The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1857-12-25
REMOVAL OF sECRETaRY STANTON.

Territory, he (Stantonl having violated ms m
siructions by calling together the Territorial
Legislature for the purpose OF interfering in the
Convention for taking the vote on the ''slarery
question GEN. DENVER, man of great force
Of character, has been appointed 10 succeed
Mr.. Stanton. Fanaiicisn, pro-slavery and
anti-slavery, viii meet with no miIk-and-wal-r
treatment at the hands of Denver. Nav there
be enough of the ''OId Hickory" leaven in bin
and from wba: we are told of him, W. brIirvr
there is--to silence soon and forever lh- dis
contented, hypocrtical and agitating d"ma-
gogues in Kansas, who have shown thems~v Ives
to be ever ready to commit perjury, murder and
treason, aye, who are willing to see the very
Freedom they Prae so much about, irampled
in the dust, if thereby the election Of an A5o-
Iltion President in 1860, could be secured
Mr.. Secretary Stanton in his message to the
Territorial Legislature, holds the following Ian
guage
The law passed at the last session ofthe Leg
islative Assembly, providing for the organiza-
ton Of Convention to frame a Constitution for
the government of Kansas as one Of the States
ofthe Union, was adopted at a period when,
unfortunately, the people ofthe Territory were
divided by bitter hostility, resulting from the
previous state of commoton and civil war. in
consequence OF this emblipred feeling, and the
mutual dislrust naturally thereby engendered,
onr of the parties, composing a large majority
,f tb - - l.,
any participation IN the proceedings instituted
under the law aforesaid. The census therein
provided for was imperirctly obtained from an
unwilling people, IN nineteen counties of the
Territory; while in the remaining counties, be-
ing also nineteen IN number, from various eau
ses, no attempt was made to comply with the
law. In some instances, people and officers
we've alike averse 10 the proceeding: IN others,
the officers neglected or refused to act; and in
some, there was but small population. and no
efficient organization, enabling the people TO
secure representation in the Convenlion.-
Under the operation Of all these causes com
blned, census list was obtained of only nine
thousand two hundred and .fHy-one iegaI ro-
terS, confined TO precisely one-half the coun-
ties of the Territory, though these undoubtedly
contained much the larger part Of The popuIG-
tion.
At the election which followed in the pursu-
ance of the law, only fro thousand tco hundred
persons being less than one fourth of the regis
tered UotPrs, participated, an any manner, in the
choice Of delegates, either by voting for those
elected, or for other persons. The average ag-
gregate vote in favor OF the successful candi-
dates was about eighteen hundred.
II thus appears that in the election Of the 18th
June last, for the delegates 10 the Convention,
the great mass Of the people RETAINED from vo-
ting, and left the whole proceeding, with all
lis important consequences, TO the active MI
nority, under whose auspices The law had been
enacted, and also executed, so far as that could
be done by the executive officers, without the
concurrence of majority of the people.
THAT THE REFUSAL OF THE MAJOR
ITY TOGO INTO THE ELECTION FOR
DELEGATES WAS UNFORTUNATE. IS
NOW roo APPARENT TO BE DENIED.
IT HAS PRODUCED ALL THE EVILS
AND DANGERS OF THE PRESENT CRIT
CAL HOUR
Now, here is the positive and emphatic state
ment ola high public officer 10 Kansas, THAT
THE REFUSAL OF THE MAJORITY TO
GO INTO THE ELECTION FOR DELE
GATES TO THE CONSTITUTIONAL con-
VENTION, HAS PRODUCED ALL THE
EVILS AND DANGERS OF THE PRESENT
CRITICAL HOUR" The question arises,
what party constitutes that majoriiy2 1t is
by The result OF the late election in
Kansas for Delegates to Congress and Members
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