Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1858-05-14
From The n. Y Courier & Enquirer, May a.
WHAT NEWT AND NEWT

legal ana regular IN every particular. / nc
last Territorial Legislature, in January, en-
acted that the Convention should be held
the Convention was regularly elected, and
regularly assembled and did its work and
that work is now regularly submitted lor pop
ular ratification or reiecton--and, in con
junction Herewith, in accordance with both
law and usage, elections are to be held on
the same day. to fill the several Offices created
ly the Constitution. An that we hear from
the Territory shows that this election will be
participated in by the great mass of the peo-
BE of Kansas, and leaves little or no doubt
That the Leavenworth Constitution will be
adopted by a majority of many thousands.
When the Lecompton swindle, with the
blibe in its belly, is to be submitted, is not
yet determined The Board Of Commission
crs. to whose care the management Of the
matter has been committed, are to name the
day. The Act simply provides that lit shall
be- as carly day as is consistent with due
notice thereof to the People Of said Terrific
ry.' OF course the necessary arrangements
cannot be made so that the question can be
taken within the next fortnight The Leav-
caworth Constitution will have already be-
come the organic law of a now State, when
the appointed time comes for voting upon the
L.compton imposturo. And undoubtedly
tic people will all vote upon it, They will
rrlly en- nasso. and this misbegotten abomlna-
tiut will be crushed incontinently. If border
ruGians undertake to prevent it, by repeating
the forays Of 81 and 55 they will be Shot
down like dogs. If roprobatc olecuon-mau-
ag'ts Of the Calhoun stripe undertake to pre-
won't it by repeating the frauds of 90 and 81
they will be strung up like dogs. Come
what may, the will Of the people Of Kansas
vii then assert itself, and the thing of Lee
compton, the pet Of shameless Executive,
Wi die the death, and be buried, in its rot
taH1ess, beyond all possibility of resurrection
lut what them Is Kansas TO remain in a
territorial condition as this English bill, which
la. Just passed, contcmplates If that is the
expectation at Washington, we hope Governor
D.uver will have good time Of it, 1t will
be curious sight-on the ono hand the new
State Governor. all the State officers and the
legislature, which are to be elected two
we ks from to-day, invested with office under
ile Loavenworth Constitution. exercising
e, ry substantial function of Office, with an
overwhelming majority of the people at their
b,c5, and on the other hand, the poor misor-
ah' shadow Of the territoriol Governor, di-
ed Of every particle Of available power,
AM as tonuous and impotont as one of Os-
>iats ghosts, through which you could see
the stars lie will have no Legislature to aid
him in his predicamcnt, for the present Ter
rio rial Legislature is unanimously for the
l.rsvenworth Constitution, and would rocog-
misc no other authority. We say it will be
al interesting sight-thc whole solid machin-
cry Of the new State government, in full OPP
Grafton under the irresistible motive power Of
the people, and poor Mr.. Denver cssaying to
stop it with his gooscquill proclamations. In
i Cd it will be funny scene Den Quiroie' s
furious charge upon the windmills will be
nal in comparison.
It is mistake to suppose that admission
into the Union is necessary to the existence
&c State. Minnesota is not yet member
OF the Union, and yet for months she has been
state to all intents and purposes. She has
State Governor, State Legislature, a State
liciary, and State administration and min
i,t,rial officers throughout and all now in
ii actual exercise of official power Nobody
ctls in question their authority. So it is
" n every now State for an interval between
the adoption Of its Constitution, and its ad-
m ssion. So it will be with Kansas af-
t'r the ratification of the Lcavenworth in
strument There will be no other practical
government in Kansas but the State govern
mont Nothing that Governor Denver in Lo-
COMPTON can do, or Mr.. Buchanan at Wash
i1gton can do, will make it otherwise. The
utmost that these dignitarics can accomplish
Ill be to make themselves laughing stocks
fir the entertainment Of the country-iust as
h IS already been more than once done by the
vfu calling Of heaven and earth to witness
that the Territorial laws Chose of the bogus
iegislaturc), should be enforced, and when
tie time for action came, whiting down into
the harmlessness of sucking dove For the
last several months, Governor Denver has
been complete cypher in tho Territory -
we arc anxious to see at what degree of moth
iugness he will figure under the leavenworih
Constitution.
The truth is, this undertaking to coercc
people against their grain is, in this country
very absurd business. 1t cannot be done II
is not in the Anglo Saxon blood We have
just seen what has come of foolish attempt
even in England, when the man over tn,
channel undertook to drive things his owl
way. The expectation which seems to have
been entertained at Washington that the poo
pie of Kansas will forcgo the l.eavenwortl
Constitution and adopt Lecompton, with tn,
English bait, is one Of the shoerost delusion,
of the age; and the history of the next tire,
months will prove it so. The whole of thi,
business of forcing upon Kansas institution,
which its people do not want--a bushes,
which with various appliances has now beer
kept up for three years and half-terminatci
In ridiculous and contemplate fasco, tina
can scarcely be reached in the annals of hu
man folly.