Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1857-06-04
The South getting Dangerous.

The South getting Dangerous.
The Charleston Mercury, says the N. II.
Evening Post, shares our impression in re-
gard to what is to be Governor Walkers
policy in Kansas, though that print does,
no; derive the same pleasure from the con-
temptation of il that Se have done. Speak
ing of his proposal at the Astor House 10
submit the constitution to be framed by the
Kansas Convention to the people, it says:
"But the proposition is all piece OF
specious treachery, and the real object is to
give Kansas to the North, at the expense of
the South; to quash sn issue and slave OF
q question on which the Black Republican
party would coon, and is inevitably d@stin-
ed finally to overwhelm the Democratic
party in the Union, avoid il as they may
Herein is the easy solution of the conduct
of these officials. While they dare not dis
pute the ualidity Of the act providing for IA
convention to form a constitution, or that ii
provided for full and fair expression Of the
piH Of the people Of Kansas, yet they fear
the result in favor of the South, and wish
to neutralize it by giving potency to all the
Northern States and people. In other words
they desire to appease the ravenvus appetite
Of the furious North with the plum of Kan
sas, and end, for the time at least, tFe Gif-
ficuIty for the Democracy from that quarter,
whence alone danger is appended. They
would
"'-palier with us in a double sense:
Zen keep the word Of promise to our ear,
And break il to our hope
"Secretary Stanton and Gov. w dlker will
rspcrt to specious pretences, and to sudaci-
Gus browbesting, to inveigle and bully the
Convention into this fatal measure. But
let the convention defy the intermeddling
of those scheming partissns. Southern
opinion and influence ;s stronger in this nat
ter than the: may possibly imagine. lie,
the convention ordsin pro-slavery consti-
tuition. Congress viii not refuse their al,
piication for admission as State. There Is
a temper at the South that isknopn to be get
Ting dangerous. Bold, able and successful
advocates will champion their cause in
Washington, and majority viii admi. Kan
sas.
1--WE have thus exposed the plot, and
stamped the treachery of Walker and STAN
ton. Let the Kansas convention deaden its
effects"
This is pretty way to talk of man who
has been Secretary of the Treasury, Pre-
sident ora Pacific Railroad, and subscri-
Der to fifty or sixty millions Of IFS stock, and
i. Governor of Kansas, and Candidate for
the seat now warmed by the person of Mr..
Buchanan. The Mercury would not treat
him with less consideration if he were but
a Common Freesoiler from Massachusetts.
The South also scents danger in the breeze;
il forcsees 10 the proposal to submit the
question to the people disposition to make
roum for white men in Kansas, but it does
not content itself with relying upon this
irmness of the Convention, or upon the
fact that "there is a temper at the South
whichis is getting dangerous" 1t proceeds
further, and provesto its own satisfaction
that the Convention has no power under the
act from which it is to derive its existence
to submit the results of its deliberations to
the people. "Not one word" says the South
"said (in the organic'dct) about submitting
the constitution to popular vote 1t adds:
"In this statute the Convention finds the
charter of its powers; and it can do moth
ing whatever or which there is no warrant
in the law. The conclusion, then, is plain
and irresistible, that the Convention is no
more authorized to submit the Constitution
to the popular vote of :he Territory, than to
make its acceptance dependent upon the
throw of die. When the Conv ention
frames constitution, it becomes Junctus
ofcio; and whatever else i: may presume to
do is Of no validity or authority"
We conclude. therefore, that the South
lis preparing to fall back upon the Federal
Legislature. 1t has already conceded that
the people Of Kansas will reject any Con-
sti,utioa which permits Slavery, and it now
is preparing to take an appeal to the pre-
sumed pro-Slasery majority in the mex,
Congress at Washington. We think we
see Congress interfering to impose pro-
Slavery Constitution upon Kansas after its
inhabitants had once rejected it.