The Kanzas news., 1857-06-06
Kansas . Slave Stats.

June, one month from yesterday, an election viii
be held for delegates to Convention which Is to
meet in September, and frame State Constitution
for Kanzas. These delegates to be voted for by
those who are qualified to vote under the act pro-
viding for the election. The qualifications of such
voters are besides citizenship of the United States,
three months residence In the County and regis
tration on the Census rolls. The Census returns
show a vast majority in favor of making Kanzas a
slave State, and of course large maj ority of Del
egates to the Convention win be pro-slavery, and
the Constitution they make will protect slavery,
which is an established Institution in the Terri
tory. This Constitution win be submitted to the
popular vote of those co elected Delegates to make IL
,CiH be accepted By them, and then transmitted to
Congress with the petition that Kanzas be admit
ted State, with her organic law SO framed.
"The question is frequently mooted 'swin Kanzas
be admitted with a Constitution inhibiting sla-
very?" That it will be, is belief as it is our
hope. There is Democratic majority in Con-
gress or at least majority of those who are oppo-
sed TO Black Republicanism, and its doctrine of
s'no more slave territory" Should there be any
difficulty however, it can be readily removed
Suppose Kanzas is refused admittance, and Min
nesota, for example, submits its Constitution and
asks to be admitted into the Union. The South
and its friends viii say "stand back, you refused
us Kanzas, now we viii refuse you Minnesota un-
til our petition is granted. Let Kanzas come in,
and we will not keep Minnesota out"
'There is one idea prevalent which should as
well be abandoned at once, sfKanzas may come in
as slave State, but viii not remain SO long
Such is the expression we hear every day. The
fact is that slavery has existed for great many
years In Kanzas, say twenty or thirty, and is an
established institution, as. well by nature as by
law. The history of slavery in the United States
goes to show thatit is not easily uproote d.
True, it has been eradicated by formal process
of emancipation in many States, but it was done
from peculiar to the circumstances at time
when slaves and slave labor were far below par
And then the climate had much to do with that
emancipation movement which swept negro servi-
tude from New England and the Middle States.
But there is new way adopted by anti-sia-
veryites to abolish it. They threaten coerce, en-
deayor to drive. Ofall people known, Americans
| are the most stubborn; You may persuade them to
to do one. In 1882 Virginia came within one vote
of emancipating her negroes, while now, an eman-
cipatonist there, is considered bad as Aboli-
ZIONIST The difference is that Abolitionists tried
TO drive Virginia into what she not ready for,
and she kicked. And besides, slavery is now in
Its proper element, and it is madness to try and
drive It further South. It may go, after awhile,
but it win go voluntarily, not from coercion.
"Let Kanzas be slave State once, and Aboli-
tienism is powerless there. Northern men become
| Shareholders directly. Most of those who own
slaves In KaRzas now, were originally from the
North and when it is profitable to do so, they are
as ready to buy, sell and hold slaves any. We
could point to numerous instances, 20 prove this
fact which is not to be overlooked in calculating
the chances of Kanzas remaining slave State
Possession is nine points of the law let the South
get Kanzas once, and then Abolitondom viii whis-
i tie when she looses IT.
"Should those opposed to the extension of sia-
very, succeed in keeping Kanzas out of the Union,
at first, application viii be made again, and If ne
usai Is persisted ia scGr May and sci doubt Be The
consequence This we would ieplore but war Ia
preferable to degradation. and submission to wrong
Suffice it to say, we firmly believe that Kanzas
viii be admitted with whatever Constitution shall
be framed by the Convention to meet in Septem-
Der. That it viii be favorable to the South it is
now unreasonable to doubt"
The above arhcle is from the Star of E1apre, pub
lished at Westport, NO., by Fl. clay Pate, the hero
| {not of Jacinto or Monterrey but of "Blaek Jack"
We have 30 doubt that he speaks from the record
The proslaveryites have not committed the outEa-
ges recorded in the past history of Kanzas, to be
baked of their purpose now, without st least one
more effort The leaders of that party, aided by a
few quasi Free State men, urgent in their en-
treaties to the body of Free State men to come up
and vote under the Census Bill eoneocted by the
Missouri usurpers. s'We know that you are in 8
large majority, said they, "and ali you have to do
is to come up TO the polls, and beat u.s. But the
trick was too transparent not to be discovered by
any sensible man, and the consequence was that
la-ge majority Of the Free Ssss men resolved not
to touch the ssunclean thing" A few spectators
and ofice-seekers, calling themselves Free State
men, advocated voting, but their indecent haste for
Office and lust for gold, betrayed their designs to
the people, and they were rebuked. The result
has shown the good judgment Of the mas of the
people
Failing in their endeayors TO oeompromise the Free
State party, and fearful that Congress, although
Demoeratie By large majority, win not dare to
endorse the fraud when it shall be presented IN the
form of pro-siayery Constitution, they have re-
solved on playing bold and desperate game that
of defeating the attempt Of Ainneseta 20 come in
as sovereign State, at the next session of Con-
gress. unless Kanzas shall be admitted with Con-
i stifution representing not more than one-Efah Of
i the population OF the Territory
The editor Of the Star Of Enzpire eooIly presents
s5ay Is the u.sinatzs, should the pro-sasery men
| fail Of success in making Kanzas shave State
But he says nothing Of what the result VIII be 3
aey succeed. The South is lAboring under the de-
Iusiye hope that If they once suceeed IN getting
Kanzas sdmised as a slave Ssase, the Eorshern
emigration viii be checked, and they win then
| pour IN enough Of their own emigration 70 over
i power what Free State men are now here Blu.
sheY count without faeir host The people q
Eanzas viii not submit 70 be ruled over By for
i eign usurpatioa, though { were sanetioaed by
/ Congress and upheld By the bsyonets of The Gov.
ernnent. We don't expect them to give it mp with
ont struggle. Freedom fe< Kslzaz Is freedom fcl
Missouri. aud with Aiezours gees al hope Of ths
Indian Territory and Eestisszz Teas. It is :
syuggie for their existease. and Efey VII not en-
:. sly yield. Bus the dsom Of de +Cesscn Hand.
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