The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-11-13

aud altlOuQh pFOVltODE,
leo acres this legislature paying attention 10 me eA
press prohibition in the organic act extend DIS claim 70
$40 =
and 10 allowed TO be admitted unless DC
takes the oath support all the enactments OF the egs
ture.
The organic act forbds them to confer the right OF SUI
age ON any than citizens of the United States anu
and yet the legislature in their election law
provide that all Indians who conform TO the custom o.
the white man shall be considered czens ana shuii NC
allowed 10 vote
Thus they not only violate the organic act and usurp
the power of naturalization conhded by the constitution
to Congress alone they make the election officers The
Judges Of who has contorned to the custom OF the white
and what must be conformed to- and thus en-
able them to admit reject whom they please
Avowing in the legislative halls the determination 10 al
low the people to elect none Of their officers they appoint
for each of the counties probate judge sherlr ahu
county commissioners and for each district prosecuting
torneys many these officers residing in the State OF Mis-
souri, when appointed hold their Offices until Octo
Der l. Is57thnt being the time when the next election
takes place for legislative council and when th' igo
ten power must be renewed by another INVASION Ihey
declare in their election law that every man who Of
fers to shall be presumed to be qualified and thus
if the Of nonresident is objected TO- the challenger
must prove the negative the vote is received
No residence previous to election is required When
the judges swear the voter hrst ana neh
provided that evidence whatever shall be heard 10
contradict they may hear other evidence In preference
to the voter thus enabling them make rule for one
and different for another voter to DO qua-
fed must osupport the ugtive-slave law OF 1893
king mans to depend to some extent on his po
cal opinions and he must to the sheriff appointed oy
the legislature polltax OF one dollar THIS latter requ
sition however removed when IT was ascertalnea
that the freeState would not vote at their polls
To this election people could not--woud not-go'
They unwilling to go through tpe mockey OF an eiec
ton where they he dsanchised by foreign voters
and drunken Indians who conform to the custom OF
drinking bad whskey where rule could be made for
them and another for their opponents where they must
recognise oregn-elected legislature and pay taxes into
the hands of nonresident sheriff for the expenses OF their
invaders and where those in favor Of as well as those
posed TO- the laws nvdously pointed out must accept as
q boon, condition Of political opinion, that privilege
Of suffrage which theirs OF right These conlriyances
and restrictions they well knew intended to cripple
and smother their numerical strength and that no effort
would be spared enforce them in the most odious way
In strong and beautiful to this nolerant and
unjust legislation is the platform of the reeState parya
set of principles to which any national man may freely
subscribe and which, have already said fully vndi-
Gates them from all the SANDER that has been heaped ppon
them They assert the right OF sefgoyernment and free
suffrage for the actual residents of Kansas and against all
interference by non-resdents from any quarter
They they have the right to their preference
labor slave labor and their determination 10
make future State free one they assert the doctrine Of
State rights and denounce oil by citizens OF Kan
with the slave property Of Missouri any other State
They recognise right fhe slave States to
mould their institutions in their own way and to hold
and their slaves without any molesatlon
They contain provision for exclusion OF all free blacks
desirable and acceptable to contiguous slave States as
diminishing the chances of harborng fugives They as
the intention Of the party in the adoption OF State
constitution to guard the OF slaves IN the Terri
tory against injustice and loss by reasonable provision
for their benefit and therefore, by necessary Implication
the intention leave the slaves unmoested in the
Territory ia the time whether they righully held
there not They finally repudiae with indignation the
charge OF aboonism, us slanderous and false intended
bring odium pure and formidable and fright
en- away weak and timd men, and well known by its
authors be untrue And yet there and presses
purblind malicious TO attempt to brand such an
organization as politically mountaineering upon
the rights Of others and of which national democrat
national wing should be ashamed
OF these cavers it is only necessary to say that their
only arguments consist in the of epithes the meaning
Of which they possibly understand, by which
they hope deceive the ignorant and that not satisfied
with the doctrines of platform they must to preserve
their consistency the introduction of negro
slavery into the States where they reside In the direction
they desire there but step to take beyond
position and that is the advocacy of negro slavery for
themselves and u.s. blessing in ITSELF and the entire
surrender OF the right of segovernment They may ad
vocate these doctrines il they please but they can neither
commend them to me as desirable nor make any sensible
regard them test of national political orthodoxy
Strange it may seem, however find in the presden
tia official organ Of October of these assertions
and innuendoes calculated and intended to perver and
msead, and which, in justice to my associates and myself
cannot allow to pass unnotced.
gratifed at the fact that of its editors abb
sent from Washington at the time Of the publication and
to its authorship all who know the character and habits
of the Chief Magistrate and the close supervision which he
gives his official organ will believe with that the
ticle was either written or supervised by himself Among
BILE TO notice, ii time admitted, the organ says:
Notwithstanding the present associations of Gov Reeder
disposed TO credit the charge that be unsound
when appointed. We believe he national man then,
whatever he may have become now"
The first thing that strikes Inc, although it creates
surprise is the cowardice Of the nnuendo which carefully
avoids any distinct ayerment specification and leaves
every hole open for escape In whatever it be
understood however charging any act or declaration
the entertaining of any sentiment at war with my for
mer weknown political opinions pronounce it untrue
aud defy the proof No such proof has been can be
dnced But let retrospect little to understand that
point In order eonciliae the who repudated and
tramped upon the Kansas bill by the invasion Of polls
the President made Office which had been
ferred withou. solicitation, and which could surrender
without regret
private reputation. On the farof western frontier
manned quiet under this state of things making appeal
reply And yet almost the whole country as one man.
including the greater portion OF the northern democratic
press and part Of the southern press and numberess POI
ltcal meetings of party, besides both the free
State and proaavery parties IN Kansas have pronounced
the alleged reason preext and subteruge. How, then
stands the case? The President of the United States
charged with sacred trusts and heavy responsibilities who
has the keeping Of his countrys character well his
own who be base m he Ia not the very mpersonaon
Of high honor pure integrity good faith and elevated sent
men stands convicted before the country by the verdict OF
his political friends of snbarfuge hypocrisy and deceit
of defence is superseded Here allow 10 make slight
depression for the expression of feelings which cap
not and ought not to suppress. Among all the In
stances OF support and vindcaton conveyed to
much pleasure that which came from my
native homa-~from the old timc-honored Tenth Lee
which has often saved the party the State from defeat
which rolls democratic that