Kenosha tribune & telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1856-1859, 1857-10-01
Kansas MaffRrS.

The Kansas correspondent of the Cincinnati
Gazette says:
Attorney General Wier has decided that the
law of the first session of the bogus Legislature
is still in force that none can vote bit those ,eht
paid tares, and that the Border Rufiian Sherifs
and deputies must be at the voting places as pro.
vided by law, to collect taxes All who have
not paid will be challenged.
And adds:
The Constitution, when framed, will unques-
tiouabiy be strongly pro-slavery, and if submit
ted at all to the people, none but registered vo-
tiers will be permitted to participate in the Con
vention.
a correspondent of the Charleston Mercurl
writes: .e3a
have no hesitation in saying, that an over
whelming majority of the Convention about to
assemble, are in favor of a positive slave clause
and no reference to the people, unless some new
scheme can be sprung different from any now
known. Some delegates are instructed to refer
back the Constitution to the registered voters.
1hiS most Of as deem unadUiSaJic. Gnd Think ii
1eiR not De persisted IN. after formal iatrodUc
ton, these men ,oW fall hack upon no ratification .
The correspondent of the St. Louis Oemocra
says, in relation to the adjournment of the Con
vention:
The adjournment was cut aud dried affaiI
from the first. 1t was we'll understood by the
leaders of the party, and was only objected to by
b
the Territory and were not well pasted. The os
tensibe object of adjournment was to "alIow
the business committees time TO make reports.
The Tedt objects of the adjournmen. may be
briefly stated as follows; 1t is the intention OF
the Convention TO form an exceedingly violent
pro-slavery constitution. They well know that
if such constitution as they propose to adopt be
made public at present, the cause of national
democracy III some of the northern states, where
elections are soon to be held, will he very mnch
damaged. They also wish to do nothing which
would deter the Free State party from attempt
ing a participation in the coming election,
though they will take very good care to prevent
the party from gaining anything thereby.
The correspondent of the New York Times
writes:
A considerable number of the delegates ere kno,cn
to be opposed immoraJiy to The policy IF submitting
the Constitution to the people at all Relying on
the support of the South and the willing and
earnest endorsement and cooperation OF the
Southern members of Congress whom they ex.
pect to vote for the admission of Kansas as a
State with Pro-Slavery Constitution. that shall
not have been submitted tothe bona fdc settlers
of the Territory for ratification or rejection this
portion of the Convention are determined to
press their measures on the whole body, nOleRs
roieRS, and succeed or fail, to do all the damage
Of which they are capable.
The same correspondent says that there is al
so another faction, whose ends are the same, but
who propose to reach them by urging that the
Kansas and Nebraska bill was party measure
intended TO secure strictly party end that il
had ceased to be servicabe to that party, and
must, therefore, be repudiated, in toto, and es
pecIally that portion of it which provides that
the people (meaning the whole people, of the
Territory shall have the right TO form their own
social institutions and frame their own laws"
The above extract shows what is going on in
Kansas. The Free State men are on the alert,
and if they overb orne in the contest, the PEG.
pie of the whole country will at least show how
it was done, and where the responsibility lies.