Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1858-03-11
To the Editor of The Belmont Oh, onicle:

To the Editor Of The Belmont CHI onicls:
Sir: We have watched the doings of the
so-cailed National Democratic" party. and
never in the history Of our country, has any
event transpired, which will cast SO :ndeIi-
BILE a blot upon the character of our American
Republic, as the attempts of the Pro-slavery
men of the South, ,ni he Allies-the
doIgh-faced Democracy OF The North, to
force slavery upon the people OF Kansas
against thsir riu. II such a direfu. act be
accomplished by means o. Executive Inter
ference or corruption, then 3il a Free peo-
pies liberties be trampled under foot, and
their sacred right OF sell government denied
them. We believe the Lecompton Con
s~titution a fraud, got up to make Kansas a
slave state contrary to the will of 4 large
majority of the people. John Calhoun said
in his farewell address to the Convention,
that nine tenths of the people are opposed
to slavery, but you have done well. Who
ever heard of a Convention being guarded
by U. S. soldiers to protect them from the
people they are framing a Constitution to
govern! Never Was the like IN this Country
before this usurpa,ion Three of the mem
bers oil the swindle Convention were citi-
zens OF Missouri at the time it was in ses-
sion. All voters were required to be re-
gistered, by law, but the LocolocO officers
Intentionally emitted fourteen out of thirty
tUur counties, thus DISTINGUISHING a large
portIoa of the people o. the Territory, AMI
test oaths, whoever heard of swearing to
supper a Constitution befUre it is one! The
de Iegates were elected by 1900 votes out of
a population Of twenty thousand voters; and
at another election author Zrd by the Terri.
torial Legislature the same Constitut on
was voted down by about ii 200 majority,
showing plainly TO any same man that a
large majority of the people are not only
opposed TO slavery but to the Lecompton
fraud Fraud and treason, have marked the
course of the pro-slavery democracy in re-
spect to Kansas from the first organization
OF that unhappy Territory, and the culumi-
nation OF their fraud and tr. ason is, tina,
INDUSTRIOUS conspiracy against the libertit :
of a whole people-the Lacompt"n Consti-
tuition. This fraud of Lecompton was only
to be submitted to the people to vote on the
slavery clause, and that in such a way, let
the people vote winch way they might.
Kansas would be a slave state. We do not
believe any Constitution Republican tina,
does not embody the VIII of the people,
Congress has admitted states under Con-
stitutions not submitted to tine people, when
there Was no remonstrance against said
Constitution, when Congress was satisfied
the people themselves approved Of the Con-
stilutIon; but there is no instance on record
where Congress has forced a Constitution
upon a state in the face OF The loud aud
vehement protests OF the people lhemse YES,
backed Dy the solemn assurance of the Le-
gis lature, that the Constitution is not the
Will of the people, and that if it is forced
upon them. they will resist it as an act of
Tyranny, by every means that God and ma
tulc has pull IN their power. Such an as
sumption by Congress would be an act of
Tyranny worthy the DespDtisms of the old
World Yet. President Buchanan, after all
the promises MADE by the Democracy, that
the people OF Kansas, "should regulate their
own concerns in their own way says that
the Lecumpton fraud must 90 though Con-
gress, and he and his Cabinet are using all
their Influence IL e~nslare Il Free people, to
iurce slavery into Kansas contrary to the
will Of the people. hoover heard of Cab
met officers meddling in politics! but this
is progressive democracy. progressed To
Despoii.m. The Kansas recurd is a black.
enc, with respect 10 the Democracy, flied
WI h violence, Ireud, treason, murder, Des-
polish and uSurpatIon, any way to extend
Their beloved Institutiun-even The Con-
gressional c, mmlttee OF Investigation, with
d maj ,Iity Of LocO:ocOs, refuse to investi-
gate, 80 Diack IL the record vi their crimes.
Those who planed this Tyranny agaius: the
liberties o: a tree people are traitors 10 their
country, and will receive a traitors DOOM
If the Pro-slagery National Democrats"
as they are called, shall succeed in forcing
upon the people of Kansas against their
solemn protest, and the clearly expre-svd
will OF a majority, a slavery Constitution,
then do they assume the respCns blIi y Of
c.vli war, and when it has spread from Cal
afornia 10 Maine, when the great North.
like a goaded Tiger is aroused in her NIGH,
then Will the South learn, but to late the
value of the North to her, but let pc, terity
remember that the great fabric OF ConSf'tE-
tionGL Liberty, was destroyed BY those cali
ipy themselves National Democrats"
Traitors to their country, who crushed out
the Liberties, and sacred rights of a Free
people. These are my views on this all
absorbing queslion.-the L%ecompton Con-
situtlun.
U. WILSON.