Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1855-10-04


Resolced, That this miscalIed Legislature,
by their reckless disregard Of the organic Ter.
rtoria act, and other Congressional Icclsla-
ton, in expelling members whose title to
seat was beyond their power to annuI, in ad-
hitting members who were not elected, in
altering the preemption laws and the natura-
lization laws, and in lcgsating at an unau-
tholized p!ace-by their refusal to allow the
people to select any Of our otficers-by i'm
posing upon US lher.own apPointees, down to
the most Insignificant Offices, many Of whom
were questionable residents Of Missouri at
the time-by leaving US no elections save
those prescribed by Congress, and therefore
beyond their power to arrogate, and even al
these imposing restrictions upon us, requiring
| the payment of one dollar as tax, selling
the right of suffrage at our ballot boxes to any
nonresident who chooses to buy and pay for
it, and the taking an oath to support the
United States Law invidi ously pointed out, by
sitting the freedom OF speech and OF the press,
thus usurping power forbidden by Congress,
have trampled under foot the Kanzas bill,
have defed the power of Congress, libeed the
Declaration of independence, violated the
Constitutional Bill of Rights, and brought
contempt and disgrace upon our Republican
institutions, at home and abroad.
ReSolved That we owe no allegiance Or ODE.
dience to The tyrannca enactment o! this
spurious Legislature-that their laws have no
validity or binding force upon the people ui
Kanzas; and that every freeman among US is
at full liberty, CT cnsstantly with all his obliga-
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them, ii he chooses SO to do.
! And the remaining resolutions on the
! Legislative report, breathe the spirit Of re
/ sistance to the acts ef the spurious Legsla-
tu-e. even to a bloody issues, when it is
found that all peaceable remedies shall
fail The committee on q Congressional
Delegate reported in effect, that because the
Legislative body, sitting at Shawnee Mission,
were not at place where valid laws could
be made, and were, consequently, no valid
provision could be made for the coming e'ec-
ton, the people are driven to the necessity
of meeting in their sovereign capacity to pro-
vide for said election, and it is therefore.
RcSolued. BY the citizens of ofKanzls, in Con-
ventIon assembled, that an election shall be-
he'd in the several election districts in this
Territory on the second Tuesday OF Octoae
next, under the regulations precribed Tor the
election OF the Goth March last, in reference
to the places and manner OF no ding the same
and the manner Of making the returns, as
well as all matter relating to the formula o.
the election, excepting the appointment o!
officers and the person to whom returns shall
! be made, which shall be determined by this
, Convention, for the purpose of elec:ing a
, Delegate to represent this Territory in the
f Thirty-iourth Congress OF the United Sta:es
3 The committee on Miscellaneous Business
reported series OF resolutions, to the effect
that the alleged cause of the removal o.
. Governor Reeder and other Territorial OF.
ficers' had NJ sufficient foundation in truth
or plausibllty, and giving the reasons there
for.
The Convention then proceeded to the
nomination of Territorial Delegate to Con-
gress, Andrew H. Reeder, late Governor oI
: Kanzas, was nominated, and the nomination
: carried by acclamation. In answer 10 the
calls of the crowd, the late Governor appear
ed on the stand. The Herald of Freedom re-
ports the ex-Governor's speech as follows:
, He proceeded to say how much he thanked
them fpr their encouraging and strengthens
S ing friend ship; that such applause 81 approv-
0 al would repay all the injustice that might be
r heaped upon any man; that every man there
S would do him the justice to say that this
!, nomination had been given entirely without
: solicitation by him or by his friends; that tc
y accept it would seriously interfere with pri
n va,e arrangements, and that he had conlinu
/, ally refused it when urged, until he had beer
1 told by men from all parts OF the Territory
], that his name was essential to success. Hi
Y would not accept it upon condition that h(
o be not expected to canvass the Territory ii
i person. To do So would not be consonan
r with his feelings, as well as that he desire,
to 90 into the halls of Congress and say, :"
!! come here with clean hands, the spontaneou
II choice of the sovereign squatters OF Kansas.
If In giving him this nomination in this manne
,f they had sreng hened his arms to do ihel
work; and in return he would new pledge t.
=, them steady, unlinching perlinacily OF pur
$ pose, never-tring industry, dogged perserer
Ii ance, and all the abilities with which Go
l. had endowed him, 10 The righting of thei
j. wrongs, and the final triumph of their cause
,r He believed from the circumstances whic
at had for tie last eight same time placed i
III possession many facts, and bound him hear
Ie and soul to the oppressed voters OF Kansas
l. that he could do much toward obtaining
redress of their grievances.
ut He said that day by day crisis was CON
I'd ing upon US; that in after times this woul
Ii be to pcsterity a turning point, marke
al period as are to us the upe ming o! the Revc
luton, the adoption of the Declaration of In
H. dependence, and the era of the alien an
Or sedition laws; that we should take each ste
te carefully, so that no violence oe done to th
z tic winch binds the American people togetf
he or. Alluded to the Unprecedented .yrdnn
at under which we are and have been; and sal
F. that if any one supposed that institution
nd were to be imposed by force upon free an
enlightened people, they never knew, or hu
ne forgotten, the history of our fathers. Anne,
Oh lean citzens bear in their breasts too muc
ty of the spirit of other ani trying days. al