Kansas weekly herald., 1855-08-11

ty IS pettifogger in bad case before a Justice
Of the Peace. He constitutes himself the sg-
prensa ler,-he Is the high court from whose de-
cision there lie no appeal; he decides our acts
illegal before we pass them, and leaves nothing
for the courts OF justice to do. ~ a.sss,l
He assumes to be supreme dictator king, and
prorogues Parliament at pleasure-he has dis
fsolved all connection with as, and believes that
Thereby we will be unable to have any Of our
laws executed, because our officers must be COM
Imissioned by him, and by so doing has attempt
ed to carry devastation to the citadel Of our
rights as people. He pleads duty and law for
this last act Of villainous depression-the COM
mon plea Of tyrants, and despots for these wan
ton acts of oppression and cruelty. The syren
beguiled by its music-Christ was betrayed by
! a kiss, and his Exceliency seeks thus to betray
the power which was granted him. It has been
/ charged against his Excellency, that he is, or
has been, member Of Secret Abolition Or
ganization, and that he is governed by and
responsible to that organization for his actions.
| Whether the accusation is true or untrue, am
not prepared to say, nor do pretend to assert,
that he does belong to, or is a member of any
such order: but one thing is certain, from his
first official act Of any Importance to the pres
ent time, his conduct fastens the conviction upon
this body that there is some power thatincites
him-that there is power behind the throne,
which is greater than the throne itself, that he
by political friends at the North, whose object
is to prevent an extension of slavery, and sub
vert hat institution at the risk of civil war, and
| a disruption of the Union.
But he cannot be excused, for the reason that
he has suffered himself to be made the suppli-
/ ant tool of Abolition fanatics-f such be the
/ case. =7
If the object Of his Excellency is to bring
down the Indignation of the Union men, and Of
| the Administration upon his head by such con-
duet, and thus become martyr to free-soil ia
naticism, perhaps he has made happy strike
perhaps his fond aspirations may be realized
Perhaps he may succeed in being elected to the
United States Senate from Pennsylvania. But
Mr.. Chairman, / am Of opinion that even in this
he will meet with disappointment, for it can
not be that Pennsylvania-aS State That has held
up for the rights Of the South, will return to
the United States Senate, a man who has trod-
den under foot the principles Of republican gov
Ternment, in order to be made . nlaTtyrto .A6o-
| lition fanGticssm, and thus suffer him to take
advantage of his o,rn wrong in order to pro-
cure that Office to which he aspires: Certain
ly such thing cannot be; the people have too
much patriotism. In attempting to ruin us and
our country by despotic insolence. he has ru-
ined himself. The die is cast-his fate is
i sealed. He has no one to blame but himself,
and he has no plea that can be made in justif-
cation for his conduct
In conclusion Mr.. Chairman, charge that A.
H. Resder, the Governor of this Territory, has
exercised apower over the people Of said Ter
ritory, altogether unwerranted by the powers
which have appointed him, and in violation of
the rights of our citizens he has assumed to
| himself authority in contravention to what
suppose to be the principles contained in the
Organic Act establishing this as Territory
he has occupied the time (Which ought to have
been devoted to the interests Of the Territory,
in private speculations in the public lands of
this Territory he has also refused, and does
now refuse, to give his sanction to any law or
laws which may be enacted by this Legislative
| Assembly. He has virtually (by his Veto Mes
sages) dissolved all connection with the present
/ Legislature, attempting thereby to bring re-
proach on said Legislature, by refusing to. ac-
knowledge it as a constitutfoaa1ly organized
body and that too, after having granted to a
majority of the members thereof certificates of
their election), and sir II will venture the as
sertion that the position which he occupies as
Governor of this Territory is in direct opposi-
ton to the wishes of very large majority of
our citizens. Sir, the people of this Territory
are freemen they are made so on the air we
breathe,-by that God who holdeth all things in
the hollow of his hand /: and shall we suffer
Yourselves to be bound down by a tyrant to his
| will? Shall we who breathe the air of liberty:
now crouch before this roaring wolf ? no sir
never! let it not be said that the first Legisla-
ture of Kansas has succumbed to the will of a
dictator, but rather that knowing our rights as
/ men, knowing our duty to our constituents, we
will defend them to the last. Mr.. Chairman
I have done. 80,