The Kanzas news., 1858-02-20

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Territorial Legislature Expires, dc, dc.
Correspondents Of TIE EEvs-
LAWRENCE, Feb, 19. 1883.
"The Free State party is unit" Fa-
naticism is "rebuked." Democracy is once
more GLORIOUS circumstance. ''Sub-
terranean" politics are redeemed" and the
..Minneolian" harps are chanting the prais-
es of the new confederacy. First and fore
most. no one is 10 breathe whisper against
anybody who was in the last Legislature
for fear of hurting their feelings. For the
next six months no one is to say ''charter. "
bogus laws, or even ..Minueola'' except In
a whisper. "Topeka" and Topekaites are
to be considered as .'dead, buried and rot
ten.'' Organizing under the Lecompton
Constitution a grand and satisfactory way
of settling the Kanzas question. Commit
tees are hereafter to be organized IN secret
caucus, from which all disturbing elements
are to be excluded. The people are not to
be allowed TO have any more Delegate Con-
ventions to determine the policy of the Free
State party, as they have had the impudence
to determine against the opinions of certain
leaders the last few times they have got to-
gether; and lastly, oyster suppers are to SUI
persede the discussion of public matters, at
which chosen few shall 6iseuss something
they can comprehend. Such are few of the
mild features of this "Union" movement.
These glorious results were not brought
about without struggle. There has been
moreS Scaucusing and skull-duggery in and
about Lawrence for the last ten days than
would like to write about, even if knew it
ALL The Union savers completed their work
on Sunday. They piously caucussed the
whole of that day, when, under the blessing
of Providence, they got all the secret wires
set and ready. an executive Committee was
conglomerated, the future State offices di-
vided among them, ''Topekaism' was put
to death without benefit of clergy, the word
''bolters" was expunged from the dictiona-
ry and you may consider it obsolete. and no
one is to be permitted to be elected for any
thing who insists on principle being regard
ed in the selection of public servants, as
these are dangerous men,"
The Union savers everywhere declare that
''the whole Kanzas question is settled, !"
and all that remains to be done is to divide
the Offices" The fact is, that is about all
these fellows ever saw the propriety of doing.
The Territorial Legislature adjourned last
Saturday. They hung on until noon on
Saturday, in hopes of prolonging an already
miserable existence. Legally, they were
finished at midnight on Friday, and morally,
shortly after they got in session. They just
about botched the Convention bill, and Dem
yer says they have done it. They have
whiting" the slip over with an affidavit.
That the Convention bill is law there can
be no doubt, but at the same time Denver
will not recognise it as such, and, between
ourselves, the Delegates to that Constitu-
tional Convention will not get any pay for
it. Well, never mind, that may keep out
the sharks. Denver says that no law repeal
ing the whole or part of the bogus statutes
has been passed. Never mind, havn't we
bank No steps have been taken to get rid
of the fraudulently elected county and other
officers, and so they, as well as bogus laws,
will be settled on us for some time TO come.
But what of that?-we have thirty-two rail-
road charters Denver refuses to let Mr..
Elliott, the Superintendent of printing, have
the laws to print. I suspect that the Min
neolians must have bribed him to suppress
them and that this is part of the "Union"
movement.
We had Convention here on Saturday.
Such Convention you never saw. The
.'Union savers had Matched up ticket for
Executive Committee, when few outsiders
came in and spoke against such one-horse
Convention acting for the Territory. The
caucusers got beat, whereupon they made
up their ticket in caucus next day.
A tremendous splufoe was made to get
the people to organize nnder the Lecompton
Constitution. Ewing and Heath made elo-
quents peeehes in favor of that policy. Rob-
inson and others thought also that a new
State government must grow out of the Le-
compton iniquity. He also said that the
Topeka Constitution was "tdead" last June,
in which case suppose that his message to
the Legislature under it, this past January,
may be regarded purely as spiritual COM
FELIX.
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