Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1857-07-15
Kansas-.GOv. Walker--the Washington Union
and the Richmond Enquirer.

Kansas--GOv. Walker--the Washington Union
and the Richmond Enquirer.
The following letter from Lecompton, Kansas to
the ST. Louis Republican, gives the action of the
late Democratic Convention in Kansas, and in SUBJ
stance, we presume, the present condition of af-
fairs in that Territory:
Correspondence of the St. Louis Republican,
LEcoMPToN, July 8.
The regular national democratic convention repre-.
sentng the several counties of this Territory, and
regularly called by the central committee, assem-
bled at Lecompton, the seat government this day.
1t was largely attended, there being absent but
thirteen out of sixty representative votes.
They passed resolutions excluding all sectional
distinctions, adopting the Cincinnati platform, and
assuming the name of the national democracy of
Kansas embracing all democrats, whether from the
unanimous vote, pedgng their support and co-opera-
ton to Gov. Walker, amid enthusiastic cheers, and
nominated Gov. Ransom as their candidate for de-
legate to Congress.
A resolution was presented pledging support to
the State constitution to be adopted if that in
ratification. After considerable discussion this re-
solution rejected with but one dissenting vote,
and the result was announced amid loud cheers
This convention was composed ofa large majority
Of proslavery men, but the whole democratic party
of Kansas, whether proslavery or free State, will
sustain the inaugural address of Gov. Walker, and
the submission of the constitution to the vote of the
people, Under'these resolutions Gov Ransom will
be elected and the democrats will carry the terri
torial legislature.
The constitution to be framed in September next,
1t is now certain, will be submitted to the whole
people, and will be ratified by large majority. |
cannot, of course, speak with certainty, but
the prevailing opinion is that they will adopt con-
sttution securing the right to the slaves in the
Territory, numbering about two hundred; the exc
cution of the fugitiveslave law and the appeal in
constitutional questions to the Supreme Court of the
United States and that, at the time the con-
sttution is submitted, they will also submit clause,
for the vote of the whole people, prohibiting
thorzing the introduction of slaves future. 1t is
conceded on all hands that large majority of the
people will vote to prohibit the future introduction
Of slaves into this Territory.
through the hearty cooperation of the whole demo-
cratic party of Kansas, whether proslavery or free
State democrats, is certain.
Just before the convention closed, and after all
the resolutions had been adopted, a committee was
appointed to wait on Governor Walker and request
the most uproarious cheers-three times three and
tiger
Henceforth you may consider the Kansas difficult
ty as settled on the platform of Governor Walker,
sustained by the whole democracy of Kansas, with
scarcely dissenting voice, and BY the whole demo-
n"oJ vi tn'ssou', "n,e" 0tale iuiiy understands
the question, has fully endorsed Gov Walkers
plans, knows that they are the only plans that are
practicable and that: except for the course pursued
by him, civil war would now be raging in Kansas
that the freeState democracy would be separated
from the pro-slavery democracy, and that Kansas
would be brought into the Union as an out-and-out
abolition State
Governor Ransom fully agrees in the whole policy
of Governor Walkers address"
Whatever the people of Kansas may freely and
deliberately do on the subject of slavery, will meet
the approval acquiescence of the South generally.
1t is for them-the people of Kansas-under the