Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1858-02-04

er gave to those most nearly interssted-the
people Of Kansas-his renewed assurance Of
the mode in which their constitution should
be adopted
6. Governor Walkers inaugural.
How did Gov. Wrlker and the country
understand the expressions of the President
and the official act of the Administrations
Gov. Walker, upon his arrival in the Ter
ritory, in his inaugural addres, thus express"
ed his views and the views of those who
sent him there. The language is absolutely
prophetic. He said:
"Is it not infnetely better that slavery
should be abolished or established in Kan
sas, rather than that we should become
slaves, and not be permitted to govern our
selves? Is the absence or existence of slave
ry in Kansas paramount TO the great ques-
tion Of State sovereignty; self-government,
and Of the Union?"
"If patriotism, if devotion to the Constl-
tuition, and love Of the Union, should not in
duce the minority to yield to the majority on
this question, let them reflect that, in no
event, can the minority successfully deter
mine the question permanently; and in no
contingency will congress admit Kansas as
slave or as a free State, unless majority
of the people of Kansas shall first have fair
ly and freely decided the question for them
selves BY direct rote on the adoption of The
Constitution, excluding all fraud or violence.
THE minority, in resisting the will Of the
majority, may involve Kansas again in civil
war; they may bring upon her reproach and
obloquy, and destroy her progress and pros
perity: they may keep her for years out Of
the Union, and, in the whrlwind Of agita-
tion, sweep away the Government itself;
but Kansas never can be brought into the
Union, with or without slavery, except by q
previou, solemn decision, fully, freely, and
fairly made by a majority Of her people, in
rOting for or against the adoption Ofths STATE
Constitution"
Now, it must not be forgotten that, under
these repeated assurances--endcrsed by the
press of this city, OF Virginia, Of the North,
the West, and the East--the constitutional
convention was called into being in Fsbrua-
ry. In June, delegates were voted for. The
leading spirits in that convention were The
delegates from Douglas county, led by CAL
houn, whose tactics and chicanery seem TO
give character to the proceedings. These
delegates were questioned by the Democra.
oy as TO this policy. They gave thi. reply;
7. Calhoun's pledges.
"To the Democratic Voters Of Douglas
County;
1T having been stated by that Abolition
newspaper, the Hearld Of Freedom, and by
some disaffected bogus Democrats, who have
got up an independent ticket, for the pur-
pose of securing the vote of the Black Re.
publicans, that the regular nominees of the
; Democratic convention were opposed 10
submitting the constitution to the people,
we the candidates OF the Democratic party,
submit the following res olutions, which
were adopted by the Democratic convention
; which placed us in nomination, and which
we fully and heartily endorse as complete
refutation of the slanders above referred to-,
> JOHN CALHOUN, A. ". JoSEs,
= w. S. WELLS, H. BUTCHER,
Q l.. S. BoLLIRG, JONI Nj. WALLACE
WM. T. SPIcELY, L. A. PRATHrR.
4 "LrCoMPToS, Kansas Territory, June l3, >,
1851"
"ReSO'Ued, That we will support no man
as delegate to the constitutional convention
L whose duties it will be 10 frame the con-
stitution of the future State of Kansas, and
10 mould the political institutions under
which we, as people, are TO live, unless
he pledges himself fully, freely, and with
out reservation, to Use every honorable
means to submit the same to every bona
fde actual citizen of Kansas, at the proper
time for the vote being taken upon tho adOp-
tion by the people, in order that the said
= constitution may be adopted or rejected by
! the actuaf settlers in this Territory, as the
% majority Of the voters shall decide"
Now It must not be forgotten again, that,
J. by this time, the slavery question was
virtually settled in Kansas. The remaining
J question was that of self-govcrnhent. 1t
'e was white not black, Rspublisanism. 1t
&c was the complete subjugation Of all interests
> to the popular will.
. What, then, can equal in treachery the
:; conduct of these. .Catalines of Kansas, who
10 under all these obligations of principle and
'r honor, attempt TO subjugats the popular will
= to theirs? Were these delegates angels tha,
+ they should intervene 10 desp poll the people
y of their expected boon of FREQ expression a,
ir 10 The institutions under whose protection
1, their homes, their lands, their children,
IL were to be panOplied?i Better, far better,