Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1857-12-18


plish a fair decision" 1t is in some doubt
as to ,ohy i" the whole Constitution was net
submitted to the people" "Perhaps,' it !
says. "irom the fact that the Topeka Con-
etituuon was not submitted to the people, |
the Free state men do not regard that OF |
much consequence" Of course, the Pdiri- |
ct knows very well that the Topeka Consti-
tuition ra, submitted to the people.
Douglas on the Lecompton swindlc.
We have no faith in Stephen 4. Douglas,
rs u genuine statesman, though he is da-
ring politician, beyond all question, and
nm airlit deblter. What innermost rel.
Hons be has OR coming out against the last
move OF the Administration to make Kar-
slsa Slave State, we need not stop to in
qure. The effective aid which ho has given
TO the slaveholding interest heretofore, for
bids US to believe that he is actuated by
any love for the rights of man generally,
or any dislike to the sprend Of Slavery in
Kansl3 or anywhere else Indeed he shows
plainly enough that if majority of the
white men in Kansas choose to have slave
ry there, IN his mind there is no reason W y
they should not have it, As for the blacks
aud the mulattoos, the persons to be held
in slavery, he does not intimate that they
should have anything to say o. the sub
| Jet. But he shows up clearly the shame
| of yrI bpp
| clamoring for popular soverei nifty, and
promising that the people Of Xmas should
| have fair chanc, Of deciding for them
selves what sort OF institutions they would
live under, and who now 20 for depriving
them, almost entirely, from all voice in the
matter Take the following as sample
from his late speech.
"Ihus constitution made by a convention
that had authority to assemble and petition
for re lress of grievances, but not to
| establish gOvcrnmcnt-a constitution
made under a pledge Of honor that it should
be submitted to the people before 1t took
effect; a constitution which provides, on it,
face, that it shall have no validity except
what it rives from such submissiOn-is
submitted to the people at the election
! whcr" al men are at liberty to come for
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