The Kanzas news., 1858-08-28
Misconstruction of the Res,,4
Kansas Election OF tie


If remorse could reach the coI,o
and scared eonsciences of the Nation.Ji' Ji'Stis q
mocFacy, we should think the resuIt :. De-
late election in Kansas, on the IeooUUlthe Ul the
Constitution, would plunge them em;~ptoo II
and despair as deeply as it covers then gfef
ignominy. When we speak of remo... Sl'h
do not mean any feeling allied to renon.' We
any sorrow for henious transsrass;o a'A0Ce
but the tortures which baf1ed tyrannr-
humiiiated egotism feel at having eom,..;aAd ana
an irretrievable mistake. With sneb l,',''ed
pie, blunder is the only crime; and tb,@ @
long apparent even to the South. fbo, y
Kansas policy has been gigantic bIpnasf %sf
from Its inception to its disgraeeful f.5ss
the testimony of Kansas itself was u,e naaI;
to place the question beyond denial or a. a0nt.
That testimony We now have in the ela'.:
returns, by which it appears the peonla' =,
that Territory have rejected the LecoppD,o~% VI
Constitution by ten to one. Seldom is snoI p,SI
an approximation to unanimity witpess.3
on any question. as the people of Ksns..
have exhibited in their hostility to the +
compton Constitution.
1t should seem that no organ Of op;n;o,
that sets the lightest value on common sens.
or veraeity. could have the hardihood to A.
tribute this striking aud momentous even,
to any other motive than the well known and
ayowed one-the hostility of freemen To,
gross, unprecedented, and tyrannical inv,
sion of their rights. Yet the organ of Il.
President in Washington, attributes it to IL.
reluctance of the people to assume the eT.
penses of State government! We subn;,
the force of effrontery and the meanness a.
| Misrepresentation can no farther ro. tb,.
this. There is not man or woman in Kan.
sas, nor we'll informed man In the Up;,.1
States, that does not know the LeOOmptoa
Constitution was repudiated rather than ~
jected; that it was regarded as an Insult ,n
outrage, and bribe, and treated according.
| ly; and that money could not buy it throuSb
any more than fraud could steal it throuSb
or violence force it through. 1t is due "a
the people of Kansas to vindicate the no.
tive which inspired their patriotic conduct
from the in1putation that they were actustsd
by low pecuniary considerations. In The
emergency which has passed, they Eers
true 10 their own dignity as freemen; and
they nobly responded to the sentiments Of
the Republican party, and the consequence
is that the foul plans which were based up.
on the assumption that selfish views sup
planting broad principles, would govern
them, are frustrated forever, while the au-
thors of these schemes are stained with in.
delible infamy.
So far from the people of Kansas having
been averse TO enter into the Union, Their
history shows that their constant aspiration.
and the desideratum of their leading men,
their mass meetings and representative con-
ventions was to procure admission. The
entire free state party of the territory in '56,
solicited admission under the Topeka Con.
stitution. The population then was not one
half what it is at present, and consequently
the pressure of taxation would have been
twice as great. The application under the
Topeka Constitution was rejected with con-
tumely, Senator Douglas, who acted as The
organ of his party on the occasion, stigma
tising the instrument with all manner Of
probrious epithets. Last winter the free
State Legislature provided Tor the calling Of
a Constitutional Convention, which Assem-.
sembled in due time, and formed what is
known as the Leavenworth Constitution
/ This instrument has received the ratifca.
ton of the popular vote, and would doubt
less have come before the last session Of
Congress, if an early adjournment had not
taken place. It will, We presume. be pre-
sented to Congress next winter, where il
win be met by the objection on the part Of
i the National Democrats, that the act pro-
viding for calling the convention did not re
ceive the assent of the acting Governor
Suppose the objection be valid, what in
port does it bear? Simply that the people
of Kansas are desirous of getting into the
through the Federal officers have been
! throwing impediments and obstacles in the
way: that Kansas as free State is kept out
| though the people have shown their strong
! desire and urgent need for admission. BE-
i fore the birth of the Lecompton Consftu'
ton admission was refused. Now that the
Lecompton Constitution is dead, the sntlP
athy of the National Democrats to admit
the Territory as free State, may be iOanc
4 on the records In the shape of an act o.
Congress, which forbids admission until tH
| population be ninety-three thousand. hAh
sas as a free State was hooted from tns
doors of Congress in 1856. "A long and
desperate effort was made last winter
drag her into the family circle of the Stsss
because slavery was riveted on her by De
Lecompton Constitution. That effort fsH'
ing, and Kansas sloughing of slavery for
ever and purging herself from the slightss
suspicion of 1t, the term of her probsi'0n
is protracted, if an act of Congress sn
protract it. It becomes necessary 70 Re,
call this history to silence the falsehOOds o
the Washington Union, and snatch from to'
President and his advisers the pihfui 90
lace which it tenders to them.-Eo Ds'"'