Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1858-02-17
Kansas Fanatics-The Lecompton
Constitution.

The Legislature Of Kansas, recently in SEES
sion, composed of a majority of black repub-
Icans, appears to have done little more than
register the edicts of jim LANE and his fana-
tical confederates, who are seeking to rule or
ruin the territory. 1t has changed county
lines, removed county seats. removed the seat
of government, passed law abolishing slave
~ and makingit penitentiary offence to hold
slaves, and done other things, equally repre-
hensible, with view to Cypress and persecute
pro-slavery men, and free State men, who
will not cooperate with the Laneites. These
things are having, we are gratificd to learn
from the correspondence of the st. Louis Re
publican, the effect of uniting the pro-slavery
, men and conservative free State men, against
the fanatics, in support of law and order. In
letter from near Atchison, dated the 4th
inst, the writer speaks of the effect of the ac-
tion of the Legislature as follows
Their projects for disorganizing counties,
and moving county seats. &C., designed to ag-
grayate and injure pro-slavery men cuts both
ways and while they injure some pro-slavery
men by their infamous legislation, they at the
time ruin many or more Free State men,
who have paid pro-slavery men high prices
for their property. In this way they are get
ting the whole country down on them, and /
venture the assertion that at the end of the
session, (Which terminates by law in about ten
days,) they will be denounced by all parties
and classes, as the most odious set of worth
less fanatical fools, that ever sat in any legis-
latIve body, in this or any other country. The
rising of the people, from one end of the Ter
ritory to the other, to denounce them. may
have the effect to ease them of the balance of
the session. Hundreds of Free State men al
ready proclaim that but for the idea of again
inaughrating mObocracy, they would be will
ling to march upon Lawrence. and disp"rse
the rebels, as did "Oliver the Protector in
olden times.
1t is to sustain the wishes of such wicked
fanatics as are here described. that Mr.. D0UG-
LAS and his black republican allies. demand of
Congress the reputation of the Lccompton
Constitution. 1t will be sad event when
the Legislature of the Nation lends its sane
ton to the infamous plots and intrigues Of
men who have, from the outset, defied law,
and spurned all authority in Kansas except
their own mad counsels.
The correspondent also makes the following
remarks concerning the admission of Kansas
with the Lecompton Constitution
In relation to the Lecompton Constitution.
you may rest assured that a majority of the
Free State men in the Territory are now will
ing to see Kansas admitted as a State under
that instrument either with or without slavery;
provided, the first and any subsequent Legis-
lature shall have the power of calling new
Convention to alter or amend it. / have con-
versed with many of their most intelligent
men on the subject, and they now think this
the most certain plan of getting rid of the |
public disturbers. The State once organized.
very soon the good men of all parties will
unite to put an end to the Laneites, Danites |
DC.
We do not doubt that the organization of
the State under the Lecompton Constitution
will put an end to the career of the mischief |
makers in Kansas, and give her what her pros
perity so much demands, and what she has
never had, quiet and repose. She can then |
move forward in the path of greatness, and |
will, in a few years, realize all those blessings
which her position, soil and climate proclaim !
to be within the grasp of her citizens But |
this is not all: The eternal clamOr about |
Kansas, squatter-sovereignty, &c, which has
SO engrossed the public mind, all over the ma
tion, will become a thing of the Past. 1t will
lose all its point and substance and politi-
Clans can no more have recourse to it, to stir
up dust under the cover of which they may
prosecute measures for the ACKNOWLEDGEMENT of
party, at the expense of principle. This is an
end which all good Americans should dcvout-
ly pray for, as it will afford an opportunity TO
get their principles fairly before the people.