Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1857-11-20
From The Chicago Tribune.l
LATEST FROM KANSAS.
A PrO.lSlaccry Constitution AdQpted-Not to
be Submitted to the People!

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stitution, down to last Saturday night, Nov. 9TH.
| Thursday, Friday and Saturday were consumed
in fierce debate as to the best method OF fore
ing Slavery upon the people Of Kansas. There
were two propositions before the Convention
LIST. To submit to the people only the slave
clause in this shape: Constitution with slave
ry," 'Constitution without slavery" I'd. 10
send up the Constitution to Congress without
submitting it at ALL The former is called the
Majority Report; the latter the Minority Re
port. Calhoun, of Springfield, H., stands
sponsor for the former, and Jenkins, of West
port, Mo-, native of South Carolina, is put for
ward as the leader of the Extremists.
The Douglas wing of the Convention wanted
to submit the slave clause to the people, but
not the body of the Convention. The plan is,
to force the people to vote for the instrument it
self, whether they are for or against it. This
Constitution legaIizes all the laws passed by the
bogus legislature, including the black code
which Furnishes with death those who oppose
slavery.
| We have space only for q condensed sketch
from the long report of the proceedings furnish
ed by our correspondent.
John Randolph, blunt, out-spollen pro-slave-
ry delegate, representing AtchisOn county, in
the course of debate on Friday, said that she
was in favor of the minority report, because he
considered the plan of the majority eCalhoun's)
a Soindlc. The idea of submitting one clause
| Of the Constitution and not allowing the peO-
pie to vote on the whole was mean, cowardly
and infamous-it was worse than n swindle, it
was scOuH9reliSmi He ridiculed the idea that
the lore of Democracy and the principles OF Free
Suffrage actuated the Douglasites in the COnven-
ton. Else why did they deny to the people the
right to vote upon the whole instrument? He
was in favor of submitting the whole or none;
| he was down or all sneaking, halfway lodges
| For himself he believed the Convention to be a
sovereign body, and therefore it possesses the
right to send up to Congress its Constitution
without submitting it to the people at large. He
was opposed from principle, to letting the Abo-
| litionsts and Black Republicans vote down their
Constitution, as they would do if they had the
chance. What he did he wanted to do openly;
he was opposed to stabbing in the dark. He
hated Judases, who kissed only to betray. The
majority report was u cheat and fraud!"
| lie was followed by Morley, of Riley county,
who pitched into both reports. He denounced
| the proposition of the majority as base attempt
to swindle the people, and the minority report
as high-handed outrage. He said the Douglas
ties wanted to slip poison into the Free Sellers
cup; while the AtchisOnitcs were for blowing
out their brains openly, and that was all the diff
ference between them on the slavery question.
He then offered a substitute proposing To sub
init the whole Constitution to all the voters,
with proviSo requiring every voter to swear
| to support this Constitution, If it should be
ratified, Nebraska bill and the Fugitive Slave
law!" His substitute was tabled by large ma
jority.
Col. Jenkins, fugleman of the UItraists, next
smoke. He took the broad Southern Democrat
| ic ground and claimed that the Convention had
the sovereignty, and should decide not to sub
nit the Constitution, or any part of it, to the
people. He said the public good and the proper
equilibrium between the Free and Slave States,
| required that Kansas should come into the Union
as SLdce State. He EHcaO it would be received
| r
ton. He said that lie had read letter from
| President Buchanan, to prominent member of
the Pro-Slavery party in Kansas, to the effect
| that "the COnStitUti0n leOud he receiced IN the
form as sent up by the C0nrentiOn."
Next followed Wells, of Douglas county, who
was opposed TO both reports. He denounced in
J bitter terms, those who were designated as Alb.
olitionists in the Convention. They were all
! National Democrats; there was not Black Re-
publican among them. Although he considered
Republicans as enemies to the constitution and
country, yet they were citizens, and entitled to
a voice in the institutions under which they
must live We cannot get over this, and we
should not, said he, make a Constitution in
which the people were prevented from express
ing themselves on the institutions under which
they wish to live. This COnstitutio., only rep
resents 1000 voters, and there are 10000 in
Kansas. 1t was repugnant to all his ideas Of
right for 1000 men to attempt to dictate to ten
times their NUMBER, ana lOrce upon them lnSti-
tutions which they hated and abhorred He
did not believe that Congress would accept
Constitution so framed; he thought the Northern
Democrats would not dare to vote for admitting
State under such circumstances, and if they
did, the Black Republicans would destroy the
party in every Free State. The destruction of
the Democratic party in the North, would be u
calamity which the admission of a doz Slave
StateS would not counter.balance.
| Gen. Calhoun, of Springfield ILL.,, ma lc long
speech in favor of the majority repor, and OF
only submitting the slavery clause to lie peo.
pie. He was opposed to giving the ''ropeka-
itesr chance to 'vote down our Democratic
Constitution The majority report would
compel the AboIitionists to vote for the Consti-
tuition while they were voting down the slave
clause, no matter how repugnant it might be to
them. "In this way we have got them tight"
said he, land they can't help themselves"
There are several provisions in the body of the
instrument which sufficiently protect slave pro-
perty, which, with the bred Scott decision, is
all that Southern gentlemen should ask. BY
this means Kansas will come into the Union as
Democratic State, like Illinois"
| \ dozen other speeches were made, which we
have not room to sketch. &.
Judge Elmorc offered an article to be incor-
porated into the Constitution, viz, THAT from