New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-11-09

..a,., H. MAN much past middle Lie. and
I,I ,nsnv of the W,andots, Of mixed White ana .u
dan blood. His gray hairs andexPefen,e, n,sa
they may have bestowed, have not 'aogn. nun IA
l. ssons cf ha but be was taught 70 ieei 'e s,o,t
The insertion of the word Indian, but above al
hd be object 20 any coupling tie word Indian WIN
nssro and mulatto. II "made his heart tnriiI, no
sa.d. to hear any ore speak Of Indians hes'yc'
and mulattoes" Negroes and muattoes were ae
graded race: they only ht for slaves ihey WIZ
slaves But the Indians were true natiSe Americans
Of This Continent He implored them TO exciuoe
tba word s.Indian." He was member on TINS
aoor. His mother WAS Wyandot woman, ana nus
father was Virginian who had been taken prisoner
nv the Indians. lie was proud OF bis race ne Wy
pro,d that be was Indian. He was there 10 siu-
dieate the blood in bis veins. He hoped that the
true natives of the soil would not be excluded ,ro'a
The richt Of voting He hoped that they would not
finn, cut off the only native American residents IRON
The reht of citizenship. He appealed to them to do
ns,ice 70 the Indian tribes. But it was 10 coupling
Indians with negroes and mulattoes that the speaker
felt himself most aggrieved. He sand 1t made MS
blood h,,;" and the old mans voice qulyered WIN
emotion. He felt the sting himself. lie wntned
under il. He who bad met the rude blows OF tne
World for lifetime was stung by this ignomlny OF
caste. Indians, nesroes and rnulattoes' how ne
wrthed as he repeated the words
THE PRESENT SPIRIT OF TIE CONVENTION.
Der. 80, 1857.
Rold ard reckless as has been the past career OF
the Pro Slavery party in Kansas, there has, even In
its widest y.ms, been method in IFS mad
ue,s.n All the blows it has struck have tended to
OF point All its maneuveriDgs, its wars, its legal
persecutiops, It's election frauds and it's violence
however ra.h they may have appeared at the mo-
mept, ard however iDjudcious as single acts mad
each in their respective time and place part to
pe,form in the Slavery-e1tendiug economy. IL
be cause there and their fruits were all necessary
that The Slavery led Democracy have Incurred the
oaium of jndorsipg them, and maintaining the
product of yilaiDy intact. Had the supposed
natural re,ult followed these, the Slave Power
would have held a dominance among tue
PEOPLE which it claimed in the usurpng Gov
| eminent. But persecution has ted and cher-
isbed instead Of destroying or weakening. popu-
| lation has fOated in, impeled by natural laws
| 10 which the powers and patronage OF Government
were An INADEQUATE check and the pulse of popular
sentiment .eeined to beat stronger for Freedom the
more il was bed. The Pro-Slavery leaders have
not been guilty of the folly of supposlng that hand
full of INF GO, ud rule State nation for all time;
hnt With the lesson Of the minority Slave interest OF
| the country ruling the majority interest OF Free
dom and ruling it for the advancement OF It's lmme-
date uterests-with this lesson before thein they
certainly hoped, by driving out the most active OF
their enemies by persecution, checking the iegltl-
mate current emigration, and dvertiDg the money
mower or selfish interest of Kansas into the channel
nyored by the political power, they could reduce the
opposoD if not within the limits OF minority, at
least TO msiority so small that the usual frauds to
which modern Democracy dedicates itself could
overcome it. In this hope, the Pro- Slavery party
have labOIed for the past eighteen months. vi TINS
| hope they are not yet diyested.
| Before the October election, the dominant policy
Was TO make an ultra Pro-Slavery Constitution and
tend il to Congress, without submitting 1t 10 the
| people In their devotion to such polcy the
| Convention has undergone no radical change put
| their circumstances have. Then they hoped that
victory, after fashion, would fellow tue steps tney
| took in that election. Now, what is the prospect
that presents itsetl The derided Black Repubi-
can Shaye sent their candidate Delegate to Con-
| gees ~ speak against their Claims. These same
| despised enemies have wrested from them the
pewer Of the Territorial Legislature, and that under
circumstances 80 adverse that they seemed 70 DO
hopeless. For full week, this Constitution making
| body was unable to get quorum. Even now, one
fouiih of the members elected are absent from their
seats, unwilling TO assume such responsibility,
| meeting of Free State Inc is convened under their
| very windows in LecOmptOD, and the orators OF
that party thunder in their that they are the
| creatures of miserable minority, ard that meet
ing demands that they resign the seats they here oc
| cupy and 60 home. Nay, more: thel. personal
sait ty, even, is deemed precarious that United
| States army has TO guard their deliberations, TO
| preyent their being expelled in obedience to the
popular mandate they have disObeyed. To expect
| that they would overlook all such considerations
| would be 10 accuse them If insanity. They are
keeDb sensible of them. They will frame their ac-
tion 10 meet the difficulties of the But there
is one point to note: they have not abandoned the
hope ii success. If they did, they would adjourn
| at once Pecuniary considerations would not keep
them for day, for they will receive no immediate
psy, and their hope of pay in the future is mainly
DIT pendent on their success. They expect to win.
| There are two parties in the Convention, or
rather two notifications of one party. The first
believes tbSs system Of open violence is the safest;
| the latter would prefer trusting to quieter aud
| more conservative system Of fraui Both know
that it is folly 10 expect anything from leaving it to
fair detern inston of the People. Neither designs
| such ,hipg. The first would make Slave Con-
ttitutiCn containing the most violent external fea
tures; would even elect the whole Of the State OF
fcers and Legislature, and throw the burden Of the
battle, OF Of all these political sins, on Congress.
TIE ether party is more shrewd and iarseeng. They,
| to, wculd make tie Constitution to subserve the
eIds If Slavery. They, too, would secure ssbstan-
tial power With those alone whom they can trust.
But they expect 10 do il in another way; and, above
al, they expect to do it IN mlder way, so as not
70 drive from them those who can be drilled to do
the work Of Slavery under the guise Of Democracy.
These two elements war In the Convention; or
rather the latter operates as check upon the former
If thOie Tho came here at the time to which the
adjourned had bean IN do tha,o.