Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 November 1858 — The Kansas Programme. [ARTICLE]
The Kansas Programme.
j Judge John W. Wright, formerly of Loigansport. in tiffs State, but n ew ol' Quindaro. Kansas, am! a member cleet'of the new 'l’erritori 1! L -.“-la! u-e, passed throifirh here j a tew days ago. 01 a bu. ieess visit to his 1 old home. IL* speaks without rosr-rro as to phe future policy of the Free State men of Kansas. H * says that a majority of the members (J f tie* ’iz-gi-lature elect.’liefil an inform il.-meeting a day or two before he left, | at which they agreed certain matters I to he done at, the coming session. Thev have-, lie sny . ,-roreed to' ad.-pt the lowa ■ ( onstitu!ion, word lor word, with,of coYirse. ■1 change ot mimes. W itlj t his co: st: tut ion j il.iey i.item! to make immediate jipiicatton jto <':/ng!.-e-s i r admis-ion info the Union. I iit'y are to meet at Lecompton, but wi.l j immedi.iti iy a Ipiurii to ■ ■•me other 1 entity, j not yet di-finiti ly fix d . 1:;•• n. Thev Will j change t'o’ D imes of r.ll the em'ntids < towns v. h: -e n ones indicate a border.ruffian ; pateri.-ity. .....L wimipton being the name mo.-t ■ haled. ;.ml comlemm-d. will probably be 1 changed to that of Ethiopia. It was thounhti by those presen’- that the. dark deeds here1 tolore enacted.ot Lecompton. could not bet blackened by this cliajige of name.—[.afiiy- \ >lt'- Journal:
