The Kansas herald of freedom., 1859-01-15
WAsHlNaroN. Jan. / 1s5a.

l
Mr. BRowN-DEAR Sir Your readers /,
nay not be aware that Washington is at
present inundated by letseis from Law
renee, K. T.; nevertheless, such is the fact
These letters are little and big, all the way
from one to fifteen or twenty pages each,
and all, or nearly all, upon the same SUBJ
ject and having their origin with the won
derfully prolific writer, the new Judge"
President" and Representative" elect
to Congress. As a fair sample. read the
following, published in the New York
Herald of Dec. Goth:
Politics, so far as the people are con-
cerned, are very quiet in the Territory at |
present, but spectators and political aspi-
rants are ever working, plotting, planning
and devising. The admission of Kansas
as State, and grants of land from the fed
eral government for railroad or other stock |
jobbing purposes. are the subjects which
chiefly occupy their attention.
"The Leavenworth Constitution, it will
be remembered, was ratified by a small
vote of about 1000. Notwithstanding
the opinion of the Attorney General
against the legality of that Constitution,
many parties here claim that it is legal,
and desire Kansas to be admitted under
it. Judge NJ. F. Conway, the President
of the Convention which framed said Con-
stitution, accordingly forwarded, few
days since, by the United States express,
to Washington, two copies of the docu-
ment duly authenticated, accompanied
by two copies of tabular statement of the
returns of the election on the ratification
of the same; one to be given to M. j. Par
rott for the House, and the other to Seward
for the Senate. The Constitution has
doubtless been presented ere this time, so
that the application of Kansas for admis-
sion must now be before Congress. What
the Republicans here fear is that the Re-
publicans in the States will themselves
suppress the application, SO thatif it gets
before Congress at all at this session it will
be at late day, and then introduced, only
for appearance sake, to be referred to some
committee and quietly killed. That would
enable the Republicans to keep up their
hue and cry of Bleeding Kansas
"Then Robinson is engaged in a scheme
to get the Delaware Reserve and other
valuable lands in the Territory, appropri-
ated "to railroad company" of which
he is principal stockholder. He desires
to defeat our admission as State, because
that would defeat his land spoliation
scheme. 1t would necessarily supersede
this special and direct grant of land, and
cause all the lands given by the federal
government for railroads and other pur-
poses to be granted, as provided for in the
ordinance to the State Constitution, the
provisions of which would be an insuper-
, able obstacle to the scheme of Robinson
& Co. 1t is understood that Robinson has
engaged with him in this business large
number of Republican members of Con-
gress. I have heard Henry Wilson,:
+ name mentioned as one of them. 1t is
, therefore, quite possible that in order tc
6 share in this plumber, and to keep the
Kansas question still in some measure
open, for political uses, the Republican.
r may be eager to shut off Kansas, withou
f word at this session.
Robinson is a great schemer. He ha
been pretending that he would leave thu
Republicans and 60 over to the Demo
; Gratis; but this is sham. He has got thu
S influence of Denver and other admins
tration Democrats in behalf of his schem
upon this expectation, while at the sam
time he tells Republicans, secretly, no
to organize the Republican party until h
gets through with the Democrats and Sc
cures his land, and that then he will b
. with them. He calculates on swindlin
Is the Democrats, and thereby getting tn
s land, on staving off the admission of til
e State until this is accomplished, then t
turn round, be fierce Republican, an
ride into the United States Senate as sucf
l. Sach trickster ought to be upset.
J. Seward has an interest in paper herr
is which he intends. or designs, to use to Ell
= feet the vote of Kansas in 1860"
i 1t appears from the above that th
l. Leavenworth Constitution was ratified b
is only the small number of 1000 votes, an
st I am sorry to inform the Judge that whe
i it reached here it had lost some 5000
d: those. The Expressmen should be mad
lie to disgorge. 1t is no small crime to stei
Of 5000 votes when they are so much neet
is ed.
IN The Republicans about Lawrence Al
re very much afraid that the Republicans
lie the States will themselves suppress Il
application so they can keep up the CT
of BLEEDING Kansas" Now this wou
in be too bad. These naughty Republican
lie in the States should at once admit Kal
D. sas. It is true that the rules of Congre
A require all such business to go to reg
10 lar committee, and it is also true tn
i'll these rules cannot be suspended witho
20 two-thirds vote, and it is no less til
re that it would be as easy to get gro'
C. from dead man as to get any committ
E. of either House to report on that Cons'
a tuition this session, even had the apple
sr, ton been made when Adam was lit
ID, boy, but all this is no reason why the R
ok publicans aud kansas gentlemen"
in Washington should not admit Kansas no
an In the name of Methusaleh, is not this t
Id only chance that S. Judge, President al
oy Representative, will ever, in all probabi
ds ty, have to get into Congress and do yc
ng dastardly Republicans in the State hesitaI
as Beware, traitors, or S. and the Neso 70
nd Herald will upset" you!
M Then there's Robinson, that infer
to villain, who has been killed off by I
friends, the letter writers, and the Kan.
Nei0s and Laurence Republican, more tin
OF than cat has lives; he is "schem:ng"
es- railroad grants and "spol;ations" general
e. Notwithstanding he has mo friends"
'on has managed to engage with him "laI
est r,,n,h.r Of Republican members of CO