Squatter sovereign., 1855-11-13

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impotent effort to hare my election an
nuiied 49,
i. When. after many months Of needles
I anarchy and confusion in the Territory,
: YOU at length yielded to the impottuni.
ties of the people for the election OF Leg
i isIative Assembly, and issued yoiir procia.
nation for that purpose. You thought thai
4 you had taken measures for having an
overwhelming majority of your political
allies on the ground. But in this you
were destined to disappointment. md of
the ,hirty-nine members composing the two
houses of the Legislature, thiry-eight were
your political opponents. This body You
convened at the remote town site for
4 town tits not) of Pawnee, In order that, by
making Il the temporary seat of Cover
ment, and by the expenditure of public
money there, you might be further enrich
ed as one OF the owners of that locality
The place being destitute of houses of all
kinds, even of rooms in which to dehber-
ate, and of all the necessaries--to say
| nothing of the comforts Of life-the Assem-
bly,, at an early day, adjourned to a place
where the wants of its members could
be better supplied. This removal, SO i'm.
perative called for by the circumstances,
and so fully authorized by numerous pre-
cedents, YOU have chosen to make the
pretext upon which to inyalidate the whole
code of laws enacted by that boly-so
! that if your councils should prevail. the
people of the Territory would be as much
without the protection OF law to-day as
| they were a year ago, when you first
came amongst them. @ - so
Being thus foiled in all your underta-
kings, disappointed in some of your most
| hopeful prospects of gain-deteateG in
your hopes of having Legislature sub
survient toyour views, and the sword Of
Justice, long suspended over you, having at
| length fallen, You moodily retired for
the concoction of new mischief. You are
first seen in conclave with the most rabid
Abolitionists of the Territory. putting forth
ernment denouncing the acts of the Leg
islative Assembly, though that body was
elected in pursuance of your own procla-
nation, and the members bore your certi-
ficate of election, as void and of no binding
force and piedging yourselves to united
resistance AS part of the disorganiza-
ton schemes adopted. and. doubtless, sug-
gested by you, a mock election was deter
mined to be held on the 9th inst, for del
egate to Congress. notwithstanding that
the first of the month was the day legally
prescribed for that purpose. At such a
pretended election, held not only withou,
color of law. but in open violation of law,
YOU came forward as a candidate. and
suppose some weak.minded and evil-dis-
posed persons may have voted for you.-
How many, am not concerned TO know
! for no numbers could impart validity to a
proceeding so lawless and disorganizing.
And it is with list of votes thus obtain.
ed taken and certified to by judges bound
by no oaths, and recognizing 40 law for
their government, votes given by persons
Of no defined qualifications, and restrained
| by none of the penalties which attach to
| illegal or fraudulent voting, that you will
apply to the House Of Representatives to
vacate my seat, in order to make room for
you. For carrying out so monstl Gus a
purpose, YOU calculate largely upon the
political complexion of that body, "a por-
ton of which is known to be infected
with the most loatllsone heresies of the
time. 81 80: e5 aaS 1s'
l confidently predict that you are again
reckoning without your host. and believe
that the House. Of Representatives will
regard the mere suggestions that IT could
| lend itself TO SO revolutionary and high
handed proceeding, as libel upon its
character, promptly, be resented. You
| may succeed in engeinlering i'll feeling in the
halls of Congress. and in gaining for your
seIfa sort OF notorie,y which. however u'l-
enyiable, you seem to prefer to the obscu-
lity which BELTS you; but other adyant;i-
ges YOU will not obtain. Inthe meantime
you may enjoy the ignoble satisfaction of
having introduced and lomented an amount
of discordant feeling and instlbordInation
TO law In this Territory, which it will re-
quire the iabors of many better men to
and from which your misguided dupes and
followers have every thing To fear. For
| speak not the language of threat and
! bravado, but of sober reason. when | say
to You thai the people OF this Territory
are determined to have laws and 10 enforce
them, whatever may be the hazards or the
sacrifices.
l submitted my name as a candidate.
and received the votes OF the law abiding
portion ot the people. in conformity to an
enactment of tile Legislative Assembly OF
the Territory. If there was anything in
the constitution or conduct of that body
calculated toiiWalida,e acts, it will be time
enough for me to refuse obedience. when
court of competent jurisdiction shall have
so declared.
] atjnre, as revolutionary. and destruc-
| tive oil al, social order, the doctrine held by
You and your associates, of right in the
individual. to set up his private Judgment
| in opposition 10 constitute authority.
/ AS an Anaerican citizen, 1 hold it to be-
my duty to yield obedience to the laws un-
der which live, and to contribute my aid
towards enforcing the obedience Of others
and this without reference to my indiyidu-
| al opinion respecting their moral force or
political expedicncy. tits precisely be-
cause YOU are swayed by opposite sentI-
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