Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1858-03-31

ty to vote at different times was factious, sui
cidal and the cause of all their troubles Had
they exercised their right, according to law,
they could have had all the legal power of
the territory in their own hands, and conse-
quently could have managed its affairs in their
own way. Their refusal to vote for members
of the constitutional convention, was dictated
by politicians in the States. Every one knows
that it was in accordance with the programme
laid down by the Tribune long before the cleo
ton took place. Gov. Walker assured them
that all the authority Of the civil and military
power of the federal goFernment should be
used to protect them In their rights, but they
riGiculed and insulted him. Subsequently,
however, seeing they had injured their cause
by the course they had pursued, they set up
as an excuse for not voting, that registra-
ton had no. been made. They had thrown
every obstacle in the way Of registration, as
they had in the way of every other law of
the territory, and in many instances by -bribes
or threats prevented the officers charged with
his duty from performing it. They said that
III a number of the counties no registration
was made, but this neglect was not fraughr
with such evil consequences as they would
make out now, when we consider that many
of the counties in Kansas exist merely on pa
per, that they are sparsely settled, not organ
lied, and remote from the .populous portion of
the State. But admitting that everything Gu
this score was as they charged, one fact is
still within the knowledge of all, and not de-
MED By them; that is that some ten thousand
voters were registered; of this number, two
thousand and some hundred voted, leaving
majority OF Eve to one that did not vote, even
Of this partial registration. 1t is reasonable
to presume that those who did not vote were
Free State men, acting in accordance with
the system OF political tactics laid down by
the leaders, and is evident that they had vo-
ted, they could have elected every member
of the Lecompten Convention, Free State
men. The National Era, the ablest and
.he Unior, has always condemned the non
voting policy of the Free State party Hear
what the paper SAYS about their course
at the recent election
''The official tables show that despite all
frauds, and the rejection of the returns sent
| to Gov. Denver, instead of Mr.. Calhoun Mr.
| Parrot, the Free State candidate, WAS cleo
| sed to Congress; and that despite all frauds,
! had the 637 votes sent to Denver been sent
to Calhoun, tnss officer would have been obli
ged to declare the whole of the Free State
ticket elected and to issue certificates of
election to the Free State majorities i'll the
Eegtsisture. Any man of common sense,
then, must see, that had the IL 900 ,oho TO-
ted agaiast the Constitution, all eoted for the
| Free State candidates, not ecen OlJord.
! ShaUnee, and kichapoo, could hare defeated
them. The triumph Of the Free State party
,ooald hare been overwhelming. Not, then.
| upon the sewn thousand men who voted, but
upon the four thousand who refused to vote.
| rests the responsibility of defeat, if indeed
fraud has succeeded in effecting that object.
We insist that If the Free State men ,OiU on
| ly unite tn rotimg, their overwhelming nu-
merical superiority will be more than match
1 for any fraud that the minority will have the
boldpess to veptnrc upon.
| LAS to the reason assigned for not voting
| that the act might be perverted into re-
cognition" of the Lecompton Constitution
let Us ask, is there anything man can DC
which will not be miSrepr9sented and .'per-
verted'' hy an unscrupuious political adver-
saryt Earnest, practical. independent meH
| will not shape their course merely TO avoid
the censures or escape the SANDER Of then
enemies. They will judge for themselve:
what their cause requires and their principles
justify. The Free State men in Kansas hao
sufficiently demonstrated their detcstation O
the Leccmpton Fraud .asd Constitution. bu
! knowing, as we know, the fixed purpose @
the Administration to force that instrumen
through Congress, and justly experimenting
the result, they determined with wise foi e
cast, to be prepared for every emergency, By
I securing the whole State Government, which
would spring into life on the too probable ad
mission of Kansas ander that Constitution. D.
If Kansas should become State, it woult
not be by their action. or by the action of th'
people Of Kansas, but by the act of Congres
The Constitution itself would then be the off
spring of an act of Congress-for without it
1t could not have even the form of law
What, then. was the position of the Fre
State voters? Force this Constitution upol
, US, force Kansas as State, under 1t into tn
Union, and you shall take nothing by tha
outrage-,ce shall rote IN time, take posses
sion of erery branch Of the Government tho
; you threaten as ruth, 80 that when you hav
done the deed, we may be able to battle you
injustice put Free State member 10 you
;. House. Free State Senators in your Senate
abolish all the so-called Laws that have cur
sed US, ond provide instantly for a lecitimat
Constitution. in place of the fraudulent on
which your act alone has invested with lie
gal form.
This was the declared position of til
:, Free State voters, everywhere proclaimed
nowhere misunderstood lie who can fin
in it a sanction or recognition of the Lecomr
; ton fraud or its offspring. if sincere. is bt
yond the reach of argument; if insincsre, d.
serves none
d BRANDY THAT MAKES MEN HowL.-The ma
who was once fortunate enough to get drin
: of good brandy at stage house betvee
: Shasta and Sacramento, on presenting hin
self at the sanctum of the Shasta (Ca.) wi
be rewarded with very extensive piece
gold bearing quartz, Since the day of 1S4!
wayside hotels have kept villianons stu1