Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1855-08-02

-N"ss' AhSH ieBbiatuIe - SUBSTANTIALLY
proyinsial council, instituted and ordained BY
daring and inscriptions league in the State
OF Missouri, and other parts Of the South, TO
govern a people whose liberties they have
ruihlessly stricken down. This fact has been
placed beyond controversy by authentic details
oil concerted operations, looking TO this end. Of
overwhelming violence, al the recent elections,
unparalleled 10 all our political history. The
straightforward integrity exhibited by your
excellency, from the commencement of your
Official career, aud the unAincbing disposition
to maintain the rights Of the people evinced by
you in setting aside without hestancy, the elec-
tons in all the districts where contests we're
made, in the requisite legal form, have been
such as compel me to believe that had the evi.
dence of the entire outrage perpetrated upon
the people; in the election of this Legislature.
been put before You in the shape Of legal test.
mony, your Excellency would not have hesi.
tated moment in taking the same action with
reference to the Remaining election districts;
and thus, setting the authority of your Office.
as you have already done, your personal and
private influence, against the audacious usur.
patton. Under these circumstances. il would
be either fraudulent or pusillanimous in me to
respect this as the Legislature of Kanzas.
am not willing to do it. Whatever the timor.
Gus orthe time.serving may suggest or advise,
| shall do nothing of the kind. Instead of re.
cosnlzing !his as the Legislature of Kanzas,
and participating in its proceedings as such,
utterly repudiate and reprobate it, as deroga-
tory to the respectability of popular govern.
ment and insulting to the virtue and intelli.
Gence of the age.
AS an individual citizen of Kanzas, am fur.
thermore free to say to your Excellency, rep.
resentng as you do, the imperial authority of
the Federal Government in this land, that
while am entirely disposed to pay all respect
to the lawfully constituted authorities, am
yet not willing, whatever power may command
it, to bend my neck, like satisfied and gentle
slave 10 the yoke of foreign tyrants. To do
so would prove me recreant to all the lessons
OF heroism or of duty ever learned, am so
unfortunate as to have been trained to some
crude notions ofhuman rights-some such no.
tons as those for which in ages past, our fool
sh ancestry peried their lives on revolutionary
fields, And however wide spread may be the
dIsrepute into which those puerile falacies
have fallen in shese sterling and enlightened
times, am still bold to withstand their viola.
tons, in my own person, to the last extremity
of just resistance. Simply as a citizen and
man, shall, therefore, yield no submission to
this alien Legislature. On the contrary, am
ready to set its assumed authority at defiance;
and shall be prompt to spurn and trample un-
der my feet its insoleut enactments. whenever
they conflict with my rights or inclinations.
Very respectfully yours,
M.F. CON FAY.
Pawnee, X. T., June 3Oth, 1855.
The Free State men, who were so illegally
and unceremoniously thrown out of the Legis
lature to make place for the men that were e.
leCted by the Missouri invaders have sent in
their protest. 1t is as follows:
The undersigned, members of the House of
Representatives, of the Legislature OF Kanzas
Territory, earnestly and emphatically protes.
against the action of this House in the adop-
tion of the report of a majority of the commit.
tee on Credentials, by which we are excluded
from our seats, and disabled from the perfor-
name of high public duty, imposed pom us
by our constituen Is, and the supreme law of
the land
We protest against this action, because it is
gross and palpable violation of the organic
act Of the Territory, expelling from their seats,
persons declared by tue Governor to have been
duly elected the only description Of persons
recognized by, or known to the organtic act
as members of the Legislature, and introducing
persons of an entirely different description 10
fill their places, thus Yitiatng the legality Of
its existence, and depriving its enactments Of
any binding force or authority whatever.
We respectfully request as an act Of simple
justice to us, by which our positions may be
distinctly understood by the county and the
world, that this our protest be entered upon
the journals of this House.
Erastus D. Ladd.
Augustus Wattles,
William Jesse,
A. ]. Baker,
John Hutchinson,
Furiosis fur0re suO Punitur,'
(Freely translated men in rage bite their
own noses off, The percussion cap. guilt'
epaulletted statesman of Missouri-tbe ma
jors, the captains almighty few of that low
gradel the COlonels [numerOus the Generals
Thick as hairs on dogl and the Major Gen.
erals of the highly intelligent and carefully
polished society of the trans Mississippi South
West. recently in convention in Lexington,
have fully manifested how it is possible for men
in rage to make perfect fools of themselves