Indiana American. [volume] (Brookville, Ind.) 1833-1861, 1857-03-20

kansas constisutionni Convention.
Tho proceedings to mako Kansas
slave state 80 noiselcssly on. The Bor-
der Rufian Legislature havetakcn all the
steps necessary to secure the adoption Of
State Constitution establishing Slavery,
and such Consultation will be framed
and offered to the next Congress. The
recent legislative proceedings demonstrate
50 much. Whether Congress will admit
her as State under the projected oouss;-
tuition will depend on that body alone
Who doubts that it will be done. If the
Administration can command majority |
there ?
The STUPID representation in the North |
encouraged by shareholders, that Kansas
is certain to become Free State. tends
to the successful consumation Of the dc.
sign to make it the opposite. In tho de-
bate In Congress, the other day, on the
appropriation of $40. 900 to pay tho Kan
sas Legislature, Whitfield. the delegate
from tina. Territory, with lecring sar-
casm OF manner and language, argued
that the Black Republicans should no.
object. for IL was said everywhere in the
Northern paper. that Kansas was certain to
be Free State, and they were thus siri-
king ut their own friends ia refusing the
appropriation. There was scornlul and
but bali concealed sheer Of dcvlish
irony Of tone in this declaration OF the
Border RufIian representative that express
sed far moru clearly than any words could
the partially disguised chuclsle with which
he viewed this weak crcdaliiy OF North
ern men and presses.
Now that the mode OF clcciing State
Convention to form Constitution for Kan
sas has been made public, it would seem
that tho most ordinary discommenl couli
not fail to perceive that tho result suro to
follow that action is the adoption Of a
Slave Constitution. II the weary oxpo-
ricnco Of the violence and inscriptions
ness the Slavery men which Kansas has
Witnessed, has been insufficient to shake
tho solid conviction that things will not
DO pushed to the last extremity, and
that Kansas will Immediately have Free
Constitution, We should suppose tho late
action Of tho Bogus Legislature would re-
move this dolusion. That Legislature
has provided that census OF the voters
of tho Territory who shall be inhabitants
on the FIRST day Of APRIL. and were so
prior to that date, shall bs male and
lodged with tho County Judges Of Pro-
bate BY the tenth Of April. Each Of
these Judges shall hold tho list Of his
own district, and shall have tho power Of
adding to itupto the 6rss of May. This
list when thus completed, Of all persons
claimingio be inhabitants on the FRS. Of
April, and to have been so prior to that
date, viii show who arc alono to be cnti.
tied to cast their votes Tor members Of q
State Convention, to be chosen in June
This list thus made and thus held Is n rec
ord in advance Of the precise state Of the
, poll in every precinct IN tho Territory
, Tho exact political complexion Of tha
Convention can be told by the holders o
those lists jus. as well on the FIRST day o.
May as it can be told in September whcI
that Convention ASSEMBLIES. a simplc
and moro effective process Of packing .
! Convention was mover devised. Nothing
whatever is left to uncertainty. Law
renee. and perhaps one or two other pla
COS, may be allowed 20 send Anti-Slavcrl
delegates, but the overwhelming prepon
derancc in the Convention win be held b,
, tho pro-Slavcry men. This may be sc
cured in tho easiest manner. Tho name
of every rascal Missourian who has eve
: invaded the Territory can be put on Ties
county lists as inhabitants either on Q
, prior to the FIST Of April. And where ih
; fail, II they should fail, new leyies to I'll
the places and to moro than Gil them, AT
to swell TO any necessary extent the 70
Of inhabitants, can DO procured almost a
: infrtum. Is there shadow Of doul
about the complexion of Convention sc
y upin this fashion Surely not.
: We have thus, in advance, exposed, ]
: the clearcst aarner, the fact that the Stat
: Convention 10 form a Constitution, whic
i is to be held in Kansas in September mex
viii create one establishing slavery. III
+ whole thing is cut and dried. There ca
: be only this one result: That Consiiiu
: ton will be presented, and The Pro slave
u ~ men will ask for the admission Of Kan
: sas as a State under il, at the next sesso
), of Congress. Tho question Of slavery !
= Kansas will thus be flung back into Con
gress again, where tho battle win have {;
be renewedly fought, and where It will b
o determined jus; according to the politics
:, complexion OF that body. There ncve
c hos been n time, therefore, since the pas
It sage of the Kansas Nebraska bill, whei
L i. was more important FOR the electors 0
the Free States who have representative
n to cleo, to bs on the alert TO ro!ura trn
n men.
!. 0TThc Treaty respecting Central Am
}. erica recently negotiated ct London b
4 Mr.. Dallas with Lord Clarendon was yes
, terday ratified by tho Senate by the clos
vote Of thirly.two TO fifteen Zone NOR
A than the two.ihirds rcquircd.) Our cor
;. respondent states that all bat one Of tn
= Republicans present voted to ratify.-.
a Some amendments wero proposed, bu
they do not seem to be material. and "
!. think they will be readily asscnted TO b
= the British Ministry. It is possible, bu
. we think hardly probable, that Lori Ma