Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1857-12-11

Gazette says, SHE people of fhaf Territory
are TO decide for then,setrss tshether they will
hare Constitution permitting sIauery or
not!" Certainly the new political assooia-
tions of the writer of this precious morceau,
have Damaged bis understanding and warped
his dwarfsh reasoning powers. Won't dogge-
rel come 10 his relief!
It u,ay be that the public will ere long
believe what the American Republican press
has said Of the d,ings of the pro-slayery party
in Kansas. Their determination TO force
slavery on the Territory, by fair means or foul,
have, through the action OF the Lecompton Com
veution become So disgusting that even Col.
Forney, Of the Philadelphia Press, speaks ou'
in tie language of the following article:
TIE LAST NEWS FROM KANSAS.
The drift of I'll the news frcm Kansas, by
mail and telegraph. shows conclusively that the
so-called pro-slavery Constitutional Conven-
ton, Ike nther bodies of whom we have read,
is another formidable instance Of the adage
that "whom the gods wishto destroy, they first
make mad Some of the propositions pre-
seuted 10 that Convention. which, be II re-
n,embcred, represents mere fragment of the
voters of the Territory would disgrace ,ies-
potism, others are merely ridiculous, while the
whole affair looks 10 us, at this distance, "a It
the parties engaged in it had entered into d
contract TO mortgage the new State to their own
individual interests for century TO come.
There is a consistent disregard of the peo-
ple manifested, cool resort to trick and an ut
ter shamelessuess, which altogether make up a
satire upon representative bodies suehas we
have never before bad the luxury to enjoy
We rive in another column some Of the do
Jugs of this Conventions and have only TO say,
that If the Constitution fabricated By this body
is sent to Congress, we trust that short work
will be made Of it. Il deserves nothing but
contempt.
1t has a single merit, it is its consistency
with the fraud and wrong which it is intended
to perpetuaie, and from which, IN great rart,
it has grown. The idea Of set of men chosen
as delegates to this Convention, attempting TO
bind posterity TO their work, aud daring to null
lifv in advance the will of the MINORITY, is SO
nlonstrous that we wonder the outrage did not
excite the whole people to civil war.
In speaking of doiDgs like these, we feel that
it is idle to minee phrases, and We sincerely
hone that it the constitution of Kansas is any
thing like the instrument it promises 10 be,
from the intelligence We lay before our readers
this morning, it will, when presented TO the
Congress Of the United States, be thrown out
CT both branches BY a unanimous vote. AT any
rate We trust that the Senators and Representa-
tives from Pennsylvania will boldly and at once
put their feet upon it aud spurn it as ii deserves
to be spurDed.
Many others of the most prominent Loeofocc
papers, take the same views in reference to this
fraud, as Col. Foruey's Press; among them are
the Chicago Times. Douglas orgau,l Detroit
Free Press, tGen. Cass' organ,) Provid nee
Post, Albany Atlas, Buffalo Courier, Roches-
ter Union, Seneca Observer, Pitsburg Union,
and many others of the most respectable Of the
party. What strikes Us as singular, is, that
papers ike the "Bedford Gazette" that are
under the management of editors that have
been Wings. Know Nothings and Republicans,
within the last eighteen months, should nov
out-Herod Hcrod on this Kansas question, and
20 farther than many Shareholders themselves.
The HesSian soldiers to- day will Gght for Eng
land, or any other nation, against France; to-
morrow they will fight as warmly for France
they fight for pay