The Kanzas news., 1857-07-18
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The contest concerning tae admission of
Kanzas into the Unioaas a State IS evident
" narrowing dossn tea strife between the
Peoples Constitution and that OF til spsurP-
ers. liz all proba biliiy. The usurpers.lf they
dare sit at all and frame Censtitution, viii
send that Constitution Immediately to Con-
eress scttaosR any submission 10 che people.
The copplexion Of the Convention chosen
Is sufficient 10 almost secure such result.
Coy. WALKER's promises that the Consii-
tuition shall besuhEnnted 10 tfsePeopie amount
to nothing at all, for the simple reason that
he has no power whatever over the IonEen-
ton. They can. snap their fingers IN hls
face, and he must pocket the insult Be
sides, tie Southern press. for the most part
utterly protests against its submission to
The people. And il IS precisely that class
of papers which have always expressed the
most sympathy with the usurpers, that thus
protest.
Now comes the serious question, will Con-
gress admit kanzas under the Constitution
framed by the usurpers? Gov. Walkersays
no.. Perhaps he is right; but we have yet
to find depth to which the Democratic par
ty viii not plunge at the bid of its South
ern masters, unless wholesome prospect Of
utter rout and annihilation stare it In the face.
Can we manage to bring such a prospect of
ruin before the Democratic party, as the
result of It's admission of Kanzas under the
Constitution of the Hsurpers9 We CAM
1t will not do to have the bogus Censtitu
ton 90 before Congress alone, and without
"a Free State Constitution to confront it.
In that case we would let the thing go by de-
fault, and the usurpers would triumph in less
than four weeks. We r:aust have a People,
Constitution to stand side by side with that
OF the oligarchs. What shall that Consti-
tuition be? Undoubtedly the one the peo-
pie have already framed and adopted
Even if it were needful or desirable, it is now
too late in the day, to call a new Conven-
tion, frame new Constitution, and submit
it to the people, before Congress will assem-
bic. TIE Topeka Constitution must con-
front the bogus Constitution on the floor of
Congress next December, or tie latter walks
the course without rival. 1t is the Tope-'
ka Constitution, or aaOthingi Our true pol
icy then, as every one must see, Is to send
tie Topeka Constitution up to Congress with
as emphatic an endorsement of the popular
will as we can commands emphatic, that
Congress, in rejecting it and adopting the
Constitution of the usurpers, viii show TO
the world that it is ruthlessly trampling nine
tentts of the people of Kanzas.
To this end, let every voter and resident
sign the memorial to Congress asking for
admission under our own Constitution; and
let every voter 90 to the polls and vote at
the State election in August Every vote
cast at that election will tell as vote for the
Topeka Constitution, and viii be interpreted
as such by Congress. Every vote at that
election la a vote to make Kanzas a Free
State in the shortest possible time, and is.
the surest and indeed only way to crush out
the usurpers. If we do our whole duty at
that election, Congress viii never dare ad
nit Kanzas as a slave State; if we do not
our doom Is sealed.
One thing more; we lave smong US a
keen, wary, cunning, unscrupulous enemy.
Every effort is being made to divide and dis
tract the Free State men. Those who have
heretofore acted with the Free State party,
and who can be bought, are being bought.
Private malice is Cutting itself, at the ex
pense of the Free State cause. Envy leers
at honest worth and preferment, and would
ruin people, that it might be revenged on
single individuals.
Benedict Arnold suffered for liberly-he4
stood high; but the enemy's gold and his
own pirate jeatousy ruined him, and from
Arnold the hero, he fell to Arnold the traitor
Beware !-Laa0renee Republican,