The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1859-09-21
The Kansas Constitution. ..The Confer.
ence Bill Violated.


The Journal of Commerce says Of the Kan
sas Constitution
"The Democrats in Kansas will resist it,
because it so apportions the State as to secure
the election of Republican Legislature and
two Republican Senators in Congress. It viii,
in fact, give the control Of the State to the
Republicans for years, If that party last so
long"
1t Kansas should apply for admission into
the Union with the Constitution recently
formed, the Administration will be compelled
by due regard to the consistency of its poll
cy and by its pledges to resist the application.
BY the Conference Bill an indispensable con-
dition precedent to the adoption of consttu-
ton, is the ascertainment by census that the
population of the territory is equal to the ratio
OF representation in the National House of
Representatives. The act authorizes the peo-
pie Of the territory to form Constitution and
State government for themselves, "uheneaer
and NOT BEFORE, it is ascertained by a
census, duly and legally taken, that the pop
ulation Of said territory equals or exceeds the
ration Of representation required for member
of the House Of Representatives of the United
States Congress-" This provision of the law
was not complied with before the election Of
delegates to the Convention that formed the
Constitution, and has not been to this day
There was nolagal evidence whatever that
the population a. the time the Constitution
was framed equalled the number required by
the law of the United States.
President Buchanan in his Message of De-
cember last, informed Congress that the prop
osition offered to the people of Kansas for adj
mission under the Leeompton Constitution
had been rejected by popular vote, and said:
''They are now authorized to form another
constitution, preparatory to admission into
| the Union, but not until their number, as as
certasned by a onsms shall equal or e1ceed the
ratio required to elect member to the House
! Of Representatives," And so warmly did the
President endorse this feature of the Confer
ence bill, that he styled it an excellent pro-
vision" and declared that it sought to be ex-
tended and rendered applicable to all terrific
ries which may hereafter seek admission into
the Union" He at the same time expressed
regret that the rule had not been established
at an earlier period of the government.
With these facts in view the Administration
will be compelled to use its most strenuous
efforts to prevent the admission of Kansas
with the Constitution recently framed. If
the measure should be forced through Con-
gress BY combination of political interests
despite the earnest remonstrances of the con-
seryatiye party, it will become the duty of the
President to defeat it by the timely exercise
Of the veto power.
| We have seen in the Constitution newspa-
per, no word Of dissent from the unauthorized,
high-handed and law-defying proceedings in
Kansas, but we will not do the President the
injustice to suppose from this neglect of the
Administration paper that he intents to recede
from the position which he has already so dis
tinctly taken. But whatever course others
may take, Mississippi and the other States of
the South, will require their members to stand
squarely up to the Conference bill and resist
to the bitter end every attempt to violate its
provisions. With Kansas out of the Union,
three votes will be lost to the Black Republi-
can candidate for President in the electoral
4 college, or one vote il the election should be
carried into the House of Representatives.
P. S.-Since the above was put in type, we
have seen dispatch stating that as far as
heard from the majority against the adoption
! Of the Constitution is 5000 which makes its
defeat almost certain. This will settle the
matter, and keep Kansas out of the Union un-
til after the Presidential election