The strictures of the Georgia and Mississippi Conventions will then pass away and be speedily forgotten.

In regard to Georgia, our news from that State is becoming better every day; we have not yet had time to hear much from Mississippi.

Should you answer the resolution of the latter, I would advise you to make the great principle of the submission of the constitution to the _bona fide_ residents of Kansas conspicuously prominent.

On this you will be irresistible."[7] The delegates to the constitutional convention, chosen in June, met according to law at Lecompton, September 7, and, having spent five days in organization, adjourned their session to October 19.

The object of this recess was to await the issue of the general election of October 5, at which a full Territorial Legislature, a delegate to Congress, and various county officers were to be chosen.
[Sidenote] Wilder, p.