Chapter 94: The Lecompton Constitution is written.

Having lost the Legislature, the Pro-Slavery side finally realizes that it needs to write a Constitution to apply for admission in Washington. In addition to the usual boilerplate, Article VII focuses on slavery, including:

Section 1.The right of property is before and higher than any constitutional sanction, and the right of the owner of a slave to such slave and its increase is the same and as inviolable as the right of the owner of any property whatever. 

Section 2. The Legislature shall have no power to pass laws for the emancipation of slaves without the consent of the owners, or without paying the owners previous to their emancipation a full equivalent in money for the slaves so emancipated.

In effect the Lecompton Constitution guarantees that slavery will be allowed to take hold in Kansas, regardless of whether it is eventually declared a Free or a Slave State – thus making the labels themselves irrelevant to the reality.