New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-12-03
Il Open your mouth and shu, our eyes,
Ard Iu giy. Won sornptbira 10 make V

"Open your mouth and shut Your eyes
Ard III give you sonethirg to make you wise
That journal is quite rabid against the good people
Of Kansas because they show some reluctance al
swallowing the LecOmpton Constitution in this
blindfolded way. " The Convention" 1h' Union
tells ~, has prepared Constitution for tbs con-
templatel State, the general yt,atur" Of Which so
"ar as ,oe can learn are free from Reasonable OHIO
"plaints' II will be quite time enough TO expect
TO hear complaints about the provisions of the Con-
sttution when tha. document shall have bsen made
public. At present The Union By its own confs'-
sion has but very email amount Of information on
the subject, nor have the people OF Kansas any
more. So far that journal can learn without ever
having seen the document, the general features of
the Constitution are free from reasonable objection
and it has yet heard no complaints; and, OF tho
basis of this state of ignorance on its part it pro
ceeds to berate the people Of Kansas because they
object to shutting their eyes as Thu UnioS cOss
opening their mouths, aad joyously accepting the
Constitution, whatever it may prove to be.
The Union charges upon the "Black Rspubi-
cans of Mountaineering thereby the great mass
of the pecple-that they are mere perfectly dawes
than any portion Of the colored people Of the U0on
or even of Cuba. Perhaps it is upon that grouui
that il is theusht quite sufficient for them to be e.
lowed to pass upon the "nigser" clauses OF tbs
Constitution, while the LecoDpton Convention
the repIe.entitive of the Border Ruffi.u party
decides absolutely and without appeal as to all that
relatss TO white folks. Yet considering the recent
experience which the people Of Kansas have had OF
Border. Rofllan fairness in the way Of sppOrtior-
mept, it might not seem altogether unreasonable
on their part to insist upon the privilege Of passing
also on those provisions.
As to the opposition made in Ksnsss TO the
schedule of the Lecompton Constitution, tue Only
part Of tina, document yet officially msde public
TIE Union betrsys great Ignorance, not ssy great
impudence, in a.cribing that opposition to "Black
Republican" instisstioD. No Republican pIe'se,
and no Republican politicians in or ont Of the Ter
ritory, e.e. pnb,hsd tie trit paragraph or said Tho
first word 10 induce tie psspe Of Kan'ss to expect
that the Ii ecnyssn Constitgt on would ever 90 sab
mitted TO fair vote Of The people TsOse snuranees
came altogether from tie other side. They are to
be found in tho Cincinnati platform IL Buchaasus
Inaugural, in his New Haven letter. and in Walk
ers speeches. Ii was 10 this way, and BY these
means, that the people Of Kansas wore led to re-
gard the submission of the Consultation to be
formed q. L'ctppton to their approval or rejection.
as their political right In now claiming tsst right
and Insisting upon it, they do but repeat ideas and
words which President Buchanan and Robert J..
Walker, Mr.. Puchansus con ideu.isl agent hsi
put into their hesds, and into their mouths. II
corrupt and reckless politicians" are to be bsld
responsible for the existing excitement 10 Ksasss,
they ought to be ,oueht for among those who hsss
aided to raise false expectations, aud who have
made promises which they have not tie viii OF the
nerve 70 perform,