The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1858-03-25

HOPs " sSest 70 s1S oD1cei OF fTSSedeHts
The Presidents conduct in pressing the Lee
compton Constitution upon Congress may give
him votes in the South, but it viii not be likely
to give him the requisite strength in the North
to secure new election. 3 ~
POLITICAL SUMMARY
1t is said that another great ntiLecompton
meeting will soon be held in New York. AZ 3
1t has been formally announced to those
seeking, that no important diplomatic appoint
ments will be made till after the Kansas ques-
ton shall have been settled. Judge Roosevelt
is named in connection with the ministry to
Madrid. ASSN aLr 80
The Memphis (Tenn.) Enquirer is opposed
to the Lecompton Constitution, unless it is
submitted to the people of Kansas; but it is de
cidedly hostile to any provisoes attached to that
instrument by Congress, particularly Pugh's,
(which furnishes to the ultra Abolitionists of
the North the very arguments for interference
with our National Constitution which they
have 30 long been in quest of, which they dared
not originate; but if the South do not repu-
date these latitudinarian views respecting Con-
situations in general, they viii find, when too
late to remedy it, that they nave assented to a
principle which will deprive them Of their con-
stitutional protection and, what is more, that
for temporary benefit, if benefit it be, they
have surrendered their most vital rights and
privileges"
The Richmond Wing again expresses the
earnest and confident hope that the small band
of Southern Wings and Americans in the Sen
ate and in the House of Representatives will
present united and resolute front in opposi-
ton to the admission of Kansas under the LIE.
compton Constitution, with the alliances, con-
ditions, and qualifications, with which the bill
for its admission is at present clogged and en-
barrassed." rt.L b.
The Democrats of Perry, Illinois, held a
meeting recently, to denounce Lecompton.
A Convention of the delegates of the Amer
can party of Mason county, Kentucky, was
held at Maysville, on Monday, the 9th instant.
Among the resolutions passed, was the follow.
ing:
Resolved, That the Americans of Mason
county believe in the principle that the people
of the Territories have right to determine
what shall be their domestic institutions when
they ask for admission into the Union as States,
and to that end we believe, that before Con.
gress accepts the Constitution that is offered
from Territory asking admission as State,
it should be fully satisfied that such Constitu-
ton meets the appreciation of majority of the
legal voters in said Territory"
A spirited Democratic Anti Lecompton meet.
ing was held at Cleveland, Ohio, short time
since. Fourteen hundred people were pres.
entail the hall would accommodate-and the
leading Democrats of the county we're present,
and took part in the proceedings.
The St. Louis correspondent of one of the
New York journals writes as follows from Mis-.
| souri,:
"It would seem that the only good that can
possibly arise from the course of james Blu
chanan and luis Cabinet IN Kansas matters, is
to send . food of immigrants into our State
| and Kansas. The result u.s. that those farmers
who came here from Virginia, Kentucky, and
| Tennessee, with their slaves, after wearing out
the soil of their farms in those States find that
their property is the most unsafe, as well as un
| profitable, they can have. So they send away
| hundreds of slaves every little while South
selling them for gold, which accounts for SC
| much of this commodity being in circulation in
! our State.
Gas each farmer gets rid of his slaves, he
| directly becomes an earnest convert to the
| emancipation cause, and forgets all the argu.
ments he used before of wrong to the slave
! owner having got rid of his slaves, he wants
his neighbors to do the same. / firmly believe
that majority will be returned to the next
| Legislature in favor of an amendment of our
| hot Law ho 81 al
| gradual emancipation of Slavery in our State
The Massachusetts Legislature, by a decided
majority, have voted an address to Governor
Banks, calling for the removal of Judge Lo-
ring and that legal functionary has been re
nsoped.
H% There was riot at Toronto, Canada
on St. Patrick's Day.
The Ohio House of Representatives has re
pealed the law of the State refusing the use o.
the State prisons for the confinement of fugi
tive slaves.
The Democrats of Rhode Island have nomi
mated Alexander Duncan for Governor and
Elisha R. Potter for Lieutenant Governor.
The Republicans of the select committee o.
fifteen, by Mr.. Morrill,, will now publish their
report, as that of the minority has been spread
before the public, and that of Mr.. Harris is in
type.
They allude to the protracted struggle from
which their appointment arose, and declare
that the assumption on the part of the majority
that the record is complete, like the refusal ia
submit the Constitution of Kansas to full and
fair vote of the people, is confession that q
thorough investigation would prove fatal to an
extraordinary document.
The Presidents messages, the report of the
majority, and theconduct of John Calhoun, are
treated at length. The pledges of submission
on the part of the Nebraska Kansas advocates
the President, and 80 down to the Union,
ETC., also claim their attention.
The whole series of alleged frauds is set forth
in chronological order. The illegality and ir
regularity of the Lecompton Constitution from
the beginning are set forth by long array oil
facts, step by step. Their propositions are a.
follows:
We claim that this Convention could not
make valid Constitution:
| 1. Because, whatever inherent power the peo
| pie may possess, Congress refused all legal au
thority to the Territorial Legislature to call the
Convention, though urged BY President Pierce
2. Because the Legislature which created il
was itself the creature of fraud and foreign In.
vasion, and that this usurpation was never
contaminated by the acquiescence of the peo
pie.
8. Because the act of that Legislature, passed
| February l9, 1857, ato provide for taking q
census and the election Of delegates to q Con
vention," was never fairly executed. The