The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1858-03-26
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Result If he election on DE OH inst
Whole number Of Votes Ioiled-The
Ncv Constitutional Conrcntioa- I'm
rollmen of the Militia Progressing-
Quict Of Fart .Scott-PaJiic Feeling
against The Lecompton ,S'cindlc A.ten-
sVying.
Our latest news from Kansas is received
/ through Mr.. y. ID. Richardson, of the
Boston Journal, who left the territory OH
last Thursday evening and arrived in town
on Saturday night.
The election for delegates to the consti-
tutional convention which was held last
Thursday passed off quietly. The pro-sla-
very faction generally refused to partici-
pate in it. In Leavenworth county two
tickets were in the feld-the free state
and Douglas democratic ticket Tho
former was largely triumphant. In JEFF
ferson county some persons who thought
the regular free state ticket too radical,
placed a more conservative one in nomina-
ton. According to the latest report, the
regular ticket was elected In the other
counties generally, but one ticket was
voted for.
Taking the points which have been
heard from as basis, the whole number
Of votes polled is roughly estimated at
from nine to ten thousand. The conyen-
ton which on the 22d inst, is composed
Of one hundred delegates. 1t contains
many of the ablest and best men in the
territory, and as every shade Of feeling in
the party is represented, 1t will undoubt-
eddy be able to form a constitution which
will be acceptable to the whole people Of
Kansas, Except few pro-slavery fre-eat-
ers,) and one around which they will rally
as common standard, and defend against
all opposition.
Notwithstanding Governor Denver's re-
cent proclamation against the enrolment
Of the territorial militia, the work is stead
lily going on, about two hundred men be-
ing engaged in it, in different parts Of the
territory.
Al is now quiet at Fort Scott, but
Brockett (who stabbed young Bailey at
I.ecompton last summcr,) Clark, and sew
eral other notorious characters, still re-
main in the vicinity, apparently with the
purpose of renewing their raids against
the Free State settlers as soon as the
troops shall be withdrawn.
Coleman. the murderer of Dow, has
suddenly left the territory, and probably
will not return The public feeling
against men Of that class is so strong that
very few of them venture to remain.
The cause of the rumorcd removal of
Col. Brindlo from the land Office at Lee
compton, and Gen. Whitfield from the
land Office at Kickapoo, is supposed to lie
in the fact that they both voted against
tue Lecompton Constitution on the 9Th of
January The long devotion of Whitfield
to the interests Of border runianism does
not seem sufficient to excuse the unpar-
donable sin, The published list Of new
reported federal appointments about to be
made for Kansas embraces many Of the
most notorious scoundrels in the territory.
The people feeling against the Lecomp-
ton swindle is everywhere intensifying.-
If it passes, and the certificates are given
to the pro-slavery men, elected by the
Shawnee, Delaware Crossing and kick.
poo frauds, civil war is inevitable. The
spring business is opening up briskly, and
preparations are being made for very
heavy immigration
\ new free-labor paper called the
" Uorioa' is to be started in Kansas
City, on the 9TH inst-N. Louis Deno-
crat, 18th inst