress, has recovered from his
illness, and left that city on the 10th for
Washington.
The Hon. Jeff. Davis boasts that he
intends to "wool Douglas" in speech in the
Senate. The Mississippian ought to remem-
Der the old tale of those going out to shear
who came home shorn
Kansas Correspondence of the Mime.
sOtian.
Important from Kansas-Exciting Tmes-The Bogus
Constitution-The People Moving-The Weather, &c.
LEAvENwORTH CRY, Kansas,
December, 9Th, 1857.
MEssRs. EDITORS A few words from
your (traveling) correspondent would not,
perhaps, be uninteresting at the present mo-
ment, inasmuch as have left the estate of
Misery" (Mo.) in which have been for the
past week or more, and have taken up my
abode in BLEEDING Kansas"
1 have not much to say at present in regard
to that delectable State, only that 1 spent a
very..pleasant week in Weston, land found some
very fine people there. But 1 cannot say
that entertain very favorable opinion of
the place, after short sojourn. I intended
to write short description of the town, its
business, situation, &c, but hardly think it
worthy of passing notice, and other matters
of Importance solicit my earnest attention.
Weston abounds in whiskey-drinkers, Bor-
der Rufians, nigger-drivers, blood-suckers,
doggeries, pimps, mud, filth and corruption
generally, and rows and fights are the order
of the day; nevertheless, there are good men
and women there-but good and badare al
ways found together. The only redeemable
feature about the place is the 'International
Hotel" which is as good house and as well
kept as any this side of St. Louis.
At present, the critical state of affairs in
this Territory, and facts relating thereto,
would perhaps, interest you more than any,
thing else could write, and would be read
by your patrons with avidty and pleasure, as
matters of great solicitude to the whole civil
lied world, are being transacted in this troub-
led and distracted Territory.
Although 1 am no politician, and little
versed in the wiles, snares intrigues and in
tricacies of political warfare, and neither wish
to be, yet as l stated in a former letter, l
shall give you truthful account, so far as my
knowledge extends, of the doings and trans
action of either party, be they Pro-Slavery,
Free State, Democratic or Republican, pledg
ing allegiance to neither, and giving adherence
to none, but such as I consider right. came
to Kansas, unbiased by party prejudices
untrammelled by party's arbitrary sway, as
much Democrat las far as true Democracy
goes,) as a Republican, although no believer
in the peculiar institution" and rather mod
crate and conservative in my views and opin-
ions yet after residence of three weeks in
the Territory, and learning from actual OBJ
servation, and various other sources the true
state of things here, and facts coming to my
knowledge which know to be true, and which
any person who can discriminate between
right and aorong cannot disbelieve, nor any
sane mind gainsay, consider it no longer
overstepping the line of neutrality, or infring-
ingupon the rules of independence, to declare
myself wholly and unequivocally in favor of
the Free State movements, of the success of
the Free State party,-the erection of Free
State Gouermment- to this object can
devote my energies-to this end can direct
my labors, these principles I can live for,
work fer, and if need be, die for. These may
seem strong sentiments for conservative, but
they are mine, and by them can stand or
fall. The truth has not half been told about
Kansas and her wrongs, and the rufianly
desperadoes and villaious scoundrels who are
now seeking to thwart the will of the people,
and crush them beneath the CALLING yoke of
oppression. These cowardy villains and
dastardly outcasts, whose touch is contamin-
alton, and whose breath is pestilence, back
ed by puny Administration, dare to raise
their leprous heads and say to the majority,
"Our mandates ye must obey" T shall now
advert to the works of these treacherous
usurpationists of Kansas.
1t was thought when WALKER threw out
the bogus votes of Oxford and Kickapoo
that order and quiet would be restored to
Kansas but now the appearance of things
are more threatning than ever, and "reign
of terror" unequalled in her history is appa-
rently right at hand.
As you an already aware, perhaps, the
bogus Constitutional Convention, which as
sembled at Lecompton, ended it's corrupt and
disgusting labors some two weeks since, and
has brought forth aninstrument, which would
defy the regions of birthstone, and the Prince
of darkness himself to equal-its wicked,
mis-shaped and diabolcal features; like the
cloven foot, revealing themselves in all their
horrid dcformity.
In the first place these protested "Repre-
sentatives of the people of Kansas" were
never elected by the people, but arc the ne
plus ultra, the quintessence of the Border
Ruffian Democracy, and only represent mis-
cradle minority of the citizens of Kansas,
elected under bogus laws, and by the dicta-
ton of bogus Legislature. The Free State
men participated not in their election, and
are therefore not accountable for their deeds
They spurn and reject their miserable abor-
ton, their eternally damned, tyrannical con-
coction, with loathing and contempt.
Ills given out" that this so called "Consti-
tuition" is to be submitted to the people