The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1858-01-16
Southern Views on the Kansas Gu stIon.

\ regular JonLsLyll was thrown into tie
camp Of the LecomVtonists by Gov. Wise,
of Va, in lis letter to the Office holders
meeting in New York, called to endorse the
Lecompton Constitution. Gov. Wise talks
rightout what lie THINKS, just as il they
were his friends and he expected their APP
p!ausc. After dwelling at some length on
the grave dignity Of State Constitution
above a mere statute law, and especially ola
ney State in this country. on the eve OF be-
ing received into the most glorious Union
which ever fortified and protected the hber-
ties of mankind" be exciaims:
What. Tel US that an instrument of this
dignity: that republican government itself,
was not to be So admitted in its form and plan
proposed. to the only lawful soyercignS -
the organized peoIe-uot a mere mass Of
persons, but the bona .tile inhabitants and
le.,ul = t-1< Of ,Ie State to be governed, TOR
their election. 10 adopt or reject ~ J'cj1re
| say il Gugit 10 have been 50 submitted.
Pure and uadeG!vd rcpub icaHisul, conserTa-
tive democracy, required that il should be
50 submitted. There * no lnnbocracy IN
that idea. 1t i even. just, steady, organic
cd. free republican action; the ia" OF popu-
lar liberty, defined by citiz U-Lip and the
rue of election and l. the tIus example OF
csscutia! Sovereignty in the people Instead
F Of 50 submilin. tins proposed constitution
bv the mere gent, the Convention, defer
cntia.iy to the principals, the organ I'D SOW
crcj-u. people, there was a U~n:plton-a
Withholding from them Of a ;aIr, free, iuii
and equal election 10 choose or not 10 choose
their own constitution Of Se.f-Eovernment
1t was cr yartc; it was AL on one SIDE; II
was in gambling phrase, the tou! -" Heads
win and tails you lose; the constitution
was Obliged to be adopted, with the clause
4 or without the clause the vote WAS bound
10 be. for the constitution" II was all pro
and 10 can; and we say that was 10 sub
mission to an election at all.
. The Louisville Demoertt, one Of the ablcst
Democrat, journals Of the South, has main
tanned the same views with Gov. " Use from
the commencement OF this controversy. In
late number, advocating the sending back
of the Lecompton Constitution, that paper
says:
South Carolina viii say no, and some 9th
ers will follow her example; but those 'ohG
BgloaJ to tie Nlti1aai Democratic Purity 81
tie .South tcW send this Constitution back
Democratic editors Of the South have gene
rallv cone all lengths for this Lecompton
Constitution. They will find out where
their doctrines vii! lead them after while
The South has no rational motive for depart
ing from the plain, straightforward, repubi
can doctrine in the case SIZE strikes dom
ker friends of tie North, and giCes their ar
ntor 10 her enemies.
Some of the journals that are foremost IL
all this, that have, in fact, given tone to it
sneer at the National Democratic party
Ii is party now that they would break
down in preference to all others. Ii stand:
in the way of their darling scheme OF a Sou
;hern party. They know if they can only
break down the National Democratic party
their work is done. They gloat over th'
prospect VIII Kentucky make herself tbs
tool of this faction?
The Philadelphia Press (Forney's paper
has created sensation at Washington bJ
rakinG up from the files Of Congress th'
protest of dozen OF Southern Senators, il
1850, against TIE admission OF Californi;
into the Union. Among them are Hunter
JEFF. DAVIS, Masoo, Yulcc, &c. The reason
why they "solemnly protested against til
admission Of California was:
because Congress had not sufficient ovi
dence that the constitution presented hat
received the assent Of a majority Of the pee
! pile IF California;"
How can these men object to sending bacl
, the Lecompton Constitution when the.
know it has not received and never will re
ceive the assent Of a majority of the peopl
| of Kansas?