The Nevada journal., 1855-06-15

residents were deferred or discouraged from
going to the polls. If this condition of tbinps
is allowed to prevail we are reduced to the state
of q Vassal province, ard are governed BIZ the
State of Missouri
1t would be mere affectation in US to attemnt
to disguise the fact that the question of making
Kansas free or Slave is ut the bottom of this
movement. and that the men who thus invade
our soil and rob US of our liberties are from the
Pro-Slavery men of Missouri, who are unwil-
ling to submit the quest ion to the people of the
Territory and abide the compact between the
North and South, which the Kansas Nebraska
bill contains
The compact We want carried out, and bv
that test we want the question settled if it can
be; but there are few things that we would
not prefer to the domination of irresponsible
invaders from Missouri. That enactmen. is
not only law which States and individuals are
bound to obey, but it is compact between tie
North and the South-a solemn covenant be-
tween the sovereign States OF our Union, which
none can violate without becoming recreant to
the principles Of honor and justice-withol
the betrayal of confidence reposcd- without
such breaking Of plighted faith as in an indi-
vidaal would load him to the earth with scoru
and contempt and drive him from the society
of honest men. The bill which Northern states
men backed with Northern votes had obtained
for Southern rights, is made by men who in>
wade our soil, the very instrument for depriving
us OF our dearest privileges, and stabbing to
the heart those who magnanimonsly gave it in
to their hands fer other ends.
That bill IS made to mean popular SOVEREIGN
ty fer them -serfdom for US. The doctrine of
selfgoverHment is to be trampled under foot
here, Of ali other places in the world, Oh the
very spot which had been hal!owed and conse-
Grated to its incst signal vindication. The Al
tars which had beer reared to it on this chosen
ground, and around which at least the denoc
racy OF the whole Union had swcrn allegiance,
and to which we had come as pilgrim wor,
shippers IN the wilderness, are to pe rutnlessly
demolished. The compact is to be basey bro
Ken and the ballet Of the freeman lin effect
icrn from our haIds almost before the ink If
the covenant is dry. Net Only, too, is the prin,
cipe of popular sovereignty to be Dlottcd out,
but more than this, ever the object OF the con
test IS to disappear. The question Of negro
Slavery is TO sink into insisnifcanca, and the
great portenous issue is to loom UP in its stead,
whether or not we shall bo the slaves, ard
fanatics who disgrace the honorable AID
| chivaric men of the South shall be Our masters
" HOic W IL LltiF Flc;tSuTc
With feeble and scattered community, iust
struggling into existence, without organization
and almost without shelter, we are powcrless to
resist nn old, strong and populous State, full CT
men and arms and resources, and we therefore
appeal to you and through you to the people
of the States. Remedy here we have none.
Our Exc cutiye has with manly determination
and persistent fidelity stood by his people, and
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popular sovereignty and secure US the privilege
Of managing our own affairs and governing
ourselves, until his reputation has been assailed
and his life openly threatened with bitterness,
almost unparalleled and although as Chief
Magistrate he is all we could desire, and has
fearlessly pursued the path OF duty amid storm
| of menace and detraction under which many
men wonld have quailed, yet he is powerless
like ourselves.
We make now this last appeal, not to the
North, not to the South; not to any political
party; but to the Representatives of the whole
Union. We beg that no men will sport with
our fearful condition by endeavoring to make
political capital, or build up party at the
expense of our civil and physical existence
to protect US. Through yourselves, their
Representatives, we appeal to their honor-to
their justice-to their patriotsm--to their
sympathies, not for favors, but for rights--not
for trivial rights, but for the dearest rights
guaranteed to US by the Declaration of Inde'
pendende-by the Constitution of the Union
by the law of our organization--by the solemn
compact of the States and which you pledged
to US as the condition of our coming here.
| Communities are not to blame for the con-
duct of their fanatics unless they sanction
them. We cannot believe that the States OF
the South will sanction the outrages that have
been perpetrated upon US, or will allow them
to be continued. And although we might
reason the matter as question of policy and
show that it is contrary to the laws of nature
and society and opposed to all human exper-
jIence that good can come from such evil al,
though we might prove that it is "sowing the
wind to reap the whirlwind," and that the re-
action will be fearful yet we feel that this is
unnecessary that it is enough to appeal to
their honor and their sense of Justice and to
rely upon their plighted faith
Inside our bounds we shall have no serious
troubles. MOI thern and Southern men mingle
together in harmony and good feeling, and in
mutual dependence and assistance in the hard
ships and privations of pioneer lite. AS we
learn to understand each other, frien dships are
engendered and prejudices melt away, so that
we shall be able to meet all questions that may
arise in spirit of justice and friendly feeling,
which will secure the rights of all, and cheer
full acquiesence in the decision of the majority.
From foreign oppression, however, we ask for
reief of that power which passed the Kansas
bill, and pledged to is its benefits if we would
come here. We have a right to ask, and do
ask its enforcement. 1t remains for your hon
oraole bodies to decide whether You will keep
the compact between YOU and US which exists
by that Dill, and on emigration whether you
will vindicat the SACRED doctrines of the Gov
ernment, or wL5ther you will leave us IN a
state of vassalage and oppression. We cannet
and do not doubt that you will in some way
give us justice and protection.
On the l4th of April, the Office of the
Parkville Luminary, a paper published
by George s. Park at Parkville, was de-