Kenosha tribune & telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1856-1859, 1857-11-26
Kansas.
Now that election is past, we may be Above,
-sneak of this Territnru and its r,rnsnantn

NOW that election is past, we may be allowed
aspeak of this Territory and its prospects
49, aout subjecting ourselves to the charge Of
+" shriekiEg" for political effect We have
been assured most positively thousands of times
by those claiming to be high in authority in the
Democratic ranks, during the late canvass, that
matters were all settled in Kansas, in favor OF
the Free State men-that there was no more
cause to fear the establishment OF slavery there
that the Democracy had abandoned the idea
of making slave state. The triumph of the
Free State men at the election for Delegate to
Congress, and members of the Territorial Leg.
islature, was pointed to as the surest evidence
OF those insertions. And then, did not Gov.
Walker and Secretary Stanton reject the bogus
returns from Johnson and MCGEE counties thus
giving the Free State men two-thirds of the
Legislature
All these things looked fair enough on the
face, and many were no doubt deceived by the
specious appearances, and thus rendered more
careless of the result Of the election in our own
State. But how stands the case now Gov.
Walker says he did not reject those returns be-
cause they were fraudulent, but because they
were fatally defective, The returns did not
state for what offices they pretended to have
been cast The pro-slavery Democratic consti,
tutional convention has perfected its work of
viliany in framing as ultra pro-slavery con-
stitution, as the most rabid STAKEHOLDER could
desire. The constitution, aside from its pro-
slavery features, is Objectionable to the Free
State men of the Territory, who constitute
more than nine-tenths of the population as the
late election demonstrates, yet it is not to be
submitted to the people for their approval or
rejection. There is one clause to be submitted
that in reference to slavery. The question to
be submitted is, The constitution with the slave
ny clause, and the constitution without the
slavery clause, there being no chance to vote
-onthe constitution ITSELF If the slavery clause
is voted out, then there is no word in the
instrument in eference to slavery. tits Meth
er excluded nor introduced, but it is a fact that
the institution already exists in Kansas, and
under the bred Scott decision, and the Presi-
dents Silliman letter, it must continue there,
unless specially excluded. Thus, whether the
constitution recognizes slavery or not the in
stitutiOn is there to all intents and purposes as
effectually as in South Carolina Such is the
shift to which Democracy is reduced in the hope
of circumventing the Free State men, by which
they have the eelat of submitting the constitu
ton to the vote of the people, and still have the
institution fixture in the Territory and the
future State.
We do not believe the Free State men are going
to submit any sght-of hand performance, after
what they have already gone through. They
have been assured time and again, that they
should be allowed to frame their own laws and
choose their own institutions SO far this has
been theoretical and not practical. The major
ity has been sacrificed to the minority ever
since the Territory was organized. BY the aid
Of Missouri Border Ruffians, and United States
Troops, the majority of the citizens of Kansas
have been denied voice in the legislation of
the country, and laws have been forced upon
them,at which every feeling of right justice and
humanity revolted. The imposition of this con-
stitution upon them will be the feathers weight
that broke the camels back