The Kanzas news., 1858-02-13
From Lawrence.


LAWRENCE, Kanzas, Feb. II, 49,
The s.Minne- -oiean'' attachment (eommon-
" called the Territorial Legislature) Is Civ
ing its last squeak. Its days pecuniari-
", practically and fguratively speaking, are
numbered. It's members win ere long have
to return to class of people whom for the
past few weeks they seem to have forgotten
their constituents The Minneolians are
about to residuate into the yulgarity of mere
common mortalship, to be kept forever from
going ''down to the vile dust from whence it
sprung" by the recollection of '.the year l
was in the Legislature
And what have they done? Echo an
swers what Why, they have chartered
towns enough to give corporate privileges
to the entire civilized world. They have
provided for bridges and ferries, enough to
cross all the rivers ever seen by Humboldt
or Marco Polo, and they have manufactur-
ed insurance companies enough to secure
the whole world against that final confiagra-
ton which prophets tell US is surely .'eom
ing," and which the actions of such bodies
as the "MinneOlian attachment will have
such tendency to superinduce.
Then we are to have banks. There Is
the Leavenworth Bank, the Lawrence Bank,
the Wyandott Bank, not to mention host
of others, all of which remind one of the i'm
maculate ''Copperplate Bank of Quodiibet. -
As Tom Jones says, "neyer fear, we'll have
circleatin' mejum.''
The fact is, they have done great deal.
They have vomited up pile of bills not
much, if any, short of thousand. No
wonder the members were bilious when
they began. All I'm afraid of is that their
constituents will get bilious now. But all
their other actions pale before one; they have
Do you know where "Minneola" is? If you
do you know more than 1 do. Some say
its the Boilers % addition to the town of
Centropolis. Others say it is the Pro-
slavery town of st. Bernard. Some say it
is located in some unexplored region, far
beyond the ''ken'' of any save that of spec
ulators and providence. For my own part
think it is myth. Two thousand acres
off the south side of nowhere, cut up into
imaginary lots in an imaginary map, and
owned by imaginary millionaires. 1t is a
new town in the freshest sense of the word.
1t is said to be owned chiefly by the mem
bers of the Legislature, its officers and
friends, with a .few-a chosen .feO others,
who have had share stuck into their throats
to keep them from saying any ything against it.
When the Legislature shall hereafter
(away down, dos0n in futurity) be asked
''what have you done?" they will be able to
answer, "Minneola !'' "Have you repealed
the bogus aws?'' @Minneola % s'Have
you done anything to aid the peoples State
government .'Minneola P' '9Have you
provided for the punishment of those who
may dare to hold office under the Lecomp-
ton Constitution "Minneola %
They have saddled nearly all the bogus
laws u pom the people. They did not even
dare to pass the law abolishing slavery
The people had asked for "bread" and they
gave them "Minneola" beg their pardon,
| they kept it to themselves.
1t is rumored that the Delegates to the
Constitutional Convention for which they
did provide, (it meets at Minneola) are to
be elected on the "Minneola'' issue; that
stock enough has been retained of that great
1000 acres to buy up the Convention too.
Let the people declare that the Capital must
and shall not be located by any power save
their votes.
had almost forgot that the Legislature
took to ''passin' resolutions" Mr.. Learn
ed, who represents you, I believe, introduc-
ed laundering set which are SO magnifi-
cent that nobody can understand them
They speak of the Lecompton Constitution
as an ''Inquisitorial engine" if you know
what that is. The phraseology is superb.
1t scars far above common sense.
1t is cold The river is closed up. Ice
is being put up. Jim Lane will have great
'Union'' meeting on Saturday, when the
Boilers the Straight-outeIs, the Repub-
licans, the Democrats, and ''Minneola' are
all to be blended in one harmonious whole.
FELIX.
Beware!
We warn our friends everywhere to be-