The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1855-10-04
Kanzas Tree state Convention.

Otdle COHVthuOnJ WHICH assembled {
. Big Springs on the 9th instant. The FRI
day of the Convention was taken up wit
the usual preliminary business on sue
occasions. On the second day til
Chairman Of the Committee on Plat
form reported through Col. Lane, seri
Of Resolutions, Of which the followin
are the most important;
ReSolrcd, That, setting aide all mino
issues Of partisan politics, it is incum
bent upon US to profer an organization
calculated 10 recover our dearest rights
and into which Democrats and Wings
Natives and naturalized citizens, ma,
freely enter without any sacrifice of thei
respective political creeds, but withou
forcing them as test upon others. AnC
that when we shall have achieved oul
political freedom, vindicated our right,
of self government, and become an inde
pendent State of the Union, when those
issues may become vital. as they are
now dormant, it will be time enough to
divide our organization by these tests
the importance Of which we fully recog-
n za in their appropriate sphere.
Resolved, That we will oppose and re
sist oil nonresident voters al our pol S,
whether from Missouri or elsewhere as a
gross violation of our rights, and vir-
tual disfranchisement of our citizens.
ResOlued, That our true interests, so
cialy, morally and pccuniarily, require
that Kangas should be Free Stale; that
free labor will best promote the happi
ness, the rapid population, the pro peri
ty aud the weslth Of our people; that
slave labor is curse to the master and
the community, if not to the slave; that
our countryis un,uited to it, and that we
will devote our energies as a party, to
exclude the institution, and TO secure for
KaLzts the Constitution Of Free State.
ResG iUed, That in 50 doing, we will
consent to any fair and reas onable pro-
vision in regard to the slaves in the Ter
ritory, which shall protect The masters
against injustice and total loss.
ReSOlred, Thatitis the opinion Of this
Convention that the admission Of free me-
groes or nluattoes, ilt.o the Territory or
future State Of Kanzas, will b. pc luc.IYs
ofevil among the people q hangas. 1rd
dangerous to the institutions OF oug sier
Stale; and that We will oppose their sd
mission into the Territory or future State
of Kanzas now and forever.
The remaining two resolutions are to
the effect that the charge OF aboltionism
which has been made against the Free
Slate Party Of Kansas, is without shad.
Of truth to support it, and that the party
denounce any attempt to enroach on the
constitutional rights of the people OF any
of The States, or 10 interfere with their
slaves, conceeding to their citizens the
right to regulate their own affairs. The
committee having in charge the egisla.
tive matters Of Kansas, also made a re.
port from which We take the following
teSolulions: ....
ResolUed, That this miscalled Legis-
lature, by their reckless disregard Of the
organic Territorial act, and other Con.
greSsional legislation, in expelling mem
bers whose title to seats was beyond
their power to anuul. in admitting mem
bers who were not elected, in altering |
the pre-empion laws aud the naturliza
lion laws and in legislating at an unau'
lhorzed place--by their refusal 10 allow
the people to select any OF our officers
by imposing upon Us their own appon'
tees, down 10 the most insignificant off
ces, many Of whom were uuqueStionable
residents OF Missouri at the time-by |
leaving US no elections save those pre-
scribed by Congress, and therefore be.
yond their power TO abrogate, and even
at these imposing restrictions upon US,
requiring the payment OF one dollar as
tax, selling the right Of suffrage at our
ballot boxes to 'uy nonresident who
chooses to buy and pay for it, and the
taking on oath to support the IT, States
law invdiously pointed out, by sitting
The freedom Of speech and OF the press
hus usurpng power forbidden by Con
1ress, have lrampled under foot the Kan
ias bill, have delied the power Of Con,
,ress, libeled the declaration Of Indrpen'
lence, violated the Constitutional Bill Of
ights, and brought contempt and dis
,race upon our Republican institutions,
II home aud abroad
ResOlued, That we owe no allegiance a
,r obedience to the tyranncaI enactments
If this spurious Legislaturo-that their {
avs have no validity or binding force up q
m the people of Kanzas, and that every |
reeman among us is at'ful liberty, con. S
istentIy with all his obligations as n cit |
z and a man, TO defy and resist them S
The chooses so to do. e
And the remaining resolutions on the /
legislative report, breathe the spirit OF t
esisrance 10 the acts of the spurious lie. '
,islature, even to a bloody issue, when it j
) found that all peaceabe remedies shal
all. The committee on Congressional
Delegate reported in effect that because d
he Legislative body, sitting at Shawnee y
lission, were not at a place where valid n
avs could be made, and where, conse p
uently, no valid provision could be c
nade for The coming election, the people a a
re driven to the necessity of meeting in 6
heir sovereign capacity to provide for
aid election. and it is, therefore, $
Resolued, By the citizens of K'nzas, !
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