The Kansas herald of freedom., 1858-01-23
KANSAS. JANUARY %, 1858.
Avainable publie pocusnen,.

" HAS rarely aAOAuoS 40 SiSe&eSSAA HeSS-
sure to. publish a public document than
welexperience this week, in giving place
to the following memorial to Congress.
from the State officers elect under the
Lecompton Constitution, praying that
body not to admit us into the the Union
asa State under that instrument The
memorial speaks for itself, and is an hon
or to those gifted gentlemen who have
spread their protest npon the records of
the country against that nefarions swindle.
We exhibit the anomaly Of Territory,
protesting through the Territorial Legisla-
ture legal form against our admission into
the Union as a State. Allour late Execu-
tive officers are also protesting against it,
The people of all parties, both in mass
and delegate conventions have everywhere
protested against it. through resolutions
and by public acts. Twenty-one of our
Territorial presses, are protesting. against
it, while but one is for it. Our Delegate
in Congress is protesting; and that same
Delegate, elected by the voice of the peo-
pie as a Representative in Congress under
that instrument, viii stand up in Congress
and will present the memorial of the
Governor, Lieut. Governor, Secretary of
State, Auditor and Treasurer, setting forth
that the Lecompton Constitution, under
which they hold their Office, was. fraud,
gross outrage upon the people, and close
by begging Congress to defeat it, and
allow the people to frame their own insti-
tutions in their own way" Does. any,
body doubt the result, with the protest Of
near 1900 legal votes in legal manner
recorded against it on the 4th of January
To have the pleasure of submitting
such document as these State. officers
have prepared, to Congress against the
Lecompten. .Swindle, is worth all the labor
and expense bestowed in the late election
and it should shame into decency, if il
were possible, those men who were moi
willing to vote for these old tried friends
of the Free State party, because "mer
love power, and when once in their hands
they are. not willing to relinquish it,
When any of those vilifers of Messs
Smith, ROBERTS. SCHUYLER, &C., shall
have done a 1.-THE as much for the cause
as those men have done in this single &C
it will be proper to listen to them. Blu
to the 1AA'. s'.=' = '''4 .'s. -
- q - 5'asa Memorial sns7sA 80
10 the Honorable, the Senate and House o
Representatives of the United States Il
Congress assembled: 70
The undersigned, the State officer
elected under the Lecompton Constitu
ton, would most respectfully represent
that the Constitution under which thel
have been elected to the various offices tt
their names appended, is not the creatur,
of the popular will, but that on the 9th
er hand, it has been and is rejected by
an overwhelming majority of the bona Jfd
citizens Of the Territory of Kansas. q
| This Constitution was framed by /:
convention elected by small minority
of the people of Kansas, under an cleo
ton law, a census, and an apportionmcn
that utterly disfFanchised the whole peo
| pie of one-half of the counties in thi
I Territory, and deprived the great bulk o
| the people of the other counties of tht
right of suffrage. 7 - o
/ OF the delegates thus elected, but
bare majority met to accomplish the worl
for which they were elected. These pro
ceeded to frame a Constitution for tht
people of Kansas, which, in most of it.
important provisions is repugnant to thu
wishes and opinions of the people, and II
their opinion, is hostile to the best inter.
ests and prosperity of the State. can 7'
This Constitution, thus framed, wa'
| not submitted by the Convention to fail
vote of the people for their ratification OF
rejection, but, on the other hand, theil
| judgments were insulted and their right:
outraged, by the pretended submission o.
what is called the question Of Slavery OF
no Slavery, in such manner as to present
no question, except that of the irnporta.
ton of Slaves into the. State in future
and forcing every one who voted, to give
his sanction to all the other provisions Of
the Constitution, and to take, if required
test oath to support said Constitution i
adopted. 70
Under the provisions of the schedule
providing for. the election, those who
voted a ticket marked g Constellation scitl
Slavery,;;'r necessarily gave the sanction
| of their vote to the whole instrument
| including the Slavery article; and those
who voted "a ballot marked .. Cosssti,
t,siofls sDith no iSlauesy, y necessarily gave
their sanction to, all the, provisions O
the Constitution, except the Slavery
clause, and in lieu thereof substituted q
clausefopsohibiting the importation o.
Slaves into the State in future, and con.
| 6rming those now, in the Territory ir
Slavery, and theT posterity after them
I for all time 70 come This is the simple
| effect of the vote. p ssT sri 20 ,yaze
1t Is scarcely necessary for us to say
that the privilege of voting upon propo.
!. r.ssittion thus beset with conditions utterly
7 Finadmissable and unjust, or thepower o
deciding upon a single. and, as presented
by no means an important question, pur.
chased at the expense Of giving the sanc
ton of our votes to provisions that on
! Judgments condemned, was and isseonsid
cred BY the people OF Kansas no boon
but on the other hand is justly held to B,
an Insult to q people who, knowing anS
appfeciating the rights Of feensn, ant
hence, eight-tenths of the people of Kan
sas rejected the offering with c9ptempt
] and refused to participate IN an election
1 that thus COMPROMISED the dignity Of al
| American citizen. aEitn eSng
/ 8 In view of these fsets, the TerEitoria
Legislature at is late extra session, pre-
vided by law for the submission of tn
] whole Constitutions on the zfh day o
January inst, n three distinct PROPOSE
tioas, viz :ze1kzssz $50 ss.s5 ssTissssgss >.
HCenstitation With Slavery
4 af,0nsfitutinn with NO SlayeTv . and