New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-07-13

s-NrTsl OF them have taken part IN the Old strug-
giles N ciisrent capacities.
lbe hnf Of the CuDveptinn il large. IL IL drsped
with fag. ard portrait Of W 4shingtop h,ng. over
the Presidential desk. To-day, Gov. M-i,ry WAS
well euOulb 10 bepre,ent. The Convention l,blrs
uboeT some little embarrassment about pecunlary
matters "St,tiobery il lot dol-d out By ths
Territorial Secretary. Its ineiirntsl labrr -.
therefore, uLdrr sl the embarrassment of " no
u'"he! AID a ''Pt0sPectve credit basis. Ii does
lot really appear that Il Is much better of in this
respect ttsb the old Tupess Constitutional C'n-
ven'l"n. 1t bas q nOml0al Legality. AMI that is
about oil. The Lecompt COnsti auonal C0ayeu.
tn eh the only cD- Tor u hch Uncle San thought
II would pay - bleed At tia time of its existence.
Tie Questions that are ikrly to sgit,te this Con-
yeDtOu {" the greatest degree are. Ist The qu-s-
TOD OF freedom az IL concerns n grb Slavery as II
Dow * ITS IN the Territory. Black laws and tue
various forms which hstfed of the oppressed negro
race tsbe-, Wcuabs RIGHT, the question OF boun.
dsiy, spPortlopme6t. the claim debt-the'e, ~'ih
mopy MINOR matters, sre likely to make the session
pIutfact-d one.
1he Committees will not De announced until TO-
noIIo~. A few desired 70 take up the old To.
pthu Constitution and Ievivfy IL. but nearly all
~efe hostile t. hny such policy. | observe tha
every Convection that assemblies deem, lt-elf
p-cupaIy fitted Tor the duties that dryulye on IL.
Indeed, Tor the small use that is nowadays made
IL Constitutions, II seems Ia be quite unnecessary
20 ioke go much trouble tor any tho 80 i'll .terIal
The Rost important matter now before the Coz
vrhtion is that OF ADMITTING the superoumer,oy
members from Wyapdot County, aod also lot OF
S.lfpstes from Nebraska Territory, south of the
Platte. The latter will not be done. | do not
ttitk that .cheue to abncx any portion OF Ne
braska to Kansas will fGc favor. The two della
gates from WyapdOt are IN much the sans prcdlc
smebt Their case stands abput thus: A u,g
a \ I.k.a
cop Counties the close of the last Legislative
s.ssiop ard called "Wyandot." The app .rtiJn-
II ept bad been made, and no change was effected
siter the organization of the new county. How
ever both Lesyeuwofth and Johnson Counties had
rather more than their shaTe a. the border c0un
ties generally have. AZ The aw prescrbes the
number and the appOrtonment, aud IS the peope
accepted these 10 voting under IT, It Is calmed nat
M cha ge can Justly be made However, as the
DtmocIscy carried y,udvt Couuty in this y'un
teer ekctioD by a sm, nsjority, they ara deter
nipec TO make some capital out Of this rejection.
Ar their request 1t has been made the special order
Of the doy for to MORTON. The parties are u be
allowed To appear by attorney, aud We are likely ID
tav- d display If rhetoric. AS Tor tue contest 10
LrbvenwOfib. think the Democracy will be per-
mitted Ia reisin their seats " beD people are able
Ia prove one out of every five fraudulent votes at
on Election carried BY fraud they are generally
lucky. Unless the LesvenwOrh Republicans can
not only fully show their moral but their legal
rilht TO such seats, they cannot or
tail them. 1t was the old Missouri Legislature
at PawIee that introduced the sI-tem ola majority
tuning out minority. They did so under the
most sggIhyhted circumstance. The only legal
represt natives 10 that oody @ere turned out with
out preiext even, by the insolent Missouri 10.
vaders. The R.puohcirs in tie Coast tItlon1l
Convention viii most jealousy guard against any
thing that could be construed that way. They
would rather iun the rsk of giving the seats to
persons not properly entitled to them, than to
Lazard continuing an experiment 50 dangerous TO
republican liberty.
One question that has excited some attention
COT Gems the legal powers Of the Convention, aud
bow far it is filtered 10y the act under which it has
being Some tbiuk that The law Is supreme, and
viii govern the Convention in all matters. Others
regard the Convention as sovereign body tie mo
liz 1T il has beer organized, ano hold that II is tue
y, oplr in their original capacity insutating the
ornls of government, aud subject TO no Legislature,
10 10 authorities s1d 30 written charters.