The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-09-15

without shadow of truth to support it.;
and that it is not more apparent to our
selves than it is to our opponents who
use it as term of reproach TO bring
odium upon us, pretending to believe in
its truth and hoping TO frighten from
our ranks the weak and timid who are
more willing to desert their principles
than they are to stand up under perse-
cution and abuse with a consciousness
of right
Resoiued, That we will discounten-
anee and denounce any attempt to en-
croaeh upon the Constitutional rights of
the people of any State, or to interfere
with their slaves, conceding TO their citi-
zens the right to regulate their own in
stitutions and to mold and recover their
slaves, without any molestation or OBJ
struction from the people of Kansas.
Tie report was received with three
hearty cheers, and adopted by acclama-
/ ton.
STATE ORGANIZATION.
The committee on State Organization
presented the following report -
"Your committee, after considering
the propriety of taking preliminary steps
to framing Constitution, and applying
for admission as State into the Union,
beg leave to report that, under the pres
ent circumstances, they deem the move
ment untimely and inexpedient.
This report elected an animated dis
cussion, which was participated in by
Messrs. Lane, Houston, Wakefield, Vail,
Curtis, and Schuyler. :.
Convention took recess of one hour.
! The discussion on the report of the
committee on a State organization was
continued by Messrs. luton, Hutchinson,
Guthrie, and Smith.
MIR. Hutchinson offered the following
as a substitute for the report =
Resolved, That this Convention, in
view of its recent Reputation of the acts
of the so-called Kansas Legislative As
sembly, respond most heartily to the
call made by the Peoples Convention of
the 18th ult., for a Delegate Convention
of the people of Kansas Territory, to be
held at Topeka on the 18Th inst, to con-
slider the propriety of the formation of a
State Constitution, and such other mat
ters as may legitimately come before it.
This substitute was agreed to.
REPORT ON THE LEGISLATURE.
Mr. Emery, on the committee, having
in charge the Legislative matters ofKan
sas, reported as follows =
ResOlOed, That the body of men who
for the last two months have been pass
ing laws for the people of our Territory,
moved, counselled and dictated TO by
the demagogues of Missouri, are TO us
foreign body, representing only the
hwless invaders who elected them, and
not the people of the Territory-;hat We
repudiate their action as the monstrous
consummation of an act of violence,
usurpation and fraud unparalleled in the
history of the Union, and worthy only of
men unified for the duties and regardless
of the responsibilities of Republicans.
RESOLVED, That having by numerical
inferiority and want of preparation been
compelled to sucumb to the outrage and
oppression of armed and organized
bands of the citizens of ncighboring
Stale-having been robbed by force
of the right of suffrage and self
government, and subjected to foreign
despotism the more odious and infamous
that it involves a violationof compacts
with sister States mere sacred than sol
emn treaties, we disown and disavow
with scorn and Indignation the contempt
able and hypocritical mockery of a rep
resentative government into which this
infamous despotism has been converted.
ResolUed, That this miscalled Legis-
lature by their reckless disregard of the
organic Territorial Act, and other Con-
gressional legisla ton, in expelling menu
bers whose~title to seats was beyond
their power to annul, in admitting mem
bers who were not elected, and in legis-
lating atan unauthorized .place-by their
refusal to allow the people to select any of
our oficers-by imposing upon us their
own appointees down to the most insight
ficant offices, many of whom were unques-
tionable residents of Missouri at the time
by leaving us no elections save those
prescribed by Congress, and therefore
beyond their power to abrogate, and
even at these, selling the right of suffrage
at our ballot boxes to any resident
who chooses to buy and pay for it,
by compelling us to take an oath to
support United States law inviduous-
ly pointed out, by sitting the freedom
of speech and OF the press, thus usurp-
ing power forbidden to Congress, have
trampled under foot the Kansas Bill,
have defied the power of Congress,
libelled the Declaration of Independence
viola ted the Constitutional Bill of
Rights, and brought contempt and dis
grace upon our Republican Institutions
at home and abroad.
Resolved, That We owe no allegience
or obedience to the tyrannical enact
ments of this spurious Legislature-that
their laws have no validity or binding
force upon the people of Kansas, and that
every freeman amongst US is at full liber
ty, consistently with all his obligations as
a citizen and a man, to defy and resist
them, if he chooses so to do.
Resolved, That we will resist them
primarily by every peaceable and legal
means within our power, until we can
elect our own Representative and sweep
them from the Statute Book, and that
as the majority of our Supreme Court
have so far forgotten their official duty
have SO far cast off the honor of the law
yer and the dignity of the Judge as to
enter clothed with the judicial ermine
into partizan contest, and by an extra
judicial decision given opinions in violation
ofall propriety, have prejudged our case
before We could be heard land have pledged
themselves TO these outlaws in advance,
to decide in their favor, We viii there
fore take measures to carry the question
of the validity of these laws to a higher
tribunal where Judges are unpledged
and dispassionate-where the law viii
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