Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1858-04-23
Correspondence of The Boston Journal. j
LATEST FROM KANSAS.
LEAvENwoRTH April 5, 1858

- Constitutional Convention lately in
SEES here adjourned about 5 O'Clock p
NJ, last Saturday. TIA, Convention was in
session eleven DAYS, and during that time
applied itself with unusual as.iduity to the
business before ia fact which must b,
apparent in the Constitution itself as soon as
published, so complete are its details, and 50
excellent is it as a whole.
OF the clause by which all male citizens
who have resided three months in the Terri
tory are entitled to vote, your readers, be-
lieye, are already posted. Subsequent to
my last letter. there was another effort made
to insert the word white before ''male
ctizaus'' but it failed and the question of
negro suffrage is thus postponed until after
the vote upon the Constit, ton.
In reference to the slavery question, there
is distinct clause reading as follows -
"Thcrc shall be no slavery in this State. and
no involuntary serytude except ia punish
ment of crime whereof the party shall have
been duly convicted"
There will. imagine, be very little doubt
concerning he position Of the people Of
Kansas on the slavery question after the
adoption OF the Constitution containing that
clause.
A convention to nominate State officers
under the constitution Just framed, is to be
called by the Free State Central Committee.
to assemble on the 2Sth probably at Topeka.
| understand that the Hon. Henry J. Adams
will be nominated for Governor, but the re-
main1cr of the ticket, believe, has not vet
been decided upon.
At the mass meeting. held in this city
evening before last, speeches were made by
Gen. Lane, Judge Conway. and other promi-
nent gentlemen, which indicated the pro-
gramme adopted by the Free State leaderc
in reference to the future. IF Leeompton be
defeated. tho path is clear. If it pass Con-
gress the Free State Legislators elected under
it will be required, if not so disposed OF
themselves, to refuse it their support and
recognition, and allow the Lcavenworth gov
ernment to go into operation in its stead
Room being thus made for the latter. it will
be supported by the people Cat least so say
their l,alcrs) with unanimity and at any
and every cost, and against all odds.
General Lane has recently publicly decar.
ed himself as belonging to the Abolition
wing of the Frea State party. He says that
there arc bat two parties in the country
that ofslavery and that os freedom. Tic Ad-
ministration represents the former, and the
freemen of Kansas the latter. lIestated that
he doubted not slavery could be brought it:
to knees in a single wears, by the simple act o
the National Executive distributing hispatron
age among the nen-slaveheldins population
of the South. X.
! PS. Monday evenings o'clock. The
news of the defeat of I.ccompton IN Congress,
ON the alst ult has just reached here. ane
is creating great excitement and genera
jubilee. Bonfires are burning cannon firing
and speeches making. The windows along
the principal thoroughfares are being
llum minated, and companies of citizen ssldi
cry are paradinG the streets. AlI Is commo
ion and exultation. X.