The Kansas herald of freedom., 1859-09-10
Ths Constitution.

w nateVer may De the result OF the vote
on the Wyandott Constitution, the people
should not fail to administer severe re-
buke TO those who outraged justice by
adopting such q yillainous apportionment.
No earthly excuse can be made for group
ing large counties together, and forming
Representative districts, merely with the
view of controlling the politics of the Ter
ritory. The plea that the Democrats
would have gerrymandered the new State,
had they been in power, is no justification
for Republicans. The latter profess to be
honest men. governed by PRINCIPLE, and
when in power, by their wisdom and fair
dealing they should have shown the
world that they could be trusted with the
affairs of government. They have not
done so, and ''they deserve defeat" as a
proper retribution for their iniquity; and
so ear as we are concerned, our vote shall
be cast in such manner as to defeat
them.
sour party, right or wrong" is motto
worthy the spokesman. We repudiste it,
and In the language of the GREAT Greeley,
''spit upon it." as unworthy of freemen.
Parties should be just as honest as indi-
viduals, and when they cease to be such
they should be abandoned, and new ones
should be built up in their places.
The Pro-slavery party of Kansas, by
its unparalleled frauds, terminated its ex.
istence much sooner than it would had
honesty and fair dealing characterized its
history. The Republican party, in its et-
forts to perpetuate its power, forgot jus
tice, and their reward will follow. Hun
dreds will vote for the Constitution who
despise many of its features, for the pur-
pose of inaugurating State government
thinking thereby to end the days of terror
of which Kansas has been SO prolific from
her first settlement At the same time
it is their intention to vote for such mer
to administer that Constitution as will la.
Dor to Establish justice" under it.
We have pointed out some of the prin
cipal objections to the Wyandott Consti
tuition, The people, in voting upon it, Dc
SO with their eyes wide open. If they
feel disposed to sustain the fraud, with
the hope that good will grow out of it, WI
have nothing to say. Originally we wer,
in favor of framing State Constitution
The act under which the Convention wa.
called, agreed, to the very letter, with {
recommendation of the HERALD OF FREE
DON of more than year ago. Our objec
tioDs are to the details Of the Constitution
and to those all our arguments have beeI
directed. In the hands of honest men
its faults could probably be corrected /; bu
the arch-scoundrels who have purposely
made it what it is, that they might over
ride the popular viii, if left to administer
ii, would make it the instrument of per.
manent oppression. The foul blot shoulC
DO wiped out, as was the case with thu
bogus statutes. Our opinion is, that th'
best way to do it, would be to strangle i
ere IL has an existence, Ia Lecompton
II the people shall think differently, ther
we will join hands, without regard to par
ty, in opposition to the Republicans, ant
labor to see that they are SO etfectually
scstcbed that they will never desire agair
to repeat the experiment of rObbiDg ever
a portion of the people of their inheren
rights.