Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-03-19
Special Correspondence of the n. Y. Tribune.
Kansas to be a Slave State.
LECoMPToN, IL. ~, Heb. ia, 1851.

LECoMPToN, X. T., Feb. IA, 1857.
The bill for taking the census and provi
ding for the election of Delegates to the
Convention has become a law, so far a:
both branches fthe Legislature are con.
cerned. 1t passed the Council yesterday
by unanimous vote, having been kept in
that body for reconsideration till that time
Mr.. Christian, in voting for it, said that he
did not approve of it in its present eondl
ton; that he would rather have allowed
the Governor to appoint the census-takers
and would have liked to have had one o.
the three Jud ges at each election to be
Free-Soiler; but there had been wiser anc
older heads at the framing of it than his
and he should vote for it.
1t passed the House this forenoon by ;
vote as decided, although there was some
little talk of amending it; but all opposition
was withdrawn. 1t has been hurried
through thus to-day, in order to let the
Governor have it. 1t is believed that he
will sign it, but if he does not, they will
have time to pass it over his veto.
While the bill was before the Council on
its fna passage, Mrl Mcdonald admitted
that the design was that the Constitution
so framed should not be submitted to the
people, by expressing his wish that there
might be some action on this bill to pro-
vide for such a contingency as Congress
sending the Constitution back to have il
submitted to the people. He said that in
case of such contingency, there should be a
provision that only those entered in the
lists as voting for the delegates should be
voters on the Constitution, or that there
should be some restriction as to a longer res
idence, which would amount to the same
thing. "Otherwise," he said, sit would
subject the party now in power IN ''the
Territory to certain defeat"
Against this was urged the impropriety
of providing for an unexpected contingen-
cy. Gen. Coffee said that the Convention
itself would have power to settle all such
matters, and that it had been deemed best
to leave it to the Convention. And so the
bill went through just asst was first report
ed.
On Tuesday next the House and Coun-
Gil will hold joint session to elect or ap-
point all the county and other Territorial
officers in counties where they have not
been previously appointed, or where there
are vacancies. Prosecuting Attorneys for
the three Districts of the Federal Territori-
al Court, as provided for by the recent bill
passed, will be appointed by this body
There is not syllable about relaxing this u
surping tyrany, and allowing the people to
elect their officers. Even the Pro-Slavery
residents Lave TO submit to this in order to
keep the Free-State men from having any
hand in the Government, local or other
wise.
A bill has passed the Council giving the
County Judges of Probate extended juris-
diction. 1t extends their jurisdiction in civil
action to debts of 81 900. and gives them
criminal Jurisdiction for all misdemeanors
where the penalty is fine or imprisonment.
In order to facilitate the criminal jurisdic
ton of this bogus County Court it is not
10 be required that the parties thus tried be-
fore them are to be indicted, nor is it pro-
vided that they shall have the benefit Of
Jury. The cases are in the discretion of
the Court solely. 1t is provided that the
district prosecuting attornies Ito be elected
next Tuesday by the Legislature) shall
each be allowed to appoint deputy in each
County, this Deputy to be approved by
the bogus County Judge. The public
prosecutor shall by bimself Or these Depu-
ties attend before these Probate County
Courts and prosecute all criminal cases.
This bill will go through the other House
and become law. 1t will be at once seen
that this bill establishes huge judicial ty-
ranny. These County Judges so far are,
as general thing, the most worthless men
in their respective counties. They are
the tools of the Bogus Legislature, and are
destitute, as rule, of legal knowledge,
fairness, temperance and manly honor. 1t
is fearful to contemplate the amount of
mischief that may be inflicted by this vio-
ent partisan proceeding. These Courts
have not the life and death power; but
hey can be most formidable weapons of
persecution against the Free-State settlers,
md it is for this express purpose the law is |