Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1859-04-27
The akaNsaks election.

The people of Kansas have actually beer
| permitted to hold an election without the as.
| sistance of their friends in the State. Fol
! once they have been allowed 10 do as they
please The Abolition societies have aban.
doned the work of voting to tae inhabitants Of
the Territory, and an election heen held in
peace and quiet. The Journal of Conan,erc,
makes the following forcible and judicious re-
marks upon this subject: sss
"The Kansas Election.-The election in
Kansas. to determine whether Convention
shall be called to frame Constitution, pre-
paratory to admission into the Union, appears
to have attrcted but little notice in that terri
tory. We learn from the Kansas Herald,
that no more than FIVE thousand votes we're
probably polled, out of an aggregate estima-
ted at nearly quite twenty thousand; in other
words no more than one in four of the quail
iaed electors took the trouble to 20 to the
polls, on question which it has hitherto
convslsed the whole Union What better
evidence is wanting than that the whole ex-
cltement about forcing slavery into Kansas
was the result of a political plot, concocted
elswhere, and that people of that new Terrific
ry were made the catspaw to secure the politi-
cal chesnuts, which has been roasted for the
special use CT partizans in other localities.
It is probable that the people have voted
by majority in favor of a Convention. IF
so, the political divisions in Kansas will show
themselves, on tue choice of delegates, and
not unlikely in quite different way from the
anticipation of those who have been accus-
toned 70 look upon all "free State" men as
Republican in principle. 1t would be strange
indeed, if after all the effort which has been
made to people that Territory with Abolition
lists, and Republican agitators, that party
should be unable to carry the State, in con-
tested election. We anticipate that they will
do SO, but not by any means that Kansas will
be permanently Republican State.
1t is most likely that Kansas will be ad-
mltted into the Union, during the next Ses-
sion of Congress. 1t is generally believed
that her population will be sufficient to emit
tie her to admission under the English Bill.
and it is difficult to conceive what issue con.
nected with Slavery, can possibly be coniur
ed up, to lead to another excitement in Con
gress, or to fan the flames of another presi-
dental campaign. The Convention will un-
questionabiy form Constitution prohibiting
slavery; at all events the people will not ap
prove of any Constitution allowing it, and
there would seem to be clear sailing for that
much abused people, into the family ofStates.
Let US here ask, what has all the commo-
ton about slavery in Kansas amounted to?
Ihere has never been possible chance for it !
to become permanently slave State fact |
known to everybody who took the trouble to |
use particle of reason in the case, and the |
only motive or object in stirring up strife and |
III blood, is to be found iI the desire to raise
political issues for effect elswhere The coun |
try has had enough Of this, and we hope the |
good people OF Kansas. (good enough when
not made insane by the wicked plots of dema-
yogues) will now be allowed to attend to their
own affairs without molestation.