The Kansas herald of freedom., 1858-01-23
C. W. BRowS, EDITOR.
LAWRENCE. KANSAS.
SATURDAY MORNING. JAN. %, 1855.
rEnas.-.ss.oo PER AssUx. N ADVANCE
The Lseompton oOnst.ahon virtually Defsased

TERas.-ss.oo PER ANNUx. IN ADVANCE
The Lseompton Constitution Virtually Defeated.
The last advices from Washington are
filled with hope. s'The President hest
tatss in regard to Kansas Phe pressure
has been so great upon him that he dare
not carry out the policy indicated in his
Message. To do so was to lose him the
almost entire Democratic party of the
North. They who had been the glory
and the support of the Democratic party
in the past, would have left it and formed
new alliances, had the Administration
forced upon Kansas its tyranical policy.
First, they sought to crush Douglas and
Forney, and did succeed as far as official
power could go, in crushing Gov. WALKER;
but they learned that they had something
more than ordinary men to contend with.
Douglas has been strengthened by unex-
pected accessions from the South. Even
Senator Toombs, it is reported, has come
to the rescue.
The act of Secretary STANTON, in con-
yening an extra session of the Legislature
as he did, and the acts of the Legislature
in the premises, followed by the vote of
the people against that Constitution on
the 4th inst. and the election of nearly
all the officers under it by the Free State
party, has removed all doubts of its success
in Congress.
Those who have been most active in
advocacy of it here in Kansas, will now
join in condemning it, because the people
have the power in their own hands to sup
plant that Constitution with another
which will be unexceptionable in its pro-
visions. Had it not been for the heavy
vote against that instrument on the 4th,
and the election of the State officers by
the Free State party, we are confident we
should have been admitted into the Union
under the Lecompton Constitution. In
deed, until it was apparent at Washing
ton that the free state party would get
possession of the government, with the
view of superceding it with another, ii
seemed almost certain that the Constitu-
ton would receive the sanction of Con.
gress. All at once the discovery is made
that the people of Kansas are opposed tc
it. The President virtually removed
Walker and Stanton because they insisted
such was the case, but with the returns
before him of the election on the 21st 1t
and 4th inst. he will publicly change hi
position, and base it upon that vote.
Feeling confident that such will be the
case, We can rejoice with our readers, and
those who co-operated with us in the late
election in the victory we have gained
We engaged in that election with the
view of defeating the Lecompton Consti.
tuition. If it could not be done otherwise
it was to be by the Substitution of new
Constitution through legal forms. 1t has
been done by the simple election of off.
GERS under il. rendering it obnoxious tc
those concerned in getting it up. 1t:
makers saw the immense land grant:
which they had toisely provided for in the
ordinance accompanying the instrument
placed under the management of othel
men; and the officers they had made fol
their own occupancy was taken possession
OF BY Others. They had no motive il
inducing Congress to pass it; on the con.
trary, every prompting of theirs was in an
opposite direction. i
1t is understood that Gen. DENVER ha:
written writ to Washington, advising agains
the adoption of that instrument. Secre.
tary STANTON has gone there to WELD hi.
PERSONAL influence against that gross usur
patton on the peoples rights. He re
NAMED In Kansas as long as he though
he could do anything against it, and whei
ne could work no longer here, he set on
ior Washington to join hands with Walk
CT and Douglas at the Federal Capitol, il
putting it down. = '''5 a 80.
Zen CALHOUN, too, it is reported, ha
gone to Washington; and it is said he vii
labor against its passage. He carried tn
returns with him, and had the proof il
his pocket, that the Free State officer
were elected under it; hence, no doubl
his position. =
we 90 think our people, in Kansas ant
out OH have reason to be delighted wit
sae result, the Tyrant has been defeated
sad the prospects for freedom are n
longer equivocaI.
W Secretary STANTON stopped i
Lawrence Thursday night of last week
ana resumed his journey on Friday morn
ING 70 Washington, where he has gof1
WIN the election returns, to labor wit
me President and Congress. and urg
,assn to defeat the Lecompton swindls
ne sad he could do nothing more for .
earlng the winter IN Kansas, but he coul
s'a Us IN Washington, and he felt ths
aufy required him to leave his zfanaiI