White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1858-01-07
Cold Comfort for the Usurpers.

"They treat me as q william" said traitor
wherever / 60" Such will be the fate of the
Usurpers, and no earthly power can change theiI
doom. ."'.- .+ '--- - 3
FOrney's paper tOf Philadelphia continue.
1 to blowa strong blast against them. Issays:-
1 The drift of all the news from Kansas BY mail
and telegraph shows conclusively that the so
called Pro-sIavery Constitutional Convention,
ike other bodies Of whom we have read. is an
other formidable instance of the adage that
"whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make
mad" Some of the propositions presented to
that COnvention-whieh. be it remembered,
represent, mere fragment Of the voters of the
Teritory-would disgrace despotism, others
are merely redicElous, while the whole afhir
looks to us, at this distance, as If the parties
engaged in it had entered into contract to
mortgage the new State to their own individual
interests for a century to come.
! There is a consistent disregard of the people
manifested, cool resor. to trick, and an utter
shamelessness, which altogether make up a sa-
tire upon representative bodies such rs we new
er before had the luxury to enjoy. The lead.
ing spirit of this Constitutional Convention
seems to be person called General Calhoun"
who, we regret to say, was appointed from the
free State of Illinois. by Gen. Pierce, a. Survey
Or-General of Kansas and Nebraska, and who in
all his actions indicates desire to initiate rath-
er member of the French Senate employed to
carry out the designs of Louis Napoleon, than
the representative ofan honest American con-
stituency. We give in another column some Of
the dOings of the Convention; and have only to
say, that if the Constitution fabricated by this
body is sent to Congress, we trust that short
work will be made Of it. 1t deserves nothing
but contempt. lift has single merit, lis its
consistency with the fraud and wrong which it is
intended to perpetuate, and from which, in great
part, it has grown. The idea Of set of men
chosen as delegates to this Convention attempt
ing to bin6 posterity to their work. and daring
to nulify in advance the will of the majority, is
so mOnstrous, that We wonder the outrage did
not excite the-whole people to civil war.
The Ohio Statesman is equally decided. 1t
declares itself "inAexibly opposed to a COnsti-
tuition which has not been submitted to the peo-
ple." 1t will ''neither disregard this principle
directly, nor wink at its violation indirectly"
To do either, it declares would be
ITO effect the disorganization of the Demo
cratic party
Equally out-spOken is the Detroit Free Press,
Gen. Cass's home organ. 1t pronOunces the
Usurper's Convention "bad egg" IL ex-
poses its treachery, and denounces the traitors,
saving
There has never been anything like this in
the history of the country. An attempt such as
this has never before been made to impose upon
the people of State about to ask entrance into
the Union Constitution obnoxious to MAORI
ty ofthem. The Kansas Convention has dis
graced itselfin the eyes of all decent men. 1t
has not only sought to impose upon the people
an obnoxious Constitution, butt has deliberately
conspired to violate the sacred compact con-
tanned in the Kansas organic act, success in
which would involve the country in a new anti
slavery agitation, in comparison with which, the
violence ofall former agitatiOns would sink into
utter insigni6cance.
OF course the Free State men of Kansas will
have nothing to do with the mockery of an
election regarding this Constitution, and Of
course Congress win treat this Constitution with
the same disregard that it treated the Topeka
Constitution, the one having no more validity
than the other.