The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-10-12
THE STATE OF THINGS IN KANSAS.

!
The simplest and most Ineligible statement of the
grounds Of complaint the part of the party
in Kansas and of their plan for securing redress of their
grievances is made by late correspondent of the New
York Evening Post whom the Post endorses of the
most prominent in Kansas. We quote from the let
ter follows:
wondered it friends of the East fully compre
haed position understood the importance of pres
movements. You know that the under which
live has failed to the ends of good government has
failed protect the citizens in their persons property
has failed them freedom Of Speech of the
press the eectce franchise which has been said to be
the palladium of liberty SO have repudated the whole
thing, and the people are forming one Of their own
We delayed, hoping for relief from
tive Governor Shannon But he made hot haste to
entirely the prosavery party in Missourimade his open
ing speech em and declared that the laws Of THEIR ao
legislature should be executed and pledged the entire
the federal government to that end and all this before he
had read the lars seen his people
On the 9th day Of October vote for Gov Rceder for
delegate Congress- and at the time vote for delegates
form State constitution. We don't know how this move
will strike friends in the free States But we have moth
ing look for hope for under this administration and
all unitedy going in for State government Sink or
s,oim determined to labor and sacrifice or be
rifced in this issue.
eve shall in the course of the winter form free State
constitution elect officers and by the let of March ask
admitted in the Union What will the free States
to such eonrsof sour population is very rapidly increasing
We shall have by the close of navigation this fall larger
population than Michigan Florida had; and for Cali
orna they mostly temporary Inhabitants seeking
fortune She had bona fde settlers than Kansas
Will the leading presses of the North advocate cause
Will the administration find easier way to settle this vexed
questions How much better they dispose Of those terri
)ra laws than to have them superseded by State form of
government
Z" We cannot vote with the pro-savery party unless
pay dollar and support the fugitivesave law
of I7eS and 1885, and the Nebraska bill of Is5fal of
iaro IF tn
we enigrated Therefore, appoint time and
place OF voting. Their day is next Monday is
week later Now, for will not to support any
special condition Of vongnot the Ten Com
mandments : for entitled by virtue of my
hood by the guarantees of the constitutions and by the Ka
sas bill
The organic law protects in my right tospeak,
publish, and circulate anything not injurious to public
morals and 50 in every speech make say what choose
about tego, aarcry here though the law says soa,
and the officers and governor say, two years in the pen
tentiary
Our only exodus from this prson-house of bondage
is into free and Independent State May God and good
help speed the day!"
Passing by most of the foregoing either excessive
boiling of patriotism of aboonsm, the real COM
plant to be- that by law of the territorial egsa
ure the payment of and oath support the
ganic law of Kansas and the constitution of the United
States are made conditions precedent voting Accord
ing to the letter above there many in Kansas who
fuse to comply with these conditions and to get clear of
them, have determined revolutionary
in the shape Of antagonstic political Organization.
state of things might BIO supposed to exist any State
Territory which would fully justify the enactment of s,rn
gent laws like those complained Of in Kansas but whether
such necessity existed there not we in cond
ton TO judge with proper confidence
But be that as it may prepared to say that the
foregoing letter shows sufficient Justification for the
open and undsguiscd resistance of the laws which is
therein disclosed and advocated. The legislature which
passed the laws elected in obedience to writ Of cleo
ton issued in of the act of Congress The gov
of the Territory received the returns Of the elections
and issued his certificates of membership BY his own Of
fetal admission made under the obligation of his OATH the
persons receiving from him certificates of election were
legal delegates to the legislature Gov Reeder recognised
them as the lawful legislature by addressing them as SUCH
and afterwards by veoing their snch lawful ees-
ators The pretext that the members lost their legislative
capacities by removing the seat Of government too msy
to require serious notice We conclude then that the
of the legislature passed in obedience to the United States
constitution and TO the constitution Of the Territory
(which is the law organizing ) the valid laws of the
Territory, and individual combination of individuals
expect to be sustained by the American people in at
tempting by force evasion, effect successful viola
ton resistance in the Territory We predict therefore
that the public Judgment Of the country win be pronounced
against the revolutionary plan of redress which Governor
Reeder is SO earnestly seeking to carry out
The governor of Virginia has apart the 18Th Of No
vsmoeF ns day Of Thanksgiving in that State