New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-12-14
n sec&r, G. p. Carver. C. A. Cutler. p. q.

WLn The Committee retired, Judge Joanson was
esD~d His speech wss A lab0red effort b prove
that there wss srl virtue enough IN the Dem0crsne
ksr,y 70 oppose this LeccmPtOo CODsu N.oD ana us
pretended submission. lie said That he dd not
ihinf that Congress representing al tbs interests
Of the country would do such thing a. S.ept the
I$eomp.on Constitution nor did be think that
Administration representing the different interests IN
tbe Territory would indorse it. lie took the posi-
Goo that Walker was opposed 70 this ConstitI ion.
Judge Conway was called, but he came forward
and sad !: was late ana he 9Ouh prefer TO speak 10
NE evening. The Convention then adjourned until
O'Clock.
EVENING SESSION.
Judge Conway said be- had been accused of 'ng-
sestns medicine In times OF grea. emergency lie
did not rise to speak as ~ any special remedy now;
hs frat object was 10 speak n the umes; no tooH
the position that il would not do ~ trust the Dem0c-
rsey. The Democratic party was, as It had been,
the enemy of the Free State party Kansas was
merely the field for political rivalry. 10 was tho
gyoupd ON which Douglas and Walker made the1
6oht (or the Frequency. Douglas had oyerreached
WalheY in the arts of political deception and bad
trr mpbed in the settlement Of this question. In this
emsrgepcy the people OF Kansas must trust 70 them
selves They must give the country and the Democ.
rsey an urmistabesbs evidence that they were sin-
cere in their determination whatever that determis'
stDn was.
The report of the COMMITTEE on Resolutions was
then read by its CHARM Al, Gen. Lane, and was
frequently interrupted by loud and prolonged bnrss
Of applause AT their CONCLUSION, the report of the
Committee was accepted, on motion OF Mr. Foster.
IL WAS then moved from several directions in the
hsll, that they be adopted by acolamstion before
there Was any speaking, that the world might know
The upsninty Of this people, ard that they needed
no eli auence to make them adopt such position.
There not being dissenting voice TO this PROPOSE
ton the resolutions we're unanimously adopted,
amid tremendous enthusiasm
PREAMBLE AND RESOLUTIONS.
We ne people Of KsGs8s IN Delegate Convention
ss,tmbled, at Lawrerce, this ID day OF December,
1857 do set forth the following TO our fellow citizens
and the people Of these CnSsd sstss threaten
10 npef the peace Cf the Territory and 70 deprive
majority Of our people Of their rights as cihzsns OF
this n public 10 govern the same.
o. the 3Otb OF March, 1855, an armed force from
kpsSu violently took possession of the polls IL Kan
cas- ard fIaudulen;ly elected territorial Legislature
with sentiments sdyerse to the options OF majority
Of the people, and enacted laws crusl and oppres'
sive; q Legislature composed in part Of persons
elsoied as above. and of other persons elected in
October 1856, in like violent and fraudulent manner,
and under deg aiding testcahs enacted by the
previous body, passed an act for the Gre
alton Of Conititu ional Convention under
partial and partisan registration aud apporhonment
and In the election of me9b'rs to ssld Conshtunopsi
Convention the law providing for the ga ne was never
complied ~ith in .nporsDt and essenti4 partlcn-
lrs especially ia taking complete csnsns of mo people
Id
teen EFT re counties being totally DISTINGUISHED, and
mary voters in the ether counties left Of: The
Convention that assembled in Lscompton in Sep
tember last, thus elected, have proceede1 to
fsne a Constitution for the STATE Of Kansas,
In defiance Of the fact mat they by their own record
represented email minority OF the people OF THIS Ter
ritory bsirg onIy seventeen hundred gu, of eleven
tboosaId vOters registered by taen, and twenty
thousand vOters, conceded 10 be 10 the Territory;
that their proceedings were p otested against by
the people, On the ground Of Illegally, aud
sofa Ylrri, % fn1
Unfed States Army vas necessary to prOt'ct then
On irg their fittings against The indignation OF en- out
RAJ people, In the taco Of these facts they refused
70 submit the instrument they hsve thus framed T.
vote Of the people for ratIfcsti)n ecton They
provide for sGn1e, styled by them an election, IN
which neither the Consultation, nor any m 4te!ia part
thereof can be elected or ected Tney have, pend
ing this action, provided for Safe election on toe
frst Monday Of January neat urder said hstru 1ent
and under the authority Of Z u.urpiog Regency un-
khown 10 constitutional authority and dang erous to
the liberties OF the people, the design OF the same
being 10 rob from the people Of Kansas their rghts
a. rescued through the bslot-box IL October ias
and destroy toe only legidW ale Territorial Legis-
lat We booy ever in Kansas. This dangerous assunp-
ton OF power calls for prompt aud efficient remedy
fom the people, the only legitimate sou'cs OF power
therefore,
Retoirtd, Ihst We utterly repudiats said CousStl.
ten, frsmsd 81 l@comptu; that !; IS an instrument
hosf lie O the pOpusr will and appealing to the q ID OF
Jus;ics sro humanity tor INT recude OF our ia.en-
tiors We do solemnly enter into league and cJve-
nsnt u IN each other, that We shall NEVER under any
circumstance ~ nit the ConsttutiOn, 80 framed,
and NOT SUBMITTED, 10 be the organic law for the
State Of Ksnsss but do pledge our Yes our fortunes
and sacred honors in cea'eles. Hostility to tns
same.
Rtsolred, q, Tast we derouDce Tie go called eleo.
ton Of December u, as swinde, AMI the election OF
Jan. l. 1858 as a cfime ana mis1emesnor against
the peace of ths Territory ard the will Of the ms
joity.
Rssolrtd, I'd, That the Legislature elected 10 this
Territory on the Stu day If October 1857 Is th' ony
leg innate Territorial "a. making body that ha eyer
been elected for the Territory Of Kansas, aid tha. is
functions shall not be superseded by any Consultation
or State Government uutl fair and impartial vote
shall be had on the same.
Resoir,d. ith, That this Delegate Convention do
hereby reindOrse the Conttaton known as the Tope-
Ia Constitution and do declare it 70 represent the
wishes cf the shortly Of the people OF Kansas day;
and that when shs have again recsived the popular
sanction under authority Of tie only legisms,e Tern
toria Legislature convened ia Kansas Territory,
rseoepizsd BY the authority Of the United ates that
We shall nshtsib il agains; all opposition.
RssOlred, 5h That, locking chiefly TO the above end
W. respectfully memorable the rerltora Leg ist ire,
about 10 extra session on the |tn irst,
% frame fair and impaft al election law AMI tnst
tb4y under IT, do submit the two Constitutions-ihs
peoples Constitution framed al Topeka, aud the Con
siitDton famed 81 LscOhpon-;o9 vote OF the people
Of this Territory and that the said Legislature provide
that the Constitution which shall re- GIVE IN ority OF
III the legal votes hall become the Fundamental law
fer the state Of Kansas.
. After the resolutions were declared adopted,
hree times three cheers given, and il was long
before the calm was restored
Gen. Lane was then called. His speech was one
Of his peculiar efforts The feelings of his audience
we're already touched by tire position they hal
taken; the speaker hipsef was touched.
Upon the morning Ct the battle Of Austerli,z, be
said, when the opposing armies were drawn up in
battle array Napoleon, IN riding along their serred
ranks, exc aimed 10 his soldiers =" Inc victory is