The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1855-09-26
The Free State Party in Kansas---Evansville
Represented.


We notice by the Herald of Freedom, very
fine looking paper published at Lawrence, Kan
sas Territory, that the Free State party of Iowa
county met in Convention at Doniphan on the
25th ult DR.. G. A. Cutler, formerly of Ev-
anisYille, was Chairman of the committee on
Resolutions. The following are the resolutions
reported and adopted:
ResolUe1, That we have been opposed to
bringing the exciting question of Negro Sla-
very into agitation at this time, prefering to
leave it where the laws of Congress has placed
it until we are prepared to adopt a State Con-
stitution.
Resolved, That the issue of Slave or Free
Territory at this time has been forced upon us,
and we will meet it in defiance of all the gag
lars the present fa,aatical Legislature has pass
ed, or may pass.
ResolUed, That we hold in like contempt
Northern Abolitionists and Southern Nulifiers,
and believe both to be enemies to their coun-
try.
Res0zUed, That we are in favor Of making
Kansas Free State, because we believe it to
be for the good of the greatest number OF its
inhabitants.
Resolved, That the charges made by Pro-
Slavery papers and Pro-Slavery Demagogues,
that the Kansas Free State party have any
sympathy with abolition doctrines is a base
SANDER and beneath the dignity of honorable
opponents
Resolue1, That we believe all power is in the
legal goers of this Territory so far the choice
of local officers is concerned, and we will OPP
pose and deny the official authority of all Off
GERS whose appointment runs beyond the next
general election.
/ PeeoIl.eI That u-eII conduotad naU-SnaDarS
are essential for the disseminating of general
intelligence among the masses, and we will
make use of all laudible means to establish and
sustain free State paper in this county.
DR.. G. A. Cutler then offered the following
resolutions which were unanimously adopted:
ResolUel, That as citizens of Kansas who
desire the well being of our Territory, we will
i use our utmost endeavors to the establishment
offree institutions and we will use every le-
Ultimate means to effect that much to be de-
sired object; and although we are bitterly OPP
posed to slavery, yet we are still more opposed
to the admission of free Negroes or mulattoes
into the Territory, or State, and we will OPP
pose them now and forever.
Res0iUed, That the platform on which we
desire to stand is simply this, "a free l0lsite
population liberty Of speech, Of conscience, and q
the press" Such liberty as we had guaranteed
to us by our foreathers, and which we will
maintain, if need be, with the last drop ofblood
that flows in our veins.
The meeting was addressed by Cutler and
others. Our Evansville representative in
Kansas was elected one of the Delegates to the
State Convention, and one of the County Cen
trail Committee. Evansville is certainly be-
coming the mother of great men for distant
no pfc of fha 0,,o Of i,a,
boys, is the American candidate for Governor
of California, and bound to be the next Gov
ernor of the Golden State. Another, who was
a resident ofour immediate neighborhood, has
been Governor of Oregon and is now a dele
gate in Congress from that State. And now
we have third figuring prominently in the
early political history of Kansas!