Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-11-25
EVENING STAR.
WASHINGTON CITY,
wEpNEsDAY.. November 25, 1857.


SpIRETOF THE NOR MING PRESS
The Union announces officially the present
alton to the President, yesterday, of Senior Don
Napoleon Escalante and Senior Don Luis Moli-
na, ENJOYS Extraordinary and Ministers PIen-
ipotsntiary from the Republic of Costa Rica to
the Government of the United States '.-.1f
The Union also compliments the New York
Tribune upon the boldness with which it states
its positions, and uses it to brush away the
cobwebs of bubbles against the action of the
late Kansas Convention, which few disaffect-
ed Democratic journals hare woven, saying,
with convincing force: -
Some of our Democratic contemporaries seem 10
have become belonged in trying to find out why
the late Kansas convention failed to submit their
entire work to the judgment Of the people of
Kansas. The Tribune clears away the fog, and
gives a conclusive answer. IL says:
"The men who got up this bogus constitution
knew perfectly well that the people of Kansas
secuted their pretence Of authority TO frame a
constitution for them, and would vote down that
which they have made, If allowed to do So so they
will not let them vote on it at ALL Does any man
believe that they would have shackled the people
in this way if they bad not absolutely otvn that
the people would reject their constitution IL they
were allowed chance to do sou :
Here We have the whole story told and the
whole mystery explained. "The men who got
up this bogus constitution" dc-that is to saw
the Tribune regards the late convention as an IL
legal and unauthorized body Of men, who had no
right TO make any sort Of constitution Hence il
denounces the constitution as bogus affair and
so u would have denounced any constitution that
the convention might have made But the Fri
bune proceeds to add that the members of the
convention knew that the people of Kansas (mean-
Ing thereby the advocates of the Topeka consti-
tGtfon) secuted their pretence of authority TO
frame constitution for them, and that the mem-
bers of the convention knew also that the Topeka
aboliticnists would vote down the constitution
made. III the convention knew these things il
would have been worse than farce to submit
the constitution for the mere purpose of having
II voted down--not voted down, be it observed,
because its provisions weTe not GOOD Int ne.
cause II Was, IN their estimation a bogus affair
golfer mp by nlen unauthorized TO make any con-
situation. .7t
The convention knew that they We're actin p i'm
pursuance OF the legal authority Of The Territory
and that 1t was their duty to make a constitution
but II they knew, too, that there was a fact ions
opposition to the convention which would cause
the rejection of their work, however well done
they were excUsable for refusing TO WELD to that
factio9s spirit They did enough when they
agreed to submit the only part Of their work
about which the popular mind was ayitated and
divided, We think, the efor e. the Tribune fur
nlshes conclusive answer to the objection that
the convention failed to submit any other than
the slavery clause of The constitution TO the sacr
fce Of the Topeka factionists
The IRtsli'geRcer also discusses the action
oil the Kansas convention, insisting that the
failure to submit the whole constitution to the
people Of the Territory, was wrong under any
combination or complication of circumstances
whatever. That journal also quotes various
Northern Democratic journals against that ac-
ton. halfof which have admitted, in article.
published subsequent to those quoted to-day
by our respected friends, have changed their
Positions on the subject, the later information
received by them having opened their eyes to
the fact that their original views in the premi-
ses we're based on the usual bogus intelligence
from Kansas furnished by Republican party
writers.