Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1859-05-13
KAySAS NEWS.

correspondent of the Boston Journal
writes from Wyandott, Kansas, May |, 1859.
From his letter VIC extract Us follows;
Our fourth Constitutional Convention is to
b, held her in July. The city is on the
Wyandott Indian reservation-a tract about
six miles square-upon which tho few re-
naming members of this once powerful nation
are permanently settled and engaged in aeri-
culture. They have embraced civilization
more readily than any other tribe and are
often intelligent and educated. They have
comfortable houses, fine farms, free schools,
and institutions Of religion and many have
married with the whites.
An organized band Of bold desperadoes
and horse thieves has been broken up ut
Shawnee, johnson county. Their dcpre-
dations had been going on for many months.
and they had stolen vast amount Of stock,
and sold it different points in Missouri and
Kansas. Four Of them are now in Jail a
waiting trial. A fifth, named G. G. Godfrey
in consideration Of making full confession
and aiding the owners to recover the stolen
property, was permitted to escape scot-free.
and has returned to his home in Michigan
lie is the same delectable youth who. as one
Of the election clerks Mt Shawnee. in January,
1858, added to the returns five or six hundred
bogus names. as pro-slavery voters. and then
swore to them as correct. He bids fair to
benefit the hemp market before he dies,
Much horse and cattle stealing is going on
in the territory. and the people will ere long
lynch some of its authors.
Politics are growing lively. The Demo
cracy" met at Leavenworth on Saturday. to
elect delegates to their Territorial Convention
at Tecumseh on the 18th. Old border ruff
ans, Douglas men, conservatives, and renegade
free State men, all showed a disposition to
bury past differences sure indication that
the opposition may expect hereafter united
foe.
There is schism in the free State ranks,
gotten up by G. W. Brown, which makes
some noise. but does not promise to prove Of
much magnitude. In February last, it was
conceded almost unanimously that, the free
State issue being settled, the times were be-
coming ripe for the organization of the
| Republican party. A call was therefore
issued for Territorial Republican Convention
to meet Mt Ossawattomie on the 18th of May
and signed by many prominent free State
men. including Dr. Charles Robinson.
Br own of the Herald Of Freedom, who it,
variably attempts to rule or ruin, opposed
the measure bitterly; and has finally issued
a call for a Territorial Convention of those
in favor Ct keeping up the old free State or
! ganization land of course opposed to the
Ossawattomie movement) at Big Springs on
the 18th inst This call also bears DR..
Robinson's signature, as we'll as F. P. Stan
toms. but has no other men Of influence.
Mr.. Parrott, Judge Conway, T. D. Thatcher,
Thos. Ewing, Jr., and nearly all other pro-
minent free State men, both conservative and
radical, are with the Republicans. The
schism is of course encouraged by the Demo-
cracy, whose tool Brown has long been, but
if the Republicans adopt liberal and con-
ciliatory platform, and do nothing to endorse
or give prominence to one or two obnoxious
men among them, it is sure to fall stillbornt
and iniure those who originated it. Brow n
is a man oflittle talent and no scruples; but
his accidental position at the head of a
newspaper gives him some prominence.