Show from kansas A gerit bentic lemin nan bici who lea ien K T oti on tb ibe the ailed called aim oia evolin a 2 na gave gayea 0 tile the latest I 1 a test in ensia kasia Z aisis this e wis ts not riot much feeling in the territory on the subject of th the constitution framed by the bobtail bob tail democratic er aai sil c c convention on ven veu bention tion lately adjourned the total vote vole that elected the members of that convention did not much exceed 1500 while the voting population of the he territory now is between and so that the free state republican party are quite confident in their own strength and quite independent as to how soon the slavery constitution is elected in the territory and as to how flow quickly coo Con congress gresi may admit kansas under the constitution after the adm admission s sion slon then they intend to do some so tail tall work and take things entirely into their ir own hands as as they have the power and the votes to do so the clause in the constitution providing that it shall shail I 1 not be amended tn tile the next six yearn years and that other clause which fastens slavery upon the territory whether or no are quite jocularly deceived by the free stale people governor r walker says tile the convention was a d d batt jones institution 1 this batt bait jones wa wag the father of the johnson Jo linson and mcgee county returns and though a resident arid and voter in the territory has ilk lik hi civill living ill in westport westpoint Wet West port missouri st louis democrat nov 18 LAWRENCE nov 13 1857 1657 TO THE EDITOR OF THE ills alis ouri ourt DEMOCRAT recent accounts from utah coquim coffit na the dec dee declaration aa made by Bilg harn young that he would resist the united states troops to the utmost and that lie he with his wives could conquer the entire army an assertion of no trifling rifling nature at the present time lime the reports that tile the mormons cormons ind hid taken possession of the south pass thereby d detaining i i g the command under col smith has been confirmed I 1 A messenger who arrived in leavenworth last friday night hight in reports that a train of seventy five wagons belonging to wm will H russell government contractor had be beli bell ii taken by the mormons cormons and entirely destroyed by fire near tile the rocky mountains and that the teamsters were f furnished with provisions and sent back to fort laramie the troop troops were portel re I 1 to have retreated from the tile south pas pass then in possession of llie ilia mormon I 1 and encamp encamped ped for the winter on this side the tile I 1 troops we wele a ill lil in advance of the train destroyed and passed the mormons cormons unnoticed several comp companies anies unies of dra dragoons boons have lately arrived in from the erst east there are about in all quartered at fort leavenworth for the winter and will probably pro bibly be sent to utah in the spring it is thought by the officers at the fort that a call will be madelon anad on the secretary of war to re amit a couple of new regiments for the tile special benefit of utah in tile the event of mormons cormons adhering herin to the bold wd measures which they have tak taken enit it may afford the pebble of or kansas a temporary relief from the ilia militar military y thralldom against which they struggle it will doubtless doubt ies les Jec require luire all the force which the TRUCKLING administration can command for the lite next t selve velve months to force the saints of salt lake into submission loil 1011 no wonder buchanan Eu chanab chanan ant and brigham are belligerent one ha baving having uia via a multiplicity of awiles wives and the other having no wife to multiply it is rather f formidable formidable ormi dable in Vs its appearance whan when an old bachelor whose hairs lace hace grown white with celibacy attempts to separate a minister of christ frohn from a hundred DARLING wives it is a notorious fact that persons interfering between man and wife seldom add to their character and not the wife jo joins ins her husband and the intruder gets a severe threshing in this case it may riot not be so but certainly the affair coolis loob 1008 ominous at present the mormons cormons have possession of the only a accessible ces sible pass in the mountains arid and beyond a peradventure will defend their position until reinforcements for cements cn can take place which will be impossible in pos defore before next june the tile detachment it already go eone gone ue will be under the necessity of camping alt all winter sn n the inhospitable regions of tile the rocky mountains i subject to be by the mor mar mons cheye cheyenne and calanche camanche Ca madche manche indians the tile utah expedition about which has been said is another of the wie vise and arid judicious couise combe pursued by buchanan and his cabinet if hid id it not been for ah ambitious desire of or governor walker to place his name alongside of washington bonaparte and Welli wellington neton ai a great commander and webster cuy cly and calhoun as a statesman arid and patriot no doubt but the util dutli expedition would have gone instead of being detained to quell the ilia rebellious rebellions and inser people at lawrence dawrence but this is in keeping with all the acts of the he admi administration ration as well weil as the degrading and imbecile course pursued by isothermal walker the people here have llave decided to take no part in lle ile lie he election provided for ill in the robbers robber bl constitution ution it is thought no one will vote for it except thoe those who framed it and a few of the he Nation national til Damoc democrats rats who are wilin ill ilaug ili ug to do any menial melia mella labor which this band of usurpers usurp ers may advise thera is a certain click of the tile nationals who feels honored to no auy any degrading labor libor which lie he is capable of doing eor foi free state domo 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