Show kansas affairs the accounts from lY washington abington would seem seem to how show that the kans mans ts s question is is likely to come before Con congress greis gregs iri iff a shape that wilano will no longer longeran ad mit of equivocation or evasion it is not now a vestion question of slaver slavery y or fi diee ee labor that qu question eillon has as been for the plesent present superseded and set aside by another and nd more vital and pressing one the right of the people to be consulted as to the constitution ution under which they tiley are to live lire i it is undoubtedly the fact that in a certain number of instances state constitutions hav have been adopted without being submitted to a formal vote vole of the people but there was nothing in in any one of those cases which bore the slightest resemblance to the existing state of things in iw kansas or which can by any ingenuity be tortured into a precedent gede bede for what lis ais itis now proposed to do thre th gme gre J jn aill all ali ins instances ahe men by whom the tiia constitution was framed framm had been chosen by a h full a vote of odthe the people th they ey enjoyed tile ein eln tin entire lire confidence of the people tiie tile they fully sympathized with the people and the people with them and hid fid they and the people were ware fully agreed together and had a perfect understanding under as to the sort dof government to be instituted ili in e every one of these particulars the case octha of the oatis rma constitution stands out distinct and peculiar pecullar culiar cullar the men men by whom that document has gg been e n framed were never chosen by th e people odle of kansas the great grgat bulk of the people of Kansas repudiated the authority under which the members of that convention were vv ere chosen they declined to take any party in that election not mir merely because they did not recognize the authority im of va the bogus legislate Leg Legislature islat e under one of whoa whose that election was held but they had been taught by past experience that any attempt to eker exercise cise th the elective franchise only subjected them ao 10 to violence and insult their votes being either elther vi ther total totally jr rejected or out counted by indru sive site votes voles from missouri so far from be being ing clio cilo mn y a full and free vote of the people the wil wll 0 number of votes thrown even including fraud fraid ulle tile k returns and intruders from missouri wh who d voted largely at leavenworth and nd othen other border borter ier towns where almost the entire vote was cast was eai vai below wow two thousand still less can it be pretended that these men thus chosen hos ea enjoyed the confidence or of the tiie people of kansas sa far from that it would be impossible td W a picked out sixty men more thoroughly hated I 1 and despised and that for the best of reasons in the entire territory even including n as part of it as the electors seem to have done the adjoining counties of missouri of the larger purt of them their private character and habits were utterly i titer itter lyd detestable e es table tabie while among them were to be found active agents ia 11 the burn ings robberies false falso arrest arrests murders and civil the freestate freest free fred st state te men had bad been made the thi victims surely it ca cabaot be pretend pretended tid eid that the people of kansas had any confidence or could coiled b be e expected to hav any confidence in in a con constitutional bial convention composed of such material As asto to any sympathy bet between this body and th epe ehe 0 pl hom they purported pui eui ported to represent and for whom hey bey they undertook to act what has alrea reg red db dy veeh veea een said is quite sufficient to settle that question quentio instead of sympathy we find the tiie bitterest a and d purest it would be hard bard to tell teil detested the tile other the most heartily ta the cd U q the people of kansas for whom they had undertaken to make malre a constitution or the great bulk of the tile people of ransa kansas the con venti dri which had assumed to act for hem thern i in in this grave capacity it will at all events be safe to say say that there was no love lost between them tile the n again as to the fourth arid most important anpo eoln ifil i of all so far from there here being any agreement or understanding between the mem convention and the body of the people of kansas as ag as to the tile sort of constitution to be madel madei pon ron that ques quei question tion they differed in in toto the body ofsha the people of kansas had already set forth iii in ule uie the topeka constitution precisely the sor sort Cb feon ution which they desired to have and iwas precisely because that constitution did not correspond to the ideas of the originators of illis ilia is bogus boods convention that it had been called to 0 frail another it was not alone as to the question of slave labor its exclusion or fritsen its en coura gme n p that the convention and thel people of ot kansas entertained diametrically opposite views IA A difference of ot opinion far more bitter and vehement existed between them as ag tb the legality galit yand id dut gut authority hority of the two territorial Terri toral legislatures la ld turpa tures andas n dasto to the relations tobe to be established between I 1 those I 1 1 bie ase legislatures legislatures and arid the he state slate govern anent tl the ie mem members ers of the convention had an object sl still il I 1 nearer and dearer to ther hearts than making kansas a slave state they wanted to perpetuate for some years yeats to come at pt all events to b 41 os legal the border ruffian domination nati quito to which the people of kansas had been 5 subjected ft acied and to which tiie tile they them themselves selve seive s owed the position which they held and such is the main object of the ahe lecompton Le compton constitution and of the artfully artful devised schedule appended to it tho the people deop of Kansas on the other haud hand are firmly ap resolved ved riot not to be either enticed entrapped or drawn into any ziny further recognition as a legal and binding of theon the infamous famous product of in mingto i rigl force forc and fraud which president buchanan hanan and add and the senate at washington have seen fit lit toreco I 1 nize nize as the le legislative power fower of kansas az this offen offer all Is the great question now pending ing iti kanbas kansas and which must be met at washington 0 shall shail the people of kansas be allowed to affie frame a state stale constitution for themselves them selve or shall shail h 11 they be he obliged to subinia to have a constitution on r tit tio lio n force dupon them which shall shail be bot irl iri t q spirit of its provisions and iu u the method eli ell of its fori tori formations forma atlon tiona a continuation of the horder border rd r u an invasion an and ani conquest under v b icv ei have suffered as a territory IN N Y tribune dec 5 I 1 |