The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-12-05
The Climax OF Squatter Sovereignty in
Kausas.

Kansas.
Under the recent action of the bogus Con-
stitutional Convention of the Pro-Slavery or
National Democratic Party in Kansas, the af-
fairs of that unhappy Territory are again
likely to assume once more dark and
threatening aspect. The news is, that the
bogus Convention adjourned sine die on the
9TH Of November, after having framed Con-
stitution, which
anchors Slavery with all her chains"
on the smiling plains Of Kansas; and after
having deliberately refused, by formal vote,
to submit the Constitution they had made, or
any clause thereof, to the People for their rat.
ifcation or rejection.
The design of this anomalous procedure
-unheard of before in this country, but IA
miliar to the old world, where Kings .concede
Constitutions as fauors to the people-is to
force Slavery upon Kansas adversely to the
wishes of nine-tenths of her people, by Sc
curing from Congress the acceptance of the
Constitution, in which the right of the peo-
pie, even, to NEEDLE with or hereafter abolish
Slavery, is denied and prohibited.
And this is a specimen of the fruits of
"National Democracy" This is the final
outcome to the repeal of the Missouri Com
PROMISE and the passage of the Kansas-Ne
braska acts
But, it may be asked, will Congress sane
ton this un-republican, un-democratic scheme
to cheat the people of Kansas for the benefit
of Slavery?
We greatly fear it WILL Why should we
doubt it .? What does the past show? And
what, in the present, can we expect from
Congress that in both branches, the
Democratic party is in majority. The same
party controls the National Administration.
In Congress, the Democratic strength is
drawn principally from the Southern States,
which come up in nearly solid phalanx to sus
tain the Democracy which fosters and defends
the inaliena'le right to propagate human Sla-
very. And is it not to the South, also, the
Administration of Mr.. Buchanan manly
owes its existence ?
These being the facts, what probability is
there, if the South should demand. of Con-
gress and of the Administration, their sane
ton for the Bogus Pro-Slavery Constitution,
and the immediate admission of Kansas an
der 1t, into the Union that both would not
ytorthwiM yield to the demand-bow like Slaves
will when the lash of the overseer is uplift-
ed over their backs
To be sure, they might coquette little
before yielding finaly-put on pretence of
honesty, and virtue, and show mock reluc-
lance to the prostitution-but yield they
would finally and unreservedly to the slave
Power.
Why what other mission has the Demo-
cratic Party nowadays but the maintenance
and spread OF SIauery? What vitality has
it, except what is given it by the support,
the nearly unanimous support, of the Slave
holders Can it be imagined for one moment,
that it will long demur to any demand which
the slave power may urge upon it, or fail to
honor any drafts Of oppression which that
power may call upon it to meet ? Never
the very idea is ridiculous.
No-upon this climax of Kansas wrongs
this ramming a Slave Constitution, in the
manner proposed down the threats of the
People of that beleagured and oppressed ter.
ritory-we have no right, arguing from the
past, to expect that the Democratic Party in
the North will be less dough-faced, or resist
this outrage any more firmly than it did pre-
vious assaults upon liberty and popular right
in that quarter of the Union.
"Commencing with the first election held
during the earlier days of Reeder's admins
tsation, when open violence and intimidation
were resorted to to overthrow majorities that
they could not outvote, down to the last
Border Ruffian act, prior to the adoption of
the Pro Slavery Constitution, including the
chasing of REEDER from his post, the repeat
ed seizure Of the polls at popular elections,
the sacking of Lawrence, the scalpings, butch
erings and burnings to which the Free State
men were subjected to, the treason trials un-
der Lecompte and Cato, the detention and
robbing of emigrant trains, the late fraudu-
lent apportonment, the dismission of SHAN
NON and GEARY, and hundreds of other out
RACES and atrocities familiar to all readers Of
Kansas history,-including all these, hecourse
Of the Democratic party IN the Territory has
been consistently and uniformly supported and
approved By the Democratic party in the States.
The crimes of which the newspapers and pol
iticians in Pro Slavery service were guilty,
equally with their confederate scoundrels who
were the direct perpetrators thereof, had but
one object in view-the smyngation Of Kan
sas to the domination Of the Slace Power.-
There was not "a Pro-Slhvery spouter or jour
nal in the Free States that did not under
stand them. Now at last the inquity is per-
petrated. The slave constitution, for which in
Kansas and elsewhere the Democracy have
ceaseessy labored, and for which indeed
DOUGLAS turned traitor to his Northern
friends and secured the enactment of his Kan
sas- Nebraska bill, has been made. The
wears of turmoil and agitation, of bloodshed
and burnings, of treason and rebellion have
their expected result"
We have intimated above, that if the South
should demand of the Democratic party, to
sanction this new crime against the people
of Kansas, IL a1ould do 1t! The evidences
are, that the Southern politicians have been
acting in concert with their friends in Kan
sas. Already Senators HUNTER, TooMBs,