Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1855-08-02
CAROLLTON CARROLL COUNTY, OHTO THURSDAY AUGUST 1885,


TO receive it or enter it upon the journal. In
the afternoon a bill was introduced, removing
the seat government TO the Shawnee Mission;
the rules were suspended, the bill read once in
full and twice by lis title. and passed within
half an hour. 1t was sent to the upper House.
and passed forthwith By about the same pro.
cess,
On Wednesday morning, the House com.
mittee on Credentials reported against all the
Free State men obtaining seats. They were
elected unanimously except one vote-a Free
State man whose seat was undisputed. The
House adopted the Missouri Code of Laws. but
the Senate bad not acted upon it, when they
adjourned to the Missouri State Lne-Shaw-
nee MissiOn--tO enjoy the heallhful breezes of
the WestpOrt, MO-, frog pond and fumes e.
qually reviying, always to be found in that en-.
terprising neigbborhood.
The action Of the Council was very similar.
The Free State men were elected by about the
same process, but one man voting against t.
Mr.. E. Chapman, ofthis place.
Both houses refused to consider or hear the
protest and afidavlts in relation to the irst e.
lection, and denied the right to 60 behind the
first Judges certificate of election. Such was
the position taken by all the pro slavery speak.
ers. They were bitter in their denounciaton
of Free Slate men and declared that, so long as
they lived, Kanzas should not be Free State
any how.
The action of this self.styled Legislature is
but the carrying out of the fraud and villainy
Perpetrated at the polls-outrages unparalleled
in the history of this Government.
What will be the end of all this is vet to be
developed. The adoption of the Missouri Code,
we suppose, recognizes slavery in Kanzas, and
for aught we know-and by easier construction
OF law than some we have heard-makes us
colony of Missouri. Let them work. The
people cannot be made to succumb to invaders
their tongues cannot be silsnced, but they
will continue to proclaim their honest senti-
ments, and act their honest convictions, despite
of Missouri ire-eating mobs, whether they as
sumo the braggadocio and tyrant in the shape
of legislative bodies, or as armed invaders Of
our soil. They will probably make it treason
to denounce slavery as moral or political evil
Let them. Who cares? For our pant, so long
as we have control Of Free Press, we shall
continue to denounce it as the sum of all vii
lainies, and to prove that it deserves the ap-
| pellation by the conduct Of this corrupt self
styled Legislature. We seek to invade no
mans rights, but the rights Of the people can
not be trampled upon, and we shall regard en-.
actments of the body in session at Westport as
just as much binding, and no more, as acts of
the Leavenworth mob, or the resolutions of the
Weston Self-Delensve Associaton-to be heed
ed only as the rawlings of infuriated and mis-.
guided men.
NJ. F. Conway, who was elected to the Coun-
Gil from the Pawnee district, has resigned, and
utterly refuses to meet with or in any way re-
cognize, or have any respect for the acts and
doings of this Missouri mob. His letter Of re-
signation to Gov. Reeder is strong document,
and we give it entire to our readers.
To His Excellency, A. II. REEDER,
GOVERNOR OF KASzAs TERRITORY.
SIR; I was Officially declared by YOUR excel.
lency, on the sixth of April last to have been
duly elected member of the Council of Kan
zas Territory, from the sixth Council District of
said Territory. l was also furnished with "a
certificate to that effect, authenticated by your
signature, and the impress of the public SEAL
| beg leave now, most respectfully, to resign
the position thus assigned me, and to return
you the certificate then received.
am impelled to this course by what be-
lieve 10 be due to myself, to the sanctty of
law, and to the rights aud dignity of the peo-
pie of Kanzas. In holding and exercising the
trust reposed in me by the qualified voters of
the sixth Council District, would be required
to unite with the body of men, who are to as
semble at Pawnee, on the second of July. as
the Legislature Of Kanzas, and to engage with
them in making laws to govern the people of
this Territory, This cannot do without lend
ing countenance to the authority they assume
to exercise. I was elected to represent the
people of the sixth Council District in the Leg
islature of Kanzas. Should offer, in pur-
suance Of that election, to enter this forthcom-
ing assemblage, would thereby give, by d.
rect implication, my own sanction, and the
sanction of those whom should represent, to
the validity of its pretentions; l would ack-
nowledge it to be the Legislature to which l
had aspred, and to which the people had in
tended to elect me, when they cast their suf'
frages in my favor. This I am far from being
prepared to co. 1t lis a fact which has travel
ed the circuit Of the whole civilized world, that
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